Ellison And Joycelyn: A Love Beyond The Rules

Chapter 78

Chapter 78

Since the start of her workday, Joycelyn had been feeling assassey nor of forenting

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She had been busy all day, not even having time for a sip of water, as it’s demands meze irzotikly high

At 4 PM, her phone, which had been sitting on her deck, beges rising ano–dog

At first, Joycelyn thought it was from the Mercer family, ano de ipsosende, alking up to block the munker But then a text message popped up.

It read that her mother had collapsed and was bleeding from her mouth

Accompanying the message were three pictures.

Two were of her mother in the midst of coughing up blood, a gruesome sight, and the tied sowed her mother bying werk and hooked up to an oxygen mask in the hospital

Her heart immediately tightened in worry, but the suppressed the urge to respond

The images stirred painful memories of the Mercer family’s past mistreatment, and the cold reality and her again er own mother had never once stood up for her.

Her heart slowly turned colder as she thought about it

Just as she was about to block the number, another message came through [Dad’s been detained. I have to go to school, so you should come over, take care of Mom, and pay for her medical bills. If you don’t, you can come pick up her body later. I won’t deal with it.]

As she read this, Joycelyn’s face turned icy, and her hands began to shake with anger

This was how her mother’s stepdaughter treated her–hoping she’d die at the most crucial moment. Meanwhile, Joycelyn had been bending over backwards, trying to maintain good relations with them, treating them like family.

Joycelyn didn’t respond and quickly blocked the number.

About ten minutes later, her phone rang again. This time it was a landline, showing it was from the hospital

moment before picking

nurse’s voice came through, explaining her mother’s condition and expressing concern

to sign a consent form, as they couldn’t proceed without it. They warned that any delay could worsen her

Her mother had stomach issues, and now she had developed an acute appendicitis. Despite everything,

work, got up, and asked Linda

Joycelyn rushed

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paid the medical and surgery fees, signed the necessary paperwork, and watched as her mother was wheeled into the operating

stood silently outside, expressionless, her face devoid of any emotion–no

of her past self–weak, helpless, abandoned, and

she was grown, with her own life. She didn’t have

went to the nurse’s station to hire a

she finished making the arrangements, her phone rang

parked it safely in the garage. As the towing agent read

had been fine in the garage, and

hanging up quickly. She gave the caregiver

inspected the car from front to back

spotted a familiar, sinister face

widened in shock, but before she could scream, Cedric stunned her

the trunk,” Cedric ordered, steadying Joycelyn as his brother Tristan opened the

the garage, and Joycelyn, still

suspension jolted her head, forcing her

tight bonds around her wrists, her mouth taped shut, preventing her from

be Octavia and her gambling cousin, Tristan, who were behind this.

Joycelyn didn’t know why they risked everything to kidnap

front seat. “Maybe we should

Joycelyn’s skin crawl with revulsion and

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