“Isn’t it obvious what I want to do? I want to let you experience what it's like to lose someone you love, forever.”

“...”

“Carter! Carter!”

Beep—

When Jeremy was about to stop him, he heard the busy tone on the other side of the phone.

Carter hung up the phone, and the plane took off ten minutes later.

Jeremy immediately and decisively booked a plane ticket to St. Piaf online. When he was about to head home to pack his bags, he received a sudden call from the schoolteacher.

On the other end of the line, Jackson’s teacher sobbed and said inaudibly, “Mr. Whitman, the school was on fire just now. We had been in such a hurry in putting out the fire, and Jackson and another kid in the class disappeared after we’ve put out the fire. We’ve checked the security footage, and we saw two men forcefully taking them away during the fire.”

After learning about this, Jeremy immediately went to the school to look at the footage.

When he saw the two men in black who came to the school with a