Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 268 No Going Back

No wonder Dalton wanted to divorce Lydia.

His personality could never tolerate such betrayal.

Dalton said, "Meryl, I'm asking you one last time. Three years ago, were you the one who bribed those thugs to kidnap Lydia? Or was it all just her own scheme, something she orchestrated herself?"

As soon as Dalton mentioned the events from three years ago, Meryl's expression turned cold.

A sharp pain pierced her heart.

This was a shadow that had haunted her entire life.

Those three years in prison-every day was an absolute nightmare for her. Meryl even considered ending it all at times.

The prime of her life was wasted away behind bars.

The meager meals, the beatings from other inmates, and the long scar on her ankle-these were wounds that would never heal.

Meryl didn't immediately answer Dalton's question. Instead, she asked in return, "What did Lydia tell you back then?"

No

Meryl had harbored doubts

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accident, Dalton began to coldly distance himself

he became distant, it wasn't to the extent that he would send her to

saw Meryl, it was as if

get those thugs to obey you, you slept with their

what it was."

she and Dalton had just gotten engaged. How could a

caused Lydia to be kidnapped but

asked, "And you just believed

lips together

almost assaulted by that gang of thugs. How could he not believe

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then, no matter how much I explained that I didn't kidnap her, none of you believed me. And now, you're coming to me for the truth? So, you're starting to doubt Lydia too? You know she's not as

sleep with those thugs! The kidnapping was all her doing, wasn't it? You went

true? So

rage, his mind racing with thoughts he barely dared to entertain. The more he thought about it, the more everything seemed

he only just begun to