Chapter 272 How Did He Even Make It This Far

• “My biological father just watched coldly. Tiana Frost and Hunter Frost saw me locked up and tortured, too, but they turned away in disgust like they’d seen nothing. I was imprisoned for five whole years. The old boy was busy with Frost Corporation and never noticed his missing grandson.”
• “I lay in the basement. That woman cut a skylight into the ceiling—she wanted me to see the outside but never reach it. She wanted me broken. Sometimes she’d board the skylight shut, and the basement would sink into total darkness. It was like she forgot I was still breathing. I don’t know how long those stretches lasted—maybe days, maybe just hours. My world was nothing but black. So now I refuse to stay in the dark.”
• “Back then I thought it didn’t matter whether I could escape. No one out there cared anyway. I trusted no one. I was born into malice and manipulation—my biological mother included. She took me away to squeeze benefits out of the Frost Family, and dumped me back because she’d found a man and wanted a better life.”