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.”

sheets as she heard his

to her, Fitch moved towards the

she called out,

with a frown creasing his brow, he felt irritation rising

stepping out and closing the door

behind, watched the door shut; her eyelashes cast long shadows

the couch, who did not throw a tantrum but instead reached for a knife, threatening to slash

own throat.

tried to intervene, but she swung

“Don’t touch me!”

of the stairs, and said with an icy voice, “What

with

woman, don’t you? You want to marry her, make her my sister-in-law? Does she deserve

the man she loves

took the knife

looked up, her eyes

I want to die. If you marry her, I'll kill myself right

beside them, “So what do you want her

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

through these past few days, and you don’t know how disgusting that man

me. I've

will laugh at me.”

his hands

now, only mom knows about it in the Haskins

to laugh bitterly, grinding her teeth, “Is that

knife to be taken away, “I'll send her abroad, and you'll never

I

changed my mind. I want

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