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.

She just got into the

already done more than

she called her

a long time before finally

let it be. I can’t spend my life worrying

nothing. Grandma. How

talked to her for a

Johnathan glanced at her.

we get there.

had almost forgotten she was still

could help it, he wouldn’t have taken

of mind

on her, but it was obvious she

“Okay”

eyes, intending to just rest them

before she knew it, she had actually fallen

for once, she

the car had stopped outside the university’s

first thing she noticed was the faint scent of disinfectant and woodsy cologne from Johnathan’s

It was oddly calming,

Are

Are you awake!”

low, husky voice pulled her back to

head and found herself looking at the sharp lines of his

for

hand in front of

“Awake?”

nodded. “Yeah. For a second, I thought

bad

…Good.”

at night, quiet in a way that made it

her to his usual workspace, but along the way, they

Evan and Yaron.

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

over Sierra, then flicked to Johnathan beside