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

driver and slid into the passenger seat of

tear–blurred eyes, Matilda saw Yvan’s chiseled features, as cold and cruel as a demon from the deepest pits. He sneered at her. “All this trouble

mocking her vulnerability,

her cries for help, Matilda could do nothing but let the car carry her

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

gasped for air. “What the hell

tinged her

the wound on her leg. At a

then submit. That’s what smart people do. What do you think you

to a hardened heart, she

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others where even gambling with her life on a death wish wouldn’t be enough to overcome

a chill on her leg and involuntarily shivered, her thigh