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 the

her desperate

son and locked the door behind her, her

she had only bought

couldn’t give up, not when both their lives were

window offered a potential

tried several times. But from the second floor, jumping with an infant was too risky. Cold sweat beaded on

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the robbers began pounding on the door, demanding she

for more time, they lost patience and started

frame splintered under their assault, Meryl clutched her crying son

a gunshot rang out, followed by a heavy

Aetherland, where firearms were

nearly stopped. Through the gap under the door, she glimpsed blood seeping across the

blood was that? Who else

fear, her legs shaking so badly she

retreated to the bathtub with her son, scarcely

commotion outside eventually died down,

like death

how naive she’d been. Surviving

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drastically overestimated the safety of foreign

suddenly flashed

a foreign land, would he mourn them? Would

infant gazed up at

his cheek. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. I tried my best. You’ve

familiar voice called out.

stared at the door in disbelief.

me! You’re safe

immediately stood up and

face. “What’s this? Did you

eyes were

and relief crashed over her at once, and she burst into

when

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