She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

242 Love & Hatred

The love-and-hatred show is still on as Scar and Damian quarrel. Johnny Vanderbilt would raise his plate instantly after the host announces Anna's call or even faster, and Anna would pout, bite her lips, and glare over before she raises again. Her face is like a painting plate, changing color in seconds as if every one of his calls is like a bomb blowing up on her face.

The phone call comes in at that moment--

Anna's phone rings, breaking the silence in the room, loud and clear. She glances at it with an indifferent face, not picking it up. But her hand hesitates to raise her plate again.

"Who could be calling her?" Scar murmurs to Damian. All of Anna's family is down there by her side. Her parents died years ago. So who could be so important to her that a phone call from him could hesitate her decision?

Seeing all these, Johnny Vanderbilt suddenly raises his plate again, this time announcing himself: "Two billion."

Anna's tears break out as her hand drapes powerlessly -- it's not the price that defeated her, but his attitude.

She's not even responding to his price, and he added another billion with no other reason but to tell her: that she has no room to go up, but he has. The necklace does not belong to her.

"Why are you doing this to me?!" Anna suddenly burst out, her broken voice ringing in the quiet room, "You are here for me, aren't you?!"

in shock, demanding with a disbelieving voice:

is making herself a fool by doing this in public, and when this makes it to the front page, Ava would be a laughing stock in her career where reputation means everything. Everything Ava has worked for would be ruined, for Anna's caprious

standing up,

Fuller sighs. He raises his hand as if he wants to stop Ava, but in the end, he just remains seated, watching with a dead desperation

on the one-sided conversation with Johnny Vanderbilt, "I just want a

The host announces, "Two

Damian nudges Scar and she quickly grabs the chance

host announces, pointing his hammer in Scar's direction with a pleasantly surprised look, saved from the

darts a confused

she sees Scar behind the window. She. stares at Scar, the confusion in her eyes replaced by shock before fiery hatred that Scar has never seen in her eyes. Her lips trembling as if seeing a ghost, and her body stiff as if

back with an indifferent look. She doesn't know, but at that moment, she looks exactly like her father, and that similarity puts a horrified took on Anna's face. She looks at the woman she once gave up her freedom for, scared of how she never noticed the deep hidden

was, but was acatually in love with him. She loved Johnny Vanderbilt, had a fall out with him and hated him for some reason, and she kept Scar when Emma died, and tormented Scar for years. A chill runs down Scar's spine. She couldn't even start to imagine it was with what

their engagement, and that pissed off Johnny Vanderbilt? Is that why he married Emma instead? Is

her angry

both his hands, "I-- I don't believe that! I won't! Mom and Dad were the happiest couple in the world! I won't believe a