CEO Broke Down and Cried After I Divorced Him by Miss Rich

Chapter 0365

Chapter 0365

It wasn't an earthquake but something Charlotte did. As she approached the villa's main entrance, she had discreetly activated the hidden mechanism for the basement.

Charlotte had prepared a destructive device in the basement, designed to obliterate everything inside if she found herself in a desperate situation. She wasn't about to let Suzy's mother, whom she had imprisoned for twenty years, escape unscathed.

If she couldn't make it out alive, neither would they.

What she hadn't anticipated was Mark's betrayal. Still, she managed to act just in time, developing a drug to turn Suzy's mother into a puppet before Suzy's arrival.

But the current result? Even better.

If she had to die, she'd take Suzy with her.

As the villa began to shake violently, Charlotte's laughter grew cold and

bloodthirsty." Suzy, let's go to hell together!"

Down in the basement, Suzy and Riley felt the tremors immediately and rushed toward the exit. But they were a step too late.

The ceiling above the entrance collapsed, blocking the way out entirely.

"This isn't an earthquake," Riley said, pointing at the debris blocking the door. "It's deliberate. Otherwise, how could it collapse so perfectly to block the exit?"

Suzy's expression hardened, her voice cold. "Charlotte always did have a knack for meticulous planning."

"She really does think of everything," Riley growled through clenched teeth. "Do you think she and Mark were in on this together from the start?"

that mattered now was escaping and ensuring her mother could be laid to

hands and no tools, getting out of the collapsing basement was almost

walls, and chunks of the ceiling began to fall. It was only a

a massive slab of stone breaking loose

out of the way, but before she could take another step, debris struck

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could catch her breath, another piece of the ceiling came down. This time, she wasn't so lucky. The impact struck her back,

It w

of this alive wasn't

if she could stay with her mother until the end, Suzy thought, perhaps it wouldn't be so

was one thing

Suzy whispered, her voice filled with guilt, "I'm

bruises, Riley forced a smile through the pain. "Boss, if I

die alongside you, it's an

even as she said it, her thoughts drifted to

pang of sorrow

once, in

as Suzy and Riley thought their fate was sealed, the door was suddenly

they saw

landed on Hawk, a complicated mix of emotions surged in

the third

eyes fell on Suzy, who, despite her battered and bloodied state, refused to let go of the woman she held so tightly. A pang of

to her. Squatting down to meet her at eye

first time, Suzy didn't mind

and Riley finally

the body in her arms, Hawk said gently, "You're injured. Let