Chapter 5. Be A Good Girl!

"Are you disappointed that I'm still alive, Jason?" Claire raised her chin in a challenging manner to Jason.

Jason didn't react immediately, then he shouted angrily, "Of course, everyone thought you were dead, even me..." He paused for a moment, not continuing, then said, "But you lived happier than anyone in the last few years?"

Claire felt a sense of irony, her broken body wouldn't be able to work one day, but Jason thought she was living a good life?

It was only natural that a person who was blind 5 years ago was still blind until now.

"Claire!" The man was angry and resentful, exploding at the thought of his last five years. The fact that she was still alive upset him greatly. "Tell me honestly, what happened during the fire five years ago? And Alice, where did you hide her?"

All he cared about was Alice, right?

Claire looked at him stubbornly, "Her disappearance has nothing to do with me."

"Impossible!"

Hearing that, Claire gave him a cynical smile instead. Of course he didn't believe her. He had never believed her five years ago, and he still did not. So she didn't have to explain anything.

Claire looked at him and smiled again. "If you really want to find Alice, you have to let me go. That way she will come back safely," she said. After all, Jason loved Alice so much that Claire could only use this excuse to get Jason to let her go.

"Are you threatening me?" Jason was furious, "You kidnapped Alice and killed my mother 5 years ago. If I don't accept your terms this time, who are you going to hurt?"

"I didn't kill your mother." She could lie about other things, but not about her mother. She respected her and thought of her as her own mother, she couldn't say that she had killed her just to hurt Jason.

Jason gritted his teeth again and said in a low voice, "People like you can do anything! Even kill the person who loves you the most?"

Claire sighed heavily and replied bluntly, "I will prove my innocence in your mother's murder case. As for Alice, if you don't want anything bad to happen to her, let me go."

Who would have thought that Jason would just shrug his shoulders. "Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you, but you're going to live a miserable life here," he said, then took Claire by the arm and led her to the second floor, then pushed her into a room and locked it from the outside.

"Jason, let me go, you have no right to lock me up, let me go!" Claire kicked the closed door with all her might, screaming like crazy.

"You deserve to be punished for what you did," Jason replied in a cold tone from behind the door. "My mother is dead and I still haven't found Alice. Did you really think I'd let you live and roam free?" He stressed the last sentence with hatred and anger.

Claire fell limply to the floor. She could not understand how this man could be so cruel. Did she really have to die for him to be satisfied?

But she did not want to give up, after all she had been close to death five years ago. Now she didn't owe him anything, he had no right to hurt her anymore. Her life was her own, no one could interfere.

Looking around, her gaze finally settled on a window. It was getting dark quickly in the winter, and when it was completely dark, Claire went to the window and opened it with all her strength.

The wind blew through the open window and she was a little scared as she looked up at the height from this second floor. But thinking of Jason's cruelty and evil attitude, she went out without hesitation and walked along the edge of the wall looking for the safest place to jump.

When she found an area of smooth grass, she closed her eyes and just jumped.

Pain hit her, but it was nothing compared to what Jason would do to her later. Her body was almost immune to that kind of pain anyway, it was just that she really didn't want to get involved with Jason again.

She got up, gritted her teeth and hobbled towards the main gate, which was still a long way from here as the grounds of this mansion were very large. Unfortunately, just a few steps into her walk, she heard a loud shout.

"The woman has escaped, hurry and come here..."

Trembling, Claire ran out quickly, not thinking about her sore ankle. Despite everything, she had to go. She had to get away from this man.

Footsteps approached. In a hurry and sweating with fear, she ran faster and faster.

Suddenly, after leaving the area of pine trees, Claire was startled by the headlights of the car shining brightly on her, then there was a loud squealing of tires as the brakes were suddenly applied with force.

She fell to the ground, her knees only a few feet from the car. Her heart raced as she watched the man get out of the car in a hurry.

"Claire, do you want to die?" Jason knelt beside her to see her condition.

"Move your hand!" Claire pushed Jason's hand away when it tried to touch her.

After making sure that nothing bad would happen to her, Jason grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet without saying anything else.

"Let me go, Jason, let me go!" Claire struggled and kicked him, but the man did not look hurt. "Jason, if you hate me so much, you should kill me. Just kill me!"

Jason still didn't say anything and just put her in the car to go home, because the distance between the park and the front door was far enough to walk.

"I admit I'm guilty, I shouldn't have loved you, if you let me go, I swear I won't have any feelings for you and I won't show up in front of you again. This is what I've been doing for the past five years. Please let me go..." Claire was still begging when she was already in the back seat of the car with Jason.

The driver started the car and brought them to the front door, while Jason's hands were clenched tightly because of Claire's words. "You want me to leave you? The only way that can happen is if one of us dies," he said. This meant that as long as he was alive, Claire would never be able to escape him.

Claire flew into a rage and yelled at him, "What exactly do you want?"

Jason got angry and grabbed her wrist. "Be a good girl."