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...?"

know about the fire." He sighed, shaking his head, then sat

a while.

a loss for

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

you've seen

I'd seen at the hospital door,

more than a father and daughter

nodded, his eyes

tall and beautiful. She used to look like her mom, but now she's

food poisoning, the scumbag. He was just

punched the chair beside him in

have you been here all these years? What exactly happened? And about my

at me with complex emotions,

truth was probably not far from what

took Galen a good five minutes before he spoke

a match and offered to help, but

business was having minor financial troubles, nothing serious, but

confirmed Geneva's

blackmailed Galen into cooking the books, funneling

abroad, hoping

went back on his word. Auntie didn't get the

unsure of how

nodded vigorously, "Yes, it's

for my forgiveness, and I didn't offer

at fault, as was Talbot, but he was