First Love Only? I Left Him First, Now the CEO Can't Let Go novel Chapter 251

Chapter 251: Chapter 251: Murdered and Disfigured

In the front, Mr. Miller instinctively gripped the steering wheel and glanced back at Caleb Lockwood.

He originally thought that after Caleb ordered him to send off the guest that time, he would never have any more contact with Claire Shaw.

Yet not long after, Claire was back in Caleb’s car, nestled in his arms.

Caleb remained silent for a long period.

Perhaps in reality not much time had passed, but it felt incredibly long.

"...Okay..."

This single word "okay" wasn’t too intense for Mr. Miller.

He originally thought he was driving Claire Shaw home.

But on second thought, he actually didn’t even know where Claire was living.

Claire used to live at Riverside Manor.

But after bankruptcy, Riverside Manor, which had been mortgaged, is now part of Serena Jennings’s property.

"President Lockwood... where are we headed now?"

Even Mr. Miller, who prided himself on understanding Caleb, had to ask.

The Jade Pavilion?

The Seaside Villa?

Mr. Miller wasn’t keen on taking Claire to either place.

He admitted that Claire’s plight was pitiable, and he deeply sympathized.

But he was well aware that his heart did not hold as much pity for Claire—

At least not as much as Caleb’s did.

Mr. Miller never considered himself indifferent toward women, so he couldn’t grasp what about Claire was so off-putting, to the point that it evoked no sympathy in him.

Throughout Caleb’s silence, Claire cried continuously, tears like broken pearls, her body trembling uncontrollably.

She really had been gang-raped!

Although she knew joker was ruthless, she never dreamed that after all, joker would treat her like that!

Claire’s panic and pain were not fake.

To this day, she didn’t understand why she had fallen into such a state.

So this is...

Just like when she was in Meridia?

Claire had thought that as long as she returned home, she could start anew and completely escape her tragic past in Meridia.

But this time, while pitying herself, Claire felt a bit smug.

Because this time, she was truly wretched.

The more wretched she was, the more Caleb would cherish her.

The deeper his hatred and loathing toward Serena would become!

In this regard, joker was truly clever.

Claire had planned to fake being gang-raped, but she couldn’t have imagined that her act would seem less tragic than the real thing.

Moreover, while they were doing it, the guys had beaten her up.

The pain inflicted on her still filled her with visceral fear and disgust upon remembering it.

However, it wasn’t the first time she was with them.

If she couldn’t secure Caleb’s love and rise above, she would fall back into the hands of those people.

Caleb felt Claire tremble even more violently in his arms.

"It’s okay... it’s all okay..."

Caleb softly comforted her, gently caressing Claire’s disheveled long hair with his large hand.

Claire was truly afraid, not pretending.

Because she remembered those dark, sunless days back in Meridia.

Locked in an isolated villa, raped daily by different men.

If she couldn’t become the woman most pleasing to Draven, she’d receive a beating.

Claire was one of those women who performed well.

Because she obeyed, never tried to escape, and did her utmost to satisfy every customer.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to escape; she simply couldn’t.

She had personally witnessed a woman who tried to escape being disfigured with acid by one of Draven’s men, her legs cut off.

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