Scarlett's POV:

I wasn't sure if it was because of seeing Nancy during the day, but I had a nightmare around midnight.

In my dream, she took away my kids, and even mocked and humiliated me in front of Charles.

To make matters worse, Charles asked my three kids to call Nancy their mother.

When I woke up screaming, he was awakened.

He immediately got up to turn on the light. Then, he embraced me from behind and attempted to comfort me. "Were you having a nightmare, Scarlett? There's no need to be afraid. I'm right here."

The sound of his voice was soothing to my ears, and I could feel just how worried he was for me.

Sadly, it wasn't enough to appease my apprehension. It only made me feel more terrified.

As I recalled what happened in my dream, tears fell from my eyes.

By the time I composed myself, I found myself holding onto Charles.

I quickly let go of his hands.

"Hey, hey… are you alright, Scarlett? How do you feel?" Charles was staring at me with worried eyes.

I shot him a glare and turned my back to him.

If I ever get the chance to leave this place, I would certainly take all my kids away!

Never would I allow my kids to call Nancy their mother.

Not long after, Charles turned off the lights again, and embraced me once more.

"There's no need to be afraid, honey. I'll always be by your side." As he hugged me from behind, he wiped away the tears from the corner of my eyes.

His embrace was warm, but my entire body felt cold.

"Charles, stop calling me that. We can't get back together!" I tried to shake his arms off me, but he held me even tighter.

"If you keep moving your arms like that Scarlett, I can't guarantee that I won't do something to you!" Charles warned.

His words were enough to scare me. Fearing that he would actually try to escalate this into something sexual, I decided to give up on struggling.

that he had

he was gone, I took out the phone that William gave me last

on my mind right now was to leave here as

find that there was no signal.

signal

chance to

extinguished. Despair overwhelmed me, and tears

I supposed to do to escape

of the bed for a long time, holding the

ordinary, but it was actually heavily guarded. The thought of it alone was enough to make me feel suffocated to the point that I

wasn't a ward;

there I saw three

to me when they saw me

is there something I can do for you?"

feel stuffy inside the room. I wanna go downstairs to

Tracy exchanged

this time, Richard approached me and said, "Mrs. Moore, you're allowed to go outside, but please allow the three of us to

figured Tracy would be the best one to accompany me. "Can you just let Tracy follow me around?

don't make things difficult for us. Mr. Moore has tasked us to follow you wherever you go. If anything bad happens to you, he's going to punish us for it," Richard responded, seemingly having read my

had no choice but

the first time I would leave the ward and go downstairs

Finally, I laid eyes on an old woman

at the phone in her hand,

Calmly, I approached her.

ma'am. Do you mind if I sit with you?" I

nodded. I stifled my

thought of how

she saw Richard and the others behind me. This was when I realized that an opportunity had

guys give us some space? You're

and watch over Mrs. Moore." I could tell that Richard was concerned about leaving me alone. After a

for I was

old woman, "I'm really sorry about this, ma'am. But Mrs. Moore is in poor health, and we can't leave her

I scoffed at Janet and asked, "Did Charles order

We're looking after you."

say anything. Clearly, this ruse of "looking after

long, have you? It sounds like your husband cares about you very much," said

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