A Journey from Bitterness to Truth

Chapter 144

Yvan’s face darkened in an instant while Matilda clutched her chest, laughing at her own

absurdity.

“Yvan, you can’t begin to comprehend the agony I’ve been through; you wouldn’t even try. If you could understand even a fraction of my pain, you wouldn’t have driven me to this!”

With a turn of her heel, Matilda made to move on, but Yvan caught a glimpse of his men rolling up in their car and shouted, “Freeze!”

Just as Matilda’s foot poised to bolt, the man’s voice sliced through the wind and into her ears like a knife, cleaving her in two!

“Don’t let her get away! Catch her!”

Startled, Matilda looked up to find herself surrounded by black SUVs. She stumbled back. realizing there was no escape. When had they… How did they get here?

Again, Yvan’s goons grabbed her, this time stuffing a rag into her mouth to prevent her from biting them or, worse, from biting her own tongue in a desperate act of self–harm.

Trapped, with tears scalding her cheeks, Matilda trembled, feeling herself slipping back into the isolating darkness she’d known all too well. She was hoisted into the vehicle, with men flanking

on either

into the passenger seat of the van beside

demon from the deepest pits. He sneered at her.

was mocking her

help, Matilda could do nothing but let the car carry her ever closer to the Boyd estate.

back at the Boyd residence, but this time, Yvan didn’t

she gasped for air. “What the

her

gaze inadvertently landing on the wound on her leg. At a snap of his fingers, someone brought in

people do. What do you think you can win against

a hardened heart, she was no match for Yvan.

1/2

05:567

Chapter 144

be fought with passion and impulse, but there were others where even gambling with her life on a death wish wouldn’t be enough to

a chill on her leg and involuntarily shivered, her