The next second, Zoey burst into a coughing fit, spattering blood onto his crisp white shirt.

His face turned dark as thunder, and with one swift motion, he shoved her aside.

Zoey stumbled, clutching at her stomach as waves of searing pain threatened to overwhelm her. Her fingers clung desperately to

the bed-sheets beneath her, as if she was holding on to consciousness itself.

Fitch eyed the crimson stain spreading on his shirt.

A knock cfrom the door at that moment.

“Mr. Haskins, Miss Mia has been crying non-stop.”

He inhaled deeply and peeled off the bloodied shirt; as he was about to pick a clean one from the wardrobe, he heard her plea,

“Just get it over with, will you?”

What did she expect? To be force-fed chili until she got stomach cancer?

If he really wanted her dead, a packet of rat poison would do the job.

“You want it over with?”

Slipping into a fresh shirt, he adjusted the cool metal of his watch around his wrist.

It was nine in the evening.

“Go outside and kneel. Once Mia calms down, I'll let you back in.”

grip loosened on the sheets

to her, Fitch moved towards the

she called out,

steps halted; with a frown creasing his brow, he felt irritation

stepping out and closing the door

cast long shadows as she curled up on the bed, with pain engulfing

not throw a tantrum but instead

own throat.

tried to intervene, but she

“Don’t touch me!”

foot of the stairs, and said with an

stiffened, with tears spilling

woman, don’t you? You want to marry her,

marry the man

her, Fitch took the knife from her grip,

her

If you marry her, I'll kill

placed the knife on the table beside them, “So what do you want

buried her head in her hands, “I want her to die. I want her

what I've been through these past few days, and you don’t

to me. I've lost my first

will laugh at me.”

hands

only mom knows about

bitterly, grinding her teeth, “Is that what matters? I want Zoey

the knife to be taken away, “I'll send her abroad, and

I agree to

with rage, “I've changed my mind.

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