Madly Yours (Nora Reed) novel Chapter 770

Nora's fingers stiffened.

This was...

She instinctively looked up at Hudson and saw the same shock mirrored in his eyes.

This was Penelope's journal!

And the entries she just read were undeniably about her and her mother...

"Thank you, Marcus!"

Nora closed the notebook and clutched it to her chest. "This is incredibly helpful."

Marcus smiled and nodded. "As long as it helps, as long as it helps..."

"Well... Marcus, it's getting late. We won't take up any more of your time..."

"Alright, let me walk you out..."

"No need, stay here."

...

It was late into the night by the time Nora and Hudson returned to Cloudwater Estate.

As soon as she got to their room, Nora impatiently opened the notebook, eager to read more.

Hudson poured her a glass of warm water and sat beside her.

She didn't even care about the water. She immediately pulled the yellowed notebook from the cloth bag, flipped to the page she had left off on, and continued reading.

[The baby wouldn't stop crying today, and I smelled blood. That woman is so cruel—is she abusing her own child? While the baby cried herself to sleep, I undid her clothes to check. My God! The baby has stitches on her lower back! That's where the blood was coming from... The woman must have lost her mind! But when the crazy woman saw me checking the baby's wound, she wasn't scared at all. She just told me to take good care of the baby for the next few days. She said if she made it back, she would reward me heavily. I don't know what kind of insane nonsense she's spouting. The windows in her room are nailed shut—how could she possibly escape?]

Nora's fingertip hovered at the end of the line.

She instinctively reached back, touching the freshly healed wound on her lower back.

Through the thin fabric of her pajamas, her fingers traced the small, slightly raised scar. The wound still throbbed with a dull ache.

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