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

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

hurriedly fetched the

sitting down and

her arm. “Get

and as he pulled at her arm, it

a

to apologize? What’s with this madness

began to focus, and

a sense of relief.

to be with Kylie after the divorce?” Mikayla

hoarse, and her tone betrayed

already furrowed brows tightened

someone’s life over this?”

found the first

trying to

that moment, carrying the first aid kit.

up, but she coldly pushed

on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away without

to find out what

Kylie let out a stifled

that Mikayla was the one responsible for the disturbance, Jerome

complete stop. “Shall we go to

pale face, Kylie shook

be fine? Another inch deeper,

was that person just now? Why

forced a faint smile. “She might

misunderstanding? Kylie, you’re just too kind. You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her. I think we should call the police and have her arrested!”

“Aunt Agatha, please go back for now. If there’s

she could tell it wasn’t appropriate for her to

someone to look after

asked Kylie, “What just happened?