Chapter 373

The reason Roxanne hadn't been tortured to death by the twisted Gary during that time was because she had Shawn and Hayley watching over her. She didn't even know how she made it through that period. It was all a blur. Coupled with Gary's words, her guilt and pain consumed her. Countless times, she wondered if Marilyn and Curtis would still be alive if she hadn't stumbled into Gary's secret hideout. Even though the main cause of everything was Gary's sickness, she had been the spark that set everything off. Her body and mind were both subjected to relentless torment, and she was near breaking point. If it hadn't been for Shawn and Hayley's companionship, she truly wouldn't have survived those harrowing days. Later, Lucas came for her. He had been a wartime comrade of her maternal grandfather, Walter Evans, who had passed away not long before. Walter's dying wish had been for Roxanne, his only granddaughter, to have a good life, and so Lucas came to take her away. At the time, Sha