---- Chapter 3 The walls around me were cold and dank, the air swirled with the scent of mold and terror. My heart despaired, but just before my pants could be stripped, there was an audible rush of footsteps as several men rushed in. "Anna!" My heart skipped a beat when I heard that familiar voice calling out urgently. "Helen..." Scarface and his goon shared a look right then, and ran towards the opposite direction, quickly disappearing from sight. I breathed a sigh of relief, but was eventually overwhelmed and passed out. It felt like a lifetime had passed when I opened my eyes again. I stared blankly at the stark white ceiling for a long ---- while, and finally remembered what happened before. As if on instinct, I reached down to touch my belly and found it flat. I didn't cry out loud, though I felt a coolness on my cheeks. I reached up and touched it, and found it wet... That was when the door opened, and my mother and my stepfather entered. All my grief overflowed when I saw them, and my tears welled out. "Mom..." I rasped, reaching out towards my mother. That was when she said, "I never told the Boswells that you were kidnapped. Now just remember not to let anything slip, or they'd think that you were defiled, and do everything to stop you from marrying Sean..." Even as I stared at her in shock, I found her frowning at my flat belly, looking utterly disappointed. " Honestly, what happened? You'd married Sean, and ---- you end up suffering a miscarriage instead? " "Mom, how could you say that-"'I tried to argue as my mother was obviously going to keep ranting, but that was when Sean's parents entered. Sean's mother giggled in disdain as she saw my mother's eyes going red with rage. "I despise the thought that some wretched broad would become my son's wife, but I also despise women who treat their own daughters like a tool." Then, she looked at my belly while flashing a grin that did not reach her eyes. "Anna, let me be frank-it's high time you and Sean marry after being together for five years. "However, the mess left at the wedding ceremony would affect my family too. So just cooperate with us at a press conference, and make a statement-and you'd still be Sean's wife." It went without saying what they wanted me to say- that Janet wasn't the other woman in this relationship as netizens asserted, but that I was Discover our latest featured short drama reel. Watch now and enjoy the story!
