Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 750

Chapter 750 Call the Police?

Meryl crouched behind the door, her heart pounding.

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She could make out two men speaking in hushed tones outside.

Though she couldn’t understand their words, their local accent was unmistakable.

Suddenly, the door burst open.

Acting on instinct, Meryl clutched her son in one arm and hurled the desk lamp at the intruders with her other hand.

The lamp struck one of them, but his partner cursed and lunged forward, easily disarming her.

Both men were heavily tattooed and intimidating in appearance.

Terror gripped Meryl as she tried to flee with her son but they were too quick as they realized her intentions.

One of them grabbed her by the neck and roughly dragged her back, spitting foreign obscenities while her son wailed in her

arms.

This was Meryl’s first encounter with such violence. She couldn’t believe a burglary could happen in broad daylight in what she thought was a safe downtown area.

Chapter 750 Call the Police?

Desperately, she offered them money. The men sneered and demanded she go to the bank immediately for cash.

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To ensure her compliance, they insisted on keeping her child as collateral.

Panic seized Meryl at the thought of leaving her son.

How could she trust these criminals with her baby? What if they took the money and killed him anyway?

But she was powerless to negotiate in her position.

Thinking quickly, Meryl recognized their primary motivation was financial.

them, explaining that her son needed feeding first, and

by her desperate

to the bathroom with her son and locked the door

she had only bought herself

when both their lives

window offered a

from the second floor, jumping with an

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two minutes, the robbers began pounding on the

time, they lost patience

splintered under their assault, Meryl clutched her crying son

gunshot rang out, followed by a

was Aetherland, where firearms were

heart nearly stopped. Through the gap under the

was that?

legs shaking so

to the bathtub with her son, scarcely daring to

died down, replaced

felt like death

how naive she’d been. Surviving abroad alone with a newborn was far

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imagined. She had drastically overestimated the safety

suddenly flashed through her

in a foreign land, would

fell silently onto her baby’s blanket. The infant gazed up at

sorry, sweetheart. I tried my best. You’ve barely

voice called out. It was Felix, and his tone was

the

safe now.

up and

face. “What’s this? Did you

eyes were red and

her at

finally felt relieved when

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