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.

pendant was Samantha's money tree, so she kept

a fake one for Willow to bring to Jasper so that the

pendant was replicated

domineering as he said, "There's no use keeping your hands and feet since they're

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intention. He was going to break

hell to her. Her scalp was tingling and her heart was stuck in her throat. She wailed, "Mr. Hughes, I was wrong. I'll return the pendant

could even finish

bones cracking. Samantha screamed in pain, feeling as if her soul would leave

over. After the bones of her fingers were crushed, the bodyguard straightened her legs before placing his hard leather shoe on her shin. Then, he

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