Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Prison Bride: Kabanata 421 - Kabanata 430

"I'm not sure. I'll wait until I've dug up all the info on Stanley." Speculating now would be pointless."Got it. Jack and Harry's case might take a while," Ronny said. He hadn't gotten any solid info either.After all, she was in the capital with almost no connections. Jack had connections, but this situation was too serious. They'd been caught in the act."It's fine," Jessie said. "We'll dig through it slowly. Eventually, we'll see results. Since this is such a serious matter, it deserves a serious approach."Jessie took a day off. The next day, she returned to college and attended classes as usual.After the first class ended, Shirley seized the moment while Lucy was still busy on her phone, grabbed Jessie, and pulled her out of the classroom. She then led Jessie to the restroom.Shirley shoved her into a stall and looked around. Once most of the students had gone, she leaned in and said, "I thought Rachel was acting weird today. Last night, I chatted with Helena for a long ti

"There aren't any details. The client trusts your ability completely. I asked you to come here because I wanted to ask you something. Are you close to Shirley?" Helena had been running projects on her own since the second semester of her sophomore year.By now, it had been almost two years.The clients she dealt with were all sharp and shrewd.Shirley had gotten close to her, and Helena immediately knew what she was up to.Jessie made an 'uhh' sound. She felt slightly embarrassed. "She's probably the one I'm closest to. At first, I was biased against her, but now I see it. Her strengths and weaknesses are pretty obvious."After hearing Jessie speak well of her friend, Helena nodded gently. "Since you get along with her reasonably well, that's fine. I thought she was closer to Lucy and was just trying to get information from me.""What's with Lucy?" Jessie asked.Helena looked at her a little strangely. "To be honest, out of the three of you, I like Lucy the least. She seems too

"Yeah. Today's schedule wasn't too packed. The afternoon is all electives, and I'm skipping those. I'll head home later," Jessie replied."You're going home again? I'm so jealous. Must be nice living close enough to just leave whenever you want," Lucy said with obvious envy.Jessie smiled and didn't respond.Just as she was about to leave, her phone buzzed.It was a message from Rachel.[Take your laptop with you.]Jessie glanced at the text but didn't reply. She didn't take her laptop either.Once she left campus, Rachel messaged her again.[She's snooping through your laptop. Something's wrong with her, you know that, right?][Why would I believe someone who hates me? Who do you think you are? Just because you say something, everyone's supposed to believe you?][...]Jessie saw the wordless reply and couldn't help but smile.If Lucy had the skills to hack her laptop and snoop around, that proved her talent.After Jessie got into the cab, she received another message from

After Jessie handed off the assignment to Rachel, she spent all her time digging into Stanley's wife.She took a seven-day leave from school.During those seven days, she also tried to find out what had happened with Jack and Harry.Although there were all kinds of rumors outside, nothing official came from the inside.That only made Jessie more anxious.While she was at home buried in research, Shirley called."Help me! Rachel and Lucy are fighting in the dorm. I didn't know Rachel was this vicious. She tore out a handful of Lucy's hair, scratched up her face, and even gouged out a chunk of Lucy's cheek with her nails. It's terrifying–" Shirley lowered her voice. She sounded genuinely shaken."How did they even end up fighting?" Jessie asked."Rachel was secretly taking pictures of Lucy. Lucy caught her.""Taking pictures?" Jessie was speechless.Why was she still doing that?"Yeah. She said Lucy messed with your computer. I'm starting to wonder if it's true." Shirley asked

"How's he supposed to fix things when he's been hauled away?" Mark muttered under his breath.If Jack actually had family who'd help, Mark wouldn't have said that.Jack's stepbrother would never lift a finger for him either."That's not something you need to worry about. Have you gotten any feeling back in your leg lately?" Jessie didn't want to talk about Jack."It's all the same. Don't worry about me. Honestly, lying here is pretty comfortable." Mark let out a goofy laugh.Jessie's brows furrowed. "Don't say stuff like that. Everyone wants to be healthy. It was just an accident. The hospital's already in touch. Once your injuries finish healing, you'll start treatment."It took nearly a hundred days for bones and tendons to recover, and those hundred days were almost up."I'm serious. I've done nothing good in the first half of my life. I deserve this." Mark said it like the punishment made him feel better.He'd always felt guilty toward Jessie.Now, this was his way of maki