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.”

loosened on the sheets as

back to her, Fitch moved towards

then she called out,

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

out and closing the

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

did not throw a tantrum but instead

own throat.

intervene, but she

“Don’t touch me!”

stairs, and

stiffened, with

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

marry the man she loves after ruining my

the knife from

up, her eyes swollen beyond

If you marry her,

the table beside them, “So what do

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

you have no idea what I've been through these past few days, and

I've lost my first time; no one will wantnow. If this gets

will laugh at me.”

his hands on

mom knows about it in the Haskins

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

send

I

her cheeks flushed with rage, “I've changed my mind. I want her to

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