Chapter 409

Rebecca leaned in and breathed in a sinister tone. “Did you really think he did not know about the child? If your child didn’t die in your mother’s hands, he would have been smothered by the prenatal vitamins that Jared gave you. The man closest to you is more frightening than you could ever imagine.”

My stomach churned. A metallic taste cumulated inside my mouth before I retched blood.

Rebecca’s eyes widened as her delight grew. “You’ve lost-utterly and completely.”

She stood up and loomed over me briefly before she made her exit.

When Ashton returned, I was in a daze as I stared at the pool of claret on the floor. The only sensation I felt was pain-in my chest and in the very fibers of my being.

“What happened here, Scarlett?” he said as he extended his hand to lend support.

Slap!

That backhand, rendered with every ounce of energy that was left inside of me, seemingly had no effect whatsoever on him.

The man’s slender frame stiffened as he tried to suppress his anger. “What’s going

on?”

him extremely revolting. “Get out

into his arms before he took me back inside

made

bed and stared vacuously at the pitch-black screen of the LCD

best if we went our

he tried to force down boiled over. “Do you know what

my puffy eyes and lifted my hands to soothe them. “It was a mistake right from the beginning. Right now,

over? Are you condemning me,

I looked at him. “I’m returning everything that belongs to the Fullers, including whatever shares in HiTech that Grandpa left me. Consider this my repayment

as he struggled to contain himself. “Your

Reason?

gone through and endured so much along the way, I had become dead

three years. I also know from when I stepped into the Fullers that Rebecca will always be special to you. I’ve already mentally prepared myself for the day that

nor was I able to make you. That is my failing, for which I have only myself to blame. However, it doesn’t justify you taking advantage of my foolish affections to hurt me and our baby for Rebecca’s

agape. “What did

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