Chapter 44 I'm Scared, Very Scared

Hunter Shield ground the cigarette butt he had thrown to the floor with his foot. "Ha, you must have presumed a dumb and illiterate person would not endanger you? The servant who lost her ability to speak due to your mother, Ruby Worth's, poisoning, learned how to read and write, spilling all the details of you and your mother's outrageous actions..."

Eve Young pleaded despairingly, "Hunter! Let bygones be bygones! I seek your forgiveness! Considering I've loved you for so many years!"

Eve registered that her crime had been exposed and she lost her bearings. There was no way to rectify the situation other than begging for forgiveness.

Hunter ordered his men to haul back Eve up onto the yacht. Eve assumed he was going to release her but he glanced at her and stated, "Jenna's young, barely older than two years old, but you cut her. Since you're about twenty times as old as her, I'll cut you twenty times. That's not too bad a deal."

He inclined his head while speaking and his bodyguar