My Four Miraculous Treasures

With both hands on the cold marble floor, she looked up at Jasper fearfully with tears in her eyes, not daring to say a word.

She feared that she might enrage Jasper and end up worse off than Edith.

Jasper lit a cigarette, took a drag, and blew out a ring of smoke. He said in a deep voice, "You have the jade pendant, don't you?"

Samantha went numb with shock. By now, her tears and snot had combined. She stuttered, "I-I have it at home. I-I just happened to pick it up..."

When she overheard Edith's phone call, she had learned that Jasper had slept with Willow and left her a token. Jasper wanted Willow to seek him out again with that token.

Samantha had found the pendant in the debris before Willow could and hid it away.

For the past five years, she kept using the pendant as an excuse to get money from Edith.

She had threatened to hand the pendant over to Jasper and reveal the truth if Edith didn't pay up.

Edith had always obliged out of fear of being exposed.

tree, so she kept

one for Willow to bring to Jasper so that the latter would assume that Willow was

replicated based on

use keeping your hands and feet since they're dirty. We should

bodyguard immediately

He was going to

wailed, "Mr. Hughes, I was wrong. I'll return the pendant to you at once. I won't do it anymore. Please spare me

being pressed to the floor before she could

sound of bones cracking. Samantha screamed in

fingers were crushed, the bodyguard straightened her legs before placing his hard leather shoe on her shin. Then,

BUMS

bone breaking was just as crisp, bright, and heavy as snapping a lotus

sharp cries filled the

ghastly,

outside due to