Unveiled: The Survivor's Triumph

Chapter 206

Chapter 206 To Hell with Love

After getting back to the office, I wasted no time and called up Nora.

In no time, she showed up with a female college student in tow.

"This is Ms. Russell," Nora introduced her.

The girl looked pretty surprised to see me.

I turned to Nora, "You can get back to work now."

Once Nora left, I gave the girl a friendly smile.

"Long time no see."

She quickly got over her surprise and smiled back. "I didn't expect it to be you."

The girl was Jennifer, Zachary's adopted daughter.

I asked my secretary to bring us some tea, and Jennifer and I settled on the small sofa. I was eager to hear about Zachary and Bella. When I mentioned Zachary, Jennifer's face fell.

"The law is fair. Good and bad are clear-cut. Mistakes get punished, and good deeds get recognized, but they don't cancel each other out." Zachary was initially sentenced to life, but Bella gathered evidence through a lawyer and got it reduced to 15 years.

I had a hunch this would happen, and I bet Bella did too. She must've been holding onto that slim hope.

Fifteen years wasn't as bad as life, but it was still a long time-the prime years of a woman's life.

Would Bella wait for 15 years? She'd be in her early forties by then. How many 15 years did a woman have?

"How are Bella and the baby?" I asked, feeling heavy-hearted.

Jennifer nodded with a smile when I mentioned them.

"They're doing well. It's a boy, and he's super cute."

She didn't seem to want to talk much about Bella.

When I asked for Bella's contact info, she went quiet.

"What's wrong?" I noticed her hesitation.

Jennifer bit her lip and finally looked up.

"I'm sorry, I can't give you her contact info. She specifically told me not to when I came to study in Starlight City."

I felt a pang of emptiness and stared at her for a good half minute.

Why?

smiles and waves, wishing each other well and looking forward to the next

know Bella. She valued friendship. No matter what she went through, she'd

been through this

to make Jennifer uncomfortable, I

now. I'll have someone

strap of her backpack,

her age and status-well-behaved and sensible, not flashy. From the first

finished a semester of her first year, but Bella had never met her. If it weren't for Zachary's situation, I doubt she would have shown up. She was

Zachary's hometown. But she always had to return to

understand why she wouldn't contact me and specifically told Jennifer not to give me her

out the kaleidoscope Bella had given me. Watching the patterns flash by, I felt time was

learn to keep forgetting. Maybe

I called up Nora and Dakota and we headed to Blue Ocean

the car, I looked up at the

to come here a lot. It had been over a year since our last

was also Bella's last

hope of getting some news about Bella from

parked the car and walked over with

us out for some fun?"

we need to unwind. Gotta balance

was decked out, even though it wasn't a holiday. Looked like someone was hosting an event. We squeezed through the crowded room and found a booth

end, a group of people were singing a birthday song, and laughter and

party, barely sat down before she was up again, heading over to see what

a waiter and ordered some

stacked with several layers of red

everyone," the waiter said as he carefully pushed

if she had seen a

cart behind her, it was too late. She

wine glasses toppled over, shattering

collective gasp, the crowd fell into an eerie

eager to avoid blame, quickly pointed at

ruined all this wine. What are we going

were on Nora, who looked down at the broken glass

calm," she said nervously, trying to reassure the

to the waiter,

me. "Our boss is

that the crowd had parted, revealing

as surprised to see me. Before he could speak, I quickly

minutes later, Frank and I were sitting in a private

taking over this

playing with a lighter in his hand. "Oliver forced it on me. When he left, he just left a note, not even a phone

I asked, though

say, but I think he probably went to find Bella. Oliver talks a big game, but he can't

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