Chapter 16

This had to be a coincidence! It had to be!

If Yvette was the one who had saved Tristan, why had she never mentioned anything about it to him? And if it really was her, then what had he done to her over the years?

Tristan put Yvette's medical reports away and returned to his office. He sat there for th hole night.

Early the next morning, he called Daphne. "Let's meet, Daph. There's something I need to tell you."

Daphne arrived in the private room of a restaurant, looking exquisitely dressed. A waiter came over and took her coat. Tristan's gaze fell on her smooth, scar-free a

arms.

Four years ago, he had been in a car accident. He had been trapped inside the car, unconscious, and covered in blood.

Disregarding the danger, a girl had selflessly reached through the broken glass window to open the car door by force.

She had gotten a deep cut on her arm from the shards of glass. Jose had said that the wound would have definitely required stitches. 2

Hence, it was impossible for the scar not to be noticeable even after it had completely healed.

gaze made Daphne feel a little unsettled. "Tris, you said you had something to tell me.

reality, Tristan retracted his gaze. He took ore standoffish tone as he said, "Yvette

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die so suddenly?" She expressed immense surprise and disbelief outwardly, but a wave of unprecedented relief surged

that stood between

yesterday. he died from excessive blood loss. Attempts to resuscitate

swirled the contents around a few

joy on Daphne's face through the glass. The subtle expression vanished the

Daphne lamented with a

dream of living in a lifetime. She then forced her way into marrying Xav with her family's power. Her death must be some kind of retribution

"retribution" echoed in Tristan's mind. For the first time, he found Daphne's words

for someone to be born into

Yvette was a business alliance. Even so, the fact remained that no one could have forced Xavier into doing

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that?

lack of response made the atmosphere

then that Daphne realized she had misspoken and hurriedly corrected herself. "Tris, you know that I was only referring to Yvette when I

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