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I was freaking out inside, but stayed cool and asked, “How do you know?”
There was silence for a few seconds, then I faintly heard a woman’s flirty voice in the background.
Ryan coughed, sounding annoyed. “Doesn’t matter. Just bring the contract tomorrow.”
Then he hung up.
I didn’t hesitate–I shot the number from the taunting text over to my
hacker friend.
“Yasmin, help me find the IP and who owns this number.‘
She replied right away, “Got it.”
A few minutes later, the info came through.
As soon as I saw the name, my eyes went wide. All I could feel was hatred.
Wait–wasn’t Chloe locked up in prison?
After my parents died, I was so devastated that I passed out for days.
Ryan handled everything back then.
Could it be…
The second I saw the IP address, my heart sank.
No wonder Ryan always mumbled evasively whenever I asked which
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prison Chloe was in.
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He even just let me glimpse the verdict before making an excuse to leave.
It turned out he never sent that murderer to prison.
Instead, he kept her hidden like a kept woman.
And he kept her in the house we were going to live in after marriage.
The pain in my chest was crushing.
“Idiot, you’re so pathetic. Ryan’s just my lapdog. He loves me. Why would he ever let me go to prison? You know why you kept drawing the runaway slip at those 99 weddings? Because that’s the only thing that was in the box! Ryan never planned to marry you. Not once. He just used you to get revenge for me.
“Tessa, you’re so pitiful.”
Tears streamed down my face.
All I could feel was a storm of rage and the humiliation of being fooled.
My parents died without justice, and the murderer was still out there, living free.
It made me want to stab Chloe and Ryan to death myself.
After a while, I finally calmed down a little.
With shaking hands, I picked up my phone.
“Ryan, the engagement is cancelled.”
The weight that had trapped me all this time finally lifted.
“Heh, playing hard to get now?
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“Is it interesting?”
When I didn’t reply, Ryan got pissed.
He kept calling and texting nonstop.
After I blocked and deleted him, everything finally went quiet.
I clutched my parents‘ photo, hoping for some kind of comfort.
But all I felt was loneliness.
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I didn’t know how much time had passed, but suddenly, pain shot through my chest.
I woke up in a panic to see a shadowy figure leaning over me, groping around.
I screamed and shoved him with all my strength.
“What are you yelling for? I’m just giving you what you want,” he said slowly, his voice dripping with contempt.
He sat down on the couch, staring at me
My whole body was shaking as I turned on the light.
I saw that my clothes had disappeared.
All I had left was my underwear, barely hiding anything.
“Tessa, don’t throw tantrums like that next time. I hate that.
“You’re the one who pulled the runaway slip; you can’t blame anyone else.
“Come here. Get on your knees. If you make me feel good, I’ll forget you even sent that message.”
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Ryan leaned back on the couch and crooked a finger at me.
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