He must have thought I had run away again, especially since I hadn’t stopped the sunflowers from being destroyed. The truth was, I couldn’t stop it.
He slammed his fist against the wall, his eyes wild with love and hate. “She won’t escape. Find her. Bring her back!”
He had specifically chosen this villa on the mountainside so I couldn’t run far.
Darcy, sensing the change in Felix, felt that something was wrong. She clung to him, acting sweet and innocent. “Babe, who are you looking for? Who is Ms. Hayward?”
Felix couldn’t be bothered to deal with her; after all, she was just my replacement. His eyes were icy as he walked toward the door, intent on finding me.
Darcy, sensing her opportunity slipping away, tried to catch Felix’s attention again. She pulled out a video of me being tortured, trying to get him to watch.
Sine pouted, feigning hurt. “You don’t even know how shameless she was. Look, I uploaded the video online, and everyone’s saying she deserved it!”
Felix wasn’t interested at first, but as he heard the familiar sound of my screams from the video, his gaze shifted. He watched, unable to look away.
The pain on my face was evident, even before the disfigurement. The beating, my hair being chopped off, my face disfigured, and my fingers broken- it was all there. Felix couldn’t bare to watch the whole thing as his body trembled and he froze.
Darcy, seeing him shaken, thought it was her victory and eagerly explained, “This woman had plastic surgery to look like me. She snuck into the villa to try to seduce you. She even tried to paint like me and made a mess of the walls! She knew you hated sunflowers, yet she put them everywhere in the yard. Even worse, she claimed to be your legal wife… Felix, I want to stay and be with you tonight. I want to be your only legal wife.”
In reality, Darcy had been planning this for a while, using the video of her ‘defeating‘ me to solidify her position and press Felix into marrying her.
But after hearing what she said, Felix looked blank and distant, lost in disbelief.
“What did you say? You ruined the flowers in the yard and the painting?” he asked slowly.
“And that woman… you said she looked like you and claimed to be my wife?”
Darcy, wrapping her arm around his, pretended to be sweet and angry at the same time, “Yeah. She even made me call you. But the number she gave me wasn’t even yours. I’m your girlfriend, how could I not recognize your number? What’s even worse is that the number probably belongs to one of her sugar daddies, and I couldn’t even get through. Isn’t that hilarious?”
Felix’s world crumbled. He couldn’t even bring himself to laugh.
The phone which number only I had access to was usually charged every night, but the charger had broken, and he had his assistant charge it for ten minutes during his meeting.
In that short window, Darcy had used my phone to make the call and failed to reach him.
Felix finally realized what had happened. Without a second thought, he rushed outside, shouting orders to stop the bodyguards.
Meanwhile, I had already been thrown into the river. The cold water flooded my chest, suffocating me. I felt helpless, and my heart ached with the bitter taste of
regret.
