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.

severe headache and couldn’t figure out whether she had fallen into a trap from the moment she received the email or whether the culprit had arrived at the location

get out of

a kidnapping drama before. She thought the techniques to tie the ropes were quite cool,

and asked her if she was going to

she learned proved useful at

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 the rope around her feet, she

and more than one person

immediately stopped

was

door.” It was

had heard

instantly lay down, holding the untied rope and hiding her hands behind

a head–on conflict with them. So, she pretended

door roughly. It hit the wall, sending up a layer of dust.

her other hand to fan