Not A Small-Town Girl

Chapter 208-2 ----

“Sure enough, less talking, more action. Thankfully, there

were only three of them to deal with. If there had been

eight, she’d probably be dizzy from all the back-and-forth.

“Are we... here now?" Xavier asked, sounding a little out of

“Howard also hadn’t fully processed what had just

happened when Danielle brought Xavier back.

"Seeing both of them still in shock, Vivian asked, "Are you

two alright?"

“Yeah, yeah, we’re fine. Are you okay, sweetie?” Howard

rushed to check on Danielle.

“Danielle shook her head. Seeing how rattled her dad and

brother looked, she said, "I’m fine. Let’s take a break

before we move on."

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“How can you be fine? You’re just a delicate lady who

carried us both back, one by one. Those marks on your

arm from the rope are brutal. It breaks my heart,” Vivian

said, feeling terrible. "Honey, you should put some ointment

on that."

"Danielle pulled out a little bottle, dabbed some ointment

on her arm, and rubbed it in. Howard and Xavier looked at

the red marks on her arm, both feeling guilty.

“Xavier felt especially bad. As the older brother, he hadn’t

anything while Danielle had

hurt, and

Danielle," he said, guilt written

face.

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apologies since they entered

him off quickly. "Alright, no more of that.

to keep going."

was dangerous, but things weren’t any

outside.

after their failed attempt to

couldn’t even get through

Geoffrey

Linda’s fate.

made her daily stop at Charrington Manor,

father-in-law to finally do something about

situation.

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Charrington

Lately, Polly had made it a

to push for some kind of

elderly couple didn’t even look up from their

simply waving the butler away. It

anyway; they couldn’t

playing chess?" Polly

smile.

Polly finally spoke again. “Alice,

favorite pastries. I made them this

think

and gave Polly

impressed. She never understood

in the first

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would try to

Polly came off

self-serving.

the pastries. Thanks, but

now," Alice said, her tone

her tangue, doing

to let

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distant. Once her