Chapter 5
In Veronica’s private villa, Ruben was waiting nervously for her fever to go down.
However, out of nowhere, he felt like something important had just slipped away from him.
For some reason, he thought of that woman.
Elise Raimond.
She would never sleep as soundly as Veronica–she was always easily startled awake.
However, ever since being Purchase completeder had trouble sleeping again.
Was it just because her presence calmed him down, or…
Thinking about this, he looked at Veronica and saw her slowly open her eyes.
“Ruben, I’m so glad you’re here with me.
“I don’t want to marry anyone else, but my family keeps pushing me. You know how I feel about you…
However, he just looked at her calmly, then stood up and said, “You’re better now. Get some more rest.”
Veronica suddenly grabbed his hand and pressed it to her chest. “Ruben, I really feel like Elise did something behind my back that
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made me sick this time.”
Ruben did not care. “You’re overthinking it. She doesn’t have the power to do that. She barely even leaves the house, so how could she hurt anyone?”
Veronica did not expect him to defend me like that, and her face fell.
When Ruben got home, he found only rubble.
His assistant stood there, too scared to breathe. His voice was even shaking a bit.
“Mr. Errard, the attic suddenly blew up for some reason…..
……….
“Ms. Elise Raimond…” Ruben froze, his ears buzzing, not wanting to
believe it.
After a long time, Ruben finally found his voice and said in a hoarse tone, “What are you saying? Did Elise plan this with you to fool me?”
The assistant shook his head, eyes red. “Mr. Errard, you’ll see for yourself. We found Ms. Raimond’s body.”
It was just a pile of remains, blown apart by the explosion.
One can imagine how much inhuman pain she went through when she was alive.
Ruben closed his eyes, not wanting to believe what he was seeing.
It felt like someone ripped a hole in his chest, and he was unable to stop the blood pouring out.
Did Elise just die like that?
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Ruben’s eyes turned dark as he ordered the staff in front of him, “What exactly caused the explosion? Find out and don’t sleep until you do!”
Everyone quickly scattered as nobody dared to upset Ruben right now.
He reached out to wipe the dirt off the corpse’s face but realized that the gentle, stubborn face in his memory was now just a bloody mess.
He could not even tell who it was anymore.
Ruben froze for a second, then suddenly and desperately gathered the broken flesh and body parts into his arms.
Then, he laughed deeply like he had lost his mind.
“Did you think you could stay away from me by doing this?
“From the moment you stepped through this door, you were mine!
“You can’t run–not alive, not dead!”
Ruben carefully packed up what was left of her body but could not bear to bury it. Instead, he placed it in a golden coffin worth a fortune.
He even hired the most famous priest in Los Angeles to light a thousand candles for me.
He still refused to believe I was really gone until his assistant told him, “Mr. Errard, we found proof that Ms. Raimond bought the homemade explosives from the black market herself.
“She gave up on living three months ago!”
Ruben was stunned. He was in disbelief and muttered to himself, “How
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could that timid woman have the guts to kill herself?
“Is it because she hated that I didn’t treat her as well as Veronica? So stubborn!
“She gave up her own life just to spite me!”
He sat at the table until it was dark before he finally snapped out of it.
He wanted to find me himself.
