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Inside the study, Alexander’s slender fingers tapped several times. [Video Footage] instantly flooded the entire screen.
Blood.
Blinding red.
The screen showed scenes exaggerated like a cheap horror flick.
But Alexander knew it was all real.
Happening to her.
His hand resting on the desk edge suddenly clenched.
Bulging veins snaked across his knuckles.
Fingertips turned ghostly white from the force.
Andrew stood several steps behind him, head bowed but eyes glued to Alexander’s rigid back.
The air froze.
Only faint sounds from the screen and the man’s increasingly ragged breaths pierced the silence.
Alexander’s gaze remained locked on the feed.
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He saw it.
That revolting lizard, slithering stickily across the floor, crawling onto her body, inching forward.
Her frame trembled slightly. She shut her eyes.
Nothing more.
An invisible fist seized Alexander’s heart, twisting viciously.
Pain.
Relentless, stabbing pain.
The scene shifted.
The deranged man pressed a dagger to her cheek, then slid it down to her chest.
One button.
Flicked open.
A second.
Popped free.
Slow, mocking movements dripping with humiliation.
Alexander’s blood seemed to reverse course, ley, destructive fury rocketed from his soles to his skull.
On screen, a patch of her snow–white skin lay exposed.
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Yet her face remained blank–no shame, no tears.
Those empty eyes stared into nothingness, as if her soul had long fled.
Until the blade sliced her arm. Crimson blood welled forth.
Staining the ground. Horrifying.
Alexander’s teeth ground audibly. He felt his temples throbbing.
From start to finish.
She didn’t cry.
She didn’t beg.
Even through the torment, even bloodied, her spine stayed ramrod straight.
That damned stubbornness!
Like a blunt knife sawing through Alexander’s heart.
He’d rather she wept. Rather she pleaded. Rather she shattered like any normal person!
Anything but this silent endurance, defying everything with mute pride.
It gutted him deeper!
Pain stole his breath.
Crack!
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Alexander couldn’t watch anymore.
He slammed his palm onto the desk.
Solid wood boomed. The monitor rattled.
He shot up, chair screeching backward, tearing through the study’s
silence.
His chest heaved violently.
A tempest raged in his eyes–world–annihilating fury.
Reason?
Incinerated the moment he saw her bleed!
Only violence remained.
Only killing intent.
Only the mad urge to crush her tormentors to dust!
Now, white–hot rage had fully consumed his sanity.
“Find who’s behind this. I want him… dead!”
Andrew snapped to attention. “Miss Campbell is at the office. She’s demanding to see you.”
Alexander fell silent for a few seconds before uttering, “Get the car ready!”
Around ten o’clock, Alexander stepped into his office.
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Vivian was having breakfast, the coffee table laden with lavish pastries.
Spotting him, she sprang up from the sofa, her face plastered with a saccharine smile, voice dripping sweetness.
“Alexander, took you long enough!”
She hurried over, her arm instinctively reaching to loop through his.
“I’ve waited a whole hour! You owe me–gotta make it up by having
breakfast with me!”
Alexander halted, the air around him turning icy.
He tilted his head, his heavy gaze scrutinizing her face.
With a sharp flick of his arm, he shook off her clinging hand.
His voice came out flat and cold.
“Vivian, answer me.
He took a step closer, his gaze sharp as a blade.
“Did you know all along what Patricia had done?
Is that why you came begging me to let her off?”
Vivian’s smile froze. She quickly rearranged her expression into perfect bewilderment.
“Thought it was something serious!
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Just… that maid from Royal Estate!”
Alexander’s expression darkened further.
Vivian continued explaining, her pace unhurried.
She claimed the maid was her aunt, who’d once saved her mother.
The trouble started when she stole over thirty thousand from her employer, and her family kept pleading for help.
She’d only mentioned it because she was annoyed.
If he cared so much, she’d send the woman back.
Send her back!
Watching her spin this tale, Alexander wondered… could she truly be ignorant of Patricia’s real crime?
He’d known Vivian for years. She was spoiled and petulant, prone to
tantrums.
But scheming malice? Masterminding or participating in something like that… didn’t seem her style.
She lacked both the brains and the guts, at least.
Seeing his stormy expression, Vivian pressed closer. “How about a kiss to make it up? Don’t be mad!”
With that, she leaned her face in!
Alexander looked down at her face, mere inches away.
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He stepped back, an inexplicable wave of disgust washing over him.
This reaction was new–unlike anything he’d ever felt towards her before.
Vivian opened her eyes, surprised. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. Need a smoke.”
Alexander lit a cigarette and walked to the floor–to–ceiling window. His eyes drifted to the green balcony of a distant apartment.
What was she doing now?
Had she eaten properly?
Why was Lisa suddenly in his thoughts? Irritation surged.
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