At that moment, without any leverage and knowing she couldn't get the two million, her gaze turned hollow, and she seemed like a shadow of her former self, wandering aimlessly. She looked at Thalassa and Lysander standing at the doorway with lifeless eyes, "Are you satisfied now?"

"What is there to be satisfied about?" Lysander's voice was cold as ice. "Letting a kidnapper use hostages to extort money for a second time is my greatest failure!"

Susan's pupils dilated, sensing danger, "What do you mean?"

Before her confusion could clear, two police officers appeared at the door, "We've received a tip-off that the fugitive Susan is here."

At this, Thalassa quickly nudged Lysander aside, making way for the officers, declaring, "She's Susan."

The officers moved in swiftly, apprehending Susan before she even had a chance to flee.

The cold handcuffs clasped around Susan's wrists, her expression a mix of panic and fear, "You've got the wrong person, I'm not a fugitive!"

then we've got the right person!"

I don't want to go to

into Joshua's embrace, his

tighter around him, cocooning the child in his

looked at her with disgust, "Helping you

she claimed to have given birth

had indeed drugged Joshua three years ago, leading to an indiscretion between them. A child resulting from their encounter wasn't entirely unexpected. Initially, Joshua thought a two-million-dollar settlement would sever all ties with Susan for good. Yet, here was a child linking

of his child, Joshua couldn't just

helped Susan out of detention and even got her

the wild. Susan hadn't changed; she framed Thalassa

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