“Everything I did was a joke to you! An utter joke!” Zachary’s voice had lost its usual charm. Instead, it had turned hoarse with dejection.

He sounded both sad and spiteful.

Charlotte refused to allow her heart to soften. “We could never go back to the way things used to be. It’s far too late.”

“Look at me, Charlotte.” Zachary desperately clung to his hopes for a reunion. He cupped her cheeks and forced her to meet his gaze. “Tell me you were forced and sabotaged. As long as you didn’t agree to any of this, I’ll forgive you!”

At that moment, Zachary had sunk to the lowest point of his life.

He had never begged so pitifully for a woman before, to the point of tossing aside all his pride. Nonetheless, it was a worthwhile sacrifice if he could regain her trust and love.

eyes welled with tears as she

had never seen him in such anguish, and she could not help but

that she had not voluntarily agreed to this marriage,

impatiently. He needed to hear the words

anything

Charlotte was about to say something when Zachary stiffened at the sight of the bruises along her

came crashing down the moment he saw the hickeys

followed his gaze and froze, realizing that she had no way of explaining herself

this to me? Why would you?”

punched a fist forward, causing Charlotte to close her

her and landed in an antique

vase instantly shattered into pieces, some of which landed on Charlotte’s face and body. One of the pieces slashed her cheek,

bloody fist was full

rush to Charlotte’s aid but to no avail as Marino

doing?” Louis finally lost his composure and

actions, having never expected the typically gentle Louis to point a gun

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