Chapter 13

Eva

Silence filled the air, only broken by my panting breaths. He remained still for a moment looking like a statue.

The anger and exhaustion in me had driven me to this point.

I should have slapped him a long time ago. The same day he started making threats to me even but now I wasn't in the least satisfied with this.

I took a step back to distance myself away from him but it didn't make a difference. He was still frozen on the spot, face still shifted sideways.

“You crossed the line Mr Reynolds.” I stared frostily. I could barely recognize my own voice with how cool it was.

‘Slut,’ the word echoed inside my head. He just called me that.

The reminder of the past thing he called me right before throwing me out all those years ago echoed. ‘Gold digging whore.’

Why? What had I done to deserve such an insult when I had been nothing but innocent in the face of their cruelty and schemes?

Once I had shed tears at the constant reminder, now all I felt was rage.

I pushed all those thoughts