Chapter 4

Gregory burst out laughing until he cried. Then, he cast a smug look at me.

“Pfft, he looks like a clown!”

…

I stared vacantly at them and felt both like crying and laughing at the same time.

I pointed a finger at Alice and told her in a glacial voice, “You'll regret this.”

In response, she had someone bring her a dog collar. While she attended to Gregory, she stated without even looking up, “Tomorrow is Gregory’s birthday party. This is the only way to keep you in line.”

The housemaid approached to fasten the collar around my neck. When she noticed the blood on me, her eyes grew wide.

She turned back to Alice and hesitated for a moment before speaking up, “Madam, the mister is… he’s bleeding.”

Before she could even respond, she was struck by a pair of scissors. Alice scowled grimly at her, “Looks like Oliver has been bribing you, hasn’t he? I’ll give you one more chance to tell me who the mister is.”

The maid immediately went on her knees and begged for mercy while turning to face Gregory, “I’m sorry, mister, I misspoke. I'll slap myself!”

With that, she slapped herself across the face.

Meanwhile, Gregory was in Alice’s arms again. “Alice, I think I should leave. They don't seem to like me very much.”

Upon hearing this, the maid immediately turned to me and tightened the collar around my neck.

She jabbed a kick at me as if I were a dog and ordered, “Get up!”

Then, she turned back to Gregory to assure him, “Mister, you have nothing to worry about, we’re very fond of you!”

Gregory was grinning from ear to ear.

The entire time, Alice had never taken her eyes off Gregory.

She seemed completely transfixed by him.

Meanwhile, I found myself chained to the villa's gate like a dog. I had to suffer the sounds of their lovemaking spilling through the windows upstairs the entire night.

The next evening, the guests arrived in droves. The pair of Alice and Gregory embodied the picturesque loving couple as they stood outside to welcome them, while I was ignored completely.

All the people who used to be my friends were eager to suck up to Gregory. The moment they saw me, they were quick to humiliate me.

“Hey, isn't this the former son-in-law of the Fosters? He looks like a toad with his hair shaved bald. Is he supposed to be the doorguard?”

“You're giving him too much credit, the son-in-law? Pfft, he is less than the other boytoys Mrs. Foster keeps around.

“Haven't you heard? After he and his father were kicked out of the Fosters, they started getting up to some shady things until they ruined themselves. That’s why they haven’t been able to have children until now…”

All of Alice’s close friends continued to whisper among themselves. One of them even “graciously” tossed a piece of meat on the floor for me. Then, she ran her hands all over me.

“Looks like you’re thrown aside now, wouldn’t you like to be with me instead?”

Her friends chimed in, “Since Alice doesn’t want him anymore, why don’t we get a taste of him?”

At one point, one of them untied the collar around my neck.

They eagerly stripped me naked so they could toy with me, going as far as to sit on top of me while ignoring all the blood on my body.

They laughed lewdly in the face of my shame.

When I looked up, I met a pair of cold, indifferent eyes looking down at me from the second floor.

Alice was swirling a glass of wine while she looked on indifferently.

Eventually, she turned away, seemingly annoyed by the sound of the commotion.

At last, I shut my eyes in despair. I felt my tears streaming down my cheeks, and at one point, I felt a warm sensation.

When I opened my eyes, the woman who had been sitting on top of me was slumped over, her eyes wide open. Fresh blood was gushing out of her neck.

The rest of the girls scampered away as if they saw Death himself.

When I finally recognized the face basked in darkness, I was taken aback, “It’s you!”

A few minutes later, when Alice took the land transfer agreement signed by the Bartons, she smirked.

Then, it suddenly occurred to her that her friends had been coveting Oliver, who had been chained downstairs the entire time!

She immediately took off running downstairs while ignoring Gregory, who chased after her. She stormed out of the door and cried out, “Oliver, I've come to save you…”

She was greeted by the sight of a pool of blood and a severed hand.

When she recognized the item held in the palms of the severed hand, she broke down and threw herself on it.