Her face was obscured by a pair of shades, so I was not able to tell who she was right off the bat.

It was when she removed them that I recognized her as Rebecca.

Rebecca must have gotten used to the attention; her getup was more over the top than the last time I saw her.

The woman gnashed and ground her teeth as she stabbed a finger at my nose. “Scarlett Stovall, you slut. How the hell did you manage to still stand there in one piece?”

She did not seem inclined to veil her blood-lust toward me in the least.

I must be an idiot if I still couldn’t figure out why.

The thought of the moment when our lives hung by a thread had my fingers tighten into a fist. “Were you the one who tampered with Marcus’ car?”

“That’s right.” Rebecca raised her voice to shift the blame onto me. “So what if I did? Anyone who tries to protect you deserves to die!”

Before I could react, she lunged at me and caught me by the jaw, forcing me to look directly into her eyes. “How is it that you can manage to dodge a bullet every single time? But know that this is just the beginning. Next time, I’ll have you know what real horror is!”

had on me

gritted my teeth and shook her off. “Does a human life

as though she had just heard the biggest joke ever. “Human life? Isn’t mine worth nothing to all of you? I’ll never forget how I’ve been left to die inside of that freezing cell, so don’t you dare die on

on the ground

distance, I finally understood why Emery had called this woman a raving lunatic who couldn’t be reasoned

breath before I pulled out my

…..

I was guilt-ridden and subconsciously avoided making eye

when they took his statement. He was an honest-to-goodness businessman. Genial

the cause of the accident that day; I had unwittingly

his side, Marcus finally sensed that something was off. “You

else I could do except come clean.

almost jokingly. “It looks like that person really wants you

does appear to seem

me for a long time and knew that Marcus and I were quite inseparable. That was

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