Can’t Win Me Back

Hell on Earth? This place resembled a decrepit hospital.

But why had Sheryl described it as "hell on Earth"? Amber's body convulsed uncontrollably, her consciousness flickering between clarity and haze.

Fragments of memory surfaced —a dim recollection of drinking with Carl in the cellar after The Millennium's closure.

She'd despised working with Carl but had cozied up to him for the sake of extracting information.

Carl had revealed that "Sir" was deeply entrenched in the pharmaceutical industry.

With connections to Mosgravia's government officials and elite circles, "Sir" wielded considerable power and ran a thriving business.

Since his business revolved around pharmaceuticals, clinical trials were inevitable.

To facilitate this, Sir owned a private hospital in Mosgravia.

That hospital, however, was merely a facade.

Beneath its sterile exterior, three basement levels housed patients—unwilling subjects for experimental drugs.

Amber shivered.

This place bore an uncanny resemblance to Carl's grim description.

Could this be where Justin and Sheryl conducted their drug experiments? Scoffing through her labored breaths, Amber mustered a response.

"Hell on Earth? D-Did you think...

I'd be...

defiant glare, her chest heaving with

down fighting, Amber added,

were hell...

It's...

just death...

W-What's there...

face twisted in

Amber's

am a

I control everything here.

I'm in a good mood, I might

I'll make you beg for death." Amber's eyes betrayed no emotion, a stoic defiance

Fuming, Sheryl slapped her.

Sir's lackeys, and you? You're nothing but a pet he

you're with Axel and backed by the Taylor family, you think you've become someone important? If Axel saw how you served the other

a disgusting piece of shit!" Amber's lashes fluttered, and tears slid down her

and hearing it from her amplified

are some things I can share with you since you won't escape this place anyway." Stroking Amber's tear-streaked face, she continued sinisterly, "1 killed Jameson." Amber's eyes

Jimmy wasn't the

of." With that, Sheryl

slammed shut, the

body

gazed at the blinking green light of the surveillance camera in the top