Chapter 99 Too Late for Regret

Chapter 99 Too Late for Regret

Seeing that it was almost midnight, John felt a rare flicker of unease.

Why hadn’t she come to him yet?

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Could it be that during their phone call earlier, his tone had been too harsh and now she thought he wouldn’t help her? Was she curled up somewhere alone, quietly licking her wounds?

It wasn’t until after he’d called her that he learned she had been drenched with several buckets of ice water by crazed netizens.

The thought of her soaking wet, huddled in a corner, silently crying-

Suddenly, it felt like a knife twisting in his chest.

He had to find her.

He couldn’t let her be left alone to suffer–what if she cried herself to sleep tonight?

She was always blocking his number, so he had prepared over a dozen backup phones.

He grabbed one of them and was about to call her to ask where she was so he could go pick

But before he could dial her number, a news alert popped up on his screen.

her

up.

-Shocking twist. Mathilda was the real bully.

Mathilda was the bully?

He immediately tapped

included the full video James had

the footage, Lily was clearly pushed to the ground by several girls. They kicked her hard in the stomach,

they were taking revenge on Mathilda’s

lay curled on the ground in pain,

a sneer–then slammed

second when Mathilda lifted her foot, Lily, who had just been slumped on the floor in agony, suddenly

gone viral before had none of this. It only showed

beside Lily in that footage–faces pixelated–everyone had jumped to the conclusion that she

had

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and the others had gone after Lily because she’d picked on Mathilda first and

imagined that Lily had never bullied Mathilda at all. That it was Mathilda who had led those girls to

was two–faced, always bullying her, setting

He should have believed her. Should have stood

after seeing the online video, he still instinctively assumed she was lying.

needed comfort, care, and protection the most, he had turned around and accused her instead -had even

the hell had

regret tore through him like

blade was sawing at

he was being skinned

breathing had become

pain was so sharp it

wanted nothing more than to

Wayne had already checked–there were no hotel

couldn’t even rush to her, couldn’t hold her, couldn’t

he unlocked his phone and

called five or six

No answer.

cried herself

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