Pampered By The Ruthless Underground Boss

Chapter 197

Chapter 197:

Joshua flinched at each number, his desperation mounting. But Khloe’s voice didn’t falter, each word striking like a countdown to his downfall.

Joshua stood paralyzed as Khloe’s merciless countdown echoed, his eyes widening in utter shock.

The idea that his desperate pleas would be answered with indifference—no, with an even icier threat—was beyond anything he had imagined.

The urge to retaliate against Khloe surged within Joshua, but with Henrik standing nearby, he didn’t dare risk an impulsive move.

The desperation in his eyes turned into a glare filled with venom and unspoken rage.

sharp change in his expression, and strangely, it gave her a sense of

was her father, reduced to such humiliation

astonished by her firm and unyielding stand against Joshua. While

judgments without

no choice but to give in. The risk was too great. He had no way of knowing if Khloe might convince Henrik to bring the Evans

father kneeling, feeling her last glimmer of hope crumble into nothingness. Her

with anger and defiance, but the moment Henrik’s icy glare landed on her, she froze, her

as her knees buckled, and she sank to the floor, trembling. Tears gathered in her

that moment that she and the Evans family were now a joke at Zhecrora University, where

watched impassively as both Joshua

knees did little to satisfy Henrik’s fury. After what Khloe endured in the car crash, he believed the Evans family deserved nothing less than complete annihilation. Henrik’s eyes turned to Khloe, her expression glowing with a sense of triumph, her eyes blazing with the fierce joy of revenge. The

predator toying with

silence from her told Joshua

terrified that the bitterness he felt might show on his face. “Khloe, I know I