Chapter 300

As soon as Claire gave the order, Jeffry moved to grab Vanessa.

Vanessa had already become a bundle of nerves, skittish as a startled deer. "No, please! I don't want to go up into those mountains!"

But Jeffry wasn't about to show her any mercy. He hauled her up like she weighed nothing, gripping her as though she were no more than a squirming chicken.

Vanessa's legs flailed wildly, terror dilating her eyes until they looked impossibly wide.

Just as Jeffry was about to carry her out of the villa, Vanessa suddenly shrieked, her voice breaking with desperation. "Claire! You can't do this to me! Your kidney is still inside my body! If you let me go, I'll give it back to you-I swear!"

Jeffry froze mid-stride, glancing over his shoulder at Sean and Claire, silently asking for direction.

Sensing a glimmer of hope, Vanessa looked at Claire with pleading, expectant eyes.

Everyone in the room seemed to think Claire would back down for the sake of her kidney.

cold laugh, her bright eyes shining with a glint of frost. "And why," she asked slowly, "would I want my kidney back right

silence fell. No one could quite believe

really just going to let Vanessa keep it? Was she really going to

a mask of shock and confusion. She stammered, "You... you don't want your kidney

though there was nothing warm about it. If anything, it was the kind of

all right," she replied evenly. "But I never said I needed it

have one left. If I took it back now, you'd die on the spot and I'd be a murderer. No, I'd rather wait. I want to see you dragged off to the mountains, suffering through every miserable day with just that one

white, fear and shock

her: Claire didn't just hate her-she wanted

own hands. Instead, she'd come up with a way to make Vanessa pay-by sending her off to the wild, untamed

been pampered her whole life, a spoiled princess who'd never known hardship. She would be miserable out there, her health declining day by

some brutish man in the mountains decided to force himself on her, if she

made Vanessa tremble uncontrollably. She fought Jeffry's

to death, I'll never agree to donate my

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