Chapter 50
Damien collapsed back into the interrogation chair, defeated. Though he refused to admit it aloud, deep down he knew the police wouldn’t lie about something like this.”
But how could it be? Elena hadn’t said anything.”
Thinking of my name, he suddenly froze.”
Up until this moment, he only just remembered my recent unusual behavior.
Before, I loved him like my life depended on it, but for the first time, I didn’t go to pick him up after he was ‘kidnapped‘, for the first time, I refused to withdraw the case under his threats and for the first time, I responded to his mood with cold silence.”
It turned out everything had signs all along, but he habitually ignored them. While I was losing my family, he kept stabbing knives into my heart over and over again.”
In anger, he purposely came home arm in arm with his old flame. I refused to give in, so he deliberately held his old flame’s hand to provoke me.
Damien laughed, but the laughter soon turned into tears. “I’m a bastard… a real bastard!“}
He cursed himself while painfully pounding the table. The handcuffs jingled, scraping the skin on his wrists.
But that still wasn’t all.”
The officer flipped through the file again, paused and looked at him once more. “In this incident, Lily was not the first victim. Before this, Mr. and Mrs. Hart also died on the spot when they collided with a semi–trailer truck while rushing to deliver the ransom to you.””
Damien froze completely in place, his face ashen and lifeless like a walking corpse.
He sniffled, lifted his head, his eyes bloodshot with tears. “What exactly do you want to do? Why tell me all this? Why torture me like this? It’s not me who caused their deaths, I don’t know anything. I just, I just…”
He broke down crying, gagging several times, yet the heavy remorse in his heart wouldn’t go away.
But what good was that now? My family… would never come back.
After the interrogation ended, the police said Damien wanted to see me.}
I sat in the meeting room, sunlight streaming in through the window, casting light on the steel table.”
Damien’s footsteps hesitated at the door, then slowly approached. I heard the jingle of his handcuffs but didn’t look up.”
“You seem thinner again.”
He sat down, speaking casually as if making small talk.
I wasn’t in the mood for pleasantries. I pushed the questions I had written earlier on the writing board toward him.”
He looked at the writing board, his expression growing more complicated. “You… really can’t speak anymore?”
Seeing that I didn’t respond, he took a deep breath and answered my questions.
“Yes, the Cole Family never actually went bankrupt. I lied to you, Elena. But I lied only because I wanted to see how different you were from Vanessa, to see how far your love for me would go!“\
“As for those men… I really didn’t know they had such nerve.“}
“Vanessa said they were just miserable workers at the construction site. It’s only now that I realize they’re actually idle troublemakers.”
