Chapter 380

Why would Hailey talk about her mother, on television?!

The little girl mentioned that her mother had gone missing four days ago... could she possibly mean Willow?!

Hailey's voice issued from the television set, adorably earnest: "My mother's name is easy to remember. It sounds sweet and lovely."

Willow felt as though her soul was ready to depart from this world, so imminent was the peril...

Hailey was about to reveal that she was Willow's own daughter.

And here, right in front of her, was Jasper in all his chilling menace, slender fingers clutching her jaw in a vice grip, handsome face glaring balefully at her, cold as ice.

She was being pressed down onto the executioner's block. Her nerves were being stretched to breaking point.

"My mother's name is..."

Pow! Just before Hailey could speak Willow's name aloud, she was cut off when the television screen switched off abruptly-along with all the lights in the living

room.

heaved a long sigh of relief. Her hair and back were

in the afternoon, on the threshold of evening. There was no longer as much sunlight available, so the sudden loss of electrical lighting plunged the

Willow's face. When he said that he wouldn't be giving her any children, fine beads of

close enough

gritted, he regarded her coldly. "So you'd

had barely been able to relax for a moment, but now she was all tensed up once more. In

can't get pregnant, don't

she liked kids, and she'd said that she did.

until now to get what he'd meant by that. It was only when

would he allow her to have any children by him. He didn't like kids, and there was no merit in him letting Willow Nason become

with pain, in spite of herself. The agony was a swirling, flailing

about her four

What about her...?

to hear such agreeable terms from her. With a curt harrumph, he let go of

lights came back on in the living room-along with the television. However, instead of that show from earlier,

"Master, a fuse was tripped, and so the

him away.

beside herself with glee. What were the odds that a fuse would trip at just that exact moment? If not for that miracle, she shuddered to think what might have

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