“Natalie, over here!”

Natalie nodded in greeting. They hadn‘t seen each other for over a month. Lila had lost a lot of weight. Her makeup was not as pristine as before, and her eyes were full of undisguised fatigue.

“I know several good cafes in the area. How about we talk there?” Natalie suggested, glancing at the men from the corner of her eye.

“This place is owned by a friend of Jeff‘s. I don‘t have that much money now, so I could only afford the food here,” Lila explained with a smile.

“Oh, Jeff‘s my brother.” Left with no choice, Natalie sat down at the table. The restaurant was empty other than the group of men.

There were barely any people outside, too. This was clearly a place for doing illegal stuff. The staff soon brought them two plates of steak.

Lila pushed one of them in front of Natalie and said, “Try it. I like their food.”

As she spoke, she glanced meaningfully at the man who had served the steak just now. She knew that Jeff and his friends were hiding in the kitchen. With Sebastian guarding outside, Natalie wasn‘t afraid at all. She sliced a piece of her steak and put it in her mouth.

Suddenly, Jeff burst out of the kitchen, holding a stick and some ropes, followed by a group of thugs. However, before they could even get close to Natalie, a group of men in black swarmed inside the restaurant. In a matter of seconds, the men in black quickly subdued Jeff and his friends. Lila was shocked. She stood up from the table and shouted, “Who the hell are you? I‘m calling 911!”

Natalie continued to eat her steak calmly. The steak here was pretty good; she had to give Lila that.

Sebastian, who was wearing a dark brown windbreaker today, strode in. He sat next to Natalie, took out a handkerchief, and handed it to her.

“Honey, it’s time to go.”

Taking the handkerchief, Natalie folded it neatly and wiped her lips. She glanced indifferently at the panic–stricken Lila and said,

“Okay. Let‘s go, honey.”

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were all

was just trying to

of her wits and kept defending herself hysterically. Jeff was also tied to a electric chair. He was so scared that he wet his pants. He tried to explain stiffly, “I… My friends and I were just curious to see what Natalie White looked like. We never intended to

didn‘t want to waste time listening to his measly excuses and flipped a switch.

Jeff nor Lila had been tortured before. They confessed everything after only a short while. In the room behind

It‘s all in this video. How do you want to do

parents still care about Lila. I want to talk to them

good idea to put Lila behind bars without

firmly, “I respect that, but you shouldn‘t be asking your parents for their opinion. You should just be informing them about what lila

sent the video directly to the Whites. When Johanna watched the video, she

gave up on his former daughter completely. What she had done this time was simply too despicable for words. He rubbed his temples and sighed, “Do whatever you want with her. She has to be punished.

to court, they were sentenced to jail. The Gillian family was poor, so they couldn‘t hire a good lawyer for Lila and Jeff. And even if they did

the Gillian family‘s small grocery store was in shambles. A group of thugs kept showing up at the store and made a scene, which forced them to shut down the business. Glenn and Eva couldn‘t get Jeff out

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been living in Barnes this whole time. Even her parents thought that she

almost found her out after the parachute incident. Luckily, she reacted quickly to get rid of Lila‘s coach in time. Although the woman didn‘t die in the end, she could never talk again as a vegetable. Now, she knew she had to lie low. But lying low didn‘t mean she couldn‘t

that Lila would be expelled from the White family so soon. She had been the Whites‘ daughter for over twenty years after all. What

too. Jeff, on the other hand, had piqued Charis‘s interest. He looked like a reckless fool who would do anything for money. Charis felt that she had found a new pawn. At first, she had had no hope for the Gillians, but now it seemed it was

and the sound of their leather boots stepping on the ground was particularly heavy. The prisoners were all dressed in orange jumpsuits. They would look at the dazzling sky, but the serious glares of the prison guards would soon force them to

hair had been shaved to a buzz cut. A bulky man stood behind him, constantly rubbing his

is like a

laughter. The bulky man gave a signal, and several inmates moved to block the sight of

your pants!” A man with a tattoo of a scorpion on his face shoved Jeff to

of criminals–some of which were gay. Jeff‘s face fell in horror. Even though he grew up in a poor family, Eva had always

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