When Love Becomes a Cage by Nora

Chapter 177

Chapter 177



I didn't sleep a wink all night, constantly checking the time on my phone.

By eleven, I was already up, keeping an eye on the hallway.

Lisa had arranged for me to stay in the VIP suite, conveniently close to the staircase.

I counted the seconds in my head, and when I noticed the red light on the stairwell's security camera flicker off, I knew the surveillance system was updating.

Taking advantage of the distraction, I quickly left my room and headed up the stairs.

Two floors above my room was the rooftop. Pushing open the door, I gripped the pocket knife in my hand tighter.

The wind was biting cold, and I wrapped my jacket tighter around me, scanning the area.

Suddenly, the door shut behind me, and then I saw a hunched figure.

"Galen?"

I cautiously approached, and he spoke in a raspy voice, "Follow me."

He led me to a corner of the rooftop, sheltered from the wind and prying eyes.

Removing his hat and mask, I saw the scars on his face and instinctively covered my mouth to stifle my sobs. "Galen, how did you...?"

his head,

while.

nodded, at a loss for

he? But then again, maybe if I hadn't seen him, things

seen Geneva,

the figure I'd seen at

father and daughter being estranged

nodded, his eyes soft

like her mom, but now she's starting

behind her food poisoning, the scumbag. He was just trying to lure me

chair beside him in

have you been here all these years?

at me with

far from what Geneva

good five

Talbot was a match and offered to help, but he wanted

having minor financial

confirmed Geneva's

Galen into cooking the books, funneling the

arranged for their escape abroad, hoping to

on his word. Auntie didn't get the

unsure of how to

it's all my

and I

was Talbot, but he was also