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 tighter

She’s been living with hearing from only her night ear since then! Now, you and your fiancée

all over

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

couldn’t

time together, he whispered, “If it were you, I’d be overjoyed to marry

at him, as

never heard any

now, she never would.

his fiancée, Corona, coolly wrote a check for 20 million, saying to Lucia,

grabbed her

evening gown from some haute couture label, Corona was dragged by Timothy into the hospital restroom, a place even the cleaning staff avoided due to its filth

without even bothering to close the door.

you? Now, you got your wish. We’re tied together for life, and

her, “Like a dead fish!

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

eap bitch here?”

one! You’re even worse! Chasing after a man she

filled Corona’s eyes.

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

he zipped up and walked away without looking back.

starlets to Borough City’s most

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