After making up her mind, Gwendolyn, with her fists clenched, turned and ran toward the tightly shut door on the right while Craig blanked out briefly.
Even Nico was taken aback and could not register what was happening.
“Gwendolyn!”
Craig was the first to react. He immediately raised his gun again and cocked it.
He was so anxious his eyes turned bloodshot as he threatened to pull the trigger at Gwendolyn.
At that critical juncture, a hand grabbed his wrist with so much strength that his aim went astray.
He whipped his head around, only to find that it was Cedrick. The latter was glaring at him with a grim- looking face.
“Mr. Jenson…”
“How dare you aimed the gun at my wife! Are you sick of being the deputy director?”“
As those words fell, the tremendously intimidating Cedrick snatched the gun from Craig’s grip and threw it on the ground.
The overbearing air Craig was exuding earlier faded with Cedrick’s presence.
Seeing Cedrick’s timely appearance, Gwendolyn swiftly turned the door handle, pushed open the door, and dashed into the pitch-black room.
She stumbled her way to turn on the lights amidst the darkness. Astonishment overwhelmed her as soon as she saw the situation inside the room.
Following behind, Nico was also stunned by the sight inside while he stood by the door.
There was no furniture in the room, not even a bed.
A woman with messy black hair lay on her side against the wall.
A weighty iron collar hung around her neck, and metal chains secured around her wrists and ankles stretched all the way to the wall.
the skin where she was bound. It was apparent she had put up a
could not help but begin shivering all over and even cowered to a corner
body, and
lose control and kill Craig if that woman turned
She reckoned he would lose his sanity if he saw that sight
Nico walked over
someone near her, the woman shuddered violently, almost
won’t hurt you.
he carefully brushed her stray strands
as white as a sheet of paper. The once clear and beautiful
that it was
she’s mentally
Gwendolyn noticed that the woman turned out to be Jennifer, she felt her heart sting so badly her eyes turned
Cedrick had been watching by
parted his lips and prepared to explain
“Jennifer is ”
Smack!
hard slap landed on Craig’s face
human! How can you lock your
did not dodge her, she gave him another
her and her capability in martial arts resulted in two forceful slaps toward Craig’s cheek. leaving the latter with blood oozing out
fists tight and put up
to kill Craig to help revenge
“That’s enough, Gwenny. Let’s hear him out
Gwendolyn into his embrace to calm her down with
used his fingers to gently rubbed it to alleviate the pain left
her previously. He said Jennifer’s severe cold and fever affected her brain, thus resulting in her becoming mentally unsound and having a tendency to self-mutilate. I was worried she would hurt herself again, so I locked her up on the rooftop and hired doctors to take care of her.”
and could not
from the orphanage, she’s better at enduring hardships than others and has a stronger physique than other girls. She has only returned for less than a week, and yet she’s been driven to a mental breakdown and is even abusing herself? Craig, do you think I’ll believe
left stumped by the barrage of questions she
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