Malcolm closed his eyes and lanvented with a helpless tone, “After Heather died, I wanted to bring Riley back to you guys and try to get my hands on some cash so i can go away to someplace no one knows me

“However, Quentin found out about her true identity from God knows where, and he set fire to me and Heather’s house, forcing Riley and me to return to the Quinn farnily…

“They kept Riley with them and locked me up in a basement in total darkness. Whenever I ask them when they’d set me free, they would say that they will only release me if I die or go insane someday, or…”

Malcolm gulped and lowered his head. “Or when one day Riley loses her value to them.

“The reason they locked me up was that they were afraid I’d find you guys and tell you of Riley’s true identity…”

Luna narrowed her eyes slightly when she heard this. She lifted her head to stare coldly at Malcolm. “Just like how you ruined my looks and forced me to do plastic surgery so you could use me, right?”

Both Quentin and Malcolm’s intentions had been to obtain something as their leverage for their future use.

In the past, Malcolm’s method of doing this was to ruin Luna‘s looks, forcing her to undergo plastic surgery

Riley was too young to know any better, and on top of that, neither Luna nor Joshua knew about her true identity. Hence, the only

person they had

him mercy out of what he had done for them in the

“I guess this fondness of using other people for your own gain seems to run in

bit his lip nervously but

lifted his head, exposing his unusually pale face as a result of the lack of sun from his imprisonment. “I want to leave Merchant City. Please help

and pleaded, “Mr. Lynch, I regret everything that happened, including the terrible things I did to you in the past, but now that I‘ve escaped from the

to take me in, Mr. Lynch. I just hope you‘ll help me, seeing that I‘m risking my

help me put in a word with Luke and send me somewhere no one knows me, where the Quinn family can never find

repeatedly against the ground and continued in a choked voice, “I‘ve had enough of this suffering!

as he stared at the

Who would have thought…

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