Chapter 3

Frank rose to his feet in anger. Before he left, he lowered the temperature of the cold storage room by another ten degrees.

I shivered uncontrollably from the freezing cold.

While I was dazed, I thought I saw my own soul.

My “soul” was covered in blood. It stood in the darkness and pleaded with me repeatedly not to leave it behind.

I did not want to die. I clearly had a chance to be saved.

Why was fate so cruel to me? Why did Lucy refuse to believe me?

I let out a desperate scream as a crushing sense of helplessness filled my heart.

My chances of being rescued were becoming incredibly slim.

My breathing grew weaker, and it felt as though all the blood in my body had frozen.

Just then, someone opened the door to the cold storage room again and turned on the lights.

The sight of me lying in a pool of blood startled her.

I used every ounce of strength I had to inch forward and force out the words, “Help... Help me.”

Sarah was so frightened that even her voice trembled, “Who are you? What did you do to make the CEO throw you in here as punishment?”

She looked at me with extreme caution.

“I-I’m Lucy’s husband.”

I held out my blood-covered hand with great difficulty. My watch was stained so badly that its original appearance was no longer recognizable.

“This is the one-of-a-kind watch she gave me.”

When Sarah saw my wedding ring, she recognized who I was. She was about to help me up when she hesitated. Then, she took out her phone and called Lucy.

“Ms. Hathaway, I came to pick up some goods and found your husband here. He’s covered in blood. Should I take him to the hospital immediately?”

Lucy sounded extremely puzzled.

“Blood? He actually hurt Frank’s snake so badly that there’s blood all over the ground?! No wonder Frank is so upset.”

Lucy became even more convinced of her assumptions.

“Don’t take him to the hospital. That isn’t his blood. He’s perfectly fine. I’ll pick him up myself when the time comes.”

Sarah was about to explain further, but Lucy ruthlessly hung up on her.

She helplessly walked past me to collect the goods. Unexpectedly, she later came back for me.

It seemed that she had struggled with the decision for quite some time.

“You’re injured. I can’t just stand by and watch you die. I’ll take this as doing a good deed.”

She dragged me out of the cold storage room and called me an ambulance.

The moment I was finally rescued, I felt relieved for the first time.

When I arrived at the hospital, there was no available equipment to perform my surgery.

Lucy was worried that something might go wrong during Alan’s surgery, so she had reserved every piece of necessary equipment at the hospital for him.

My condition was critical. For my safety, the doctors had no choice but to transfer me to a fully equipped private hospital.

The doctor found a contact in my phone labeled [Wife] and called the number.

“Hello, is this Larry’s wife? Please come over to the private hospital immediately. The patient was in a car accident. He’s in a very serious condition. He could go into shock at any moment.”

Lucy was clearly getting impatient. She raised her voice and shouted angrily, “Larry, you really are something! You actually hired someone to help convince me you escaped!

“I’m telling you now, you can pull every trick in the book, but I’m not coming over! I know your health better than anyone. There’s no way anything could have happened to you.

“Stay where you are and behave yourself. Stop resorting to despicable tricks just to make others sick.”

The doctor looked at me with deep sympathy before turning to a colleague.

“Let’s transfer him to the private hospital first. We’ll figure out the rest once we have the equipment.”

However, I never expected to be taken to the same hospital where Alan was admitted.

No matter how the doctors pleaded, Lucy refused to give up even a single set of equipment.

Through the wall, I heard Lucy’s cold and heartless words.

“It doesn’t matter who they are. I won’t let Alan lose even the slightest chance of regaining his sight. Nothing can go wrong!”

My entire body collapsed onto the floor like a lifeless heap. Just then, I locked eyes with someone standing outside the door.