Chapter 5

Nancy took a deep breath and turned around. "What do you want from me?"

Evan frowned as he felt a strange frustration. Nancy was the only child of the Sartori family and had always been a proud woman. She treated everyone coldly except for Evan, the only person to whom she would reveal her soft, feminine side. However, Nancy was acting like a stranger to him now, and it was making him anxious.

"My hand hurts, Evan." Rebecca's sobbing voice made Evan snap out of it. His face fell as he walked darkly toward Nancy and grabbed her arm.

"Let go!" Nancy frowned as she turned pale from the pain. However, she was not Evan's match and could only let him drag her next to the table and force her to kneel, no matter how much she struggled.

"Hit her back, Rebecca." His order shocked Rebecca and Nancy.

Nancy said in astonishment, "What are you talking about, Evan? If you dare touch a hair on me, my dad and Frank won't let you get away with it!"

"I don't think I should do this, Evan… Ms. Sartori is a Principessa, after all. If the Dons come after me…"

Evan looked coldly at me and spoke with indifference, "What are you afraid of with me around?"

His words must have given Rebecca confidence as she raised her hand in anticipation, but she put her hand down next. "I'm afraid of hurting my hand, Evan. Can I… Use this instead?"

Rebecca looked around and picked up an exquisite pair of Adam and Eve dolls. Evan and Nancy had made those dolls as ornaments for the house and even dripped their blood into them during the creation process. Evan had said that it signified them being together forever, but now, Rebecca was raising the ornament high in the air as she aimed it down at Nancy's wrist. "Don't you dare, Evan Jenco! Let me go!"

Nancy struggled to escape from his grip, but Evan did not even hesitate to keep her down, and even nodded without a second thought. "Go ahead."

Rebecca got closer and closer to Nancy. The next second saw her smash the ornament down hard on Nancy's wrist, which turned red and became swollen right away. As for the Adam and Eve ornament, they fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. It was just like their relationship. There was no going back.

Nancy screamed from the pain. Her face turned pale, and she broke out in cold sweat. It was only then that Evan finally released her. Nancy held her wrist and looked up at him with tears in her eyes. She clenched her teeth and said slowly to him, "You know me, Evan. I'll make sure you pay for this a hundred times over."

Evan sneered. "Stop with your pretense, Nancy. Everyone knows how deeply in love you are with me. You can't bear to shoot me even if I gave you a gun right now."

"How do you know I wouldn't do it? The Nancy Sartori who loved you is dead," Nancy replied stoically.

Evan was taken aback, but quickly grabbed Rebecca into his arms as he continued being distant and indifferent. "I'll be waiting for that day then, Principessa. Don't disappoint me." He paused before looking threateningly at Nancy. "I'm warning you, today was just a minor lesson. Touch Rebecca again, and I won't hesitate to feed you to the sharks."

Rebecca smiled sweetly at his words. Before she left, she made it a point to take Nancy's ruby ring away with her. "Thank you for the gift, Ms. Sartori."

Nancy watched as they left. She said weakly, but with determination, "You'll regret this, Evan Jenco…" Evan paused in his footsteps, but did not look back. They made sure to lock the doors from the outside before they strode away.

It took a long time for Nancy to snap out of her pain while she was lying on the ground. She was the Sartori family's Principessa who had been pampered all her life. Evan was the only person who had hurt her again and again.

Nancy stared at the tightly shut door, and after that, looked at her surroundings. She did not hesitate to make her way to the window and leap right out. She heard the bones in her legs break the moment she landed. The intense pain right then felt just like the time Evan had broken her legs.

That year, Evan vowed with his life that he would never hurt her again, but today, he had indulged another woman to break her right hand. What a joke it was.

She stood up in a limp and called a number stoically. Ten minutes later, dozens of bodyguards appeared in front of her. They were well-trained, and they started setting up wires around the villa silently, but efficiently. When they were done, the head bodyguard passed a remote to Nancy.

Nancy looked at the house, which she had taken the effort to decorate, as it would have been her home with Evan after they got married, and pressed down on the button without hesitation. Flames flared high in the air in that instant.

The huge villa burned brightly in the great flames, and eventually all that was left were ashes. The fire threw a light on the side of Nancy's pale, but beautiful face. It took a long time before she said softly, "This is really the end between us, Evan Jenco."