Chapter 534 The Pendant and the Fall

“John, you can’t push all the blame onto me!”

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Elsa knew she couldn’t afford to provoke him now. If she pushed him too far, he would really force her to repay everything.

But her bitterness and hatred burned too deep. She couldn’t control herself, and through clenched teeth she said, “When I came back, was it me who forced you to care for me, to marry me?”

“You knew Lily loved you, that she stayed by your side through the hardest years, yet you still chose to be with me.”

“Lily broke up with you not because of my schemes, but because you couldn’t give her enough security. You were the one who was fickle, the one with a divided heart!”

“Why should I bear all the blame for your mistakes?”

Her words stabbed John straight through the chest. His tall, straight figure seemed to buckle under the weight of the pain.

How could he not see it? Elsa deserved damnation, yes–but so did he.

Step by step, he had driven away the woman he loved most.

And it was that truth, that self–inflicted wound, that filled him with an even deeper, unforgiving regret.

“Elsa, three days. Pay me back–or face the consequences.”

He didn’t waste another breath on her. Leaving the words like shards of ice, he clutched his chest and walked away without once looking back.

He still demanded repayment.

How cruel he was to her–utterly merciless.

“Elsa.”

froze her where she sat

Simon.

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shook harder, her heart

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he hadn’t called her “Lizzy,” with that tender warmth of

still. “That pendant… did I really give it to you? Or did you take it from someone else—maybe

what are

collapsed in filth and humiliation, her world spun black at his question. Dizzy,

truth was unbearable: that pendant

it. She never liked to think of herself as

her of theft–it crushed what little pride she

But now hatred and injustice overwhelmed her, and tears spilled freely

think I’m a

rubble. I was the one who encouraged you, who

me like this?”

I’ve made mistakes. I

does that mean I deserve

as a disgusting thief, if even you don’t want me anymore, then what’s the point of

might as well

felt like he was

the pendant he had given Lizzy. She knew details about those two desperate days when they clung to each other for survival, details only Lizzy should know.

gnawing unease, he couldn’t shake the sense that Lily was the

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