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Both Alexander and Shakti knew I’d do exactly that.
Because I loved him.
Yet they exploited that love to relentlessly hurt me and my family.
“Take him and that woman away.”
Benjamin massaged his temples, refusing to spare another glance at the farce.
The farce came to a temporary end, and I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Before being taken away, Shakti desperately grabbed my skirt hem, begging me to save her.
“Emily, help me! It really wasn’t me! Alexander forced me, he threatened me!”
“We’ve been best friends for ten years! Please forgive me, save me, okay?”
“I beg you… Emily, we’re best friends!”
I would’ve loved to save this decade–long best friend of mine.
But when she watched me die in agony on the delivery bed, watched Alexander pin me down and humiliate me publicly,
not even for a second did she remember I was her good friend of ten years.
Staring at Shakti, I slowly crouched down, leaned close to her ear, and enunciated each word:
“He didn’t force you. You’ve liked him all along, so you helped him kill
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me to marry him.”
“That’s why you brought that huge crowd, even Victoria, isn’t it?”
Seeing Shakti’s dazed expression, I snorted coldly and shook off her hand.
If she hadn’t been by my side, exploiting my trust to help Alexander scheme against me, how could I have ended up like that in my past life?
In that life, my ruined reputation drove me into depression, and I repeatedly considered aborting the baby.
Yet Shakti kept insisting Alexander would marry me, warning he’d never wed me without the child, urging me not to terminate.
Even on my delivery day, she persistently pushed me toward that hospital she’d handpicked.
Who could’ve guessed she’d conspired with Alexander to have me die in that very hospital?
After my death, she repeatedly forced my parents to relive my final agony. She knew my mother’s heart condition, yet kept taunting her with details of my demise
When my mother had a heart attack, Shakti deliberately gave vague information, causing the ambulance to arrive late. My mother died despite rescue efforts.
After his wife and daughter died one after another, my father wasted away instantly. A once healthy middle–aged man now looked like a gravely ill old man.
Finally, while visiting my mother’s and my grave, he drove a car Alexander had tampered with. He died instantly in the crash.
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All the Reynolds family property ended up with Alexander, the son–in- law.
All this started because of Alexander and Shakti.
So in this life, I won’t consider any past bonds.
I only want revenge.
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