Eldon stood rooted to the spot, stunned. He couldn't believe what he'd just heard or witnessed. He didn't want to believe it. Why? More importantly, how?
"We need to get out of here," Becky spoke up above the churning wind, which was only now starting to die down as though even it couldn't handle Jessica's revelation before she'd jumped off the roof.
She jumped, Eldon thought, and even his thoughts sounded stunned. Why did she jump?
"Snap out of it, Mister Lance!" Sonia gripped the front of his shirt and glared into his eyes. "We've got bigger problems than who that girl's mother is. I've lost contact with the president and your father. We need to get back to that car of yours, now!"