Her heart broke into million pieces every time she listened to that conversation.

"Nice one, Stanley Batton..." she mumbled. Tears rolled down her cheeks in such generous streams.

The man had bent over backward these days to keep her around as his blood supplier.

He was just pretending to be a good husband all this while. What a good actor he was.

If she had not received this audio clip today, she might have been fooled by him for the rest of her life.

Everyone else in the Batton family was as horrible as him.

She really wanted to ask them how it felt to put on such a wonderful show. Were they not tired of it?

Ridiculous. Everything was so ridiculous...

Buzz buzz buzz...

Xyla Quest's phone vibrated.

The noises of the vibrations interrupted her thoughts.

to receive his call, yet the word looked

with all her heart, appreciating him for being her perfect husband. However, he did not feel

up an act for her. She was just his blood supplier,

the incoming call and turned off her phone without hesitation. Throwing the phone aside, she wrapped

The truth was cruel.

she would rather never have heard

for sure. Look at her. Do you think I'll treat her this well if it

like mine. It can't be helped. Ugh, it's really annoying to face a woman I don't even love every

between Ron and Stanley kept ringing

feel that her heart was mercilessly torn

by me every single day, aren't you?... It must've been really

"Pfft."

mumbled to herself, tears welled up in her eyes

this kind of agony before. That was when she

difference was that her agony was multiplied by ten

***

the president's office of Dragon Group, Stanley was trying to call Xyla again after she declined

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