She was no longer with the Rosenberg family. If she didn''t find a way to escape now, who knew if Lionel would just drag her back again.


    To her surprise, however, Lionel walked back into the Rosenberg estate. She couldn''t understand what he was doing; they had already made it clear he wasn''t wee.


    The next moment, Lionel drove out in his car and pulled up right in front of her. Before she could react, he had grabbed her, thrown her into the car, and locked the doors. She was trapped.


    "What are you doing? Let me out right now, or I''ll call the police and tell them you kidnapped me!"


    Sandra struggled, pounding on the window and screaming at the top of her lungs.


    "Go on, tell them! Call the police! I''m telling you, the Woods family has abandoned you. You have nowhere to go but my ce!"


    Lionel''s roar stunned Sandra into silence. She sat frozen in her seat, staring at him in disbelief.


    Seeing that she had calmed down, Lionel continued, “Sandra, if you want to live a peaceful life, you''ll cooperate with me and tell Hannah everything."


    "You have no money, no phone, and no ID. You can''t even leave the country if you wanted to. And you don''t have the funds to start over in another city. You need to face your reality!"


    The initial excitement of being free from the cell had clouded her judgment, and Sandra hadn''t fully grasped the precarity of her situation.


    She had assumed that once she was out, she could go to the Woods family, get some money, and flee back to Kiron.


    Most of her assets were there, including a building she could sell for cash to relocate to another country.


    But Lionel''s words brought her crashing back to reality. Her parents had likely disowned her.


    After all, she hadpletely abandoned them when she ran off to Kiron, ignoring their calls.


    At the time, she never imagined things would turn out this way, so she hadn''t bothered to leave herself any options.


    If she had known this would happen, she would have done anything to secure a fallback n.


    Seeing Sandra finally calm down, Lionel let out a long sigh and spoke to her in a more reasonable tone.


    "I know you want to flee to another


    country, and I''m done trying to


    control you. You can go wherever you want, and I won''t drag you back. to do that, you need money."


    "I can give you money. I can even arrange for your safe passage out of here. But first, you have to cooperate with me.


    Tell Hannah everything ne


    you''ve been through and expose Quernel''s evil deeds. Do you understand?"


    Sandra didn''t answer, her hands clenching into tight fists. She felt as though she had lost all ability to make her own decisions, as if some relentless)


    invisible force was


    pushing her forward. her forward.


    In the study.


    Samuel asked, “Hannah, do you believe what Sandra said? That Lionel was the one who kidnapped and tortured her, not Quennel? I have a feeling this isn''t that simple."


    "I had my doubts when she said it, too. But without any evidence, it''s impossible to tell who''s telling the truth and who''s lying."


    "No evidence? Should we look into it?"


    "Why should we be the ones to investigate?" Hannah asked in return.