Rejected No More: I Am Way Out Of Your League, Darling!

Chapter 594:

She sipped her coffee, trying to mask her discomfort.

The muffled sounds from upstairs changed, evolving into anguished screams and finally into desperate, gut-wrenching pleas.

The harsh, guttural cries were punctuated by the sharp crack of a whip, reverberating through the grand villa. Katrina’s hands shook, the coffee cup trembling against its saucer.

She’d always known Doug had a dark side, but she hadn’t imagined it was this depraved.

A chill of dread coiled around her.

Just as she gathered the courage to leave, the eerie silence upstairs brought her to a halt.

The door creaked open, and Doug emerged at the top of the staircase.

His sharp, narrow eyes locked onto her, a glimmer of amusement flickering within them.

a wave of unease washing

make her escape, but Doug’s voice

here

herself to

upstairs. Go on

pushed open the patio door and strolled into the yard, golf

waiting until she was absolutely certain he was

faint, metallic scent

in and emerging moments later with a rumpled quilt. Katrina hesitated before pushing

dimly lit. Standing in the doorway, she

to trigger the automatic curtains, which drew back with a

through the floor-to-ceiling windows,

did Katrina grasp the scale of the room—an expansive two hundred square meters,

Joyce sat nonchalantly, one hand tracing the edge of the freshly changed

exhaling a plume