Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0648

In the darkness, countless white photos were falling over me, like bullets piercing through.

I dreamed that the helpless person seeking rescue was me, lying on the ground, watching as photos floated down from the sky, burying me completely...

I couldn't make a sound, couldn't move a muscle. There was no strength left in my body.

"No!"

I woke up with a jolt, gasping for air, my face drenched in cold sweat.

"Ari!" A pair of worried eyes broke into my sight. "How do you feel?"

My blurred vision gradually became clearer, and I saw Nicholas's slightly haggard face full of anxiety.

"Ari?" He called me again. As he waited for my response, it felt like time stretched infinitely.

I slowly raised my hand and grabbed Nicholas's arm. I wanted to speak, but tears fell first.

"Are you feeling unwell? I'll call the doctor right away!"

Only then did I notice that I was lying in a hospital bed. "Nicholas, how is the person who saved me?"

Everyone's fine. Right now, you're the only one who

held my hand, kissed it lightly, and turned to leave

really fine? I gave a bitter smile. If not for the subtle twitch in his eyelids and the rapidly drying

Closing

eyes opened as the phone on the table suddenly vibrated. The

heart skipped two beats, an ominous feeling creeping over

unknown number, but I recognized it at a glance. This number belonged to someone I had once truly cherished my sister. "Ariana!"

from the dream, her shouting made my head spin, and I had to

command you to

words in her sentence I found baffling-command

breath, clearing my hoarse throat before replying, "Claudia, compared to the things you've done, I don't even know how

you. Stop trying to make your

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known

my

attention!"

screeched like a cat whose tail had been

me? Then where are my legs? If you were magnanimous, why are you targeting The Secret, my only refuge, and destroying

were magnanimous, why

sentence and a retrial? A life sentence isn't enough for you? Only the death penalty will satisfy you, is that it? You're determined to destroy us, yet you dare say you've

is