No matter how hard she tried, it just wouldn't go down.

Kalilah instinctively grabbed her throat, trying to cough it up, but it wouldn't budge. Seconds ticked by. Her face turned a sickly shade of bluish-purple from the lack of air. She couldn't breathe at all. She writhed on the ground, her eyes bloodshot and red, as if her eyeballs might pop out any second. She rolled around, her gaze pleading as she looked at Connor. Kalilah wanted to scream for help, but no sound came

out.

Finally, she lay there like a beached fish, gasping for air.

Connor had timed it perfectly. He checked his watch, frowned, and squatted down with a look of disdain. He picked up a coconut and smacked it against her back. Whether it was the pain or something else, Kalilah, who had fainted from lack of oxygen, suddenly opened her eyes. The grape that had been stuck in her throat slid down with a gulp.

She sat up, taking deep breaths of fresh air. Her face, which had been a ghastly purple-black, slowly regained some color, though it still looked ashen. She had come close to dying.

the ground, Kalilah looked up at Connor standing before

hurt Chloe again, I'll make you wish you were dead,"

then that Kalilah had an

understood everything. It wasn't Diana whom Connor loved, but Chloe. She had never seen such an expression on Connor's face before. Such intense emotion, like a flood that couldn't be contained. This was something he had never shown to Diana. His feelings for Diana were more like a guardian's care for a younger relative. But when it came to Chloe, there was a different light in his eyes. A light that could make a reserved gentleman lose his composure. A light that turned a stoic man into

got

She saw the cold, sharp look in Connor's eyes, as if he was about to slit her throat in the next moment.

"Get lost!"

tumbling as

not far off and had witnessed the scene. Diana felt a heavy weight.in her chest.

deep down, she still clung to her self-delusion, "Uncle

"Have you ever seen someone

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