The Sway and Slide of Love by Jean Song

Chapter 50

Chapter 50 Chapter 50

Noelle didn't sleep a wink that night. Every time she closed her eyes, the nightmares crept in.

A damp, dark room, a door that never quite closed, clothes Inexplicably soiled and drawers rifled through, and finally, the man's disgusting, lecherous face.

Eight years had passed, yet Noelle still couldn't escape the haunting memories. And now, her adoptive father, William Kaplan, was out of prison.

He was free!

Noelle didn't know how William had gotten her number, but the feeling it brought the suffocating sense that she could never outrun him-was all too familiar.

Even this apartment, the one she had only recently rented, no longer felt safe. She couldn't shake the sensation of unseen eyes watching her, waiting to pounce.

Noelle couldn't stay here anymore.

But where could she go?

In the end, she went to the hospital.

nor could she tell the latter anything. But there and seeing

only person who could make her feel even a little bit

didn't dare stay

just being

to Coppersville, the first place he would go would be the Swanson family residence. And given how strained her relationship with them was now, she couldn't rule out the possibility that

instructions to

booked a ticket to leave Coppersville. She didn't tell anyone she was leaving She didn't even cancel her lease. Packing only the essentials, she

caring about the destination. It wasn't

that she finally began

an

string of missed calls

screen.

address of the hotel she had just booked. Once she had

you?" His voice was sharp

omething wrong?"

you at the airport. Where

have people keep an eye on her. The realization hit like a punch to the gut,

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