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.

delighted to receive his call, yet the word looked

her perfect husband. However, he did

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

the phone aside, she wrapped her arms tightly

The truth was cruel.

so cruel that she would rather never

that's for sure. Look at her. Do you think I'll treat her this well if it weren't for her blood? You could've found a woman who's

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

Stanley kept ringing in her

mercilessly torn apart

Batton... I'm nothing to you, eh? You're annoyed by me every single day, aren't you?... It must've

"Pfft."

she mumbled to herself, tears welled up in her eyes

this kind of agony before. That was when she witnessed Tom Sullivan cheating with Emily

her agony was multiplied by ten

***

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

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