Chapter 9 An eye for an eye

Jennifer had planned that in three months, she would be gone from this world, and by the time Brian wanted to enforce their deal, there would only be a handful of ashes.

Now that he had shortened the time to three days, she had some difficulty accepting it. She was about to say something else when Brian suddenly let go of her.

Jennifer, who finally had a chance to catch her breath, swallowed the words that were coming out of her mouth. She had managed to avert the night’s disaster, anyway.

“Baby.” Brian bent down and planted a fierce kiss on her cheek. “I’ll be back to pick you up in three days.”

Jennifer covered the cheek he had kissed. The only thing she felt for him was intense disgust. In front of him, however, she held back and pretended to be a good girl, nodding her head.

Seeing that she was so obedient, Brian let go of her and walked toward the door, and just as he reached it, he suddenly paused again.

“Right.” He turned, and looked at Jennifer meaningfully, “Honey, your best friend’s name is Carley, right?”

Jennifer’s face, which had been forced to be calm, suddenly

sank.

That Brian actually knew Carley meant he had already done a background check on her.

feeling of being checked out made Jennifer uncomfortable.

a cold face, “What’s

to be good and wait for me at home. Don’t make yourself scarce.”

to run away, he would go after Carley. An overwhelming sense of powerlessness

said with an expressionless face, “Leave her alone. I’ll

gave her a flying kiss, “My

slammed the door shut, locked it, and

the bath ball, and

scrubbed until her skin was red,

washed desperately until the nausea slowly dissipated and

not escape, and if she could not quickly think of a

of this and got up in a hurry. She wrapped herself in a bath towel, went back to the bedroom,

him. It wasn’t like she was going to be around

Carley was different; she was about to get married.

let her impulse drag

time. In the end, she flipped through the address

name on it, her heart couldn’t help but start to thump.

he answer when she

he got tired of playing with his things, he would never look back. If she called to beg him, he might mistake it for her pestering him.

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