Chapter 371

• Nine years slipped by in a blur. Everything that once belonged to Zayla Steele was gone. Her home shattered, her family dead, she was like a hedgehog stripped of its spines—bloody, raw, and fragile to the core.
• Back then, what Joaquin Latham despised most was Zayla’s proud rich heiress airs. When they married, he treated her like a toy, locked her up at home, chained her ankle like she was a dog. He even forced her to get pregnant, planning to hand the baby over to Melanie Summer to raise.
• To save Melanie, he handed Zayla to the kidnappers. All ten fingers crippled, dozens of scars across her body—they’re still there.