Betrayed, Then Back For Blood

Chapter 217

Briar’s nonchalant look changed in a flash. She strode over to Hayden in a few swift steps and said, “Spit it out now, or keep it to yourself forever.”

Hayden was completely deflated now and nodded meekly. “Okay, okay, I’ll talk, I’ll talk.”

Briar shot Sasha a look, and she instantly understood. She yanked Hayden’s neck up higher, the knife almost digging into his artery. “Speak up.”

“Your mother… Ow!”

Hayden had barely gotten two words out before the knife slashed across his face.

Sasha sounded thrilled by the sight of blood, her voice laced with murderous intent. “Are you trying to insult Briar?”

Hayden was at a loss for words.

He thought, ‘Darn it! Seriously? I got stabbed for that?‘

But with his life in their hands, Hayden didn’t dare talk back. He just reluctantly changed his words. “I mean, Mrs. Jennings. Is that good enough?”

Sasha didn’t move the knife, which meant Briar approved of the new title.

“Mrs. Jennings was just a test subject for our lab’s first–generation experimental drug back then,” Hayden muttered curses under his breath but kept his tone respectful, watching Briar’s reaction as he spoke.

When her expression turned even colder, he stammered, “Let me just say, all that stuff was my grandpa and my dad’s doing, not mine. I was just a baby back then. You Can’t take it out on me.”

Sasha started moving the knife again.

drug Mrs. Jennings took back then didn’t cause hallucinations at first. It was later, when your father… oh, I mean, Mr.

only did Briar’s face darken, but even Brandon, who’d

his wife and steal her fortune back then. What a bastard. It turns out that Miss Jennings’s

quickly. [Ashton, hurry,

what happened?” Briar’s voice was calm. Technically, she

It

home, the first

my grandpa handed the drug over to Mr. Jennings. I heard it happened at your one–month celebration. Someone pretended to be a guest and slipped

he honestly found it ridiculous. Edgar was a nobody with no power or status. What could he possibly gain by

his rich wife?

just straight–up

usually formed marriage alliances to build

and then turned around to marry his first love, who was just as powerless and ordinary as

was.

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real difference between people at the bottom and the upper crust. The folks at the bottom chased after love, thinking love could

everything

the upper crust, love only counted if there was profit involved. Otherwise, it

wife, married his first love, and now his

rest of his

ambitious man would never dump his first wife just to bring home some first love who brought nothing

liked one’s first love, one could just keep her as

signaling for Hayden

to inch his neck away