Seven Years a Shadow: The Stand-In's Escape novel Chapter 78

I suddenly realized that the great treatment at the small company was just to trap its employees.

In a foreign country, my colleagues and I were locked in a cramped room.

One of my male colleagues tried to resist and was beaten half to death with sticks.

I trembled, too scared to move.

If only I had listened to Lucas and stayed home.

My mind was in chaos, thinking about everything from my bank card password to whether my inheritance would be seized.

But the rescue came earlier than expected.

In the dust rising from the old wooden door, light took shape.

Lucas broke through the hazy light and mist, tightly holding me in his arms. He comforted me, “Don’t be afraid.”

The mercenaries he brought saved us, and I trembled in his embrace.

He arranged for me to rest on the top floor of the clubhouse. When I woke up in the middle of the night, he wasn’t there. I hurriedly ran downstairs.

The place had already been secured by him. I made my way to the first floor without obstruction.

I gently pushed open the private room door and happened to see a beautiful woman walking toward him.

She wore high heels, and perhaps the ground was too slippery; she stumbled toward Lucas’s arms.

Before she could fall into his embrace, the bodyguards grabbed her and dragged her away.

She muttered something in a foreign language that I couldn’t understand, and the bodyguards slammed her head into the wall.

I froze, my legs going weak.

Lucas saw me and waved the others out of the room.

He spread his jacket over the table and gestured for me to sit down.

“Why did you come downstairs?”

“I... I...” My ability to organize my thoughts was shaken by the scene earlier. Luckily, I didn’t need to say much, “I missed you.”

When I was rescued, I had been severely shocked. He comforted me to sleep and then left.

At this moment, he checked me carefully to see if I was hurt.

In the dazzling lights of the clubhouse, he smiled and asked, “Did you want to watch the show at the door?”

I trembled in his arms.

That scene flashed before my eyes again.

I couldn’t tell whether this tremble was from comfort or fear.

I wanted to take back my twenty-second birthday wish.

I didn’t want to be with him anymore.

I didn’t want to be the one being watched the next time.

After returning to the country, I lost my job again.

Lucas didn’t allow me to find another one. My daily task became to accompany him.

Accompany him to work, cook for him, and pick him up from work.

But the shadow still lingered.