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...?"

fire." He sighed, shaking his head, then sat down on

it's been a while. It's good to

nodded, at a loss for

him? He didn't seem alright, did he? But then

you've seen

at the hospital door, my voice choked

a father and

nodded, his eyes soft with

used to look like her mom,

must've been behind her food poisoning, the scumbag. He was just trying to lure me

punched the chair beside him in anger,

here all these years? What exactly happened? And

at me with complex emotions, I didn't

probably not far from what Geneva

took Galen a good five minutes before

was a match and offered to help,

business was having minor

confirmed

cooking the books, funneling the company's money into

he arranged for their escape abroad,

back on his word. Auntie didn't

unsure of

"Yes, it's all my fault,

and I didn't offer any words

Talbot,