He Gave Her Strawberries, Gave Me Hives (Ford and Sylvia) novel Chapter 165

Chapter 18

ure enough, the next day, just as dawn was breaking and Seraphina was still curled up asleep in the study, several people roughly dragged her up.

Colonel, is this her?” Several soldiers came over, grabbing Seraphina.

ante nodded, his face expressionless.

eraphina struggled in panic. “What are you doing? Let go of me, let me go!”

he soldiers didn’t release her–they gripped her even tighter, dragging her out to the courtyard. By this time, everyone in the housing compound was already p, looking confused as they saw Seraphina being brought over and restrained.

ante stepped forward to explain: “This woman framed Dr. Thorne, the director of the space agency. Today, she receives one hundred military lashes!”

t these words, Seraphina’s entire face went deathly pale. Back then, Evelyn had barely been able to endure twenty lashes–Dante was ordering one hundred!

he begged desperately for mercy, but no one around pitied her. All she heard were voices of condemnation.

So she’s the one who harmed Dr. Thorne–she deserves it! If you ask me, a hundred lashes isn’t enough!”

Exactly! Do you know who Dr. Thorne is? If something had happened to her, could this woman possibly make up for it?”

I heard the space agency’s research is at a critical stage right now. Ugh, this kind of person is disgusting!”

mid the crowd’s curses, even if Seraphina had a hundred mouths, she couldn’t explain herself clearly. She was held down as the cold, hard military canes truck her entire body. The pain was excruciating–her screams poured out continuously. Even when she fainted, someone would splash cold water on her to wake her up before continuing the punishment.

fter one hundred lashes, Seraphina couldn’t even speak, her entire body a mass of wounds.

he lay on the ground, listening to people’s discussions around her.

low ironic–Dante had once condemned Evelyn in this very place. Now in the same location, he was condemning her, even with the same charge: harming a

rucial national scientist.

he spat out some blood, her consciousness hazy, with no strength left to resist.

he was again dressed in tattered prison clothes and loaded onto a military truck for public shaming.

veryone on the streets knew about Seraphina’s crimes–she had seduced a space agency interviewer with her body to become an intern at JPL, she had framed r. Thorne, she deserved punishment, she deserved death, she must personally apologize to Evelyn!

he public looked at her as if she were disgusting garbage.

That’s Seraphina Voss! I heard she deceived so many people! She has no real ability but insisted on getting into the space agency. She’s the one who nearly blew p the science center!”

So it was her! How disgusting–why wasn’t she killed in that explosion?”

I heard after the parade, she’s going to reform camp and staying there until Dr. Thorne’s research is finished.”

If you ask me, she should just die and be done with it!”

eraphina’s eyes were dull and lifeless. She let people throw rotten vegetables, stinking eggs, and sharp stones at her body, seeming not to feel the pain.

When the parade ended, Dante personally escorted her to the labor reform facility.

Seraphina,

do you realize

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