Miss Leah wanted to escape but her path was blocked and she could only turn around and rushed upstairs.As soon as her call was answered and before Josiah could say anything, Miss Leah shouted into the phone frantically, "Someone's trying to kill me! Sir, help me! Help me-!"Ysabelle pounced on Miss Leah who was on the stairs, and the phone in her hand was broken into pieces.Struggling, Miss Leah shouted, "Ysabelle killed someone…help…"But her phone was already broken and Josiah, who was on the other end of the phone, could no longer hear her.Glancing at the broken phone, Ysabelle scoffed, "You can save yourself the trouble of shouting for help, your phone is already broken.""You…what are you trying to do?" Seeing how Ysabelle was getting closer to her, Miss Leah scrambled to her feet frightfully and ran upstairs.A sinister look flashed across Ysabelle's face. She had intentionally forced Miss Leah to run upstairs.The mansion had four floors and soon enough, Miss Leah had
Miss Leah's screams pierced through the sky and with a loud thud, from the terrace, she crashed onto the ground in the front yard.Ysabelle's face contorted sinisterly. Looking down at Miss Leah who was laying on the ground lifelessly, she murmured, "Miss Leah, you brought this onto yourself. Don't hate me too much."She then rushed down the stairs, picked up the broken phone with a napkin, and threw it next to Miss Leah's body.Meredith, who was feeling drowsy because of the high fever was jolted awake by Miss Leah's terrified screams and the loud thud.The scream was harrowing and chilling.Frowning, Meredith tried to get off the bed, and head outside.At the sight of Miss Leah who was lying lifelessly in the pool of blood, Meredith was aghast and horrified, and her drowsiness had vanished into thin air.Miss Leah? Why was she laying in the pool of blood?At the sound of a car driving close, Ysabelle who was hiding behind the door rushed toward them, pulled Miss Leah who was
The medical team hurriedly did a check-up on Miss Leah and in the end, they announced that Miss Leah had passed away.Ysabelle was, of course, relieved.After Miss Leah's body was sent away, Josiah finally turned to look at Meredith and hissed coldly, "Meredith Leighton, you killed Miss Yena."It was not a question. It was a statement.Meredith shook her head. "It is not me! No!"It was a murder. There was no way that she would admit to killing someone.Ysabelle glared at her furiously. "Meredith Leighton, you made such a scene earlier when you got into a fight with Miss Leah earlier. If it wasn't you who pushed her, don't tell me that she jumped off the roof all on her own?""Miss Leah still had to take care of Yena. It's impossible that she'd take her own life, don't you think?" Even though she managed to temporarily get away with murder, she was worried that the evidence would trace back to her if Josiah insisted on a thorough investigation.Ysabelle thought that even though
Josiah did not answer her question but said instead, "Ysabelle, you should go."Ysabelle's voice softened, "Josiah, I'm sure it must be hard on you after the incident, let me stay here with you."His attitude remained cold. "There's no need.""What about Yena…""The doctor will keep an eye on Yena," Josiah cut her off bluntly.Ysabelle thought of staying with him to earn his trust but seeing how Josiah was cold toward her, she gave up eventually.Before leaving, she added, "I'll come another day to visit Yena. Take care of yourself, Josiah."On the other hand, Josiah ignored her as he lit up a cigarette.…Meredith was once locked up in this exact basement three years ago.The memory of her days being spent in the dark, cold, and wet basement was still fresh.Meredith hated every second of her time spent in the basement.Cowering by a corner in the basement, she could only hope that the cops would run a thorough investigation of Miss Leah's death to prove her innocence.Af
"Miss Meredith…""Wait, that's not right." Before going on, Meredith paused then added, "You might be right, Lily. If I were locked up in jail, he wouldn't be able to torture me anymore, would he? Of course, he wouldn't want me to be locked up in jail. That is why he would rather lock me up in the basement to torture me, than to get his revenge for Yena."With a solemn expression on her face, Meredith nodded. "Yes, that must be it."Hence, she had to think of a way to escape. She refused to be thrown into a psychiatric ward like back then. She refused to be forced to the brink of death to the point that she had to jump off the cliff to take her own life.She still had to save her mother and Nia.Seeing how Meredith was rambling on without making any sense, Lily could only sigh. "Miss Meredith, you're not feeling well. You should think about this once you feel better and are able to think clearly."Meredith got anxious. "Lily, I am thinking clearly.""Hey, there. I know, I know,"
Meredith's calm front finally came crashing down the moment she saw her mother through the video on Ysabelle's phone, laying on the floor as blood was dripping from her mouth."What happened to my mom?" She reached out her hands, wanting to snatch Ysabelle's phone but failed.Meredith finally fell apart. Dropping to her knees, Meredith begged, "Tell me Ysabelle! What happened to my mom?""There, there. Calm down, I'll tell you," Looking at her in disdain, Ysabelle took a step away from her before going on, "your poor mom suddenly started coughing up blood and passed out. She's being treated in the hospital now but no one can be sure that she'd be able to get past this."Looking at the video that was playing on her phone, Ysabelle clicked her tongue and said, "I heard that she hasn't been doing well lately and now she's even coughing up blood. I think it'll be hard to save her."Putting away her phone, Ysabella then asked, "Oh no, what do we do? It's possible that you wouldn't even
Lily went to check on Meredith the first thing when she got home from getting groceries.She was aghast and horrified by the sight of Meredith laying in a pool of blood.Quivering in fear, Lily quickly made a call to Josiah.Josiah was in the middle of a meeting in the meantime and Yoseph was supposed to update Josiah's personal matters after the meeting.However, at the news of Meredith wanting to commit suicide, he had to inform Josiah. Indeed, at the mention of Meredith trying to kill herself, Josiah's face darkened. "How is she?"Yoseph shook his head. "Lily sounded like she was in a bad shock and she was stuttering. But I've asked her to call for the ambulance right away."Josiah got up onto his feet abruptly and walked toward the door of the meeting hall.Mister Yoseph informed the attendees of the meeting. "Something urgent came up and requires Mister Josiah's immediate attention. That'll be all for the meeting today."He then quickly followed up to Josiah.By the tim
Turning around, Josiah then headed for the door.Behind him was Meredith who was on her knees, begging while crying, "Nia is not Yoel's child, you have to believe me, Josiah. Please believe me once more…please save her…"Josiah had turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to her pleadings and cries.To Lily, he said, "Keep a close watch on her and send her back to the basement!"Lily could not bring herself to say anything.She did not dare to plead with Josiah and could only turn to Mister Yoseph for help. "Even though Miss Meredith's life is not in danger anymore, she did lose a lot of blood. Could we let her stay in the hospital for a few more days?"Yoseph replied, "Don't worry, I'll try to talk to Mister Josiah."By the time Yoseph rushed to the entrance, Josiah had already gotten into the car.He quickly got into the car. He waited for quite a while before finally asking, "Sir, what do you plan to do with Miss Meredith? We can't possibly keep her locked away in the basement fore