“Shawn, Dad always said I don’t act like his daughter. He shaped you into a ruthless tyrant who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, ignoring both law and morality. Luckily for me, I’m nothing like him.”
The second person I visited was Linda.
Her hair was disheveled, her face haggard, and her gaze burned with hatred so fierce it seemed like she wanted to devour me.
She could no longer fake her delicate, innocent persona. Her voice cracked with hysteria as she demanded to know why I hadn’t revealed the evidence earlier.
“What’s the point of pretending to lose?”
“Oh, it’s totally worth it. Otherwise, how would you have kept up the act for so long?”
I stood up, smiling faintly.
“It’s even more satisfying to let you think you’ve won, don’t you think?”
Lcould’ve released the evidence earlier, but that would have been boring.
I wanted her to believe she had won, that she had everything she’d ever dreamed of. Then, just before dawn, I wanted her to watch it all crumble to ash before her eyes. That was what I experienced in my past life.
This tit
time, it was Linda’s tum
The last person I went to see was Alec.
In truth, I hadn’t planned on visiting him at all.
Linda had always been my sworn enemy, and Shawn was tied to me by blood.
But Alec?
After my love for him completely vanished, he and I became nothing more than strangers.
But th
the police informed me that Alec wanted to see me.
