Tempted Trapped and Too Late to Run

Chapter 615

Clara couldn't believe how vicious these people were. They all came from the same village-why were they treating each other like enemies?

Clearly, Emily had held back when she warned Clara about the wellness center that morning. The people who worked there didn't value anyone's life but their

own.

They had to have some serious backing. No one would act this bold otherwise.

Clara tried to move toward Emily, wanting to help her up, but the men blocked her, their eyes filled with something ugly.

"Hey, pretty girl," one of them sneered. "Don't say we didn't warn you. In this village, you don't get to call the shots. Keep being stubborn, and the Bolton girl will die right in front of you tonight."

Emily was barely hanging on, struggling to get to her feet.

Clara's heart raced. She was terrified they'd start beating Emily again, so she blurted, "I'll go with you. Just leave her alone."

There was still an elderly member of the Bolton family-if Emily died, who would care for the sick old man?

Just as they started forcing her toward the door, a frail, cracked voice broke through the tension, full of regret.

"Sins... all sins..."

at the Boltons'-just heard him coughing from the back room. Now she finally saw him: thin as a skeleton, one leg

If she hadn't come here,

laughing, as if watching the old man struggle on the

can run, then run. There's not a single decent soul in that place. If you go in, you won't come out whole. My wife died in there. Pan's parents... they didn't leave for

the wellness center herself to see what was really going on, but hearing this, the

took a deep breath and, in one smooth motion, pulled out the gun she'd tucked

didn't even get a chance to react-they dropped

old man was frozen in shock, staring

mit. She never expecsét

ran a few nights

it

world come to this

hurried over and gently helped the old man up. “I'm getting you and

was shaking all over-not with fear,

are you?” His voice quivered. "I can't leave and honestly I

whole

his face; only the herbs Emily brought him

squeezed her hand,

Pan behind. She doesn't know anything. Years ago, her parents tried to take

all I have left. She's taken