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. He had worried

would run away without paying him, but

back with money, but she had also asked

found the girl a bit

so he had

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

midnight blue pupils were

him waking up, the two men standing beside the bed

pale with a

on their foreheads.

always been scrupulous around this man

ever felt

on tenterhooks because of

yesterday.

himself up on the bed

pain in his stomach which was now wrapped

bandages.

concern was not the cut on

woman and do away with her. She can’t

with my blood and

think of the snow on the tops of high mountains that persisted throughout

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

the guts to set him up and swore to make

born.

the bed were Draxton Lockwood’s

people to search for her, but there are no surveillance cameras around that place, so I’m afraid it will

gave him a sidelong glance and

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

exasperation flashed across

admit that he

take the lead in

the airport and boarded the earliest

it would take her. She just wanted to leave

had no idea that someone had begun a frantic

idea either that she was saving herself

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

the violent jolts of the plane and the frightened wails

out, Isabella was feeling a

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

the plane

screams around

with a crash and drifted into

City, a

we’ve found her, but…”

blue

dead in a

impassive as he said, “Then

her body.”

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