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.

first, and the bank trip would take

moved by her desperate state, they

son and locked the

she had only bought

give up, not when both their

offered

from the second floor, jumping with an infant was too risky. Cold sweat beaded

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pounding on the

for more time, they lost

the door frame splintered under their assault, Meryl clutched her crying son tightly, biting her lip

out,

was Aetherland, where firearms were

the door, she glimpsed blood seeping across

was that?

was paralyzed with fear, her legs shaking so badly she could

the bathtub with

commotion outside eventually died down,

like

did Meryl realize how naive she’d been. Surviving abroad

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had drastically overestimated

face suddenly flashed

a foreign

infant gazed

I tried

A familiar voice called out. It was Felix, and his tone was soothing and

the

You’re safe now. Open

up and

face. “What’s this? Did you miss me so

eyes were red

fear and relief crashed over her at

when she

Call

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