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.”

the sheets

moved

she called

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

out and

watched the door shut; her eyelashes cast long shadows as she curled

couch, who did not throw a tantrum

own throat.

tried to intervene, but she swung

“Don’t touch me!”

of the stairs, and said with an icy

with

her, make her my sister-in-law? Does she deserve it? By what

to marry the man she loves

Fitch took the knife from her

her

to die. If you marry her,

the knife on the table beside them, “So what do

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

past few

I can’t forget what he did to me. I've lost my first time; no one will wantnow. If this

will laugh at me.”

his hands on her

won't get out. For now, only mom knows

laugh bitterly, grinding her teeth, “Is that

away, “I'll send her abroad, and you'll never have to

should I

with rage, “I've changed

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