Imprisoned While Pregnant, She's Back for Payback novel Chapter 184

Chapter 184 Run for Her Life

His comment of “a lump of flesh” struck Tess as oddly creepy.

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She’d never heard anyone describe a person that way before, and the sheer strangeness of it sent a tremor through her chest.

Once she was sure the driver had relaxed his guard, she quietly slid her hand into her pocket. fingers brushing the cool edge of her phone.

Since leaving prison and giving birth to Layla, her life back at the villa had been comfortable enough, but she no longer favored delicate dresses. Instead, she preferred everyday clothes with pockets–much easier on the hands, especially for moments like this.

Coincidentally, her phone sat snugly in the pocket of her pants.

Tess’s gaze flicked toward her handbag, tossed carelessly onto the passenger seat after he’d snatched it from her.

Afraid of attracting attention in the upscale neighborhood, the kidnapper hadn’t even checked it before tying her hands and shoving her into the car.

She found the phone easily enough. Tess worked from memory and tried to trigger the emergency

alert feature.

Again and again, she repeated the motion. Finally, she slid the phone back into her pocket and pulled her hand free.

“Isn’t there a public restroom anywhere along the road?” She complained, her voice carrying a hint of innocence that matched her youthful face.

The driver wrote her off as foolish, and, deep down, he despised her.

Anyone this sheltered had to have spent the first half of her life coasting on family privilege.

His initial irritation twisted into something darker, more sinister.

It was fine. He’d be the one who caused her to suffer.

“Quick! Pull over! I can’t hold it anymore!”

Tess flushed, her urgency and embarrassment written plainly across her features. The driver shot her a wordless glare; her pampered act was giving him a headache.

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Chapter 184 Run for Her Life

“Out!” he barked, and the door popped open.

Tess didn’t move. She bit her lip, hesitating.

“What now?” he snapped irritably.

“I don’t have tissues.”

Thump–he flung her bag at her.

“If you don’t have any, then use leaves.”

Head down, Tess swallowed her anger.

But when she looked away, a quick glint flashed in her eyes.

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She carefully slipped the phone she’d hidden in her sleeve back into the bag, then pulled out a little packet of tissues to keep up the act.

Seeing her take the tissues, the driver yanked the bag from her, checked it, and–finding the phone still inside–decided she was exactly what he thought: a spoiled rich fool.

Leaning on her family background to push people around. Once she was dumped in the middle of nowhere, she’d be nothing.

He sneered and tossed the bag onto the front passenger seat.

Tess dawdled out, enduring another round of his barking and muttered insults.

When she was finally away from the car, he pulled out his own phone and started scrolling videos, letting out a sleazy chuckle in the cramped cabin.

Tess kept her back stiff and moved slowly.

The shoulder was still gravel, and the weeds were even taller now, brushing her waist.

She placed each step carefully, wary of hidden dips in the uneven ground.

After she’d gone about 30 feet, she risked the slightest glance back at the car–and at the man in the driver’s seat.

He seemed to believe Tess entirely and didn’t spare her another glance.

Tess sank lower, then slipped behind the nearest tree in one swift move.

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Once she was sure the driver couldn’t see her, she took off, sprinting into the brush.

“A lump of flesh!” The words circulated in her head. Aetheris was one of the most developed regions in Gloriodon; even the outskirts shouldn’t feel this empty. Only one place past the border was truly chaotic–a no–man’s–land about 37 miles out.

A red–light district.

They called it Vongolia, a lawless land.

It had a notorious harbor that opened straight into international waters.

If he didn’t plan to throw her into the ocean, then he meant to sell her into that district.

The image of being trapped there, forced to sell her body to make a living and never seeing Layla again, made her stomach drop.

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