Chapter 411: Past Sins

’How could they harm pregnant women and their unborn children like this and still expect to steal their fortune? If that baby had any luck at all, it would come back as a vengeful spirit to claim their lives!’

She was so shocked and furious that her voice trembled. "Did those buyers get their heads slammed in a door? How could they possibly believe that cult leader’s bullshit?"

Noelle Quillan’s expression was numb. She nodded and replied in a low voice, "Yes... Quite a few rich people placed advance orders, all to find a pregnant woman and fetus whose fortunes were a perfect match..."

The first time Noelle Quillan was pregnant, she was matched with a crematorium owner.

The crematorium owner had made a fortune after the natural disasters, but he wanted his business to reach the next level. So, he sought out Mr. Caelus, hoping to purchase "Divine Fortune."

After a fortune-matching process, the pregnant Noelle Quillan was selected. She slept with the crematorium owner once, and then she was dragged away for an abortion.

Before she had even rested for a few days after the abortion, Noelle Quillan was thrown back into that underground club to continue servicing clients and prepare for her next pregnancy...

And after the transaction, the crematorium owner’s business actually did reach the next level. His income doubled.

When several of his peers in the industry heard about it, they all rushed to Mr. Caelus, wanting to place an order for Noelle Quillan’s next child.

Recalling these events, the numbness in Noelle Quillan’s eyes gave way to pain. She continued, "Later, the police raided that underground club, and it seemed The Cult ran into some trouble too. Gene Young and Yvonne York took me and a few of the other girls on the run, and eventually, they brought us here to The Metropolis Residences..."

"If someone wanted to buy our services, Gene Young would take us out to make a house call... Once we were pregnant, we’d be taken to Mr. Caelus to be matched with a rich businessman. After sleeping with them, we’d be dragged away to have an abortion..."

At this point, Noelle Quillan couldn’t go on. She bit her lip and began to sob, muffling the sound so as not to wake Gene Young’s sleeping family.

In just over a year, Noelle Quillan had been forced to undergo three late-term abortions. For the Secret Technique to be most effective, the wealthy clients demanded they wait until she was three or four months pregnant—when the fetus had taken form—before the termination.

For Noelle Quillan, each procedure was a slow, agonizing torture. It was a living hell, a fate worse than death.

Hearing this, Melody Summers was so furious her hands began to shake. ’These bastards! What do they think human life is?!’

Once Noelle Quillan had calmed down, Melody Summers asked, "You said Gene and his wife brought several women home. Why are you the only one here? Where are the others? Where are they being kept?"

At her words, Noelle Quillan’s face turned pale. Her lips trembled as she spoke. "We were living on the second floor at first. When the blizzard hit and we had to move, Gene and Yvonne said supplies were limited and they couldn’t afford to feed so many people... so they tied the others up and left them behind in the old apartment..."

With the blizzard raging outside, Gene Young couldn’t take the women out for "house calls" anymore, so he and his wife no longer wanted to waste food on them.

The couple figured that since they had bought the women cheaply from traffickers anyway, it was better to just buy a new batch after the weather warmed up rather than keep feeding them until the blizzard ended.

Melody Summers gasped.

’Tied up and left in the old apartment?!’

’It’s been almost two months since Gene and Yvonne moved! The second floor has been buried in snow for ages!’

’No fuel, no food... The only fate awaiting those poor women was death...’

’There was no way those women could have survived...’

At this thought, Melody Summers clenched her fists so tightly her nails dug into her palms. ’These people from The Advent Sect... they all deserve to die!’

Noelle Quillan caressed her still-flat abdomen and said in a trembling voice, "They were planning to get rid of me, too, but then I got pregnant again... My baby was reserved by a rich businessman whose fortune matched. We were just waiting for three or four months, until the fetus took form, to get the abortion..."

"The businessman paid a large deposit, so Gene and Yvonne brought me with them when they moved up here..."

If they weren’t so greedy for the final payment, Gene and Yvonne would have locked Noelle Quillan on the second floor with the other women to await her death long ago.

Noelle continued, "But a few days ago, the rich businessman suddenly contacted Gene. He said he wanted to cancel the deal and wouldn’t be paying the rest... When Gene and his wife heard that, they tied me up and started talking about how to get rid of me..."

That was why Noelle Quillan had been crying for help, and her cries just so happened to be heard by Joyce Lawson.

At this, Noelle Quillan looked at Melody Summers with a pleading expression and cried, "Please, you have to get me out of here. I don’t want to die, I really don’t want to die..."

Melody Summers fell silent for a moment, her expression complicated.

After a long moment, Melody Summers scrutinized Noelle Quillan and said in a low voice, "...And why should I save you? Noelle Quillan, have you forgotten what you did to us?"

Melody still remembered how Noelle Quillan had inserted herself into Winnie Summers’s family.

Although Adam Lawson was no good himself, and it was a great thing that Winnie Summers got to divorce him, that didn’t change the fact that Noelle Quillan had eagerly become the other woman and broken up a family.

Back when Adam Lawson cheated on Winnie with Noelle Quillan, he spent a fortune on her—a fortune that Winnie Summers had worked tirelessly to earn!

Later, emboldened by the fact that she had given birth to Joelle Lawson and Joel Lawson, Noelle Quillan frequently came to taunt Winnie and Melody Summers. Joelle and Joel would mock Winnie for being barren and mock Melody for being an orphan abandoned by her parents.

Thinking about all this, Melody Summers didn’t want to save Noelle Quillan in the slightest.

Hearing Melody Summers’s words, Noelle Quillan was reminded of her past actions. Her eyes filled with panic and remorse as she said hastily, "What happened back then was my fault! It was all my fault. I was wrong. I never should have gotten involved in your mother’s family!"

She struggled to push herself into a kneeling position as she spoke, her gaze fixed on Melody Summers, full of desperation. "But... but I didn’t have a choice back then! My parents both died when I was five. I was raised by my uncle and his wife. I had to call them ’Mom’ and ’Dad’ and spent every day walking on eggshells around them..."

"When I was fifteen, my uncle and aunt introduced me to Adam Lawson. They told me his family was the wealthiest in the entire region and that they’d even bought a large house in the city. They said that as long as I could get pregnant with Adam Lawson’s child, I could marry into the Lawson family and be set for life..."

"From the time I was a little girl, my uncle and aunt taught me that I had to marry a rich man to repay them... That’s the only way I knew how to live! No one ever told me if what I was doing was right or wrong!"

"Besides... I couldn’t disobey my uncle and aunt! They told me that if I couldn’t win over Adam Lawson, they would sell me off to some remote mountain village to be a wife for some one-eyed, crippled old bachelor, and let him beat me every day..."

Melody Summers frowned and cut her off in a low voice. "Alright, that’s enough. What kind of sob story are you trying to sell me? If everything you’re saying is true, then how do you explain the fact that those children you had weren’t Adam Lawson’s at all?"