“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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others were all captured for

I was just trying

scared that he wet his pants. He tried to explain stiffly, “I… My friends and I were just

sticks for?” Sebastian‘s men didn‘t want to waste time listening to his measly excuses and flipped a switch. The chair sent bolts of electricity through Jeff‘s body. Very quickly, the interrogation room

tortured before. They confessed everything after only a short while. In the room behind the steakhouse, Sebastian‘s men found cameras and all kinds of aphrodisiac drugs. Obviously, they were

to do this?” Sebastian slid the flash drive

couldn‘t care less about Jeff, but I know that my parents still care about Lila. I want to talk to them first.” Natalie was

good idea to put

and said softly but firmly, “I respect that, but you shouldn‘t be asking your parents

indecisive. He sent the video directly to

Beal 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. She is no longer a

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 have the money, they had offended Brandon Larson. No lawyer in Barnes would

at the store and made a scene, which forced them to shut down the business. Glenn and Eva couldn‘t get Jeff out of

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everyone, Charis had been living in Barnes this whole time. Even her parents thought that she was traveling abroad. She hadn‘t made any

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

the Whites‘ daughter for over twenty years after all. What surprised her more

Jeff, on the other hand, had

were a few people on the open–air training grounds. The prison guards each wielded an electric baton, and the sound of their leather boots stepping on the ground was particularly heavy. The prisoners were all

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

is like

inmates moved to block the sight of the

scorpion on his face shoved Jeff to the corner and stepped

Of course this prison was full of criminals–some of which were gay. Jeff‘s face fell in horror. Even though he grew up in a poor family, Eva had

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