Half a minute later, Beatrice Assex ran out to have a look. Only then did she realize that something was amiss.

She immediately ran downstairs with her feet bare. “Mom? Mom… Is this really happening? Mom, wake up. Don’t scare me!”

Beatrice’s immediate reaction was to call Alex Rockefeller on the phone. “Alex, Alex, something terrible has happened. My mother fainted! Can you come over to check on her?”

Right then, Alex had just finished eating.

Throughout the entire meal, Brittany Rockefeller hadn’t come downstairs.

This put Alex in a very poor mood.

When he heard Beatrice’s plea, he started to frown. “What happened to her now?”

“I… I don’t know either. I just pushed her a little, and she passed out,” Beatrice said.

“Where’s your sister?” Alex asked.

“I… I don’t know either,” she said.

After hanging up the phone, Alex gave Dorothy Assex a call. He discovered that her phone had been turned off again.

“What the hell?

“Her phone is always turned off!”

Helplessly, Alex had to d