Chapter 378

For lunch, Willow had her fill of more rice porridge. Then, she lazed about on a couch in the living room, lost in a daze.

She'd ruined ten billion dollars' worth of antiques in Jasper's private collection! Her heart was wound up with anxiety. Her skin prickled with cold dread.

She was wracked with confusion, panic, and helplessness.

Jasper Hughes was not known for his charitable soul. Just for a few scratches that her kids had left on his sofa, he'd demanded a fortune from her.

Then there was that time when her children punctured one of his car's tyres with the needle of a ball pump, and he'd billed her for fifty thousand dollars!

This time, she'd cost him ten billion dollars! There wasn't even any room for doubt as to her guilt, here!

Jasper Hughes was a heartless penny-pincher. He was guaranteed to seek recompense from her for this.

What could she possibly have to sell, which might pay off a debt this

enormous...?

The more she thought about this, the more she was consumed by worry, distress, panic, and helplessness.

no

TV that might help alleviate your boredom?" Leon noticed that the prisoner had been spacing out in the living room

still lingered some traces of hallucinogenic toxins in her system? It wouldn't do for her to go

occupy her. He switched it on for

on the sofa, completely uninterested

from the television show that was airing currently. The

also a very

though jolted by an electric shock, Willow's head snapped

was a close-up shot of some little girl's

a delicate ivory carving, from which shone large, radiant eyes full

lively, pretty, adorable little

question the emcee had posed to

salt, chicken essence,

seeing that face... all of a sudden, Willow was fully awake, all

girl... it

in the

to display a panorama of the

proclaimed that these were

the qualifying round, earning herself a place

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