Chapter 19

"Wait... what did she say?" Cassandra asked, frightened.

"Deborah isn't here? Where did she go?" Frederick interrogated.

"No idea, but what I know is that poor girl won't be coming back to this house. Good for her because only idiots like you would come yelling at her door," the woman said, annoyed as she closed her apartment door.

The father and daughter were astonished because that was something they never thought would happen: Deborah leaving that house. Where did she go? With what money? Did she manage to win over Roger and move into that luxurious house old Mr. Peterson had given them?

Many questions swirled in their heads, and as if it was fated, Roger happened to just arrive at the apartment, looking furious.

He was lost in his thoughts, mentally cursing stupid Deborah because she had helped fulfill his father’s threat. Now he was just another employee who had been scolded by ‘his boss’ for being late. Roger swore he would make sure she never dared to escape from that damn