Chapter 514

The night was as dark as ink. Underneath the elevated highway, beside a pond, insects chirped, and frogs croaked. The scent of fresh grass lingered in the air, blending with the night’s mist, touching their skin with a cold chill.

That chill seemed to seep into their hearts, stirring up fear.

Thalassa, with her four children and Evelyn, hid in a ditch beneath the highway.

In front of them, the pond shimmered in the moonlight, and its depth was concealed by the darkness, a sight that brought fear to their hearts.

Yes, fear.

She had noticed a line of black limousines in the traffic behind them, and it had filled her with dread.

At that moment, she decided to get out of the taxi.

Thankfully, it was nighttime. She and Evelyn managed to slip unnoticed from the taxi to the one up front.

Once the taxi had driven through the traffic lights, she realized that the driver would surely inform Lysander they had boarded his taxi.

If Lysander caught up with them, there would have been no escape.

to stop. They needed to get

him a hundred dollars and told

got out of the taxi, a bus

led her children and Evelyn, sneaking around the barrier and into the ditch beneath the highway.

most dangerous places were often

never think that after leaving the taxi, they had not fled but

the

children, with their higher body heat and tender skin, were

voice carried a whimper as she spoke, “Mommy, it’s so itchy. I

big bumps all over,” Sophia pouted,

were also stomping their little feet to shoo the

soothe their itchiness. She was both sympathetic and helpless, “Just ten more

children to be bitten by mosquitoes, and she didn’t

had no choice. She was terrified of being found by Lysander.

had given birth to his child in secret. If he caught them, not only

memory of the pain Lysander had inflicted on her that morning was still

she didn’t

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