Substitute Marriage With the Illegitimate Son novel Chapter 639

Unbeknownst to the two men, Janet was clinging to the side of the reef, panting breathlessly.

In fact, she didn't swim away at all. She was painfully aware that she couldn't outrun their yacht, so when those men went back to their vessel, she left her coat in the sea, swam back to the reef, and hid in a shallow stone cave.

She hoped that they would think she drowned and give up looking for her when they saw her coat floating in the distance.

Janet hadn't had a proper meal in several days. It took all her remaining strength to escape just now. She squatted weakly in the stone cave, trembling from the cold and hunger.

Things couldn't be that simple. The sudden landslide, the car accident, and now the hit men who tried to kill her... All of a sudden, it dawned on Janet. Her "accident" was no accident at all.

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Charis waited for what felt like an eternity on the shore when the yacht finally came back.

"How'd it go? Jimmy told me you found her. So where is she?" Charis looked around the yacht but didn't see Janet.

Her eyes went wide in fury. "You didn't lose her, did you?"

Then lanky man called Jimmy glanced at his companion John and stammered, "We did find her, and we tried to trick her into getting on the yacht... But she somehow figured out that we weren't from the search and rescue team, so she tried to escape and jumped into the sea. After that, John and I looked for her, circling the area countless times, but we couldn't find her. We only found her coat floating alone. She... She must've drowned. It's the only possibility."

Charis's eyebrows shot up dubiously. "Really?"