Chapter 311

It was him.

Chris.

The man paused mid-motion. "You know me?"

Sylvia quickly looked away, shaking her head. Her voice trembled as she pleaded,

"I swear, I don't know anything. Why won't Ms. Lance believe me?"

She couldn't admit it-there might still be a slim chance to get out of this.

The man let out a cocky laugh. "Then you make sure to haunt her, you hear?" He raised the metal pipe and swung it down.

Sylvia instinctively curled up, bracing herself. But almost at the same instant, the man was flung across the room like a ragdoll, crashing into a row of lockers.

The lockers toppled in a domino effect, smashing through the plywood covering the window.

Moonlight spilled through the jagged gap, stretching the shadow of the man now standing before her. Blood dripped from his bruised knuckles, staining the ruby ring on his finger an even deeper red.

It was Rupert.

When she recognized him, Sylvia bit down on her colorless lips and slid down the wall, her legs giving out.

she hit the ground,

helmeted man, seeing this, scrambled through the broken

carried Sylvia out of the pool

All the security footage in the area's been

the Lance family could pull off something like

down at the pale woman in his arms. Dressed head-to-toe in black, he nearly vanished into the darkness. His chiseled features were cold, his eyes

"Is everything ready?"

"But, Rupert—Tristan..."

met Rupert's gaze. Whatever he saw there made him

Hospital.

woke up, everything was still hazy, but she could feel that her

time, she found the sterile

"She's awake-she's awake!"

thudded and her blood ran cold

tore free from her arm, leaving a trail

crazy? Lie back down! Molly, get in here and re-do her

white coat rushed over, pinning Sylvia's arms gently while calling for

me go! Get away from me! Back

desperate. She thrashed, and when she couldn't get free, she kicked out hard, landing a

could've warned me!" Chris doubled over, wincing. A little

didn't let go of her bleeding arm, worried she'd hurt

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