Chapter 424 Long Time No See and Never Again

Freya leaned in Radley’s arms, and Connor was all smiles in the front pa*senger seat.

“You know, Miss Kaufmann, Mr. Monaghan hasn’t had a proper meal since you disappeared. Finally, things are looking up now,” Connor remarked.

Freya furrowed her brow as she looked at Radley. His already stern face now appeared even more gaunt, with sharper angles.

His deep-set eyes and untamed short hair gave him a somewhat disheveled appearance.

Freya smiled and gently touched his face. “Looks like it’ll take some time to plump you back. up.”

Radley reached out to caress her face, his voice slightly hoarse. “You’ll have to do your best then.”

Freya chuckled but soon thought about her plans to leave the next day.

Fortunately, since Matthew had mentioned that he knew some authoritative institutions, it should be a quick process to break free and return to Radley’s side.

The night had grown late, and after a long journey, Freya lay in Radley’s arms, gradually closing her eyes.

In the northern part of Kundin, inside a Floravalean-style villa, Edward opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling for a moment before sitting up abruptly.

As he tried to get out of bed, he realized that his feet were shackled with two padded ankle.

cuffs.

The cuffs were not designed to harm, but they limited his movement to the confines of the

room.

Edward furrowed his brow and called out, his voice hoarse, “Someone, come in!”

There was soon a commotion outside, and two maids hastily entered the room, pushing the door open.

“You called, Mr. Edward?”

Edward looked at them coldly. These two had previously addressed him as ‘Mr. Fraser.'”

It seemed that after the discovery, Jamie had no intention of continuing the charade.

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glance. “Mr. Jamie is not here, Mr. Edward. But he said you can request

Jamie’s not here?

“Did he go

he went; he only instructed. us to take

and his gaze fell on the shackles

worried that I might try something, doesn’t

breath, recalling Freya’s words that he needed to eat

that, he looked at the two maids and said, “Go and prepare some food for me.”

immediately obliged and left

the bed, attempting to undo the shackles on his feet. After a few minutes,

on guard against me.

waiting for about ten minutes, two maids entered the room, carrying

with your meal?”

“No,

a sharp pain

to vomit.

into the bathroom, and luckily, the length of the chain on his shackles. allowed him to lean over the sink and retch

on the tap and cleaned

vomited again, noticing red streaks

throat felt as if it had been scratched by food, and it was painful and

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to the recent vomiting, his stomach began to cramp

against the bathroom wall, looking through the

outside.

her away earlier, or he truly wouldn’t have known if he had the strength to do it a few days later.

a while and waited until the pain gradually subsided before he returned to

the bathroom mirror-a gaunt figure that had already lost

he didn’t want to die like this.

arm, looking at his wrists that had become as thin as twigs, and his gaze

the sharp objects in the room had been removed. Even the vase that had originally

opened the bedside cabinet and, after searching through the clutter, found

it, and unfolded a piece of paper.

sat on the floor, leaning against the bedside cabinet, and began writing slowly,

line.

dearest brother, Jamie…’

as Edward wrote to the end, his

out that no one was unafraid of death.

seeing her face again, never hearing her

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