"Can I help you?"
Nora set down her scissors and placed herself firmly in front of Anya.
"Can you help us? Stop playing dumb!"
A thug in a torn tank top shot her a nasty glare and shoved a nearby flower display violently to the side.
Crash—!!
Ceramic pots shattered into a thousand pieces against the floorboards. Delicate lilies and roses were instantly strewn across the ground, drowning in a messy puddle of mud and water.
"Ah—!"
Anya screamed, covering her head as tears immediately flooded her eyes.
The bald leader tapped the spine of his switchblade against his palm, stepping forward with a cold sneer, his eyes fixed viciously on Nora.
"Cut the crap. Two grand for this month, hand it over now. Otherwise, we're not just smashing this trash shop to pieces, we're gonna make sure you two women have a real bad day."
Faced with these screaming men tearing up her shop, not a trace of panic surfaced on Nora's face.
The noise of these petty street thugs didn't even hold a candle to the bloody, cutthroat underworld she had survived back in The Metropolis.
Expressionless, she reached out her left hand to push a trembling Anya toward the backroom, ordering coldly:
"Anya, get inside and lock the door."
Anya tugged at her shirt, her voice breaking. "Nora, wh-what about you?"
"Listen to me. Go in."
Once Anya slipped inside sobbing and threw the deadbolt, Nora reached for the phone in her pocket, ready to call the cops.


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The readers' comments on the novel: The Love I Begged For Was Never Real
Storyline is good..but author is wasting time on character's thoughts.why r u streching chapters it's really really boring and annoying.conversation between them childish.she is only saying him get out n what right do u have ..not telling him what he did to her not questioning him..demanding answer. And what happened to him why sudden change of heart care to explain author.....
For the past few chapters either she is sick or he is. It is slightly boring. Author pls let them talk about the issues , she is not at all scolding him.. every scoldings are playing in her mind only. We want some talk between them....
I am also thinking the same....
Has he mistaken Nora as Giselle?...
What happened to him🤔 did he forget everything?...
Hey can u also upload the book " woke up married to my cheating ex"....
Does he know the orphan girl is actually Nora?...
So is he trying to justify everything? At wat rite??? Wer were he wen she needed him the most.......
Haha finally going to see redemption...
I don’t think reborn will happen in this novel. It will be full of her blood only. Actually The title should be changed to only Nora’s suffering instead the love I begged was never real....