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I walked slowly toward Jennifer. “Leo is dead. My son is dead.” @
As if possessed, I was laughing and crying at the same time. “I’m going to make you pay with your life!”
I lunged at Jennifer. But just before I could reach her, a sharp pain exploded in the back of my
head.
I collapsed to the ground.
Deacon stood over me with a baseball bat, then ran to Jennifer’s side. “Jennifer, are you okay?”
She clutched her chest, clearly shaken, and shook her head. Then, she planted her foot on my face. “You bitch, you dare to touch me? I’ll teach you that I’m not someone you can mess with!”
My head throbbed. My consciousness was fading.
Just before I blacked out, I heard Deacon ask, “Jennifer, is it really okay that the kid is dead?”
Jennifer sneered. “This is an emergency room. People die here every day. Besides, the kid was already too far gone when he was brought in. He didn’t even make it through the ER doors…”
Their laughter faded into the distance.
When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a vacant treatment room. My hands and feet were bound with restraints to a surgical bed. I struggled, but it was useless.
Just then, Jennifer walked in, wearing a white coat. “Don’t struggle. It’s no use.”
“What… What are you going to do…” My voice trembled.
“You know, you’re not as young as I am. You’re just flaunting yourself in front of me because you were his first love and had a child with him.”
“Now that the child is dead, I’m going to make sure you no longer look like his first love. What do you think you’ll have left to seduce Caspian with then?”
Hearing that Leo was dead again, I couldn’t control myself. Tears streamed down my face. I couldn’t process anything else Jennifer said.
“A woman like you is a waste of anesthesia,” Jennifer said, pulling out a scalpel. “Let’s see you try to seduce any man with this face and these tits.”
She smiled cruelly, waving the scalpel over my chest.
belatedly realized what she was about to do.
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Before I could react, she stuffed a pair of foul–smelling socks into my mouth.
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“This is a treatment room. Your screams will disturb the doctors.”
I gagged with nausea, but I was more terrified of the scalpel.
“Much quieter,” she said, her eyes glinting with malice. Then, the scalpel fell.
My scream was muffled by the socks as a long gash appeared on my chest.
“Without these big tits, Caspian won’t want you anymore.” Jennifer laughed hysterically. “Any woman who dares to seduce my man deserves to die!”
I writhed in agony.
Jennifer was insane. She had cut off one of my breasts.
Next, she moved the scalpel toward my face, her obsession clear. “I don’t like your face, either. Looking closely, you actually resemble him a bit, as if you two were made for each other.” Her eyes turned cruel and sharp. “But only I am worthy of being his wife!”
She carved several cuts into my face. I convulsed in pain.
“Mistress! Slut! Bitch!” Jennifer cursed, each new insult punctuated by a new wound on my face.
My face was on fire, wet with÷I couldn’t tell if it was blood or tears.
I was in despair.
Leo was dead. And now, I was going to die in this treatment room.
I hated it all. I hated myself, and I hated Caspian for getting involved with a woman like this. His seven–year–old brother was dead because of him.
Leo…
Just then, the room’s internal communicator buzzed.
Jennifer paused, then picked it up.
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“Who’s using this room?” Caspian’s voice came through the device.
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