The Clutches Of Hell Novel

Chapter 22 Will You Let Me Leave?

“Though, there’s no need for you to waste your energy. No matter who you seduce, they won’t have the ability to let you leave anyway.” Christian grabbed her chin, forcing Victoria to raise her head.

She looked down as she refused to meet his gaze. “What about you? Will you let me leave?”

“This is what you owe to Bella.” When his gaze fell upon her split lip, he looked deep in thought for a moment as he lifted his fingertip toward her lip. Just when he was about to touch her lips, he knitted his brows slightly before moving his finger back to its original position.

She tried to curl her lips upward to put on a smile, but she just could not do it no matter what. Instead, the corners of her eyes were becoming moist by the second.

“What’s wrong?” He scoffed at the sad look on her face. Thinking that she was being sad for another man, he said with a voice dripping with sarcasm, “Feeling sad because you failed to seduce that man?”

At this moment, his handsome and delicate face was so close to hers that she could feel his warm breath beating on her face. She could even make out every single detail of his face without the need to stare at him long and hard.

Victoria had pictured herself leaning into his embrace as she listened to his heartbeat countless times, but she had never expected it to happen in this kind of situation.

His words held no affection but only sharp irony. It was like the sharpest knife in the world that sliced through her heart and made her bleed.

behind her eyes and nose. In the

Christian spoke next to her ears as he moved his hand across her waist in an upward motion. When his hand reached her collar, he suddenly pulled on it forcefully.

her fair

looked at the button that had been torn off from her uniform and fallen onto the floor.

frantically. “Don’t touch me!” How can he do this

you caught on to that,”

had already guessed that he would say so, she still felt unbearable pain in her heart as though it was being pricked by thousands of

that she should have given up a long time ago, but there was always a sliver of hope inside her that he would reciprocate her feelings. “If I say that I didn’t push Bella, but she was the one

as the police held concrete proof of her so-called crime. On top of that, they reckoned that it was something that she

all, for a smart person like him, he might

trick!

really learned nothing after two years in prison.” He chuckled while touching the

a few steps backward to get away from his touch with her tears unconsciously novelxo.com fast updatetrailing down her face. When she noticed that, she lowered her head and

work on me.” His expression was calm as he

was putting their hands over her neck, choking her, and it made her chest tighten up even more. “I should go back to work if there’s nothing

her hand, then ran toward the workroom located at the end of the hallway with the