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 at least an hour

moved by her desperate state, they

to the bathroom with her son and locked the door behind

she had only bought

not when both

offered

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

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the robbers began pounding on the door, demanding she

they lost

frame splintered under their assault, Meryl clutched her crying son tightly, biting her lip as tears

gunshot rang out, followed by

where firearms were

the door,

was that? Who else was

her legs shaking so

with

down, replaced by

step felt like death

she’d been. Surviving abroad alone with a

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She had drastically overestimated the safety

suddenly flashed through

in a foreign

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

stroked his cheek. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. I tried my best. You’ve barely begun your life,

called out. It was Felix, and

at the door in disbelief.

You’re safe

stood up and

studying her face. “What’s this? Did you

eyes were

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

finally felt relieved when she

Call

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