Chapter 7

Fortunately, he came back at just the right moment.

The two had just laid entwined in the bed. I had already covered Emma's eyes, afraid they might traumatize her.

"You dare betray me?" Jack, already devastated, was thunderstruck.

"We're not in any kind of relationship, so how is this betrayal?" Vicky retorted brazenly. "Do I need your permission to date?"

"I fixed your face, I invested in your movie, how dare you—"

The woman straightened up. "That was all your choice. I never begged you. Besides, you're broke now. You can't fund another movie for me. But Director Ares can make a dozen more!"

She no longer needed Jack and was ready to kick him to the curb.

Jack stared at Vicky's porcelain-like face, enraged.

This was the face he had sacrificed his daughter and Lisa for!

"Give me Lisa back, give me Emma back!" he shouted.

"You're the one who owes them, not me!" Vicky shrieked.

The three of them argued back and forth, giving me a headache.

Finally, when Jack picked up a knife