“We agreed that we would never be apart for a lifetime. Liora, you’re breaking your word. I beg you, please open your eyes and look at me. Don’t leave me all alone, okay?“”
“And our child, I just found out today that you were pregnant, already two and a half months along. Why didn’t you tell me? If I had known, I definitely wouldn’t have…“}
Before he could finish, he slapped his own face countless times because memories of his actions during this time flooded his mind. The more he thought about it, the more he broke down.
That’s right! What had he done?}
First, he secretly slept with another woman behind his wife’s back.”
Then, when she was pregnant and wanted to keep the baby, he brought her back to their marital home and even let her stay in their master bedroom…
Worse still, he actually let someone hurt her, despite him being the very person who had once sworn at their wedding never to let her bleed or cry.
And now, he had done all of that…
What on earth was he doing?
Tavian held my lifeless body desperately, no matter how the police tried to pull him away, he wouldn’t let go. Over and over, he cried out my name, filled with despair and sorrow.
But the only response was the cold, lifeless corpse before him.}
No one knew how much time had passed until an officer’s subordinate came over to report. They were discussing a group of thugs caught yesterday and were currently interrogating them about their recent misdeeds.>
Then the subordinate mentioned something strange. One of the incidents involved these men claiming that Miss Knith had paid them a large sum of money to pretend to assault her.
“You’ve got to be kidding. You actually have such an interesting case!”
But these words buzzed loudly in Tavian’s ears and all the blood in his body seemed to rush backward.}
Miss Knith? Pretend to assault?!
Could it be that those people weren’t hired by Liora after all, but by someone else?}
Tavian suddenly lunged forward and grabbed the subordinate’s shoulder. “Where are those men? Take me to see them right now!“> At the police station, Tavian saw faces he knew all too well. The men, upon seeing him, immediately dropped to their knees in fear.” “Mr. Mercer, three days ago, we didn’t actually try to kidnap Miss Knith. She gave us a large sum of money to put on a show!“} They rattled off a bunch of details, but Tavian only caught a few key words: three days ago, Miss Knith, putting on a show.
It felt like he had been struck hard on the head and something inside his mind exploded with a loud bang.
“Liora, I was wrong. I wrongly accused you. It wasn’t you!“}
“You were framed by someone else. I was the one who drove you to this!“>
Covering his face, Tavian wept uncontrollably, recalling how I knelt on the ground, begging him desperately to spare me. But he didn’t even listen. He had his bodyguards deal with me mercilessly.”
We had known each other since we were young, over ten years. He was the one who knew me best. Yet, for Melia, he didn’t hesitate for a second to drive the sharpest knife deep into my heart.”
Tavian was pierced right through by the harsh truth before him and completely broke down.
He staggered a few steps, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and then fainted completely.
When he woke up again, Tavian was lying in a hospital bed.
He anxiously tried to get up, wanting to handle my affairs, but as soon as he got out of bed, he saw Melia crying with tear–streaked cheeks and throwing herself into his arms.
Tavian pushed her away with disgust.
Melia immediately clutched her chest. “Tavian, you were unconscious for three whole days. I was really scared that the doctors would tell me you might never wake up again. If that happened, I and the baby in my belly wouldn’t want to live anymore.“§
At this moment, Melia still didn’t know that Tavian had already met those thugs, nor that he knew everything that day was her staged act. He was still drowning in the fact that I was gone forever.
