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###Chapter 185
Then I suddenly remembered–I had come to show Lawrence my jewelry design proposal.Z
Lawrence stared at the tablet, praising nonstop.
“As expected of Maxine, you really are a genius!”
He truly was the world’s biggest cheerleader.
Afterward, we went out for dinner together. Once we finished, Lawrence drove me to the park we used to visit as children.
The place was half abandoned now, with old, crumbling buildings and broken equipment. Yet, the faint outlines of its lively past still lingered.
Passing by the area with the miniature sky train, a memory flashed–I had once fallen here.
That time, Lawrence rushed over and caught me.
But in doing so, he fell to the ground himself, a shard of broken glass cutting into his thigh.
I bet the scar was still there.
He had always been so good to me since we were kids, yet I had betrayed him for someone else. How heartbroken he must have been all those years.
Suddenly, fireworks erupted in the distance.}
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“Do you like thern?” Lawrence gently rubbed my hair.
“As a child, you loved watching fireworks the most.”
It turned out those fireworks were set off for me by Lawrence. He remembered everything I liked.
Amid the crackling bursts ascending into the sky, he cupped his hands like a megaphone and shouted, “I will love Maxine Fernandez forever!”
“Forever and ever, until the end of the world!”
Tears filled my eyes as I shouted back, “Lawrence, I’m sorry! I will love you all my life, until the seas dry up and the rocks crumble!“}
“Max, don’t say sorry.” Lawrence tenderly wiped away my tears. Under the dazzling fireworks, he embraced me tightly.”
For the first time, I felt true happiness–and a firm resolve to marry Lawrence.
But just days later, on the eve of the wedding I had been dreaming of, I was suddenly kidnapped.”
With my eyes covered, I was taken somewhere. The salty sea breeze and the distant horn of a ship told me we were at a warehouse by the shore.”
When the blindfold was removed, I saw Elise sitting in a wheelchair, flanked by a dark, ugly man.
No longer the beautiful girl who could make any man bow to her, she was now a horrifying sight–her dress empty beneath her, only her right hand remaining. One eye was blind. The pink dress only made her look more terrifying.”
She had been tortured into this state on a dark web black ship.
Later, she encountered a man with a fetish for deformities and seduced him to help her escape.}
She hated rne. Her first act was to kidnap me for revenge.}
“It’s all because of you that Dawson abandoned me, Maxine, you bitch! You made me lose everything! The pain I suffered will be paid back to you tenfold. I will make you suffer a thousand times worse than hell itself!“}
She ordered the man to use a giant meat grinder to crush my limbs and gouge out my facial features.
I trembled in terror, begging her for mercy.”
“Elise, I can help you get back with Dawson, just please spare me!“}
But Elise laughed wildly, crazed. “With me like this, how could Dawson ever want me? You’re the culprit–you deliberately made Dawson ruin me, turning me into this hideous monster. And you, you went off to seduce a richer man! You bitch, I want nothing but to see you suffer more than me!”
“But I have money myself. I don’t need those men’s money. I can give you money! You could live a life free of worries!” I pleaded.
“I only want you to suffer worse than death–hahaha!“}
With a cruel command, that man hoisted me up on a steel cable.
As the cable started moving, below me a massive meat grinder began to buzz ominously.
“Please, Elise, don’t do this!”
At that moment, the screech of brakes and hurried footsteps sounded outside.
Lawrence and Dawson burst inside together.2
1:16 PM
