The Lost Heiress 115

Chapter 115 The Cost of Caring

Shane’s moods were unpredictable, swinging wildly without warning. Just then, Sierra heard Shane mention Jonathan.

“I thought you might align with that poor Mr. Yeager, Oh wait, he might not be poor.”

Clearly. Jonathan’s background was no minor detail if even Shane couldn’t dig up his family history.

Hearing Jonathan’s name made Sierra instantly on guard, “This has nothing to do with Mr. Yeager.”

Shane’s smirk straightened into a line, then curled up again, “So, you’ve quickly found someone new to protect?”

He raised his left hand, bending his fingers one by one. “Your grandma, Jonathan, oh, and that boy who almost got played to death. Haven’t you learned anything in three years inside? The more you care, the more you lose in the end. Haven’t I taught you that? Why can’t you understand?”

Shane’s words dragged Sierra back into painful memories.

Back then, she was targeted by everyone, alone and isolated. When a new inmate arrived–always a prime target for bullying

-Sierra saw her former self in them. She couldn’t help but reach out, which only made her a bigger target.

times she wanted to give up, but seeing that young girl stripped and mistreated,

arms were from one such incident–a deep wound that required over

she was released from the hospital, she never saw

facility, but then she saw her in those videos, in a terrible state, possibly

that beast, had used her ruthlessly. The video showed her alive

to her.

and told her if she could provoke you into reacting, they’d let her go. So, she suggested she be bullied

slightly; she knew what Shane wanted to see–a look of disappointment, regret, even tears, but she refused to give him

her composure, Shane’s eyes gradually grew colder, and he snapped, “You really

the most stubborn person

just increasingly disagreeable. Perhaps, he mused, it was time

his eyes as he thought of Dickson–an easy target, rootless and insignificant, someone

and Jonathan, the former wouldn’t need his intervention; the old lady wouldn’t

he noticed someone investigating Sierra’s three years in prison, he had been trying to identify who it was. But

had heard of Jonathan’s reputation but didn’t care much, as geniuses

him.

was a red flag, signaling that he was no ordinary man. The plot was thickening. much to

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