“You’re too kind for your own good. You need to take care of yourself too,” he murmured. He gently adjusted her coat and brushed a strand of hair from her face.
The way he doted on her made me look like the heartless villain in contrast.
Sasha sniffled. “But what about the kids? Caroline was alone outside their room. Who knows what she did to them? How else would their condition suddenly become critical?”
+15 BONUS
She began crying again, and Emery immediately tried to console her. His gaze darkened as he turned back to me.
He growled, “If anything happens to my kids today, Caroline, I swear I’ll make you pay with your life!”
I could not help it–I burst out laughing. The sheer absurdity of his threats had crossed into dark comedy.
“Oh? So you’re going to avenge your children yourself?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Of course!” Emery took a step toward me.
“No matter who’s behind this, right?” I pressed.
“Damn right! They’re my kids!” he snapped.
I glanced at Sasha and noticed how her face paled and her lips tightened. The unease in her eyes was impossible to miss.
I replied, “Good. Then let’s get a divorce.”
I pulled out the divorce papers I had prepared long ago. I held them up with a faint smile. “Since you already think I’m a murderer, let’s end this charade.”
“No!” Emery lunged forward and snatched the papers out of my hand. He ripped them into shreds and let the pieces scatter to the floor.
He sneered. “I’m not divorcing you! I’d rather kill you and call it ‘domestic violence‘ than give you an easy way out. If we divorce, things get messy for me. I’m not stupid.”
In my previous life, Emery had killed me because I had gotten in the way of his plans with Sasha. It was only now that I fully realized how rotten he was to the core.
“Wow, they really are a perfect couple. Both of them are awful,” someone muttered in the crowd.
Another said, “Yeah, but honestly, that woman probably deserves a good smack. The guy’s not wrong.”
“Either way, it’s the kids who suffer,” someone else added with a sigh.
The bystanders kept whispering and gossiping, fueling the chaos in the hallway. Just when I thought things could not get worse, a voice cut through the noise and silenced everyone.
