Chapter 222 Why Am I The One To Bear These?

Eileen ended the call and soon spotted a group of familiar faces approaching. Among them. she recognized a few as Lionel’s subordinates.

Without hesitation, Eileen quickly closed the shutter door and remembered there was a back door she could use.

As Fileen made her way towards the back door, she dialed the private driver of the Smith family, Gordon. However, her phone automatically shut down due to a dead battery just as the call was connecting.

Why is Eric in the fishing village?

Is he coming after me? Is he planning to silence me by killing me?

Eileen cautiously stepped outside through the back door. Two icy daggers were immediately pointed at her. Under the cold moonlight, she could see Lionel’s eyes and his menacing scar. She felt a chilling terror. “Ms. Eileen,” he said, “Mr. Snow is concerned about your safety being alone outside, so he specifically sent us to protect you. Please come with us.”

Wouldn’t going with them be even more dangerous?

Eileen quickly shut the door, but Lionel wedged his foot in the gap. In no time, he kicked the door open, looking fierce and intimidating. “Ms. Eileen, if you choose to resist, don’t blame us!” he threatened, causing her to retreat in fear.

“What are you planning to do? Don’t make me tell my father!”

Lionel laughed wildly. “I’m afraid he won’t have the chance to hear those words.”

Eileen was forcefully taken to a dilapidated floor. Isn’t this the room that Sharon used to rent? She used to live here.

Lionel pushed the door open. “Please, Ms. Eileen.”

the house made it difficult to see what was happening. However, she could sense a terrifying aura emanating from within, as if something

turned to flee, but Lionel seemed to have anticipated her move. He roughly grabbed the back of her collar and pushed her inside, forcefully

of black leather shoes entered her line of sight. The man slightly bent over

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hand and looked at her.

shifted to the bed, where she saw a set of revealing, almost transparent women’s lingerie. Her

you already know

suddenly felt helpless. She knew that there was no way she could

used Elm’s disappearance to lure me to this fishing village. I know it’s all your doing. So what exactly are you trying to accomplish with all this effort? Do you want to kill

with one hand, holding her in his embrace and gripping her slender waist. With a tilt of his hand, his fingers brushed over her

you

face away, her gaze falling on the old television set placed on the cabinet. In the black reflective screen, a man and a woman were intimately pressed together. The man was looking at her with a

he was captivated by her body in bed.

not to play games. I’ve already called Jasper, so

Do you think he still has feelings for

interested in Vera, Eric…” She spoke softly as her hand. rested on his chest. The intimate distance allowed her to catch a faint whiff of tobacco from him. Didn’t

sentence left Eric

to like you, you never paid attention to me, no matter what I did. Now

fallen for me?”

his

neck, gently placing warm kisses there. “Whatever you think, that’s what it

Jasper leaves, there will never be

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