Chapter 304 So, What’s the Reason?

After she hung up. Maggie couldn’t shake off Ronald’s last questions.

It was clear he suspected her, but even if he did, what could he really do? As long as they avoided a direct confrontation, the battle would continue.

She had already lost her life once. She was determined to make the Camerons suffer so that they’d understand the pain of losing everything.

Maggie drove onto the expressway, heading home. Her time with Nathael lately had sparked an idea.

She wanted to create a brooch inspired by his profile, not for selling but just for herself.

She worried she might forget his gentle face in the future and that one day they might become strangers,

She wanted to record the good moments so that she could always remember how affectionately he looked at her.

As she parked her car downstairs, her phone rang, showing a name she dreaded–Timmothy.

Maggie stayed in her seat, staring at the flashing name on the screen for a while, her expression darkening.

He just won’t leave me alone.

After a moment, just before the call ended, she finally answered. “Hey.”

“11:00 PM, Willow Hotel.” Timmothy’s voice came through the phone.

It was as if the person who had threatened her and Nathael wasn’t him. The chaos and injuries felt like a distant dream.

Maggie didn’t say anything, and Timmothy didn’t mind. He simply said, “I’ll be waiting for you, Maggie.”

With that, the call ended, showing no concern, as if he was certain she would show

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Maggie sat in the car. Timmothy’s name irritated her. She felt powerless, like she had no control over anything.

crazy; he was

sat in the car for a while, then restarted it and headed

11:00 PM, Maggie arrived

sunlight cast a warm glow on him,

but lament how young he looked.

was actually

from him, Maggie couldn’t help

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What’s

sitting across from him, it was

beaten up.

gaze. Timmothy chuckled. “Looks pretty bad,

to

and asked for a

his eyes, as if Maggie’s words

cute in that moment. His youthful and naive demeanour seemed genuine and was not just a

perhaps this was genuinely who

sense of genuineness that she wasn’t suspicious of him from

man who had threatened her with a dagger that day. His craziness and

residing within him, tearing him apart and then putting him back

glanced at Maggie. “Maggie, you

was dressed in a dusty pink knitted sweater adorned with a vintage rose

eyes clear and chilly. She had a hint of detachment in her eyes, but without

in a good mood. And you abducted me. Do you expect

wasn’t that she had decided to go along with Timmothy; she suddenly realised that the more she resisted. him, the more dangerous he would be. If she maintained her distance and bored him, he would inevitably resort to violence.

the consequences of her previous refusal. This time, she had made a

derisively, reclining in his chair and exposing his leg. “What do you think Nathael is, a soft–hearted person?”

his leg, and she couldn’t

that Timmothy’s leg was encased in thick plaster. Coupled with the injury

He murmured softly, “He had someone break my leg and lock Toby in the old hou. Jeff ended up hospitalised with twelve broken

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