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Chapter 400 A Mother's Plea Natalie was momentarily stunned by Beth's words
She hadn’t expected there to be such a cabin on the ship. What kind of place was this?
Beth saw the look on her face and lowered her voice. “Natalie, if-if you can get rescued, would you help me?”
Natalie froze. “Sorry. | can’t promise you anything. | can barely guarantee my own safety right now.”
She felt sympathy for Beth, but sympathy didn’t make her a saint. At first she'd assumed every woman on this
ship had been kidnapped and was waiting to be sold like cargo. Hearing Beth mention a casino, she realized her
assumptions were naive. This was a world she’d never known. If everything Beth said was true, the ship was
crawling with danger. Baron might run into trouble coming here-she had neither the energy nor the means to
promise to save someone else.
Beth hadn't expected Natalie to refuse. She didn’t get angry; instead, she looked at Natalie with a newfound
respect. “Natalie, if there's a chance and | can get you away, would you try to find my son and take him with
you?”
Natalie was taken aback. “What do you mean?”
Beth glanced at her wounded arm and forced a bitter smile. “My life is probably over anyway. Even if | earn a
share and my son's illness is cured, the boss won't let us live together. | don’t even dare imagine what he’d do to
my boy. My life is ruined, but he’s only five. | want him to live in the open sun like a normal kid. If not me, who
will fight for him?”
Tears streamed down Beth's face again.
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Natalie thought of Susie and Sean. If her children were in danger, she might make the schoice. This place
was no environment for a child to grow up in.
She asked quietly, “Do you know where your son is? Is he on this ship?”
Beth shook her head. “I know he’s on the ship, but I don’t know where. For four years I've longed to see him but
never had the chance. We video-call every month, but he looks paler each time. Sometimes | hear the sea and
the clatter of the casino. He's definitely here—but I'm not allowed above the lowest decks.”
Natalie's brow tightened. A five-year-old growing up in this chaos-who could be so heartless? Who was this
boss?
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Natalie was a mother too. She couldn't outright refuse Beth this time, but she didn’t make any promises either.
Beth seemed to sense she'd asked too much; she gave a self-mocking smile and didn’t press.
Silence filled the cabin, thick enough
to choke. Natalie thought of her own
children—how lon fogghehestl
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She missed Susie's coquettishness
and Sean's stubbornness until her
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Natalie inhaled slowly. “What's the man’s name-the one you loved?” she asked.
“He’s James. If | get out alive, I'll make him pay.”
Hatred flared in Beth's eyes; she bit
her lip until it bled and didn’t care.
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ananimal. James was a common
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After a while, Beth took a small wallet from her pocket and opened it. A one-inch photo of a child slid into view.
She wiped it with her finger and handed it to Natalie.
“Look. This is my son. His nis Donovan Alora.”
“Alora?” Natalie repeated, puzzled.
Beth nodded. “My full nis Beth
Alora. But after my parents disowned
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couldn't find James, so | put him on
my ID—so he took my name. In
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