Ms. Escape Marrying to Run Fighting to Rise novel Chapter 172

Chapter 172 Belinda Breaks Free

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Cynthia tilted her head, her tone softening as if she were the one showing mercy. “You’re a good girl, Adriana. Get away from Curtis. Go live your own life. Yours could still be something

beautiful.”

Adriana’s eyes burned, her words trembling with fury. “That doesn’t excuse you for forcing your daughter to do something criminal!”

Cynthia smirked. “Really? And what proof do you think you have?” Her smile twisted into something cruel. “Even if you did, do you honestly believe Curtis would hand me over to the cops? I’ve always been more important to him than you.”

Her voice turned razor–sharp. “You’re nothing but a tool. A body he needed. That’s all.”

“I have proof.” Belinda’s voice broke as she stepped forward, her cheeks streaked with tears. “I have evidence that I pushed Adriana down the stairs.”

Cynthia’s smile died. “What did

you say?”

Belinda’s voice shook but didn’t falter. “You told me Adriana would only be happy if she lost the baby. You said I owed you, and I had to pay you back. Well, I did it. I did what you wanted. So now I don’t owe you anything, right?”

Her chest heaved, and she stumbled a step back. “I don’t belong to you anymore. I’m finally free, aren’t I?”

I can finally leave this cage now, right?

Cynthia froze. Her confidence cracked like glass, but she still clung to her delusion. She was certain Curtis only cared about Adriana because of the child.

Without that baby, Adriana would be nothing to him. Or that was what she thought.

“Police!” a voice shouted from the hallway. “We received a report of assault resulting in miscarriage.”

Belinda turned toward the officers, tears spilling faster. “It was me. I called. I pushed her. I made her lose the baby. I’m confessing.”

Her voice broke as she pointed toward Adriana’s bed.

Adriana’s heart stopped. She couldn’t move.

Belinda called the police herself?

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She was still in school. She’d go to prison for this.

Was she really choosing prison over living under her mother’s control?

It was unbearable to watch.

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“Belinda, are you insane?” Cynthia shouted, her voice cracking as she grabbed for her. She turned to the officers. “I’m sorry, she’s just a child. She doesn’t know what she’s saying

“I’m not lying,” Belinda said through her sobs. “There are cameras in the house.”

Cynthia’s face went ghost white. She turned to Adriana, panicked. “Say something! Please! She’s just a kid. She still has school!”

Adriana looked at her, her face cold and calm. Now she remembers her daughter is just a kid?

Where was that motherly concern when she was telling her to ruin another woman’s life?

“Adriana, I’m sorry. Don’t say anything for me. Don’t try to defend me. This was my fault, and I have to take responsibility.” Belinda looked at Adriana one last time before turning toward the officers. Her voice shook, but she didn’t stop walking.

Cynthia ran after her, her heels hitting the floor hard as she screamed her name. She called her crazy. She cursed her.

But Belinda didn’t turn back. She thought her mother was the one who had gone insane.

Cynthia’s obsession with Curtis had eaten her alive. It had turned love into poison.

Belinda had grown up believing Curtis loved her mother. Cynthia had told her that story over and over again. She made it sound like a romance out of a movie–tragic, beautiful, doomed. The kind people died for.

But then Adriana came along, and the illusion shattered. Curtis had never loved Cynthia. Not

once.

It was all a lie Cynthia had built inside her head until it became her truth.

She convinced herself Curtis loved her.

Convinced herself he was supposed to love her.

When Curtis finally reached the hospital, Adriana was sitting on the bed, shoulders trembling. Her eyes were red. Her face was pale.

Curtis’s breath came fast, his eyes bloodshot, his expression tense and broken.

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He didn’t speak when he entered. He just rushed to her and pulled her into his arms.

Adriana tried to talk, but her voice caught in her throat. The words dissolved into sobs.

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