Chapter 13

Over the past three months in the detention center, Catherine had been tormented almost daily. First, it was the kicks and the punches. Excluding her abdomen, she was covered in bruises everywhere else. Then, it was different sizes of needles all poking into her. The wounds were small, but they caused an endless itch. Finally came the hammers destroying her fingernails and toenails. When Catherine walked out of her detention ward, the once proud and arrogant heiress to the Gessner family came out looking like an emaciated cowardly nobody. When she saw Brandon, her tears instantly fell. "Cillian's not angry at me anymore, right? I knew it. I knew he couldn't bear to see me suffer." She smiled through her tears, clutching her baby bump like a lunatic. But Brandon merely smiled in reply. "Ms. Gessner, get in the car. We have a full schedule today." First, he took her to the city hall to change her address and family name. Catherine was a little worried, but at the same time, she