Reborn to my engagement night by Baxter Walters

Chapter 1 Poison

The prison was chillingly cold, filled with a strong stench of blood.

“Why…” Madelyn was painfully curled up on the ground, the oversized prison garb enveloping her and accentuating her frail, emaciated body.

A violent coughing fit racked her body, and blood gushed out of her mouth.

The pain was unbearable.

It felt as though ten thousand knives were churning in her stomach, causing such intense pain that her vision started to darken.

The poison was terrifyingly potent, even piercing her guts.

“Why… Why are you treating me like this?” Madelyn mustered all her strength to lift her head, her eyes filled with deep-seated hatred as she stared at the prisoner before her.

“Hehe, are you asking why I poisoned your food?” The prisoner laughed cruelly, looking down at the woman kneeling on the ground with a mix of disdain and pity. “Someone paid me to kill you. Your very existence stands in the way of her happiness!”

“Who?” Madelyn braced her stomach with her knee, struggling to maintain a shred of consciousness.

“Fine, since you’re already on the brink of death, I’ll tell you who it is so you can rest in peace. Aren’t you going to marry Mr. Lockhart? That’s why she doesn’t want you around! Once you’re gone, they can be together…”

The excruciating pain coursed through her body, engulfing her nerve endings in torment.

Despite the agony, a woman’s face flashed through her mind, albeit fleetingly.

It’s her! It’s Janessa, that despicable woman! I can’t believe she actually stooped so low!

eyes reflecting an overwhelming sense of

dearest friend, had meticulously plotted against her, causing her to be incarcerated. It was because of that woman,

used every trick in the book to make him despise her and push him

Madelyn realize she had been manipulated by Janessa. I’m such a fool. I ended up being imprisoned, and now, I’m even losing my life. But it’s too late for regrets…

out yet another

the room through tear-filled eyes. She could no longer feel the gut-wrenching pain. Only profound regret engulfed her, so intense that even

gently brushing his fingers over her eyes. The next second, her eyes, wide with anger and

then rose to his feet

that was left was the pungent smell

Madelyn from head to toe like a rising

Madelyn let out

submerged in an abyss of suffering, utterly overwhelmed. Before she could muster a response, a

man’s seductively deep voice, coupled with palpable pain, evoked a

domineering actions to

an eternity, Madelyn opened her eyes laboriously, only

boring furnishings were exactly the same as those in the hotel she spent the

her head to

harsh bite, the wound scabbing over with a dark

her mouth, muffling the uncontrollable sobs

It’s really

to the night she had become engaged to him and, ultimately, slept

deeply etched in her memory, not solely because it was the night she lost her virginity, but also because her family pressured her into marrying

not only a formidable figure in both sides of the law, but also a hot-tempered man with a tendency toward cruelty. She was terrified,

by Sebastian. In her desperation, she blurted out that she was in love with Christopher Gale and

vividly recalled how those very words had sparked Sebastian’s