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

by her desperate state, they

to the bathroom with her son and locked the door behind her,

she had only

not when both their

bathroom window offered a potential

second floor, jumping with an infant was too risky.

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two minutes, the robbers began pounding on the door, demanding she come

lost patience and started trying to

Meryl clutched her crying son tightly,

out, followed

where firearms were

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

that?

paralyzed with fear, her legs shaking

with her son,

commotion outside eventually died down, replaced by footsteps approaching

step felt like death drawing

now did Meryl realize how naive she’d been. Surviving abroad alone with a newborn was

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imagined. She had drastically overestimated the safety

suddenly flashed

he learned that she and their son had died in a foreign land, would he mourn them? Would he even know they were

baby’s blanket. The infant gazed up at her with innocent eyes, unaware

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

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

the door in disbelief.

me! You’re safe now. Open

and opened

this? Did

were red and

crashed over her at once, and she burst

relieved when she saw a

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