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The old lady stopped talking.
She sighed and turned to leave.
I touched the small wounds on my hand and
went back to my room to pack my luggage.
I have realized that whether I marry Liam or
not, this is not my home.
The past ten years have been just my wishful
thinking.
I should have left a long time ago.
Liam called me as I approached the door.
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“What are you doing now?”
“Running away from home? Are you not embarrassing yourself enough?”
I didn’t answer.
In the past month, I was penniless and didn’t
understand the language. I was trapped in a
war–torn city.
I was bombarded by artillery fire every day. I
couldn’t get enough to eat. I was always on
edge.
I saw people who were fleeing with me
yesterday, one by one, bloody and dying by
my side.
In that hellish place.
The survivors don’t count as humans.
What does my face count for?
Seeing that I didn’t speak, Liam snatched the
suitcase in my hand irritably.
“I said, no matter what, I will continue to
support you. You don’t have to fight with
Jessica for everything!”
“Have you not learned your lesson after
experiencing so much?”
“Are you saying that you want to go back to
that place!”
Liam’s tall figure enveloped me instantly.
Fear resurfaced in the black shadow.
I could no longer hear what he was saying,
and subconsciously protected my suitcase.
I bit the back of his hand, and tears flowed
down my face involuntarily.
“This is mine!”
Liam was hurt and pushed me away.
He didn’t expect my body to be so weak.
A light push made me roll down the stairs
directly.
My head hit the railing.
New and old injuries piled on top of each
other and wounds split open.
Large patches of blood bloomed on my
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snow–white dress.
“Emily!”
Liam walked quickly to me, wanting to check
my injury anxiously.
But I still clutched the suitcase in my hand tightly, stepping back to avoid his touch.
The concern in his eyes finally turned into
impatience.
“Is this broken suitcase so important? Do you
want to leave the Walker family so badly?”
“You’re such an ungrateful wretch!”
I pretended to be calm, but my legs were too
weak to stand.
Those past events that I didn’t want to recall
echoed in my mind once again.
Countless times, when I was almost
desperate.
I was thinking that Liam could descend from
the sky and save me from the abyss.
After all with the financial
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After all, with the financial resources and
status of the Walker family, and with Liam’s
ability, it would not be difficult to save me.
But in the day after day of waiting, in the
cycle of torment.
I no longer fantasize or ask for anything.
I could only try my best to survive.
“Emily, I’ll give you one last chance, come
back with me!”
Liam reached out and grabbed my slender
wrist.
The moment our skin touched, I felt
goosebumps all over my body.
I vaguely remembered ten years ago, when
my father was seriously ill.
Before his death, he entrusted everything of
the Carter family to the Walker family.
Liam knelt in front of his bed, grabbing my
hand like this, and promised.
“I Liam Walker will never let Emily down in
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“I, Liam Walker, will never let Emily down in
this life.”
But in the war–torn foreign streets.
This hand chose to hold another girl.
Pushing me into the endless hell.
