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.”

surprised look. He had worried

girl would run away

money, but she had also asked for another ride to the

found the girl a bit

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

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

midnight blue pupils were

standing beside the bed tensed up and

pale with a

on their foreheads.

had always been scrupulous

ever

on tenterhooks because

yesterday.

propped himself up on

stomach which was now wrapped

bandages.

his first concern was not the cut on his

and do away with her. She

with my

syllable in an icy voice full of killing. intent, making people think

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

to set him up and swore to make that girl rue

born.

standing next to the bed

one replied, “Mr. Lockwood, we’ve sent. people to search for her, but there are no surveillance cameras around that place, so I’m afraid it will take more time than we thought

him a sidelong glance

thought that she is still breathing

glint of exasperation flashed

man and had to admit that he

the

the airport and boarded the earliest flight out

it would take her. She just wanted to leave the

someone had begun a frantic search

she was saving herself from getting

that fate wasn’t done playing tricks on her yet. She was exhausted and fell asleep

was woken up by the violent jolts of the plane and the frightened wails and screams of

of freaking out, Isabella was feeling

it was because there was no one she felt attached to in the

felt the plane falling

around her were

with a crash and drifted into

a man’s voice said, “Mr.

we’ve found her, but…”

blue eyes

dead in a plane

impassive as he said,

her body.”

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