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 heard Kylie

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

fetched the

in sitting down and then

tugged at her arm. “Get

limp, and as he pulled at her arm, it was

a

you come up here to apologize? What’s with this

Her eyes began to focus, and

Jerome felt a sense of relief.

you planning to be with Kylie after

was hoarse, and her

already furrowed brows tightened further as he countered,

life over this?”

first aid kit!”

you trying to

moment, carrying the first

up, but she coldly

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

after Mikayla to find out

out a stifled groan of

responsible for the disturbance, Jerome

a complete stop. “Shall we go to

pale face, Kylie shook her head. “I’m fine.”

deeper, and it would

Kylie stop the bleeding while asking, “Who was that person just now? Why did

smile. “She might have misunderstood

and you’re still defending her. I think we should call the police and have her

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

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

rest well. If you need someone to

Jerome asked Kylie, “What just