Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

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?”

arms tighter

lost her hearing in her left ear when she was just 15. She’s been living with hearing from only her night ear 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

all

Lucia, 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

couldn’t hear

last time together, he whispered, “If it were you, I’d

looked at him, as clueless as

she never heard any of

now, she never would.

burned with a mix of emotions while his fiancée, Corona, coolly wrote a check for 20 million, saying to Lucia, “20 million for one ear should be enough, right?”

grabbed her wrist.

evening gown from some haute couture label, Corona was dragged by Timothy into the

her without even bothering to close the

provoke me because I hadn’t touched you? Now, you got your wish. We’re tied

a dead fish! You’d

you’re insane! All this for

eap bitch here?”

even worse! Chasing after a man she discarded. Who’s the real cheap

Corona’s

caressed her face, “Regretting it now? Too

he zipped up and walked away without looking

Timothy called several starlets to Borough