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Rufus’s hand holding the phone was trembling.
He suddenly looked up.“Was it also you who framed her for stealing during her birthday before?”
“And that time with the allergy and the bum, were they all orchestrated by you? Annalise, how could you be so vicious?”
Annalise face instantly turned pale, and she subconsciously stepped back, bumping into the vase behind her, which crashed to the ground with a
clatter.
“I loved you too much, that’s why I did this…”
She sobbed in defense, “She always pretends to be magnanimous, pretends not to care. I just wanted you to see clearly…”
Rufus couldn’t hold back anymore and slapped her hard across the face.
Annalise covered her face and fell to the ground, looking utterly disbelieving “You actually hit me for her? And you still claim you don’t care about her? Rufus, you hypocrite!”
Listening to her cries, Rufus felt a surge of immense disappointment in his heart.
“All these years, you couldn’t see any of the kindness I showed you, could you? Even the Thwaites family treated you as their own daughter. You could have lived peacefully.”
Annalise, I misjudged you.”
His words suddenly calmed the previously terrified Annalise.
She looked up at him: Rufus, you don’t still think Carice left because of me, do you? Let me tell you, she’s had a better upbringing than me since childhood. I’ve always hated her. Why does she get everything I want? So I deliberately took away everything she cared about her parents,
including you.”
*But women understand women best, let me tell you, she left you entirely because of your own actions, that’s why she gave up on you
completely!”
“Weren’t you able to get everything you wanted since childhood, Mr. Sackhoff? How does it feel to lose someone you love? I thought you had no heart? You kept saying you loved me, only to have a sudden change of heart in the end. Are all men’s words equally untrustworthy?”
Annalise words struck deep into Rufus‘ heart.
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It also pushed Rufus’s anger to its peak, as he suddenly grabbed her by the neck.
“Shut up, what right do you have to criticize me? You vicious woman!”
She instantly felt an overwhelming suffocation, but her mouth still kept muttering something
“Im’t this the truth? You enabled me, and you’re no better yourself!”
Rufus‘ grip grew tighter and tighter at this moment, he just wanted to silence the woman before him immediately.
By any
any means necessary.
Annalise tried to resist, her nails digging deep into his hand, leaving stark bloody marks
But he felt no pain at all, only tightening his chokehold on her neck relentlessly,
Only when Annalise on the ground stopped making any sound did he finally release his grip.
The icy–air rushed into Annalise’s nostrils, forcing her to gasp desperately for breath.
An assistant walked in, reporting that Carice exact location had been found.
As Rufus turned to leave, Annalise suddenly lunged forward and clung to his leg:“Rufus, you can’t treat me like this!”
“Take her away and lock her up, and notify the Thwaites family about these matters as well.“
Rufus pulled Annalise’s hand away and turned to order the arriving bodyguards:“No one is allowed to let her out without my permission.”
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trode toward the garage, and as the car started, Annalise’s broken sobs faded into the distance in the rearview mirror.
