Chapter 6

The car sped away, leaving Isabella standing in exhaust fumes.

She didn’t move for a while and then slowly began to walk down the hill.

She had lost her phone the night before, and besides that, she was also penniless.

She was wearing a pair of flat sandals. It was fortunate that she rarely wore high heels, or she would have to suffer a lot on her walk downtown.

The road back was irritatingly long. Isabella walked for so long that when she reached the foot of the hill, it was already noon, and the cars that had left in the morning were. on their way back.

Jason was surprised to see the slim figure through the car. window. Thinking that his sister Samantha was severely

injured, he averted his eyes indifferently.

Isabella couldn’t feel her legs in the end.

She had stayed up all night last night and spent the whole morning walking down the hill. Once she got to the main road, she hailed a taxi and returned to the Thompson

couple’s apartment.

The Thompson couple lived in an old community in Dawton. City, which was poorly administered and where cars came. and went unchecked. The taxi pulled over downstairs, and Isabella went up to get the money for the fare.

The door was locked. Isabella pulled out the key hanging. from her neck and opened the door.

She took her ID card, passport, bank card, and about a hundred dollars worth of cash.

She would not stay here anymore. This was not her home.

Before leaving, she took one last look around the place

where she grew up. No good memories but only hurtful ones.

had been made here.

It was a small apartment of less than 650 square feet with

Samantha’s posters everywhere. Isabella let loose a self-

mocking laugh.

She didn’t belong here. She didn’t belong with the Lang family. She had no home in the world.

She cared about nobody, and nobody cared about her.

She took the key off her neck and casually threw it on the shoe cabinet in the hallway before locking the door behind.

her.

She would never set foot in this place again.

Rushing downstairs, she got into the taxi that had been

waiting for her in the same place and said to the driver, “Go

to the airport.”

her a surprised

girl would run away

come back with money, but she had also

the girl a

so he had no reason to refuse

the most mysterious estate in Dawton City, a man

blue pupils

up, the two men standing beside the bed tensed

bit pale with a thin

on their foreheads.

scrupulous around this man but

ever felt

were on tenterhooks because of the

yesterday.

himself up on the bed and felt

pain in his stomach

bandages.

not the cut on his

woman and do away with her. She can’t

my blood and

in an icy voice full of killing. intent, making people think of the snow on the tops of high mountains that persisted throughout thousands of

was the last thing he wanted to recall. Just thinking

guts to set him up and swore to make

born.

standing next to the bed were Draxton

but there are no surveillance cameras around that place, so I’m afraid it will take more time than we thought to locate

glance

her where you find her. The thought that she

glint of exasperation flashed across

a man and had to admit

letting a woman take the lead in sex humiliated

arrived at the airport and boarded the earliest flight out of

her. She

idea that someone had begun a frantic

that she was saving herself

done playing tricks on her yet.

the violent jolts of the plane and the frightened wails and screams of

Isabella was

was no one she felt attached to

plane falling

screams around

blacked out with a crash and drifted into complete

in Dawton City, a man’s voice said, “Mr.

we’ve found her, but…”

deep blue eyes flicked

already dead in a

impassive as he

her body.”

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