Chapter 120
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That afternoon, I was jolted awake by the nonstop buzzing of my phone.”
Groggy, I picked it up, only to see the screen flooded with breaking news about Denton. My heart immediately sank. Something told me it wasn’t going to be good.\
With trembling fingers, I clicked on one of the alerts, and the video started playing.”
Denton was auctioning off Mick’s heart.”
His voice came through the speakers like a whisper from the devil, each word slicing into me like a blade. “Ladies and gentlemen, this heart belonged to a bastard born from betrayal and filth. His existence was a stain on my marriage, so today, I’m auctioning his heart. His blood and flesh will serve as penance for him and for the sins of his mother. Let this be a warning to everyone to stay loyal in your marriage, or this could be your fate.”}
“No! That’s not true! You liar!” I screamed, my throat raw, tears flooding my eyes until I could barely see the screen.
Mick wasn’t a bastard. He was sweet. He was gentle. He was my whole world. How could anyone say that about him?” My body started shaking violently from anger, grief, and despair. They crashed over me in waves, dragging me under.
wanted to dive into that screen and tear that man to pieces.
“And now, for the second ‘piece of art,” Denton’s voice rang out again, gleeful and manic. “This item captures a woman’s so–called redemption in the face of sin. It’s a reminder to every woman who dares to betray her marriage that your end will be disgrace, destruction, and pain.“[
The screen then changed, and there I was.}
Photos of me, trapped in that room, the one covered in cameras and flashing lights, surrounded by strangers who violated me, flashed across the screen one after another.
In every picture, I was broken, dirty, stripped of dignity. My body was battered, and my eyes were empty.” Each photo cut into me like a dagger.”
“Aah!” I let out a scream of pure agony. My phone slipped from my hands, hit the ground, and shattered.
I curled up into a ball on the floor, hands clutching my face as my stomach turned violently,
I also retched, even though there was nothing left in me.
The humiliation, the cold stares, the hands that touched me without permission, all of it surged back like a tidal wave, crashing over me, drowning me.
“I know sorne of you might find this disgusting,” Denton continued on the livestream, his voice filled with fake righteousness, “But that’s exactly the point. When someone chooses to betray love, to betray their vows, they enter a filthy, pathetic hell of their own making. Betrayers never meet a good end.“}
I thought I was numb by now. That nothing could hurt me anymore.
But I was wrong.
The pain had no end. The despair had no bottom.”
“Sadie!” Grandma and Uncle shouted and then burst through the door.
Their eyes then landed on the cracked phone screen with the photos still glowing grotesquely on it.
Seeing those, their faces turned to stone.
“Denton!” my uncle roared, fury blazing in his eyes. “That bastard dares to do this?!”
My grandmother trembled as she knelt beside me, pulling me into her arms. Tears silently slid down her face as she stroked my back.
“It’s okay, Sadie. Don’t be afraid. Grandma’s here. I won’t let him get away with this. I promise.”
I lifted my head, my eyes hollow, staring at her as if I were barely still human.
I felt like a puppet whose strings had all been cut, empty, drained, and filled only with hate.
“I want him dead.” I croaked, my voice hoarse and broken.
Grandma and Uncle exchanged a look.
Then Grandma gave a firm nod. “Okay. I promise. He’ll pay. We’ll make sure he lives a life worse than death.“@
I closed my eyes as tears streamed silently down my face.
Mick, Mommy would make them pay. Everyone who hurt you. Everyone who ruined us. I’d make sure none of them get away
