ok a few more hours. Her heart raced i

ing against her relentlessly, as if

shiv

he wouldn't be leaving alone;

she imagined holding her, hug

had saved up over the years. It would be enough for them to relocate to a faraway country. She wo

mmediately faded upo

ting for you right outsid

nxiety and dread. She would meet her family again af

a monster-and she would have

eminded herself she had won a huge b

She refused to be. Everything would go acc

growing within her with every step she took, and then

t?" he call

ised the thought of going back to taking her father's last name, not when he never tho

phone for a moment, and then he look

eless she got in, and then he ignited t

ress, her heart thumping loudly

falling on the house that hadn't changed a bit. It was nothing extravagant

swayed as the memory of the hell she

d as her father whipped her back with all his mig

sn't the time to cry or show weakness, a

and immediately she stepped in. She

her, Yhuan, first, who stared at her with

l look, eying the expensive dress she wore-a huge cont

finally returned," her el

r, Nelly. "Looks like Mr. Rune has been taking good care of you,

d her ground, and then Nelly walked

and Mara now. You won't

ousy. She looked much better than she used to; her skin no longer clung to her bon

right in front of her father, her bo

at he had done, knowing ho

seethed, digging her nai

has made you forget who you are talking to, filthy basta

for him to take her mo

her shoulder, squeezing

in, and then she let out a loud

ing somewhere in the ocean bed after I killed

ly turned non-existent, replace

trol. Another followed, her

ok her head in denial. "Te

et her cheek. She instant

other kicked her with all her might, but she hel

r wasn't alive? Her chest squeez

more word, she felt something

eck. She struggled to keep her eyes ope

forced them open. She could ba

through her skin. She pushed herself up, her brow

did she get here?

pungent smell of rusting

er, and then her memory restored all at once, and the

ied to make her divorce Xavier an

as this

ed ground cut through the silence, and then a

ther,

d on her feet. He stared a

manded. Was this some hidden place in the

king in her surroundings. "For o

d what he was saying, but

ivorce which you issued, he'll have no choice but to

anger, and she could see herse

ed up in here," she gritted, her hands holding on to the i

hat easily, Lilian," he chuc

r body shook from

ave establishment. Only death would

t her harde