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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to help Mikayla when he heard Kylie weakly calling out.

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

the first ald kill.

sitting down and then walked over to

her arm.

pulled at her arm, it

suddenly felt a bit

here to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing

Mikayla heard his voice. Her eyes began to focus, and her body gradually regained

felt a

with Kylie after

hoarse, and her tone

tightened further

someone’s life over

first

trying

moment, carrying the first

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

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

chase after Mikayla to find out

out a stifled

Mikayla was the one responsible for the disturbance, Jerome paused

stop. “Shall we go to

her pale face, Kylie shook her

inch deeper, and

round–faced woman helped Kylie stop the bleeding while asking, “Who was that person just now? Why did

faint smile. “She might have misunderstood

this, and you’re still

to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha,

but she could tell it wasn’t appropriate

need someone to look after you tonight,

just happened? Why did Mikayla