Bumpkin’s Rich Handsome Husband novel Chapter 49

Thomas honestly told Matthew everything that he had knowledge of.

Hearing Thomas’ words caused Matthew’s heart to palpitate as he felt his breathing slowing down. The strange feeling made him uncomfortable. “Immediately call the fire department!”

“I’ll do it now.”

After hanging up, Matthew put the pedal to the metal. As the car screeched, what followed thereafter was a vehicle that sped as fast as lightning, dodging and cutting off other drivers as they voiced their anger.

He couldn’t care less about this, though.

After ten minutes, he had finally arrived at Regalia Condominium.

It was the dead of night and everyone was asleep except for the community of the condominium where people had gathered under it.

The residents in the second block where

Veronica lived were all woken up by the commotion as a lot of people fled down the stairs. Some even shouted, “There’s a fire. A fire has broken out. Quickly go and save the ones who are still trapped inside.”

“Call 911.”

“I’ve already called the emergency services, but since the people are on the eighth floor, there will be some difficulty in saving them.”

“If there’s anyone, please quickly head up to the eighth floor and evacuate any remaining residents.”

“Someone’s shouting.”

All the security guards in the community had rushed to the second block to evacuate the residents after activating the fire alarm.

Yet, there were still no signs of the fire truck after a long time.

Standing outside, Matthew looked at the blazing fire on the eighth floor as his heart started to race in nervousness.

Then, he dashed toward the second block.

However, the security guard stationed at the ground floor suddenly stopped him. “Sir, there’s a fire in there. You cannot go in right now.”

As he didn’t want to waste any words on the guard, Matthew pushed him aside and dashed up the stairwell.

The elevators had been shut down by the management due to the fire while the fire escape was full of the affected residents, who were all madly rushing down for safety.

This made Matthew’s ascend a bit difficult.

“Escape now.”

“The fire’s too big. The eighth floor is bearing the worst of it.”

“This is all too terrifying. Run, run!”

“Sob... Mommy. I’m scared. Sob...”

The blazing fire had terrified the residents as they were either screaming or crying as they ran down.

Squeezing through the crowd, Matthew finally reached the eighth floor after three long minutes.

Yet, the door to Veronica’s home already had a big fire spreading as the flame licked at the edges of the door as it continued to burn.

Standing at the door, Xavier kicked the door with all of his might, but it still did not budge after two tries.

As the doorknob outside couldn’t be turned and the door itself was burning hot, he could only repeatedly knock on the door while shouting. However, there was no response after he screamed for a long time, so he could only call the fire department, all the while trying to kick the front door down.

Seeing Matthew, Xavier removed his jacket as he walked toward him with a fierce glare. He suddenly took a heavy swing at Matthew!

“You f*ck, if anything happens to Veronica,

I won’t let you off the hook that easily!”

Xavier, who knew why Veronica had fallen into her current predicament in the first place, only had an increasing hatred toward Matthew.

However, even though he had fast hands, he was no faster than Matthew.

A simple block from him was enough for him to easily catch Xavier’s fist.

Peering at him, Matthew bellowed, “What are you doing right now?”

He was only worried about Veronica’s safety at the moment and didn’t have any time to waste on bickering with Xavier.

After pushing Xavier aside, Matthew then walked to the front door before removing his suit jacket and heavily stomped on the door.