Chapter 370 The Familiar Profile

“I couldn’t save the child,” Adrian said. “I testified in court because I was the one who tried to save her. I managed to save the adult’s life, but the child didn’t make it.”

“Was it a natural miscarriage?”

“No,” Adrian said. “I suspect it was a violent assault that led to the miscarriage.”

Immediately, Lysander gasped. “Who did it?”

“I’m not certain,” he said. “My only responsibility was to present the diagnostic results in court.”

After hearing everything, Lysander felt a mix of emotions.

At that moment, someone was calling out for Adrian from afar. He covered the receiver and exchanged a few words before he got back on the phone and asked Lysander, “Are you sure you don’t want to come over and take a look?”

Lysander felt a sense of unease when she heard the story about Paulo’s divorce. “I’m not going. I’ll hang up

now.”

After hanging up the phone, she gazed at the seagulls soaring outside the window. For some reason, couldn’t shake off an unsettling premonition.

Just then, someone outside was turning the door handle.

Lysander exclaimed, “Who’s

could be heard. “I’m sorry. I’ve

girl

opened the door, only

first saw it, there

she

couldn’t have known the profile any better. Every morning before stepping out, that was the profile she saw in the reflection in

so fast that it was

was dim, so Lysander thought perhaps it

cabin

had just returned to her own cabin and was about to sit down when a

that, the cabin door was knocked on again.

girl spoke in Ecronese just now. Could it be that she’s in some trouble? Is she coming

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door grew. Each knock was heavier than the last as if there was a matter of

great caution, Lysander gently cracked the door open. However, in the next moment, someone from outside tumbled

was a tall

on his body, and Lysander had no time to react before being pushed against the wall behind the cabin door. The

wanting to scream for help, but her mouth was gagged,

she was finally released, a dazed voice echoed in her ears.

“Josiah?”

frail, using the

came into contact with the skin on his neck. It was scorching hot. “What’s wrong with

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