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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considered going to help Mikayla when he heard Kylie weakly calling

forehead and the red marks on her neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who

the first

in sitting down and then walked over to

tugged at her arm.

felt utterly limp, and as he pulled at her arm, it was as if he were

suddenly felt a

come up here to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing his brows.

voice. Her eyes began to focus, and her

Jerome felt a

you planning to be with Kylie after the divorce?”

her tone betrayed no emotion.

furrowed brows tightened further as

life over this?”

the first

trying to

approached at that moment, carrying the first aid

stand up, but she coldly pushed

to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away

Mikayla to find out what had

let out a stifled groan of pain.

was the one responsible for the disturbance,

to a complete stop. “Shall we go to

shook her head. “I’m

Another inch deeper, and

asking, “Who was that person just now? Why did she come in and attack you right away?”

forced a faint smile. “She might have misunderstood

still defending her. I think

Kylie said to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for now. If there’s anything, we can

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

you need someone to look

left, Jerome asked Kylie, “What just