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...

with a defiant glare, her chest heaving

go down fighting, Amber added, "All those days

were hell...

It's...

just death...

W-What's there...

fear?" Sheryl's face

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

am a

I control everything here.

good mood,

make you beg for death." Amber's eyes betrayed

Fuming, Sheryl slapped her.

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

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

Amber's lashes

words mirrored her darkest fears, and

anyway." Stroking Amber's tear-streaked face, she

Jimmy wasn't the

what I'm capable of." With that, Sheryl strode out like a victor, flanked by two medical

slammed shut, the deadbolt

her body paralyzed except for

green light of the surveillance camera in the