Chapter 14
During this time, Marcus had been busy looking for Emma, completely forgetting about Claire.
He had walked this road countless times, on countless nights when Emma had not yet left him, he would go to find Claire after Emma fell asleep.
There was just never a time when it hurt as much as it does now.
If he had known the consequences, he would never have done anything to hurt Emma.
Thinking about these things now can’t change the fact that Emma has already left. All he can do is to seek revenge for Emma.
Half an hour later, Marcus arrived outside the villa. The lights inside the villa were still on. Marcus rang the doorbell, and soon the maid opened
the door.
“Mr. Donovan and Ms. Garrison were taking a shower at the moment.”
Before the nanny finished speaking, Marcus strode in.
When I reached the corner of the stairs on the second floor, I heard at noise and Claire came out wrapped in a towel.
When Marcus arrived, Claire’s eyes lit up with joy. She intentionally loosened the towel wrapped around her body, causing it to slide down, partially covering her in a hint of spring.
“Marcus, why did you come so late?”
Claire directly reached out and grabbed Marcus’s hand, her fingers
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continuously tracing circles in his palm.
Marcus looked down at their intertwined hands and remembered the countless times he had resisted the temptation to have a relationship with Claire, wishing he could just tear her apart on the spot.
As Kate said, Claire’s lowly means of seduction couldn’t fool Marcus‘ eyes
at all.
But the increasingly dull relationship between him and Emma made him want to seek some excitement.
So, under Claire’s seduction, Marcus pretended to hesitate and had a relationship with Claire.
The first time, he still felt guilty and didn’t know how to face Emma.
Emma trusted him too much, time and time again, until she was completely betrayed.
Marcus’s gaze suddenly turned cold, he had no intention of flirting with Claire, and he looked at her with icy eyes.
“Claire, I warned you not to expose our relationship in front of Emma!”
Claire’s happy expression froze on her face in an instant, and the fear in her eyes was exposed to Marcus, looking particularly ridiculous.
In the midst of the scorching summer season, Claire felt a shiver run down her spine.
Marcus has experienced firsthand twice the kind of madness that Claire went through in order for Emma to have it, and she does not want to go through it a third time.
Claire tried to look innocent and harmless, she couldn’t let Marcus know that she had sent those messages to Emma. Luckily, she had already
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deleted the chat history.
Claire struggled to steady her trembling body and spoke calmly.
“Marcus, what are you talking about? I never contacted Emma, whatever happened between us… she must have heard it from someone else.”
Marcus grabbed Claire’s wrist and snatched her phone away.
Open WhatsApp and don’t say those provocative words that he has already seen. Claire doesn’t even have Emma as a friend in her contacts.
Claire calmly took back her phone, but her voice couldn’t help but tremble as she spoke.
“You see, I already said it, how could I possibly…”
Marcus sneered and interrupted Claire’s explanation, grabbing her wrist and lifting her up.
“Claire, do you think I will believe you just by explaining a few words casually?”
“If there was no evidence, how could I possibly come to you at this time!”
Marcus threw the chat records that Emma forwarded to him in front of
Claire.
Claire’s face turned pale in an instant.
Her whole body was only able to touch the ground with the tips of her toes, with the stairs behind her. If Marcus let go, she would roll down.
Tears instantly welled up in her eyes as Claire choked out a plea for mercy.
“Marcus, you had me stand up first, I was still carrying your child…”
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“I didn’t mean to say those words, I was just jealous of Emma. I don’t want to see you marry someone else, but it’s all because I love you too much, Marcus. Can you forgive me this time?”
Claire tightly grasped Marcus’s wrist with the hand that wasn’t caught, fearing that Marcus would let go without a care in the world.
Marcus remained impassive, staring at Claire’s desperate pleas as if he were looking at a dead person.
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“Why can’t you just enjoy what you have? But you had to be so greedy, wanting to push Emma out and take her place. Well, you are destined to get nothing!”
In Claire’s shocked gaze, Marcus lifted his other hand and covered Claire’s tightly gripping hand, prying open her fingers one by one.
“Emma is gone, so why should I bear your child again.
Claire was so scared that her lips were trembling, and the nanny who had just opened the door was already terrified.
Claire noticed her and quickly shouted, “Quick, call Madam Donovan!”
“Marcus, the child I am carrying was confirmed by your own parents, you cannot treat me like this!”
Claire’s threat had no effect, her fingers pried open one by one.
were
Marcus pushed her hard, watching coldly as Claire tumbled down the
stairs.
Claire felt that the half minute of rolling down the stairs was particularly long, even though she tried to protect her stomach with her hands. By the time her body finally stopped rolling, the stairs and her body were already covered in blood.
Unlike the simple pain and bleeding on the day of the wedding, this time, the feeling of two lives passing away in her body made Claire collapse on the spot.
She screamed loudly, her whole body like a madwoman constantly muttering about the child.
Claire looked up and saw Marcus standing calmly above the stairs, noticing that there was no trace of pity in his eyes.
In a fleeting moment of sanity, Claire was consumed by hatred.
“Marcus, you were just a coward!”
“Emma disappeared, and you just shifted all the blame onto me, but what did I do wrong! Before I sent those messages to her, she already knew about your affair!”
“In the end, it’s because you couldn’t control your lower body. Saying that you love Emma more than your own life is just a joke. No wonder she even wanted to replace me as the bride when she left. She did it just to get back at you!”
“But you killed our child with your own hands, Marcus, you will get nothing…”
