CHAPTER 178: Then It Happens...

I stir, pain vibrating all over my body.

Pain? That means I’m still alive?

When my eyes flutter open, my heart sinks at the recognition of the surroundings - I’m back in Adriano’s mansion, shackled in the bed once again.

Still, I’m relieved to feel my baby still in my belly.

Suddenly,...

The door bursts open when Adriano angrily kicks it. He’s now wearing an eyepatch, and moves like how he used to before; strong and confident.

He removes the shackle from the bedframe and puts it in his own wrist. He then drags me out of the room and into the front yard where the doctor is tied up and suspended upside down in a pole with cuts and bruises covering her skin.

“Why are you doing this to her?!” I hiss.

Adriano remorselessly answers, “She betrayed me by freeing you and by failing to kill your child, so she must die.”

I open my mouth to say it’s not her who freed me when Pierce suddenly appears, giving me a warning glare.

So what if Adriano kills Pierce instead? That’s better and j