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.

needed feeding first, and

by her desperate

immediately rushed to the bathroom with her son and locked the door behind her, her hands

she had

not when both their lives were

offered a potential

jumping with an infant was too risky. Cold sweat

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pounding on the

they lost

her crying son tightly, biting her lip as tears welled

a gunshot rang out, followed by

where

gap under the door, she glimpsed blood seeping

that? Who else

legs shaking so

the bathtub with her son, scarcely

outside eventually died down, replaced

like

she’d been. Surviving abroad alone with

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imagined. She had drastically overestimated the safety of

suddenly flashed through

their son had died in a foreign land, would he mourn them? Would

gazed up at her with innocent

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

are you in there?” A familiar voice called out. It was Felix, and his tone was

stared at the door in disbelief.

me! You’re safe

stood up and opened the

this? Did you miss me so much you’re

were

over her at once, and she burst into fresh

finally felt relieved when she saw a

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