Chapter 6

The car sped away, leaving Isabella standing in exhaust fumes.

She didn’t move for a while and then slowly began to walk down the hill.

She had lost her phone the night before, and besides that, she was also penniless.

She was wearing a pair of flat sandals. It was fortunate that she rarely wore high heels, or she would have to suffer a lot on her walk downtown.

The road back was irritatingly long. Isabella walked for so long that when she reached the foot of the hill, it was already noon, and the cars that had left in the morning were. on their way back.

Jason was surprised to see the slim figure through the car. window. Thinking that his sister Samantha was severely

injured, he averted his eyes indifferently.

Isabella couldn’t feel her legs in the end.

She had stayed up all night last night and spent the whole morning walking down the hill. Once she got to the main road, she hailed a taxi and returned to the Thompson

couple’s apartment.

The Thompson couple lived in an old community in Dawton. City, which was poorly administered and where cars came. and went unchecked. The taxi pulled over downstairs, and Isabella went up to get the money for the fare.

The door was locked. Isabella pulled out the key hanging. from her neck and opened the door.

She took her ID card, passport, bank card, and about a hundred dollars worth of cash.

She would not stay here anymore. This was not her home.

Before leaving, she took one last look around the place

where she grew up. No good memories but only hurtful ones.

had been made here.

It was a small apartment of less than 650 square feet with

Samantha’s posters everywhere. Isabella let loose a self-

mocking laugh.

She didn’t belong here. She didn’t belong with the Lang family. She had no home in the world.

She cared about nobody, and nobody cared about her.

She took the key off her neck and casually threw it on the shoe cabinet in the hallway before locking the door behind.

her.

She would never set foot in this place again.

Rushing downstairs, she got into the taxi that had been

waiting for her in the same place and said to the driver, “Go

to the airport.”

her a surprised look. He had worried

run away without

but she had also asked for another ride to the

found the girl

meant more money for him, so

mysterious estate in Dawton City, a

blue pupils were

up, the two men standing beside the bed tensed up

a bit pale with

on their foreheads.

been scrupulous around this man

they ever felt

were on tenterhooks because of the

yesterday.

slowly propped himself up on the bed and felt

his stomach which was

bandages.

not the cut on his

that woman and do away with her. She

my blood and

killing. intent, making people think of the snow on the tops of high mountains

the last thing he wanted to recall. Just thinking about it made

had the guts to set him up and swore to make that

born.

standing next to the bed were Draxton Lockwood’s trusted

search for her, but there are no surveillance cameras around that place,

glance and said in

The thought that she is still breathing in the

glint of exasperation flashed across

to admit that he had been turned on last

the lead

and boarded the earliest flight out of the

where it would take her. She

no idea that someone had begun a frantic search for

no idea either that she was saving

that fate wasn’t done playing tricks on her yet. She was exhausted and fell asleep right after getting

was woken up by the violent jolts of the plane and the frightened wails and screams of the passengers around

freaking out, Isabella was feeling a little

it was because there was

felt the plane falling

screams around her were

out with a crash and drifted

Dawton City, a man’s voice said, “Mr.

we’ve found her, but…”

deep blue eyes flicked

in a plane

face remained impassive as

her body.”

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