Chapter Fourteen

Amber’s POV.

“Stop the car for a while, Richard,” I requested, not confident that I could respond the way I wanted to if the car was in motion.

Thankfully, he didn’t seem to have a problem with my request, as he quickly drove into a corner and parked the car.

“Do you have an answer?” he asked.

“Look at me.” I demanded, and he obeyed.

“Good,” I muttered. “Now listen, Richard, all my life, I have always been seen as the gullible and easy–to–please one because of how much I accepted and looked away from a lot of bullshit. I have been

disrespected, cheated on, abandoned, and humiliated by the people I loved and thought loved me as well. I am barely hanging on right now, and if I wasn’t such a weakling. I probably would have ended

myself by now. That’s how distraught and destroyed I feel.”

“But then you showed up and offered to help me. You offered to give me a last name that would put me

in a position to get back at everyone who made a fool of me and turned me into this person that I detest so much. So think about it, Richard. How ready do you think I am to get my revenge? If you

think my revenge ends with marrying you and climbing up the social ladder, well, you’re wrong, sir.”

“I want blood. I want to break Kayden and make him fall to my feet, helpless and at his worst. I want

Marlene to suffer humiliation, rejection, and pure agony to the point where I won’t mind her killing

herself. As for my family, I want them to lose everything they have and be sent into extreme poverty

and dejection. So to answer your question, there’s nothing I want more than to see those people ruined

and I’ll make sure I ruin them myself. And just so you know, you’re nothing but a stepping stone to

me,” I said, making myself as clear as possible.

while answering his question was how much

thought of myself as somebody who could

blinded by revenge.

Amber. If I’m your stepping stone, so be it. I’ll be your stepping stone and you’ll be my weapon. I’ll use you to take down Kayden, and I want you to know that once you start

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I play, there’s no backing out.

I

over you. No more tears, no more doubt, and most importantly, don’t care

might or might not say. Do you understand?” he instructed, the

tone mirroring mine..

making a promise to myself that I would

Marlene

said, before starting the car again and driving out of

with

it wasn’t until my thoughts were settled that it dawned on me that I

where he lived or what his house looked like, but it made me nervous to think that

first time, and when I realized that I was dressed like a

I immediately felt

me with him, I’d most likely give off the impression that I was

I also couldn’t be classified as being rich either. I had gullibly signed a prenup when I married Kayden, so after our divorce, he was heartless enough to leave me

I was lost in my thoughts, I didn’t realize when we arrived in front of a huge–looking house that had put my old house with Kayden to shame.

gates, and I

well

drove in fully, Richard parked halfway before turning to

a good picture,” he

I looked up

only briefly, so I didn’t make it obvious that it was my first time seeing such a house. I already looked out of place with the way I was dressed, and I didn’t think it was right to match my very

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