Shattered Rose He Held On Tight novel Chapter 176

Shattered Rose He Held On Tight

Chapter 176 Photos and Dead Animals

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Claudia stared at Paula’s fury without blinking. Paula wasn’t truly worried about her son. She was just terrified of losing her safety net for good.

And besides …

“The girls Tyson hurt and those innocent people he ran over also thought they were innocent.”

Tyson totally deserved it.

Claudia stopped looking at Paula. Her voice was flat and cold.

“Sterling isn’t weak. If you’re full of escape tips, keep them to yourself.”

Then, she walked out and ran straight into the pouring rain.

The place Paula mentioned was a side building in the bamboo garden.

It sat near the garden. When Isabella was alive, she often played cello at the second–floor window.

After the gardener died, they’d locked the building up.

Paula had changed her mind. She wanted Sterling to kill Claudia himself, then strike the killing blow while he was drowning in guilt.

The servants followed Paula’s orders, so Claudia had no trouble getting inside.

The side building lock was already open. She grabbed the knob, breathed in, and opened the door.

A metallic, chemical smell hit her. It was blood mixed with something like chemicals.

The first thing in view was a massive photograph.

Isabella’s clothes were torn, her face bruised, lying on the ground, clutching a small boy. Her eyes showed pain and hopelessness.

Even Claudia, who hadn’t been there, felt short of breath from the photo.

But what truly suffocated her was seeing every wall plastered with similar photos.

Isabella, pale and sweating, trimmed flowers in the hot sun. She tripped at a family party with

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Chapter 176 Photos and Dead Animals

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tea spilled all over her. Shivering in thin clothes, she was hit by a snowball in freezing winter. She bled and was terrified on the stairs. While she cried beside a burned body, blood streaked across her face…

There were countless shots, from different angles and in various styles. It was clearly taken by more than one person.

Claudia felt a sharp pang in her chest, like Isabella’s old despair was suffocating her, trapped all over again in that manor.

They’d tortured Isabella and even photographed it, collecting the images like trophies from her suffering and her son’s pain.

On top of the major incidents Claudia already knew, there were countless small pranks stacked over time, slowly driving Isabella crazy.

Anyone would lose their mind seeing all that. Claudia couldn’t even imagine how Sterling would feel walking into this nightmare.

She tried not to stare at the photos that replayed history, but the dead animals strewn across the floor were impossible to ignore.

Years ago, Winnie had thrown Sterling into the mountains for a month. The only company he had was a small orphaned wolf.

Later, to survive, they fought, and Sterling ended up killing the wolf himself.

That wolf had meant something to him.

Paula had wanted to find live wolves for him to fight. But since that wasn’t possible, she collected dead cats and dogs with similar fur instead.

At first glance, it looked exactly like that little wolf’s corpse.

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