Those clear words exploded like thunder in the sea–view villa.}
Tavian’s face instantly turned pale. He stormed forward and grabbed the manager’s collar, eyes full of rage. “What did you say? Say it again! Whose body was found?“}
The property manager was so scared that he lost his nerve and couldn’t speak.
After a long pause, he finally stammered, “It’s… it’s your wife’s. We got a report this morning that a woman’s body was found by the shore. When we checked, we saw a hospital wristband on her arm with the name ‘Liora‘ on it. That’s how we found you.“>
“I’m very sorry, Mr. Mercer. Your wife has… already passed away…”
This time, Tavian clearly heard it. But he refused to believe the bloody truth right before his eyes. Instead, he chose to deceive himself. He grabbed the property manager’s collar and shook him violently. “No… this can’t be… absolutely impossible! You must be lying to me, right? Tell me, who told you to do this? How dare you joke with me like this!“>
“How could Liora possibly be dead?
going to report your company and make sure you get fired!“}
Tavian’s face darkened to the point of ferocity, but his fierce aura quickly dissipated.}
Anyone paying attention could tell that the usually calm and composed CEO now had an unmistakable tremor in his voice. Tavian then called over a house servant and asked, “Fanny, where is Liora? Where has she been these past couple of days?“}
Mr. Merce, I haven’t seen her. I knocked on her door before and asked you about her, but you said not to bother, so I didn’t ask again.”} After he spoke, Tavian slammed his fist onto the coffee table and blood dripped down from his fingertips. Yet he seemed not to feel the pain.
At this moment, he thought of a thousand ways to calm himself down, but he simply couldn’t control himself.Ð
The property manager was trembling all over from fear and struggled to speak, “It’s… it’s true, absolutely true. Look at this wristband. It has ‘Liora‘ written on it. And there are eyewitnesses who said they saw her leap from the balcony a couple of days ago.“)
“Oh, I also just found a ring and a medical diagnosis paper on her. Mr. Mercer, please take a look.””
Saying that, he pulled the items out of his pocket.
Tavian released his grip on the collar and, shaking a little, took them from the man’s hand.}
With just one glance, he recognized it. This ring was nothing new to him.
Şeven years ago, when he proposed to me, he was a broke kid with nothing to his name. Without money to buy a ring, he melted down two pull tabs from soda cans to make a pair of couple rings.
Later, as the company gradually got on track, Tavian became busier and busier. Every time he said he would take me to pick out a “carat–sized” diamond ring, something would come up and delay it.
Last year, we agreed that on our seventh wedding anniversary this year, he would give me a unique pink diamond ring.”
Now, there were only three days left until that day, but sadly, I would never wait for it again…
