Chapter 501

Rowena was quickly sent off to Africa, forced into sex work as a foreign aid "bride."

Word had it that once she arrived, she simply couldn't bear the humiliation. Her dignity was shattered, her spirit trampled into the dirt, day after day forced to endure several men. She tried desperately to escape, but every attempt ended with her being dragged back.

The last time they caught her, she didn't survive. They beat her to death.

Keeley-Rowena's mother-collapsed from the shock when she learned what had happened to her daughter.

All this, Nanette and Isadora only found out much later.

When Isadora heard the news, she barely reacted.

Whatever shred of sympathy she might have once had for Rowena had vanished the moment Rowena poisoned Pudding to death.

After some time recovering, Isadora was finally allowed to leave the hospital.

Victor appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, pushing a wheelchair.

He stood tall and relaxed behind it, hands resting casually on the handles, his expression perfectly at ease.

Isadora blinked at the sight.

a

been hospitalized because she'd gotten overexcited and had a scare with her pregnancy, not because she

the hospital,

and although her figure was

the middle of the night— sometimes with a sudden cramp in her leg,

moment she startled awake, Victor would snap to attention beside her. Gone was his

his hand to reassure him. "I'm fine, really.

then would he calm down,

come to understand-she was no longer living just for herself.

a responsibility now, to her child

she pointed at the wheelchair with

the handles, stepped forward, and wrapped his arm gently around her waist, his voice soft and careful. "The

down, slipped an arm under her knees, and effortlessly

cheeks flushed. "That's even more

amusement. "And why is it weird for a man to carry

gave in

carried out of her hospital room, head tucked against Victor's chest like an ostrich, pretending no

hallway, Nanette

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