“Everything I did was a joke to you! An utter joke!” Zachary’s voice had lost its usual charm. Instead, it had turned hoarse with dejection.

He sounded both sad and spiteful.

Charlotte refused to allow her heart to soften. “We could never go back to the way things used to be. It’s far too late.”

“Look at me, Charlotte.” Zachary desperately clung to his hopes for a reunion. He cupped her cheeks and forced her to meet his gaze. “Tell me you were forced and sabotaged. As long as you didn’t agree to any of this, I’ll forgive you!”

At that moment, Zachary had sunk to the lowest point of his life.

He had never begged so pitifully for a woman before, to the point of tossing aside all his pride. Nonetheless, it was a worthwhile sacrifice if he could regain her trust and love.

 

Charlotte’s eyes welled with tears as she took in his bloodshot eyes.

She had never seen him in such anguish, and she could not help but sympathize with him.

 

Regret and hatred filled her soul, urging her to confess that she had not voluntarily agreed to this marriage, that she had no idea what had happened.

bellowed impatiently. He needed to hear the words

believe anything she

stiffened at the sight of the bruises along

and his world came crashing down the moment he saw

and froze, realizing that she

How could you do this to me? Why would

fist forward, causing Charlotte to close her eyes and

fist whooshed past her and landed in an

face and body. One of the pieces slashed her cheek, and blood

bloody fist was full of

aid but to no avail as Marino continued

you doing?” Louis finally lost his composure and whipped out the gun in his sleeve. He yelled,

the typically gentle Louis to point a gun at

perhaps lowered his guard far too

please stay calm and put the gun down,”

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