“AARRGGHHH!”The skin-tearing agony made Igor scream in pain. The area around his lips bled.Charlotte felt apprehensive at his pathetic sight. However, her heart turned cold when she remembered everything he had done.“I knew we’d meet again, but I didn’t think that we’d see each other so soon.” Igor lifted his face and looked at her. “Miss Simmons, I’ve told you, I’m nothing more than someone else’s chess piece. I can’t help you.”“Oh, really?” Charlotte smirked.“During your conspiracy with Lorraine, why didn’t you tell Zachary that you’re ‘nothing more than someone else’s chess piece’ when you trampled all over my innocence in front of him? My reputation is beyond repair, thanks to you. You really are a chess piece. You can’t help me at all.”The man found himself unable to reply.Charlotte lowered her gaze and observed the man. Even though this was only her third meeting with the man, he was still a stranger to her.This man may resemble Bryson in some ways, but his looks
Igor released a heart-wrenching scream and stared at Charlotte in disbelief.He never imagined that this pure, fresh, clean, and seemingly harmless girl would actually have such a cold heart. She had shot four bullets into his arms and legs without blinking an eye.“Just a lesson for you. Remember, these four bullets are just the beginning of your suffering.”She knew that there was no use in threatening Igor, so she threw the gun back at Bryson once she said this, turned around, and left. Bryson was shocked as he stared at her cold, arrogant face.“How would you like me to deal with him?”“Just don’t kill him.”Charlotte walked out of the garage, lifted her gaze, and stared up at the cloudy sky. Her fair face was a mixture of sadness and iciness. “I’m going to make him watch as I clear my name. I want him alive so that he’ll be ready for Zachary’s punishment.”Igor let out a soft groan, weak due to his immense loss of blood as if he had received a head-on blow. He foamed at t
Bryson was even more sure of it than ever when he saw her walk away in a hurry.He knew her very well.Knowing her stubborn, unyielding personality, she would have automatically left Zachary upon discovering that he and Lorraine had broken up over a misunderstanding and had a kid together. She would have allowed them to be together.However, she refused to leave him.Even now, after enduring such a huge disaster with him, she still refused to give up.All of this was because of love!‘Charlotte Simmons! She had once loved me as much as this too. No matter how much of a failure I was during the initial stages of my career, she refused to leave me. If only I had appreciated the love she had for me, Zachary would never have had the chance to enter her heart. It was me, I handed her over to another man.’Her heart had left him now, and he was left far behind.Charlotte had just left the gates of Platinum Coast when the phone in her pocket buzzed.Charlotte broke into a cold sweat
As expected, Zachry’s voice grew even grimmer. “Are you humiliating me?”“What? No!” Charlotte hastily replied, her voice gurgled off in an incoherent manner, “I… I just used to talk to you like this. I’m not… Really… And I wouldn’t dare humiliate you as well.”Zachary remained silent. The darkness in his eyes was so deep it was as if it could devour everything in the world. “So are you saying that it’s not humiliating for me that my wife is pregnant with another man’s child?”Charlotte was tongue-tied.“So, what’s it that you want?” Zachary pressed on, his voice frigid, causing Charlotte to freeze.She took a few deep breaths inwardly, and then she said, “Actually… I know I’ve told you before that I hope you can stay calm and don’t do anything to my dad for the time being, but I still feel worried about it. This is because when Zenios interceded with you for me, you’re angry, so—”“Hah!” Zachary scoffed mirthlessly, cutting her short. “So, this is the reason you called me?”C
“The wedding photo of you and Mrs… No! The wedding photo of you and that woman is here. Do you want to take a look at it?”Initially, Zachary wanted to say no. However, the moment he opened his thin lips, something came into his mind, and he fell silent. Then, he closed his mouth, turned around, and walked out of the study.The maids had already arranged more than 30 exquisitely framed wedding photos in the hall. Additionally, there were a few of them holding ten or so wedding photo books.These wedding photos had been taken after he learned of Charlotte’s pregnancy.He believed that Charlotte would be his wife, and he had decided to spend the rest of his life together with her. Initially, he planned to set a good date to marry her in the third-floor hall that he had carefully decorated after their wedding photos were done.Zachary looked with rapt attention at the largest wedding photo.Charlotte was dressed in a white wedding gown in the photo. She was leaning on his chest, and
There was only a suitcase in the box.Inside the suitcase were Charlotte’s belongings such as her clothes, bag, comb, and undergarments…Coraline stared at those things with her mouth agape as she asked, “Carlie, what does Zachary mean by sending you these?”Charlotte gave her friend a forced smile and replied, “Roughly two months ago, on the night of Lorraine’s birthday, he stayed at her place for a night. I thought he had cheated on me, so I packed my things up to leave him, and this is the suitcase that I used. The fact that he sent me my personal belongings in this suitcase means he’s driving me out of his house.”Tears flowed out of her eyes and streamed down her face as she was talking.She had signed a prenuptial agreement with Zachary, so he could drive her out of his house whenever he wanted. In the past, she always thought that Zachary would fulfill that prenuptial agreement in order to be with Lorraine.However, no matter what Lorraine had done to win him back, he ha
“Can’t you see it? Zachary’s so angry with me that he refuses to eat anything. He hates me to the bone, and it’s like adding fuel to the fire if I go see him right now. He might even strangle me to death!”“If Second Master really wanted to strangle you to death, he would’ve done it in the hospital that day!” Lucas said. He did not know whether he should cry or laugh right now. Charlotte was dumbfounded.‘If Zachary wants to strangle me to death?’ She didn’t know what made Lucas say so.‘Does he hate me so much to the point that he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about?’Seeing that Charlotte still could not make up her mind, Lucas let out a sigh and said, “Don’t worry. I took it upon myself to ask you to see Second Master this time, so I promise that I will do my best to protect you. If Second Master really wants to strangle you, I’ll go up and replace you to be strangled by him, okay?”Charlotte felt that it was too embarrassing for her to see Zachary since she had not fig
Zachary stared fixedly at her with his pair of deep brown eyes, causing her to feel even more nervous and anxious than a freshly minted star on camera for the first time.She stopped nearly six feet from Zachary, but she had forgotten what she should say.Lucas, who was outside the door, reminded her, “You can speak now.” It was only then Charlotte came around to her senses. She lifted her head to look at Zachary, but then she quickly lowered her head again. “About that… Luke said you hadn’t eaten anything yet because of that incident, so I’m here to comfort you.”“...” Lucas rubbed his dazzling gold bird nest-like hair in despair.‘You’re here to comfort Second Master? Is Second Master a child?’As Lucas expected, Zachary said in a grave voice, “Do you think I’m a three-year-old kid?”“Nope! Definitely not!”Charlotte took a step back in fright as she looked warily at Zachary. “Actually, I was going to say that I came over here to see what I can do, but… But I always get nerv