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I turned and walked upstairs.
Harrison tried to follow, but Lorelei grabbed his arm, whining.
He looked back at Lorelei, her earlier words replaying
in his mind.
In a fit of pure frustration, he slapped her hard across
the face.
“Out of respect for my parents, I have tolerated you to my absolute limit. Why must you insist on provoking Evelyn?”
Lorelei, who had never been hit by Harrison before,
burst into tears.
“Harrison Prescott, you bastard! I’m your wife now! Evelyn is nothing but a shameful mistress!”
Harrison’s expression remained glacial as he replied, “That’s enough. For the sake of the child, I won’t humiliate you further. Now, get out!”
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As soon as she was gone, Harrison hurried upstairs, but I had already locked the door.
He tried a gentle tone. “Evelyn, open the door. Let’s talk, okay?”
I replied coldly, “I’m tired, Harrison. I don’t want to
talk.”
Thinking I hadn’t completely shut him out, Harrison seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
He left in a hurry.
After he was gone, I contacted Lachlan.
That night, I deliberately set off the apartment’s fire alarm.
In the ensuing chaos, I escaped in Lachlan’s waiting
car.
As he drove, he said calmly, “I’ve arranged everything. A lookalike will stage a suicide, a jump into the Hudson out of ‘despair.‘ By morning, Harrison will believe
you’re dead.”
A genuine smile graced my face for the first time in what felt like a lifetime.
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It was finally over.
Lachlan frowned. “You don’t have to fake your death. I told you, I can protect you.”
I shook my head and smiled. “No. Only my ‘death‘ will make them truly begin to torture each other.”
After a pause, a cold smile touched my lips. “Besides, if I just left, how could I ever get justice for what he put me through in my last life?”
Lachlan slammed on the brakes and stared at me in
shock.
His reaction was so unnervingly calm that a sudden
realization hit me. He knew.
He was reborn, too.
I asked patiently, “Tell me, Lachlan. In our past life, how did you die?”
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