Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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going to help Mikayla when he

neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who was standing there in a daze, “Go get the first aid

the first ald kill.

sitting down and then

at her arm. “Get up.”

her arm, it was as if he were dragging a lifeless

felt a bit uneasy.

with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing

time, Mikayla heard his voice. Her eyes began to

felt a sense of

are you planning to be with Kylie after the divorce?” Mikayla

was hoarse, and her tone betrayed

furrowed brows tightened further as he countered,

someone’s life over this?”

first aid kit!”

trying

approached at that moment, carrying the first

to help Mikayla stand up, but she coldly pushed him away.

back to her feet on her own, adjusted her

to chase after Mikayla to find out what had happened, but at that

Kylie let out a stifled

Mikayla was the one responsible

a complete stop.

face, Kylie shook her head.

be fine? Another inch deeper, and it would have needed stitches!”

bleeding while asking, “Who was that person just now?

smile. “She might have misunderstood me.”

just too kind. You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her. I

to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please

to leave, but she could tell it wasn’t appropriate for her

someone to look after you tonight, call me.”

Agatha left, Jerome asked Kylie, “What just happened? Why