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Chapter 3

作者: Nine Fifteen
I dragged my exhausted body back to what was supposed to be our marital home.

Except the place was really just a shrine to Tiffany: shelf after shelf of limited-edition handbags and jewelry Felix had bought for her. My own belongings amounted to a single suitcase.

I pulled the suitcase out and started packing my clothes.

Tiffany was on the couch playing with the dog. When she saw I was leaving, she couldn't hide the smugness in her eyes.

She sauntered over and needled me. "Roxy, what exactly do you think you have to compete with me?

"You saw that, didn't you? Felix used cutting-edge tech, that whole comment feed system, just to get even with you on my behalf.

"You're not even worth as much as a dog in this house. If you know what's good for you, you'll get out of the Callier family and give Felix back to me."

I didn't bother sparing her a glance. I grabbed the suitcase and walked straight for the door.

Seeing me ignore her, a flash of cruelty crossed Tiffany's eyes.

She snatched up the glass music box from the table, the one Felix had once given me on a whim.

The next second, she smashed it on the floor, then flung herself down onto the broken glass. A shard sliced straight into her palm.

"Ow, that hurts!"

Just then, the front door swung open.

Felix walked in at that exact moment. The sight in front of him made his eyes go wide with fury.

Tiffany immediately burst into tears, delicate as a flower in the rain. "Roxy, I only wanted to talk you out of being angry with Felix. Why did you push me?"

Felix's face went ashen. He stormed over and slapped me across the face.

The blow snapped my head to the side, and blood welled at the corner of my mouth.

Felix pulled Tiffany carefully into his arms and looked up at me with cold eyes.

"Roxy, letting Tiffany's dog nearly die wasn't enough for you. Now you're hurting her too? How can you have such a rotten heart?"

I pressed a hand to my swollen, stinging cheek and pointed at the security camera.

"I never pushed her. She did that to herself. If you don't believe me, check the footage."

Felix only sneered.

"Tiffany's never hurt so much as an ant since she was a child. You think she'd hurt herself just to frame you? Roxy, if you're going to lie, at least come up with something better."

Right on cue, Tiffany let out a pained cry and pretended to faint.

Felix panicked and rushed to call the family doctor.

After the examination, the doctor said Tiffany had a mild clotting disorder and needed a blood transfusion.

Felix spun toward me, his eyes wild. "Take hers! She and Tiffany share the same blood type!"

I stumbled back a step, stunned. "I just fainted from blood loss. If you drain my blood now, it could kill me."

"That fainting spell was fake too, wasn't it? So what's the harm in taking a little blood?"

Several bodyguards stepped forward and pinned me down on the couch.

The needle slid into my vein, and my blood drained slowly into the bag.

I watched Felix hold Tiffany's hand, his eyes brimming with tenderness, and felt like my heart was being carved out with a knife.

Three years earlier, Felix had been in a terrible car accident and nearly bled to death.

It was me who, against the doctors' warnings, had insisted on donating eight hundred cc of blood and pulled him back from the edge of death.

But when Felix woke up, Tiffany had claimed all the credit for herself.

And now, over nothing more than a scratch on Tiffany's palm, he was willing to drain me dry.

As the blood drained out of me, my body grew colder and my vision blurred.

Halfway through, I finally couldn't hold on any longer and blacked out completely.

When I woke again, I was lying in the guest room.

Nobody had bothered to check whether I lived or died.

I picked up my phone and saw the photo Felix had posted to Instagram ten minutes earlier.

It showed Tiffany leaning against his chest, sipping a bowl of soup, their fingers laced together.

The caption read: [My only bottom line is you.]

I stared at that glaring photo and found I couldn't even cry anymore.

I pulled the IV needle out of the back of my hand, the wound already closed over, and set the annulment papers I'd signed long ago on the table.

Then I dialed the number for the International Frontier Medical Corps.

"Professor, it's me. I'll join the peacekeeping medical team headed for the war zone. I can leave today."

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