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.”

cast her a surprised

girl would run away without paying him, but

money, but she had also asked for another ride to

found the girl

it meant more money for him, so he had no reason

same time, in the most mysterious estate in Dawton City,

blue pupils were

him waking up, the two men standing beside the

looked a bit pale with a thin sheen of

on their foreheads.

scrupulous around

ever

were on tenterhooks because

yesterday.

himself up on the bed and

stomach which was now

bandages.

first concern was not the

away with her.

with my blood

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

was the last thing he wanted to recall. Just thinking about it made

someone had the guts to set him up and swore to make

born.

two men standing next to the bed were Draxton

surveillance cameras around that place, so I’m afraid it

glance and said

that she is still breathing in

of exasperation flashed across his

to admit that he had been

a woman take the lead in sex

arrived at the airport and boarded the earliest flight out of

take her.

that someone had begun a frantic search

idea either that she was saving

fate wasn’t done playing tricks on her yet. She was exhausted

plane and the frightened wails and screams of

freaking out, Isabella was feeling a

terrify her. Perhaps it was because there was no

plane falling at

screams around her were

blacked out with a crash and drifted

a man’s voice said,

we’ve found her, but…”

deep blue eyes flicked

already dead in a

impassive as he said,

her body.”

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