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...

a defiant glare, her chest

to go down fighting, Amber added,

were hell...

It's...

just death...

W-What's there...

face twisted

just death? In your dreams!" Grabbing Amber's chin, she

a

I control everything here.

a good mood, I might go easy on

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

Fuming, Sheryl slapped her.

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

slut who's slept with countless men! "Now that you're with Axel and backed by the Taylor family, you think you've become someone important? If Axel

lashes fluttered, and tears

words mirrored her darkest fears, and hearing it from her amplified

escape this place anyway." Stroking Amber's tear-streaked face, she continued

Jimmy wasn't the only

provoke me—you have no idea what I'm capable of." With that, Sheryl strode out like a victor, flanked by

shut, the

body paralyzed

the blinking green light of the surveillance camera in the top