It was an appalling spectacle. Ethan rolled Leia's sleeve up only to see scars fully mark her arm.

Unable to believe what he was seeing, he rolled up her other sleeve as well.

To his surprise, there were not only one or two scars from cuts. There were burn marks too.

The scars look like a squirming worm. It pained him to see them covering her arms. "What happened?"

Leia quickly withdrew her arms from him. Frantically, she said, "It's none of your business. As I said, I'll leave if you don't kill me. After that, my life and death don't concern you anymore."

As soon as she finished, she turned and ran away without looking back.

Ethan couldn't stop her.

Shock overwhelmed him as he wondered what kind of life she had been through all this while.

…

With a gloomy expression, Olivia didn't utter a word in the room. She kept staring at her fingers in a daze. She didn't know what she was looking at either.

Avery said softly, "Have you finished your business? We shouldn't stay here for