Can’t Win Me Back

The moment Rosie spoke, the atmosphere in the car came to a standstill.

The air turned frigid.

Alyssa and Sean exchanged terrified glances.

Alyssa then asked, " Mrs. Rosie, you said he's mentally disturbed...

What do you mean?" Rosie felt a slight twitch around her eyes as if she had fallen into a deeply unsettling memory.

She took a deep breath and explained, " I've been working with the Becketts for almost 30 years.

"Among all the staff at Seaview Manor, apart from Mr. Durham and Mr. Odom, who assists Mr. Javier, few have been here as long as I have.

"When I first joined the Becketts, I was tasked with serving Mrs. Beckett and Mr. Justin, though I wasn't their personal helper.

I was simply following the lead helper, doing heavy manual labor like laundry.

More conscientious tasks—pouring and serving tea and the like—were outside my job description then.

"Initially, I thought Mrs. Beckett didn't like me because I came from ahumble village and seemed careless.

I later realized that her daily needs were handled by specific staff members—trusted individuals she brought with her from the Dutton family.

Beckett family found it challenging to approach

needed to hide from the Becketts?" "Could it be that she was really mentally ill?" Alyssa recalled the speculation she and her

in her

knitted her brows together

a mad woman!" Alyssa and Sean could hardly

staff members who cared for her,

of time

most severe episode was when she went berserk, unable

attacked one of the helpers bringing her food, biting a

was truly bloody and horrifying!" Sean's eyes

human? She just sounds like a—" He felt too ashamed to utter

a serious mental condition," Alyssa sighed

lost her self-awareness and was hallucinating, displaying

herself anymore." Hearing this made her feel

was already mentally unstable, and given that her husband completely despised her, it was understandable why she would ultimately lose control

nondisclosure agreement about

originally planned to take this secret to my grave." Filled with worry, Rosie held onto Alyssa's

tell you

likely inherited his mother's

are even more terrifying

to soothe Rosie's tense