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“She’s not inside?” James’s voice trembled uncontrollably.
“Mr. Luke, we’ve searched thoroughly. Ms. Lily isn’t in this house. The GPS might not be perfectly accurate-we’ll check the nearby residences next.”
As the officer spoke, a bloody red haze crept into James’s dark eyes.
In that moment, dozens of nearly hopeless thoughts rushed through his mind.
The tracking device hidden in Lily’s watch was extremely precise. There was no way it could be that far off.
If the police hadn’t found Lily inside, there were only two possibilities-either her watch had been removed, or her body was no longer whole enough to be recognized.
Neither was something he could accept.
Overwhelmed with pain and dread, he nearly dropped his phone.
He forced himself to calm down and strode quickly into the courtyard. “You only searched the main floor, right?”
When the officer nodded, he continued, “There might be a basement underneath…” She’s definitely hidden in the basement!”
James!
Lily couldn’t believe it-she could still hear James’s voice.
That voice, so achingly familiar, brought tears streaming down her face.
Just moments ago, when the police left, she’d truly given up hope.
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She thought she was destined to die miserably in this hellhole, her death never explained. She hadn’t expected James to come.
And now he was guessing she was trapped in the basement-that thought sparked a flood of hope.
Jerry still had a firm grip over her mouth, keeping her from making a sound. All she could do was scream over and over in her heart:
James, I’m in the basement! Please, save me!
“Ha!”
Jerry sneered and spat on the floor, his voice cold and demonic. “You’re hoping they’ll find you, huh? Too bad. I designed the basement entrance myself. No one outside will ever find it.”
Ben pressed a hand to his wound, his twisted face filled with malice and smug ease.
Clearly, neither of them was the least bit worried about James and the others getting close.
Seeing how confident they looked, Lily’s heart-which had just started to hope again-was once more drowned in fear and despair.
Was she really going to be destroyed by these two monsters even if James had come?
No!
James will find me. He has to!
James, along with Ashton and the others, had searched the entire property.
They found no sign of Lily. Not a single clue. And no entrance to any basement.
“Mr. Luke, there really might not be a basement here. Should we search elsewhere?”
After the officer spoke, Ashton added, “Boss, maybe Ms. Ginger really isn’t here. She-“
“She is,” James said firmly. –
If the watch had been forcibly removed, they should’ve at least found it somewhere in the yard.
And if she’d been killed and dismembered, there should’ve been traces of that.
But the entire property above ground was clean. No suspicious signs. That left only one explanation: the watch was in the basement.
And so was she.
Whether alive or dead, she was down there.
James shut his bloodshot eyes in agony. When he opened them again, they were filled with near-maniacal certainty.
She had to still be alive.
The world couldn’t exist without Lily.
“Dig.”
James gave his order, cach word sharp and clear. “Even if I have to break open every inch of this ground, I’m going to find Lily.”
“I know where the entrance to the Xander family’s basement is!”
Just as Ashton was about to lead men to dig up the ground, a battered, bruised, filthy woman-Jenn- staggered into the yard.
Jenn was one of the two female college students who had tried to escape the village with Mathilda years ago.
She had lived in torment every day since.
Not long ago, the man who bought her nearly beat her to death again.
She refused to die like this-unseen, unknown. After that day, she pretended to become obedient.
The man let his guard down and stopped chaining her up
The man had been dead drunk last night and was still passed out. When Jenn heard the sound of police sirens, she dragged her battered body into the alley next door.
Seeing the police at the Xander family residence, she burst into tears of joy-she was finally going to be rescued.
When she heard them talking about the basement entrance, she knew-another innocent girl had been bought by those animals Ben and Jerry.
She quickly wiped her tears and said, “The basement entrance is in the Xander family’s kitchen. The hatch is covered with straw, blended in with the pile on the floor. It’s almost impossible to spot.”
The Xander family’s basement was notoriously well hidden.
Jenn only knew about the entrance because her roommate, Sharon, had been sold to the Xander family.
In the early years after they were both trafficked, they occasionally managed to see each other and even planned to escape together.
But even though Jenn was sold to a home just a stone’s throw away, she hadn’t seen Sharon in three years.
For three long years, she hadn’t heard a word. The silence gnawed at her, filling her with constant unease.
And now, with the Xander brothers buying yet another woman, her anxiety had reached its peak.
Enduring the searing pain across her body, Jenn stumbled into the kitchen, lifted the wooden hatch that led to the basement, and threw it aside.
“The person you’re looking for is down there!”
People-how different they can be.
Some, after being caught in the rain, want nothing more than to tear apart someone else’s umbrella.
Like Mathilda.
Terrified of being beaten even more if she got caught escaping again, she never even tried. She sold out Jenn and Sharon without hesitation.
After the Ginger family found her, she only looked out for herself and did everything she could to keep them-and the media-from learning that other innocent girls had been trafficked here too.
And some people, after being soaked to the bone, just want to hold out an umbrella for some
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Like Jenn.
After everything she’d endured-all the pain, all the hopelessness-she just wanted the police to find the newly sold girl as quickly as possible.
And more than anything, she wanted to take her friend Sharon home.
“Sharon!”
She wanted to see Sharon so badly. Clinging to the edge of the basement entrance, she started to descend
“Lily!”
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