"Please, save my father-in-law and mother-in-law! They're still inside!"
After digging the man out, Stella Sterling was about to leave when his wife suddenly knelt before her.
The woman was crying pitifully, but Stella Sterling remained unmoved. She shook her head. "I can't save them."
They were buried inside the house, and the snow was simply impossible to dig through unless the entire house was demolished. But the consequences of that would be anything but trivial.
Besides, even if she spent a huge amount of effort digging them out, the chances of two elderly people surviving were slim.
It would be a huge effort for nothing, and she didn't have that kind of time.
"You haven't even tried, so how do you know you can't save them?"
the man's wife immediately demanded.
Stella Sterling stopped and looked at her with a half-smile. "You should know, I have no obligation to do this."
