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?”

wrapped her arms

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 did you betray her feelings and hurt

shivered all

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

she couldn’t hear

I’d be overjoyed to marry you! A night of endless passion”

at him, as clueless as ever.

realized she never heard

she never would.

with a mix of emotions while his fiancée, Corona, coolly wrote a check for 20 million, saying

grabbed her

lavish evening gown from some haute couture label, Corona was dragged by Timothy into the hospital restroom, a place even the cleaning

her without even bothering to close the door.

what you wanted? To provoke me because I hadn’t touched you? Now, you got

even insulted her, “Like a dead fish! You’d fetch

slapped him, “Timothy, you’re insane! All this for

eap bitch here?”

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

filled Corona’s

face, “Regretting it now? Too late! You’ve pushed me too far!”

zipped up and

starlets to Borough City’s most