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

and slid into the passenger

features, as cold and cruel as a demon from the deepest pits. He sneered at her. “All this trouble could’ve been avoided if you’d just been obedient from the

mocking her vulnerability, her helplessness.

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

minutes later, Matilda was back at the Boyd residence, but this time, Yvan didn’t lock her in some dark room.

for air. “What

tinged her voice.

wound on her leg. At a snap of his fingers, someone

you can’t fight back, then submit. That’s what smart people do. What do you think you can win against me with just instinct

came to a hardened heart, she was

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with her life on a death wish wouldn’t be enough to overcome the

and involuntarily