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.

a little unsettled. "Tris, you said you

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

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

last obstacle that stood

died from excessive blood loss. Attempts to resuscitate

a glass of red wine. He gently swirled the contents around a few times before downing it in

on Daphne's face through the

guess it's fate," Daphne lamented with a

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

word "retribution" echoed in Tristan's mind. For the first

someone to be born into a

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?

the atmosphere in the private

was only referring to Yvette when I said

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