After Divorce, My General Husband Chasing Me Back

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Chapter 39 Torture? "Interrogation room?"

The words had barely left Frederick's lips when Richard burst. in, visibly startled by the term "interrogation room."

The interrogation room was reserved for special prisoners. Ordinary lawbreakers weren't subjected to its horrors but were handled by the police station instead.

Hardly any woman ever set foot in the interrogation room, let alone Claire, the pampered princess of the Prescott family.

Richard had never seen anyone survive the merciless torment that took place within the interrogation room.

Just yesterday, everything seemed normal. When Frederick brought Claire back from Jacob's villa, Frederick looked distressed, spending another night here. Therefore, Richard wondered why Frederick asked him to send Claire to the interrogation room so early this morning.

"Do you have a problem?"

Fury gnawed Frederick as his anger flared at Richard's hesitation.

Though his voice was not loud, the aura that emanated from him

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was chilling, sending shivers down Richard's spine.

"No, there's no issue at all. However, Ms. Prescott is already wounded. If we resort to every tactic we have in the interrogation room on her, I fear that Ms. Prescott might not make it through the night." Richard dared not defy Frederick, yet he couldn't shake off the fear that gripped him when he recalled the events of the previous night.

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Naturally, in Claire's presence, Richard was well aware of where to draw the line. He refrained from mentioning that last night's incidents were a direct result of Frederick's directives.

Last night, Richard had simply been the messenger, carrying out Frederick's commands by passing orders to the gangs at the Eclipse Nightclub. This chain of command, however, unwittingly sets the stage for Jacob to kidnap Claire. If they had arrived any later, Claire might have met her demise at Jacob's hands.

Now, if Claire were to be taken to the interrogation room, what if history repeated itself, and the interrogators, unaware of her fragile state, were to end her life?

Richard had been closely watching Frederick and began to suspect that Frederick's feelings towards Claire were not as steeped in animosity as Frederick outwardly portrayed.

that if Anna had not

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end four years ago, Frederick and Claire

in the future. She cannot die now. My grandma wouldn't be

rush at the moment. Let her recover for a few days. Remember, Anna died because of her. If we allow

current health was fragile; she could not withstand any shock. Claire's life or death mattered little compared to the well-being of Elizabeth, who regularly communicated with Claire through

anger subsided, recognizing the

as a presidential candidate, Frederick could not afford any mishaps. The support of the Prescott family, the wealthiest in Kingstown, was

momentarily clouded his

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day. Come, let me take you out for a

reassuring pat on the shoulder before gently steering

following Frederick and Harrison out

the trio departed, none of them caught sight of the nurse by the ward's door, who was quietly adjusting the medicine bottles on her

remained utterly silent, not uttering a single word

she saw the trio disappear from view, she could no longer restrain the tears welling up in her eyes, and they began to fall, one drop at a time. She had tried her utmost

by some miracle, Anna could return to life. Otherwise, regardless of

in vain.

clueless about how

she knew it could only have come from a

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her, either Diana or

of dire need, the sole beacon of hope for her salvation and

Claire knew in her

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who had ever extended a hand of kindness to Claire,

afflicting such a kind-hearted soul like

to escape the clutches of imprisonment, but never in a manner that