(Author’s POV)
"Ma’am, we have one in your size as well. Do you want to try that?" the staff member inquired, her eyes hopeful.
Yes, the dress was a bit tight on Myra, but what was tighter was Myra’s budget. She wasn’t going to spend a good chunk of her savings to buy such an expensive dress for a single event. She was about to refuse, but before she could even say anything, the alarm systems that were installed all over the mall started buzzing loudly. It caught everyone’s attention.
The next second, they heard panic filled voices of people screaming and yelping. Wendy stood up from her seat and asked frantically, initially fumbling with her words, "Wh~ ... what is this ...? What’s up with the blaring sound?"
"It’s the fire alarm has been triggered," the store manager stated. "But don’t panic, Ms. Miracle, Ms. Yates. We will escort you out of the building safely." She sounded calm and composed, clearly indicating that she was experienced and used to handling such incidents. "Please come with me. I will show you the escape route."
The other staff members started performing the usual fire drills. One turned off the main electricity source of the store, and the others started helping other customers with their evacuation process.
The store manager got the trio, as well as a few other shoppers, out of the store quickly. But just like the other floors, the third floor was filled with pandemonium as well. The security staff and other store staff members were trying to keep the crowd unperturbed, but some were scared to the point that they weren’t listening to anything and just wanted to leave the building. Even if it meant creating even more chaos.
A lot of them were barely of age and had come because of the concert that was about to take place in the evening. So, it was obvious they were terror stricken by the whole fiasco.
Myra held Yelena’s hand with one and her sister’s hand with the other, in an iron grip, as more and more people were teeming wildly here and there. She was afraid that if this kept going on like this, they both might get hurt. Or worse, a stampede might occur any minute. The key was to stay calm and follow the protocol, as the store manager said.
Wendy was among those who were on the verge of getting a panic attack. Myra could feel her palm getting sweaty. Her voice tremored with fear as she called out, "Sis. I~ ... this," her eyes were tear stricken as she clutched her chest with her other hand.
Both Myra and Yelena’s steps halted simultaneously as they turned around to find Wendy in a clear state of trepidation.
Myra rubbed her back while Yelena comforted Wendy with her words, "Wends, calm down. Nothing is going to happen, okay. We will take you out. Do what I am saying. Take deep and long breaths~ ....... Yeah, good, just like that. Breathe in slowly and then breathe out with your mouth."
Both the girls guided Wendy towards the glass railing, as the latter leaned on it a bit, as she was feeling suffocated. But when she saw the scene happening on the ground floor, her panic-driven state only intensified.
As a lot of people were trying to get out of the mall, they were indiscriminately trampling on others. The lively and joyful atmosphere has turned into a frenzy filled chaotic mess.
At around the same time, on the ground floor, the Everests brothers, along with Elisa, heard the sirens wailing. They all quickly came into action and started helping others to evacuate the place safely.
Elisa got up at once, her voice crackling, as she said this to Brave, "Mr. Everest, we should go too." As a demon queen, she didn’t want to be trapped here and die such a humiliating death.
But Brave refused firmly. As a person with a sense of duty, he and his brothers weren’t going to abandon the crowd here and flee by themselves, regardless of whether it was their pack or not. That was the most disgraceful and cowardly thing, and as werewolves, as Lycan Alphas, that wasn’t acceptable for any of them.
He looked at Elisa’s leg and then straight in her eyes, asking, "Ms. Queens, can you manage to walk on your own now?"
"I can but~," she was about to protest, say that, they also need to leave this forsaken place with her, but Dion interrupted their conversation, "Good, if you can manage to walk. Come this way~ ..." He started urging her to walk out with others.


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