No Strings Attached

Then, clenching his fists tightly, he watched Robert with stern eyes. "Leonora's behind bars. Heidi has abducted Clara and sent someone to try and snuff out her life. Who put you up to this?"

Robert shook his head in despair. "I wish I knew who it was, but I don't. The guy always wore a black cloak, sitting in a wheelchair with his face shrouded in mystery. He orchestrated everything. If I didn't comply, he threatened to wipe out my whole family. Please, I've told you everything. Just leave my family out of this."

He fell to his knees, begging pitifully.

lan kicked him aside, his voice icy with contempt. "Hand him over to the cops. We'll have Leonora re-interrogated and get her to spill the beans about Katherine's identity, as well as the secrets of the man behind the curtain.

But don't you worry, I won't lift a finger to save her. She's made her bed; now she can lie in it."

Then, he turned on his heel and walked away.

Edwin watched lan's forlorn figure retreat and felt a pang of sorrow.

He couldn't help but reflect, "It's tough on lan having a mother like that. We shouldn't drag him through the mud for her sins."

seems. There's got to be another layer of truth beneath what we know, and we just haven't uncovered it yet." Edwin was puzzled. "You think Leonora might not be the

affair with my mother and fathered a child, it would've been simple for the mighty Hayes family to nip the problem in the bud and send my mother abroad. Why go to the lengths of disfigurement, arson, and relentless pursuit over

Katherine is onto Leonora's scheme and wanted to silence her

This could involve a secret that ties the Hayes family to the Campbell family. But I doubt Leonora will come clean easily. To get to the bottom of this, we'll have to wait for my mother's memory to return." Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the Find_Nøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters

alone sent a wave of pain through

another method to restore her memory - a reenactment of the traumatic event. Subjecting his mother to another fire could unlock her past, but at what cost? Such darkness could

buried in her memory, one

testimonies, compiling the evidence along with Robert, and handed it all to the authorities. The Hayes family warehouse

the door to Clara's room, he found her in

large hand caressing her forehead

sight was lan's breaking

cascaded down his cheeks, darkening the

trials they'd been through, couldn't he and Clara simply live happily ever after? Why did fate insist on testing their love with these

pain himself in a heartbeat if it meant

the threshold