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Everything happened so quickly. Elliot suddenly became flustered, responding with a hoarse voice.
After some confusion, Lucia sat in the passenger seat. Her destination was a villa in the suburbs.
The journey was quiet, but when the car turned onto a secluded suburban road, she suddenly said, “Eli, you seem quite close to your female assistant.”
Elliot slammed on the brakes, fixing me with cold eyes. “Lucia, don’t misunderstand. I’ll make her get out right now.”
The darkness outside was like a monster ready to devour me.
I suppressed my anxiety and resistance, voluntarily opening the door to leave.
Lucia said, “Eli, she’s your employee. It’s dangerous to make her get out here. I’m just a tiny bit uncomfortable, silly. I can handle it.”
She pouted and turned away.
Elliot quickly pulled her into his arms, but directed his anger at me: “What are you standing there for? Are you begging for death?”
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I couldn’t disobey any of his demands. That was stipulated in the agreement we signed three years ago.
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However, that agreement had already expired, and I no longer needed to follow its rules.
Recently, there had been frequent murders, with multiple homicides reported nearby.
After getting out, I barely dared to breathe loudly, suddenly recalling the night I first met Elliot.
My foster father had jumped to his death after accumulating thirty million dollars in debt from a construction project.
Worse still, my brother, trying to earn money, took the most dangerous job at a construction site and broke his leg when his safety lock wasn’t secured properly, requiring expensive medical treatment.
I had tried everything except selling myself.
I worked tirelessly selling drinks at various bars, but the needed was like a bottomless pit.
money
My appearance was too eye–catching, and I had repeatedly rejected one customer’s advances.
Angered, he forced me to strip dance in a private room full of people.
It was Elliot who saved me and voluntarily helped pay off all my
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debts, with the only condition being signing an agreement with him.
He was a ray of light in my dark life.
I knew he had been hurt before and still loved someone else.
I knew he suffered from insomnia and could only sleep soundly when holding me at night.
I understood his food preferences and dislikes.
He seemed to have a desperate need for physical contact, having sex with me every day.
No other women ever appeared in his life. He constantly gave me gifts and spoke words of affection.
I naively believed we loved each other.
But only now did I understand that he helped me because of my
connection to Lucia.
Lucia was Parker’s illegitimate daughter. If Parker’s daughter from his first marriage hadn’t been kidnapped as a child, Lucia would never have become the Harris family heir.
She was ostracized in their entire social circle.
Elliot found me, made me fall in love with him, and kept me
under his control.
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As long as he controlled me, Lucia’s position as heir would remain unchallenged.
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Whenever Lucia got entangled with other men outside, Elliot would return home and vent his frustration on me.I thought it was love, only to realize it was actually hate. The sky suddenly erupted in a downpour, with icy raindrops pelting down, stinging my skin with their cold. There was no one around in sight and nowhere to take shelter. Having no phone with me, I couldn’t contact anyone, so I had no choice but to trudge along the road, enduring the hardship as I continued forward. Finally, I found a clinic. The moment the doctor opened the door, I collapsed unconscious. When I woke up, my head was throbbing. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Elliot.
Seeing me awake, he didn’t offer a single word of concern. He merely extinguished the lit cigarette in his hand and coldly urged, “Since you’re awake, let’s head out for the award ceremony.”
