A gunshot

"You got to be kidding me, right?" Harry scornfully said to Scarlet.

“No, I'm not Harry,” Scarlet replied tearfully as her lips trembled.

She was with her parent in Harry's mansion, he didn't even let them come inside. So, they stood outside the pouch.

“You gat to be kidding me,” Harry scoffed.

"Please don't do this to me, Harry. I beg of you in Jesus' name, please don't," Scarlet pleaded.

"Please don't do what exactly?" Harry frowned, "I still don't get you, Scarlet. Are you trying to tell me I'm truly the one responsible for your pregnancy?"

"Y-yes, Harry." Scarlet frantically nodded her head to him.

Then she desperately said, “Don't you remember the night at the clubhouse when you forced yourself on me?"

All widened eyes fell on Harry, did he do that to her?

“Are you stupid?” Harry was ticked off. “I don't even remember anything, girl. To be honest, you are accusing the wrong person,"

Scarlet's heart cracked into pieces and more tears flooded down her eyes like a river, she was feeling light-headed to the extent she felt her entire body losing its will to keep her stable.

Harry is lying, and Scarlet knows that.

Mr. and Mrs. Petersburg stood in silence, they were both watching Scarlet furiously as she kowtows her knees in front of Harry.

How many troubles will she cause them?

How much humiliation will she bring to them?

"Bitch!” Sally scoffed and crossed her hands on her chest.

“Harry, please tell them the truth about that night, please tell them!” Scarlet couldn't help but shout at him, she was frustrated.

Harry clenched his fists, growling, “Get out of my

house, Scarlet. I don't know what you saying and I'm not the one responsible for that thing in your womb.”

"You are!” Scarlet cried, she was disoriented.

After everything he had done to her; he raped her against her will. He ignore her cries and got her pregnant, and now he's rejecting her.

"Mr. and Mrs. Petersburg," Harry sharply gruffed and both adults looked up at him.

"It will be very wise if you both take your slut of a daughter out of here before I ask on my guards to throw you out!" He arrogantly warned them.

"H-Harry, please don't d-do this to me!" Scarlet tried to hold his legs, pleading with him.

However, Harry was shifting backward so she wouldn't touch him or his legs.

"My life will be ruined if you reject me,” She frantically told him. “If not for my sake but please for the sake of this poor baby,” Scarlet was crying for compassion.

But still, Harry was indifferent, his eyes were callous and with no tidbit of sympathy.

"I can't accept a child that is not mine, Scarlet. I'm sorry," He grouses coldly at her.

"W-what?" Scarlet stuttered, staring as she labored to grip his legs again until he will be in accord with accepting her.

Gbam!

A deafening slap flew across Scarlet's face and she hollered in pain, holding her hurting cheek.

It was Sally that slapped her.

"Argh!" Scarlet was all over the floor, crying and whining in discomfort.

Why did life choose to be cruel this way to her?

What did she do to deserve all this?

"You deserve this slap because I have always known you to be a lying bitch!" Sally glared.

Sally humiliated Scarlet just to make her look foolish in front of everyone. But in her mind, she was intently trying to earn favors from Harry.

She knew he came from a wealthy home just like Nicolas, and every girl in the country wants him.

Yes, she may have lost her chance to be with Nicolas but she won't stand by and watch herself lose Harry as well.

"First, it was Nicolas and now you accused Harry, don't you have any atom of shame? Sally jeered as she said. “You better show us the loser who got you pregnant and stop trying to tack your pregnancy on innocent men who had nothing to do with you."

Harry stared amusingly at Sally, and Sally noticed his eyes on her, then she saw him replacing his stares with what she smelled to be... Lust.

Knowing she affects him made her blush inwardly, and she was delighted to finally catch his attention.

Harry is sinfully gorgeous and it won't be bad if they were both together. All the girls in the country will be envious of her, and she will walk everywhere she goes with her head as high as heaven.

"Thank you for having my back,” Harry suddenly said to Sally, smirking naughtily at her.

Sally was dazzled, “It's nothing, you know my sister can be mischievous sometimes,”

"I see..." Harry intently bite his lips sexily, he knew she was crushing on him.

Sally gulped drily, “If you want, I can slap her over and over again," She said just to satisfy him.

She won't mind harming her sister one million times just to make this man get interested in her.

Hot tears fueled Scarlet's eyes once more, staring directly at Harry and he leeredhis face at her.

Looking away, she saw her parents throwing deadly daggers at her and Sally on the other hand was making funny faces at her.

Everyone was against her, they were blazing their eyes hatefully at her.

They made her feel intimidated, and she felt all alone in the world with no one to rescue her.

What's the point of her living when the people who were supposed to be by her side forsook her, and no one was ready to believe her?

Have you ever been in a critical situation where the only choice was to —commit suicide?

Yes, that's how Scarlet feels. She badly wants to end her pathetic life right now.

Nicolas abandoned her and got engaged to another woman, he even left the country.

While Harry denied her pregnancy, and he even denied ever having anything to do with her.

To crown it all her family made her feel forlorn now that she needed them the most. Well, she's not surprised because they have always hated and abhorred her.

Her family called her the ‘black sheep’ and they never cease to make her life miserable.

"Let's go!" Mr. Petersburg roughly pulled Scarlet up and dragged her out of the mansion.

His wife followed them behind, she knew her hubby was pissed and had had enough.

Scarlet didn't even bother to plead with her father as she let him drag her like a slave, she didn't try to beg him because it's gonna be pointless.

Harry stood in pomposity, watching the people who were now walking out of his mansion.

"Lock that fucking gate!" He angrily shouted at the guards, and they did as he instructed.

He turned around, stepping inside the mansion to rejoin the bitch he was screwing up earlier.

"Killjoys!"

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It was a dark night, and the rainfall was plunging gurglingly as the car pull up in front of the Petersburg mansion.

Everyone started to step out of the car.

Mr. Petersburg callously stormed into the mansion and Scarlet attempt to follow him behind.

She's starving and she needs plenty of rest, her entire body is aching excruciatingly.

"Where do you think you are going to?" Sally lashed out at Scarlet and she pause in her tracks.

"You will stay out here with either food or water, don't come into the house until I order you to do so, do you hear me?" Mrs. Petersburg scowled and then she walked away.

"Bitch!" Sally giggled happily before going after their mother.

Scarlet was despairing, her feet were unstable as she staggered towards the huge fountain which was situated in the center of the yard.

Her belly was grumbling hungrily, she hasn't tasted any food since morning.

Slouching tiredly beside the fountain, she wanted to cry out her grief but she had no strength left; she was worn out.

"Pst!" A whistle chimed and Scarlet’s heart jumped into her mouth.

Cold fear freezes her body, she was trembling as she now stood on her feet.

Skimming her eyes around the yard, searching for whosoever whistled at her but she found no one until her eyes landed at the big gate.

A dark figure.

Someone was outside the gate, giving her a sign to come over but her legs were numbed on the spot.

Who could it be?

Somehow, her legs started to push on her own as she crawled shakily towards the gate.

Stepping outside the gate, she was about to figure out the soul but she met only darkness.

Then she gasped as someone suddenly grabbed her hand, her eyes enlarged in terror, and fear traveled all over her body.

Next, a gunshot boomed.