Chapter 346

I felt pressure crushing my chest, so much so that I struggled to breathe. It was as if a hook had gripped my heart and yanked it out of my body.

The thing I feared most about, the one thing that had been hanging heavy on my mind, had finally arrived.

I finally understood the words he had mouthed at me that morning in his house. He was saying, "If I save you, your life will be mine."

He had sharpened and polished those words until they became silver blades that could slice through me.

Everything had been part of his plan. He had just been waiting for an opportunity.

The rain, the downpour that blurred my vision, the vehicle that sped through, Colin falling sick and resting in his apartment… Everything played out according to the plan he had devised.

The puzzle pieces came together.

Colin, his family, me, and even himself were pawns in his scheme. Felix plotted everything to bind me to his side, even at the cost of his own life.

He put his life on the line to separate Colin and