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 that

run away without

back with money, but she had also asked

girl a bit

it meant more money for him, so he had

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

blue pupils were like frozen

two men standing beside the bed

with

on their foreheads.

had always been scrupulous

ever felt such

on tenterhooks because

yesterday.

slowly propped himself up on the

his stomach

bandages.

not

woman and do away

with my

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

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

him up and swore to make that girl rue the

born.

men standing next to the

one replied, “Mr. Lockwood, we’ve sent. people to search for her, but there are no surveillance cameras around that place, so I’m afraid it will

a sidelong glance and said

that she is still breathing in the world

flashed across his

man and had to admit that he had been turned on last

letting a woman take the lead in sex

arrived at the airport and boarded

it would take her. She just wanted to leave the place

no idea that someone had begun a frantic search for

idea either that she was

tricks on her yet. She was exhausted and fell asleep right

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

of freaking out, Isabella was feeling a little

because there was no one she felt attached

felt the plane falling at a

screams around

with a crash and

City, a man’s voice said, “Mr.

we’ve found her, but…”

blue eyes flicked

dead in a

impassive as

her body.”

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