002 The Infamous Bastard

The coldness in Laura's eyes made Scarlett tremble. Scarlett felt like she had never really known the person she called sister.

"Why didn't you send me with them to Mexico?" Scarlett mumbled, tears blurring her sight, mixing with blood. "You would have gotten all of this two years ago."

"You don't think I tried?" Laura frowned with contempt.  Her eyes fell on Scarlett as if she was looking at something disgusting. "You would have died before you married Wyatt three years ago, if it wasn't for Everett Dunn."

Everett Dunn? Scarlett frowned in confusion. What did any of this have to do with that devil?

"It wasn't him who drugged you, it was me!" Laura burst into laughter.

Scarlett was so shocked she forgot to breathe.

Seeing the confusion on Scarlett's face, Laura laughed viciously: "I prepared three guys for you that night, all with AIDS! And you would have gotten it and out of our way much sooner if you didn't go into the wrong room at the hotel that night!"

"No...No!!!" A piercing cry burst out of Scarlett's ripped chest.

Desperation flashed through Scarlett's body, as did regret. So she had been hating the wrong person for the past three whole years?

What was all her suffering for?!

"Pity that you missed the look on his face when I showed him your abortion papers from the hospital," Wyatt laughed as if thinking some funny joke, but the vile tone was so horrifying it was as if he had just crawled out of hell. "He was devastated to know that you murdered his child when it was already 8 months old."

"It wasn't an abortion...!" Scarlett's lips trembled as the pain of losing the life that was growing inside her washed through her again.

It was the worst kind of pain she had ever tasted.

She lost the baby because she was pushed off the stairs. She hated Everett for getting her pregnant, but she couldn't hate the innocent life. She wanted to keep the baby.

"Well, he didn't need to know that," Wyatt waved his hand indifferently. "Even if he didn't hate you for killing the baby, you know you are on his enemy list when you took his legs. Did you know that he was in a coma for six months after the accident? I wouldn't have had time to gather enough power to stand against him if it wasn't for that! I doubt he would let you live long now that you are out of prison even if we didn't plan the accident today."

"YOU took his legs...!" Scarlett mumbled as hatred grabbed her chest, but her faint voice diminished her fury.

She was too weak. Life was leaving her body.

"But he didn't know." Wyatt flashed Scarlett the bright grin that she had loved him for. "Don't you love my plan? I drove the car over his legs, he's stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and you went to prison and gave way for me and my Emma. Isn't it beautiful?"

Scarlett wanted to throw up, looking at the face that she somehow once loved twisted by that horrifying cruel smirk.

It was a face that was too good with deception to tell its true color.

"Now that he's crippled, and your family wealth in my hands, you can die in peace knowing that you have kept your promise to me--" Wyatt bent over and looked into Scarlett's eyes, "to love me with all you have until death do us part--"

A sharp shrill of tires rubbing on pavement drowned out Wyatt's voice, making him jump around to look.

"What the hel--?" Wyatt cursed before he and Laura turned and ran in panic when he saw who was coming, "Run!"

They planned the accident on the mountain road under the luxury villa that Scarlett had bought Wyatt exactly so that no one else would pass by!

Out of the car that just pulled over jumped several men, and the driver ran in Scarlett's direction.

"Help..." Scarlett grabbed his sleeve, but she was stuck and he didn't dare move her.

"Boss! She's stuck and hurt severely!" The man turned and shouted.

Scarlett's eyes opened wide when she saw a wheelchair rolling over. On there was her one and only sworn enemy, the man that she hated all her life!

Everett Dunn.

"Scarlett Ryan!" Everett's rough voice crashed into her ears before his wheelchair could roll close, "Can you hear me?!"

He threw himself off his wheelchair and fell to her side, checking her pupils as he tried to get her attention: "The doctors are on their way, don't you dare leave me now!"

"I'm really sorry..." Scarlett murmured, with Everett's face losing focus as her pupils dilated, "...for your legs and for everything..."

"If you really are sorry then live, God damn it!" Everett shouted, pressing hard on the deep cut on her chest to stop the bleeding, his icy blue eyes glaring like a blue flame. "Don't you dare die on me! You can't die until I say so!"

"Boss! Gasoline!" Everett's driver suddenly shouted with his fingers pointing somewhere Scarlett couldn't see.

Everett's eyes darted over, and suddenly he calmed down.

"Go..." Scarlett realized what that meant -- the gasoline leaked, and could ignite at any second, "Go!"

"Leave us," Everett told his men with a steady tone, turning back into the stone-cold devil that Scarlett had known all her life.

This was the real Everett Dunn. The cold devil that no one dared cross. The business genius that even with the help of the richest family could Wyatt never beat.

The man that was born to rule.

The driver pulled Everett's wheelchair back to him, but Everett ignored it. He grabbed the steering wheel that was pressing on Scarlett's broken legs: "This is going to hurt, so consider it the first payment of your debt to me!"

"What--ahh!" Scarlett burst into a painful shout when Everett pulled with all his might and tore off the steering wheel, freeing Scarlett from the car.

"Take her and go!" Everett shouted at the driver who had rejected his order to leave, as he climbed back into his wheelchair.

Tears burst out of Scarlett as she mumbled: "Thank--"

But it was too late.

The car burst into flames with a vast roar like a wounded beast, and all three of them were swallowed by the monstrous fire.

Scarlett died in the fire, on the way to her beloved husband...in the hands of that exact husband and her "loving sister"...

With her one and only enemy by her side.