Under the heiress facade

Chapter 249

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When Hera awoke, she felt like her head was about to explode and was uncomfortable.

She tried to get up, only to find that her hands and feet were tied. There was straw beneath her, and the walls were made of the same mud bricks used to build buildings a century

It was already dawn, and the sunlight shone in through the grid windows. The wooden door was tightly closed, with evidence of being pried open.

There was a pyre covered with cobwebs on her left and a straw bed on her right. The straw surface of the bed had been flattened, and a blackened quilt was piled in a comer. There were also two dirty plates next to the quilt.

It appeared that someone had been living here for awhile.

Hera concluded that she was in a woodshed in the countryside. She struggled to sit up and found her head spinning. Her body temperature was so high that she suspected she had

Recalling what happened last night, she wondered what happened to Nathan and Stephen. The person she saw before fainting was a stranger.

had fallen into a trap from the moment she received the email or whether the culprit had arrived at the location before

get out of

behind her back. She felt lucky to have watched a kidnapping drama before. She

her strangely and asked her if she was

proved useful at

she wasn’t in good condition, so it took her a while to untie the rope that bound her hands. When she was about to untie

talking, and more than one person was approaching

immediately stopped moving

was

It was

voice as one she had heard before. Then, she heard the door being unlocked.

untied rope

and was uncomfortable, she wasn’t suitable for a head–on conflict with them. So, she pretended

It hit the wall,

covered her nose in disgust and used her other hand to fan