Chapter 23%
1 couldn’t quite figure out what he was thinking. Ever since the fallout from the marriage, even with all of Thayer’s subsequent maneuvers. he still hadn’t managed to pull the Alcott Family’s stock price back to where it should be.
Because negotiations over my technology kept stalling, the company’s technical progress remained stagnant and its decline in the industry was becoming more and more obvious.
I never actually intended to seek revenge–it’s just that the new company profits because of me. Naturally, they’re constantly tiptoeing around my emotions, practically itching to crush Thayer’s company into the ground.
I was just wondering if this was the reason behind the kidnapping, when Thayer–who had been silent for a long time–suddenly spoke.!! “Althea, I know now. What happened back then had nothing to do with you. It was another woman who framed you.”
“I’ve already punished her entire family. Are you happy now…?”
His voice was unusually cautious, cutting through the messy thoughts in my mind.
My voice came out full of helplessness. “Thayer, I’ve already told you–that’s all in the past. I don’t want to dwell on it anymore.”N Besides, with Thayer’s personality, even without that woman, he would’ve still grown distant from me over something else.N
Just like how, back then, he deleted all of Lucien’s contact information without even giving me a chance to explain.
Even if I had explained everything back then, he still subjected me to months of silent treatment.
“Oh, it’s all in the past now, right? Got it, got it.”
Thayer nodded, licking his dry lips, then brought up another topic. “Do you still remember Aveline–the one who hurt your mom? She died on the delivery table.”
Thayer observed me, unsure whether to admit that he had killed Aveline in the very hospital room where my mother had once stayed, afraid I might get angry because of it.
But this time, I didn’t bring up whether the past was past. My expression was silent and complicated–almost as if I were encouraging him.
“I’ve sent all the women who once framed you to hell. They’re all suffering now…”
“Isn’t it you the one who most deserves to go to hell, Thayer?” I blinked in confusion, seemingly unable to understand why he would go after those women.
“But because of them, I became dirty. I became someone you couldn’t love anymore.“)
At that moment, Thayer actually showed a look of almost childlike grievance. I couldn’t help the flicker of pity that rose in my eyes.” Who would have thought–even someone like him had lost his mind.
“Thayer, don’t you realize–it was you who paid them to stain you. You were the one who let them bully me. The one who always took pleasure in my pain–it was you all along, Thayer.”
My words seemed to shatter the mask he had been wearing. He let out a low laugh and his voice took on a more dangerous edge. “I knew it. In this world, only you truly understands me.“!!
The speeding car came to a halt just moments before plunging off the cliff. Thayer’s lips curved into a twisted smile, his eyes filled with a mad, obsessive frenzy.
“I actually planned to die with you, Althea. I knew you might not want to leave Lucien behind, so I even brought him along. But the moment you spoke… I couldn’t bring myself to do it.”a
Thayer rambled on to himself, his voice laced with an intimacy, so tender that it was chilling–like a devil whispering in the dark.
Several black cars surrounded them. The police cars and Merrick Family’s men behind were intercepted, allowing Thayer to escape once
The air was thick with a dizzying sedative fragrance.”
en I woke up again, Thayer was hunched over on the ground, vomiting uncontrollably, just because a woman had accidentally brushed gainst the hem of his clothes.
But what he vomited… was bright red blood.
