The Clutches Of Hell Novel

Chapter 45

Victoria’s pupils shrank upon hearing so, and she looked at Christian with incredulity. Why did he let everyone misunderstand me when he knew the truth?!

Christian looked ahead and never even thought of sparing her a glance. It was like he was oblivious to the fact that she was looking at him.

At that, Victoria tucked her gaze away, and her countenance returned to usual.

What was I thinking? Bella is his beloved, while I’m just nothing to him.

“Actress?” Bella blinked innocently. “Are you referring to Victoria, Christian? If she wants to become an actress, then she’ll have to get rid of the scar on her face first, and no one can know she has been to jail, or she’d be damned.”

“With such great acting, it’s a shame that you’re not in showbiz, or you’d be an Oscar-winning actress.” Christian stopped in his tracks, looked at the woman in the wheelchair, then sneered before continuing his journey ahead.

“Since Christian thinks you have such potential, why don’t you give it a try?” Bella blinked. “Though there’s the fact that you’ve been put behind bars, you can still give it a go. At the very least, it’s a more respectable job than a hostess or a cleaner.”

“Is there a point in playing dumb?” Victoria asked.

Bella looked toward Christian’s back, and mixed emotions began surging beneath her eyes. “There has to be one even if there isn’t, or something I hold dearly would be taken away.”

Later, when the three headed out after Bella’s rehab session, her attending physician called out to Victoria out of the blue.

“Yes, doctor?” Victoria stopped in her tracks.

The doctor looked at her right leg and asked, “Don’t mind me asking, but your right leg… Is it dysfunctional?”

Shouts of prison inmates calling her lame rang in her ear, causing her face to blanch as she tucked her right leg in.

She had already tried her best to walk like any other person. Still, her disability wasn’t something she could hide just because she wanted to.

sorry, I don’t mean anything else. I was just asking,” the doctor explained because of the awkward atmosphere. “If so, I suggest that you get it

upon hearing so. No one would willingly live with a disability for their entire lives,

She had visited tons of specialists only to get one result—her leg injury was

can fix it,” Christian said impassively and headed out the

hopeful light in Victoria’s eyes vanished in that instant, reignited with burning

only thing she could do

didn’t want her leg to be cured, then so be it, lest… he broke

had just pulled a piece of tissue out when Christian, who was sitting

look at his handsome face as her thick, curly eyelashes

she hummed a response, put the box of tissue

it some serious thought, and I think that Victoria should treat her leg if something can be done about it. It’s already enough that my life

price she should pay for breaking your leg.” The sun shone through the car window, casting

Victoria had no

was really dead set

sighed and looked at Victoria

churn. Bella’s phony act was one that she

I saw your brother and sister-in-law inside earlier. Why didn’t they come and say hi to you? Do they think you’re an embarrassment because you

and drooped her eyelids. Her hands, which were on her lap, clenched her

insouciantly, “You haven’t gotten to meet the pigeon twins when you were locked up in prison for the last two years, have you? I’ve met

it. She had been forcibly dragged to

words were only a deliberate

anything? Are you possibly… sad?” Bella leaned forward, bringing their distance closer. “Why don’t I talk to Mr. Coleman and

her tolerance, Victoria shot her eyes wide open and interrupted Bella, saying, “Are you not tired of pretending to be someone you’re not every single day?! Do you not feel disgusted?!

regretted it the second she

his seat on the right side of the back seat. His