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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Mikayla when he

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

fetched the first ald

Kylie in sitting down and

her arm. “Get up.”

pulled at her arm, it was as if

suddenly felt a bit

What’s with

Mikayla heard his voice. Her eyes began to focus, and

a

you planning to be with Kylie

voice was hoarse, and her tone betrayed

furrowed brows tightened further as he

life over

found the first aid

trying to

approached at that moment,

up, but

to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away without casting a backward

to find out

a stifled groan of pain.

Mikayla was the one responsible for the disturbance, Jerome paused

coming to a complete stop. “Shall we go to the

face, Kylie shook her

deeper, and it

“Who was that person just now? Why did she come in and attack you

smile. “She might have

you’re just too kind. You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her. I think we should call the

brows, Kylie said to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for

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

well. If you need someone to

asked Kylie, “What just happened? Why did Mikayla