The lost heiress never forgiven

The Lost Heiress 54

Chapter 54 A Place to Escape

Finished

She and Daphne had never been the closest of friends, but when Sierra first arrived in prison, Daphne had taken care of her. She couldn’t just sit back and do nothing.

The thought of it weighed on her chest.

Johnathan glanced at her and suddenly said, “Want to go to the lab?”

She looked up at him.

When I’m in a bad mood. I go there,” he added casually.

Sierra thought for a moment, then nodded. “Okay,”

Just as they were about to leave, someone called out from behind them.

“Wait a minute.

was the female officer who had taken her statement earlier.

There’s something I forgot to mention,” the officer said. That woman you called the police for this morning–she changed her mind at the hospital. She refused to get checked, insisted her injuries weren’t from abuse but from a fall.”

The officer sighed. They could see this all the time. People who don’t trust the law, who won’t protect themselves.

“If you can, try to convince her. Domestic violence doesn’t stop after the first time–it only happens again and again. She needs to trust that we can help.

Sierra wasn’t surprised.

That was exactly the kind of thing Yulia would do.

She was weak. That was why James had been able to control her for so long.

Sierra simply thanked the officer.

Thanks, but let her be. If she won’t fight for herself, then nothing we do will matter.

The officer hesitated. She had assumed Sierra cared about the woman she had reported, but her indifference said otherwise.

explaining. She just

done more than

way back, she called her grandmother and told

grandmother was silent for a long time

I can’t spend my life worrying about her. She’s

Grandma. How are you

her grandmother, Sierra was always patient. She talked to her for

Johnathan glanced at her.

before we get there. You

forgotten she

wouldn’t have

of mind

weighing on her, but it was obvious she was wound too

“Okay”

her eyes, intending to just

she knew it, she had

for once,

car had stopped outside the university’s lab

faint scent of disinfectant and woodsy cologne from

It was oddly calming,

Are

Are you awake!”

pulled her back

herself looking at the

heart skipped for

hand in

“Awake?”

then nodded. “Yeah. For a

bad

…Good.”

at night, quiet in a way that made it feel almost detached from the

her to his usual workspace, but along the way, they ran into two

Evan and Yaron.

hadn’t expected to see her there either. Both froze for a

then flicked to Johnathan beside