Seeing that Joshua was staring at her, Luna curled her lips into a feeble smile. “What’s wrong? Didn’t
you want me to appear before you so that you can bring me back to the mental asylum?“
The mental asylum: the place where she was locked in a windowless room and was subjected to
inhumane tortures.
Joshua paused for a moment, then asked in a hoarse voice, “What happened to you?“
He knew that Luna was here, but he never imagined this was how she would look.
He had seen her only a few days ago. At that time, she was full of life, with pink cheeks and clear eyes.
This was a stark contrast to what she looked like as she stood before him: colorless and frail, as
though she would break into pieces at any moment.
Joshua thought that after being rescued by Luke and Gwen, Luna would be happy and carefree.
While on his way here from Banyan City, he even thought to himself how selfish Luna was. He thought
she was a self-centered, inconsiderate mother who did not care about her children.
After all, there was no way Luna did not know that the children had kidnapped Janice to take her place in
the psychiatric ward. Therefore, how could she possibly subject her children to everyone’s suspicion
without feeling even an ounce of guilt?
Contrary to his beliefs, the woman before him at this moment was nothing like he had imagined.
She was bony, sallow, and sickly, like a porcelain doll that could break into smithereens at a single touch.
Luna curled her lips into a smile.
She lifted her head to gaze at Joshua’s chiseled face, then let out a bitter smile. “Isn’t this what you
wanted, Mr. Lynch? You abided by Dr. Robert’s diagnosis and treatment advice…and sent me to living
hell.“
She exposed the wounds on her arms, as well as the section of burnt scalp hidden beneath her hair.
“Electric shocks, acupuncture, physical stimulation, injection of sedatives…“ Luna rattled off the various
methods of torment she had suffered these past few days in the mental asylum with a cold,
expressionless face.
Finally, she lifted her left hand, displaying her broken little finger to Joshua, and smiled at him. “ Didn’t
you say my hands are pretty? Well, because of this, they smashed my left little finger with a hammer.“
Luna’s tone was so calm that it was as though she was describing something that happened to someone
else.
Joshua widened his eyes in shock. “Your finger…“ Did she not break it herself?
All of a sudden, he recalled the X-ray that Luke had shown him the day before. He immediately turned to
glance at Luke.
Luke nodded at him.
Joshua immediately took a step back, and a harrowing realization dawned over him.
How could this be…? How could they do this to Luna? He had specifically asked Mr. Chase to look after
her and provide her the best care possible…
Mr. Chase had even promised that he would assign more nurses to look after her!
“They even told me that if I stayed in there a day longer, they’d smash another one of my fingers. “ Luna
let out a self-deprecating snicker. “Do you know what I was thinking at that time, Mr. Lynch? “
She chuckled again as Joshua continued to stare at her incredulously. “I was thinking to myself, thank
God Mr. Lynch complimented my fingers instead of my eyes, nose, or head. Otherwise… Otherwise…“
Luna was about to continue when all of a sudden, she felt as though something was about to come out
of her throat.
“Cough— “ After shuddering severely, Luna coughed out a mouthful of blood, then immediately slumped
onto the ground.
“Luna! “ Joshua could not suppress his emotions any longer. He immediately lunged over and grabbed
hold of Luna.
Luke furrowed his brows at this sight. “The emergency room is on the first floor! “
Joshua clung onto Luna tightly, as if she were a piece of valuable treasure, and stormed toward the
elevator.
However, both the elevators were stuck on the first floor.
They were on the 15th floor.
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