CHAPTER 253 PLAN B

Claire was close to killing Hudson in his sleep the previous night. Her hatred for him rose from fifty to one hundred in just one night. After she had promised herself she would not cry again for any reason, Hudson took the promise down the drain. Not only did Claire not cry, but she also cried herself to sleep. When she awoke at midnight from thirst, she went down to the spare room and opened it carefully so as not to startle Hudson awake. Hudson was a very skilled warrior; he could injure her if she made a mistake. Claire was careful enough, and she got in and out without him moving, or maybe he knew and just pretended to be asleep; either way, she wanted to kill him right there and then. But killing him also amounted to her death and certainly that of her baby before it even arrived. Whether she liked it or not, their lives were intertwined, and she had to live with it. When she got back to bed in the master’s bedroom, all that went on in her mind was how to get out. Though a