“You want to know who is your child’s father, right?” Maria slowly approached her.
Dolores couldn’t help but step backward. Right at this moment, a woman who was wearing a peaked
cap and a mask entered the room.
She could tell she was a woman from her way of dressing.
But she was unable to see her face clearly.
The creaky and old iron door was slammed closed and locked.
Dolores stood at the back of the room, and her hands were sweating after the woman entered.
Her heart thumped on hearing the door being slammed.
Although the woman didn’t say anything, Dolores could feel her unkindness and resentment toward
her.
Maria turned around and greeted, “Here you are.” They seemed to know each other well.”
The woman uttered a nasal sound coldly as a reply.
She stared at Dolores.
Dolores couldn’t see her expression clearly in the dim light, but above the mask, she saw her eyes
were filled with hatred.
Dolores was panicked but she forced herself to be calm, “Who are you?”
The woman didn’t answer her question but sneered, “You don’t have to know who I am. What you
should know is that from now on, everything you have would be mine. And …” she paused abruptly and
then continued with a cold and scary smile, “Now that you are here, I won’t let you off the hook. You put
my mother in jail, and forced me to leave City B. You never expected that I was able to be back, right?”
As soon as she finished, she and Maria surrounded Dolores.
Dolores looked at the woman with panic and shock, “You are Annabelle?”
“Huh, you remember me. You are not as stupid as I thought.” Annabelle smiled and turned to Maria,
“Join me?”
Maria curled her lips, “Since I’ve got her, I absolutely won’t let her go.”
Dolores stared at the locked door, attempting to escape. But Annabelle seemed to read her mind,
“Don’t try to escape, because it’s impossible. We had got it all planned out to get you here. You have
no chance to escape.”
“Why do you do this together?” Dolores asked intentionally to buy time, and reached in her pocket to
get her phone but only to find it was missing.
“Don’t you know that the enemy’s enemy is my friend?” Annabelle pinched Dolores’ chin, “I spent four
years to get you here to take revenge. If you didn’t come back to Country Z, I should have still been
Ms. Flores, and my parents’ beloved daughter. But you ruined everything, so how can I spare you?”
Dolores shook off her hand, “It is you who ran away with money when Randolph’s company was in
trouble. You are the one to be blamed, not me …”
Slap!
Annabelle slapped Dolores hard across the face. Dolores tried to slap back but was stopped by Maria.
Annabelle narrowed her eyes and stared at Dolores furiously, and sneered, “You are close to death.
How dare you to retort and hit back?”
“Cut the crap.” Maria couldn’t wait to torture Dolores. Thinking of Dolores’ happy and glorious life, of
Matthew’s affection toward her, and her two children, Maria was outraged and wanted to kill her.
Dolores felt a sharp pain!
Her waist was hit by Maria with some stuff. Her waist was stinging, but she was unable to fight back
facing two crazy women.
They beat her randomly like insane fishwives. They hit and kicked her, pulled her hair and cursed her.
Dolores tried to run away few times but they were all in vain.
Annabelle took a stick from somewhere and hit Dolores’ head. Dolores was blinded by pain and
slumped to the ground. Before she lost her consciousness, she heard Maria said, “Stop, don’t kill her.”
“If we don’t kill her, she would always be a threat. You can’t assure that she will never show up in City B
and in Matthew’s life again.”
“I’m sure she won’t.”
“Your brother loves her so much …”
Dolores fainted, and when she awoke, she found herself in a different room. She heard the
conversation between Sampson and the doctor and knew what Sampson was going to do to her.
She finally figured out everything.
Maria and Annabelle didn’t kill her because Maria knew Sampson had a crush on her. But they were
afraid that she would come back to City B, so they injected her with a medicine that would lead to the
loss of memory so that she would live with Sampson in the future.
And then she would disappear in Matthew’s life forever.
She didn’t know why Annabelle would collaborate with Maria and Sampson, but she knew the three of
them conspired everything.
“Don’t be afraid, Lola. I won’t hurt you.” Sampson approached slowly.
Dolores grasped the curtain tightly and hid herself behind the curtain, trying to stop Sampson’s
approach by this means, “Don’t… don’t come over.”
“Lola …” Sampson ignored Dolores’ words and kept approaching.
Right before Sampson caught Dolores, she moved slowly and ran away to the door. She tried to open
the door anxiously, but it was all in vain. She didn’t stop and kept turning the handle with every effort.
“You can’t open it.”
Sampson walked calmly toward her with cold eyes, “I can keep you alive, and I also can keep you from
escaping. Everything here is under my control, so you can’t leave here without my permission.”
Dolores clenched her fists involuntarily.
“Lola, you didn’t forget at all, right?” Sampson stared at her face.
“I don’t know what you are talking about.” Dolores hid her terror, looked calmly into Sampson’s eyes
and asked loudly, “You said you are my brother and we are family, but why do you force me to take an
injection?”
“You are sick. I want you to recover as soon as possible.”
“I’m not sick!”
“Fine, you are not sick. I won’t give you an injection. Come here.” Sampson reached out with his palm
upward, showing the crisscrossed lines on it.
Dolores looked at his hand. If she rejected him, he would find out that she didn’t lose her memory and
force her to take the injection.
She can’t take the injection. She can’t lose her memory.
She released and griped her fists over and over again to calm down herself, and then slowly put her
hand on Sampson’s palm.
Sampson held her hand softly and smiled, “Good girl. You are my good little sister.”
Dolores was disgusted but had to hide it.
“Are we at home?” She lowered her eyes and asked in a low voice.
“No.”
This place is too close to City B. Matthew may find her sooner or later, so they can’t stay here for long.
When she was taken away from the apartment, she was injured and needed treatment. In addition, he
won’t let her leave here with memories of what had happened before.
So it was a makeshift house where she got medical treatment. When she recovered and took the
injection, he would take her away and they would never come back again.
“Where is our home?” Dolores took the chance to put out feelers.
“Far away from here.” Sampson doubted if she really lost her memory, so he didn’t tell her where they
were going later.
He didn’t force her to take the injection because he was confident that she couldn’t escape.
He held Dolores’ hand tightly and kissed it, “We live far away from here. When you get better, I’ll take
you home.”
Dolores wanted to withdraw her hand by instinct, but Sampson tightened his grasp and asked, “Lola,
you don’t like me kissing you?”
Dolores lowered her head to hide her expression, “You are my brother. Brothers don’t kiss their sisters.”
Sampson stroked her hair, “Silly girl, we are not siblings. We are … lovers. I love you, and you … love
me. We are in love. Don’t you remember?”
Dolores shook her head.
Sampson took her into his arms, “Never mind. I remember it, and I’ll tell you later about our … love
story.”
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