No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 722

"Debbie, Debbie..."

I rushed out of the car and wrapped her in a tight embrace, calling her name with urgency.

She didn't respond, so I gently turned her face towards mine. When I finally saw her clearly, I was left speechless.

Her face was swollen, her eyes nearly shut, her cheeks marred with wounds, and her lips... they were grotesquely swollen and bloody...

I wasn't naive; I knew exactly what had happened.

Ernest was right, I was too late.

"I'm calling the police right now," was all I could manage, my voice a mixture of heartbreak and rage.

"No, please..." Debbie's weak protest stopped me in my tracks.

I looked at her, bewildered, but she managed a smile. That smile, on her battered face, tore me apart...

"Why?" My voice was thick with pain.

need to gather more evidence," Debbie's words shocked

that moment, I understood why she was so scared to come back, yet why she had infiltrated the Sapphire Lounge through a friend's recommendation. She refused to hide away, determined to gather evidence against them, to bring down

the engine. As I was about to get in, I noticed a

shiver ran down my spine. I glanced at Debbie, lying there with her eyes closed, as lifeless as a

Monsters...

rumors about the horrors those people inflicted, but seeing Debbie in this state was a shocking

critical condition. I called Fanny,

as I pulled up, they opened

wait outside the ER began. After three excruciating

mix of exhaustion and something

a word, her look sent chills down my spine. "Fanny,

then, Fanny gestured towards a nurse who approached with a tray filled with bloody items, unrecognizable due to the

removed from her... from inside," Fanny's voice was

fixed on the bloody remains, their shapes alone inducing a chilling

has over

tearing, her

massive hemorrhagic rupture, ker left cheekbone is fractured, and her left

it's...