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.”

cast her a surprised look.

girl would run away without paying

back with money, but she had also

found the girl a

him, so he had no reason to refuse

the most mysterious estate in Dawton City, a man slowly opened his

blue pupils

men standing beside the bed tensed up and

bit pale with a thin sheen of

on their foreheads.

had always been scrupulous around this man

they ever

because

yesterday.

himself up on the

stomach

bandages.

concern was not the cut

woman and do away

my blood and

enunciated every syllable in an icy voice full of killing. intent, making people think of the snow

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

couldn’t believe that someone had the guts to set him up and swore to make that girl rue

born.

standing next to the bed were Draxton Lockwood’s trusted

surveillance cameras around that place, so I’m afraid it will take

gave him a sidelong glance

where you find her. The thought that she is still breathing in the world disgusts

glint of exasperation flashed

and had to admit that he had been turned on

the lead

at the airport and boarded the earliest

where it would take her.

had begun a frantic search

idea either that she was saving herself

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

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

Isabella was

terrify her. Perhaps it was because there was no one she felt attached

she felt the plane

around her were

blacked out with a crash and drifted into

a man’s voice

we’ve found her, but…”

deep blue eyes flicked

dead in

face remained impassive as he said, “Then

her body.”

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