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.

told me that he had to go to a meeting at the

out the phone

thing on my mind right now was to leave here as soon as possible,

turned on my phone, only to find that there was no signal. It turned out that I couldn't even send out a text

planted a signal

was leaving me no chance to

glimmer of hope in my heart was extinguished. Despair overwhelmed me, and tears

supposed to do to escape this

on the edge of the bed

actually heavily guarded. The thought of it alone was enough to make

wasn't a ward; it was

door, and there

me when they

I can

inside the room. I wanna go downstairs to breathe some

Tracy exchanged awkward

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

for us. Mr. Moore has tasked us to follow you wherever you go. If anything bad happens to you, he's going to

that, I had

time I would leave the ward and go downstairs since

coming and going. Finally, I laid eyes on an old

stared at the phone in

Calmly, I approached her.

you mind if I sit with you?" I

nodded. I stifled my

was talking to her, I thought of

that she was afraid when she saw Richard and the

some space?

Mrs. Moore." I could tell that Richard was concerned about leaving me alone. After a moment of hesitation, he left Janet

on my face, for I was dissatisfied with

my displeasure, Richard explained to the old woman, "I'm really sorry about this, ma'am. But Mrs. Moore is in poor health, and we can't leave her on her own. I hope you can

away, I scoffed at Janet and asked, "Did Charles order you to spy

Scarlett. We're looking after you." Janet frowned back,

ruse of "looking after me" was just a term for monitoring

like your husband cares about you very much," said the

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