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Chapter 278

Author: AliceLin
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"I've already explained everything. I’m not involved! Don’t you get it? Get me out of here!"

A middle-aged woman with heavy, smeared makeup leaned her face through the gap between the steel bars of the cell she was spending the night in. She had been yelling for over an hour, and her voice was now hoarse.

Inside the dark and damp cell, she wasn’t alone. Sitting in one corner, hugging her knees tightly, was a young woman dressed in a once-elegant gown that now looked disheveled and dirty.

The two women from vastly different generations were Julia Brown and Chelsea Harrison.

Both had been detained at the local police station after undergoing separate interrogations for their crimes. The filthy, cramped cell with thick, dusty iron bars only added to Julia’s frustration.

Standing by the bars, Julia shouted again, “I’m innocent! Don’t you know who I am?!”

She couldn’t accept being treated this poorly by being thrown into a foul-smelling, filthy prison cell. The dim lighting in the tiny roo
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