Her eyes were red as she stared at Mason Crawford in shock. It was as if she had a thousand things to say, yet felt shackled, unable to speak a single word.
Seeing her reaction, Mason Crawford continued, "Even if Summer Thorne gets lucky and makes it through this time, things like this are bound to happen again. Once, twice, three times… Even if she manages to escape every single time, she'll spend the rest of her life caught in this turmoil. Being abandoned by you for eighteen years won't be the greatest pain of her life, because the greatest pain you'll bring her isn't in the past—it's yet to come."
"Stop talking!" Laura Thorne's superficial calm finally shattered. Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably as she looked at Mason Crawford. "Just stop—"
