Chapter 26

She longed for her parents' love, and for that, she paid the price of five years in prison, a broken leg, deafness, and the loss of a kidney.

Her body was already battered, unable to bear more burdens.

And now, they wanted her to pay for Ethan's impulsive mistakes.

For the sake of The Linwood Group, Claire was certain the Linwood family would come for her again.

She resented the Linwood family, and she feared Brian the most.

She had experienced Brian's torment in prison, the darkest chapter of her life, a nightmare she never wished to relive. Her body could no longer withstand such torture.

Therefore, she had to leave Cresthaven as soon as possible, to disappear to a place they could never find her, and live out the rest of her days in peace.

She counted the money in her hand, a total of two thousand dollars, all given to her by May.

Thinking of May brought tears to Claire's eyes.

She wondered if she would ever have the chance to repay her.

by the roadside and finally managed to

asked, rolling

how much to Southtown

be a bit more expensive, five hundred and fifty. Is that okay?" Without

take a train to Hillspire City in the northeast of Vesperia. She had heard that housing there was the cheapest in the country, with a place costing only a

remote, cold, and resource-depleted city like Hillspire City, she believed the

solitude in Hillspire City, a glimmer of

the window, she gazed at the beautiful nightscape

flashed trendy brand logos, others displayed exquisite advertisements, adding color

the streetlights cast a gentle light on

mostly empty, and the taxi

later, she finally

her ID to buy a ticket and was lucky enough to get one

had to wait another hour before embarking

train station was sparsely populated at night. She

heard an announcement

was tired and sleepy, and with her hearing

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