Gwendolyn’s rationality was being overturned repeatedly. Her hands trembled uncontrollably when she lowered her head to look at the vase.

Gwendolyn handed it back to Nico. However, she bit her lower lips and shook her head, sneering coldly, “I don’t believe this. I dare you to make him tell me personally!”

“Ms. Shalders…”

“Get lost!” Gwendolyn yelled. She took a step back and slammed the door shut, shutting everyone out.

Taking a deep breath, Gwendolyn tried to calm down and regain her rationality.

As Gwendolyn sat on the couch, she saw the stack of sticky notes she had earlier taken down.

Gwendolyn picked them up again and carefully read through them.

She recalled the moment he pulled her into his tight embrace before they got into the car. Gwendolyn did not notice at that time, but she now realized that the corners of his eyes seemed a bit red.

Has Maverick known all along that this day would come, and was he prepared for the last time we would meet before I left for Fairlake? But… I didn’t see his corpse. I don’t believe it! There’s no way!

Justin was not at the villa previously because he accompanied Nico and the others to the crematorium. Now, he had finally arrived.

Justin’s face was full of grief when Gwendolyn called him inside.

Gwendolyn sat on the couch in a stupor. She was cold, devoid of emotions and tears.

Gwendolyn stood up suddenly and gave Justin a tight slap when he drew near.

“Uh…”

Justin staggered a step back, caught off guard. Blood seeped out from the corner of his cut lips.

Justin did not dare to wipe away the blood. Perceived the metallic taste in his mouth, he stood obediently to bear Gwendolyn’s anger.

“Ms. Shalders, go ahead and beat me to death if it makes you feel better. I’m drowning in guilt from causing Mr. Wright’s death. I’d feel better dying in your hands.”

Gwendolyn glanced at him. She withdrew her hand slowly and sat back on the couch after seeing he was truly upset.

“What exactly happened?”

to the abandoned warehouse on the eastern outskirts of the city. Mr. Wright found out about it, and he told me not to tell you. Mr. Wright said he would go in your place.” He began to cry uncontrollably as he spoke. “I didn’t know… that he would not be

he… have something to tell me before something happened to

for a moment.

lips tightly and

Justin to see her like this. “Ms. Shalders, it’s all my fault. Go ahead

“Get out!”

“Ms. Shalders…”

“Get lost.”

convince her, Justin could only let

in the living room was open. Gwendolyn’s face was cold when

coffee table, but the images of Maverick pretending to be aggrieved and

aloof and indifferent in the

expression. She could not

mind, Gwendolyn rushed upstairs and retrieved the box that

of us? Where are

half of the wedding photo under the box. There was only her smiling brightly in the

personally cut Maverick’s part off when she decided to seek revenge against the Wright

knuckles turned white, and she opened her phone’s photo

picture of the man she had

left was an audio recording,

voice came. “I, Maverick, vow to disappear from

the foot of the bed before weakly collapsing to the ground. Tears began

disappeared before one year had

have a chance

extraordinarily long

asleep all night. Her eyes became dry and puffy from staying up all night staring out the

Knock! Knock!

someone knocked on

and asked

outside the

Wright’s ashes back to the Wright residence. The date for his

her brows

Three days? So soon?

funeral were taken care of by Treyton, Nico, and

learned about the situation upon his

decided to shoulder this responsibility to ease her guilt, knowing that she would not be able to

wealthy families dared to spread Maverick’s death with

was kept a

been terrible for the past

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