Chapter 170

On the way to the hospital, Megan’s hands were clenched tight. She didn’t ask Sullivan for details.

The hospital corridors felt endless, and as Megan paced through, the faint sound of a woman’s weeping, tinged with distortion and agony, familiar yet foreign, reached her ears.

Megan quickened her pace.

When she finally pushed open the door, Sullivan stood right behind her, his voice a low rumble, “Some thugs from the Corona gang made her deal in one ear Found her in an abandoned warehouse”

Megan’s eyes flooded with tears, her hand shaking on the doorknob. It took her a moment to gather the courage to step inside.

Timothy and his fiancée had arrived before her, sitting quietly in the room.

Lucia was a shadow of her former self, sitting on the hospital bed, not acknowledging Timothy or his fiancée nor hearing their attempts at comforting words.

She was like a ghost

Only when Megan entered did a spark of life flicker in Lucia’s eyes.

Megan gently hugged her, her voice quivering with apologies for arriving late.

Lucia’s cry was haunting, unlike any sound of grief Megan had ever heard…

Timothy murmured in confusion, “But doesn’t she still have her left ear? Why can’t she hear?”

her arms

since then! Now, you and your fiancée have taken that from her, too. I told you, she’s just an orphan, powerless… In front of families like ours, she’s nothing! Why did you betray

all

at her frail body, remembering how vibrant she used to be. He recalled whispering sweet nothings and crude jokes into her left ear while tormenting her and

she couldn’t

whispered, “If it were you, I’d

looked at him, as

she never heard any of it.

now, she never would.

a check for 20 million, saying to Lucia, “20 million for one ear

grabbed her wrist.

by Timothy into the hospital restroom, a place even the cleaning staff avoided due to

took her without even bothering

spitting harsh words, “Is this what you wanted? To provoke me because I hadn’t touched you? Now, you got your

her, “Like a dead fish! You’d

All

eap bitch here?”

You’re even worse! Chasing after

filled Corona’s eyes.

gently caressed her face, “Regretting it now? Too late! You’ve pushed

he zipped up and walked

to Borough

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