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. What is

his gaze. He took ore standoffish tone

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did this happen? How did she die so suddenly?" She expressed immense surprise and disbelief outwardly, but a wave of

last obstacle that stood between her and Xavier was

yesterday. he died from excessive blood loss. Attempts to

wine. He gently swirled the contents

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

Daphne lamented

born into a life others couldn't 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 to balance the cosmic

echoed in Tristan's mind. For

to be

marriage between Xavier and Yvette was a business alliance. Even so, the fact remained that no one could have forced Xavier into doing something he didn't want to do. Daphne think Yvette deserved death just because

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that?

lack of response made the atmosphere

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

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