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"Come on, let's soak your feet. If I hadn't come home, you wouldn't have bothered, would you? How are your legs ever going to get better if you don't? When are you going to be able to stand up and swing me around?"Serena stood there with her hands on her hips, pouting, looking completely at ease. There was no trace of disgust anywhere on her face.If this had been before, I would have pulled her into my arms and cried. I had even thought about taking her advice, letting go of the hatred, and just building a life with her where we grow old together.But now my heart has turned cold.If she actually cared about my legs getting better, why would she have worked with my enemy to cripple them in the first place?"What if I told you I could stand up?"Her eyes went wide. For a moment Serena looked genuinely stunned. After five seconds, she decided I was joking."Stop that. Don't make jokes about your legs. It's not funny."I clenched my fist. So I hadn't been wrong about her after a

"Go ahead and answer it. Must be something urgent."Serena picked up her phone. Whatever she saw made her pupils dilate. Her breathing quickened and her cheeks flushed deep red. Serena swallowed, then turned off the phone. She looked at me with something almost like guilt."Babe, I have something urgent to deal with. Can I have Ben take you to the hospital?"Comment by Jasmine Chee: 管家The more desperate she was to leave, the less I wanted to let her go."No. Serena, you know how I feel about hospitals. Can you stay with me?"I held her tight. It was the first time I had ever asked her for something like that. It was also the last.Conflict crossed Serena's face. She pulled away anyway."Ben will be here any minute. Just wait for me. I'll sort things out and come find you."She left without looking back. The car shot out of the driveway like she couldn't get away fast enough.I didn't love her anymore, yet why did it still hurt this much? It felt like something had been rippe

I let myself fall. Blood poured from my mouth as I hit the ground.I pulled Ethan close and spoke into his ear. "I bet you'll never be anything more than my stand-in. You'll never beat me. What do you think she'll do to you when she sees you pushed me into the sea?"Ethan panicked and tried to pull away. I used his momentum and went over the edge, out into the open water.But from where Serena was standing, it looked like Ethan had shoved me in."Caleb!""Serena. I hate you. I will never forgive you."Then I was underwater. On the surface, blood bloomed red and spread across the waves. Within seconds the water went still.Serena screamed until her voice broke. "Caleb! Caleb, come out! Stop joking around, please!"Nothing answered her but the sea."He can't swim. I have to save him. I'm coming, Caleb, just hold on."She didn't hesitate and was about to jump over the edge. Ethan grabbed her and held on tightly."Let go of me. Don't make me hate you.""Serena, Caleb deserves w

Ethan's right-hand man came stumbling over, breathless."It's over. Reid Corporation and Cole Group have been exposed for colluding to manipulate the market. Both companies are in financial and PR freefall. Every senior executive has been named in scandals, assault allegations, you name it. "And the worst of it: the Reids' ties to organized crime have been blown wide open. They've all been taken in."After I got out of prison, I found Gus and we got to work. Every tactic Ethan had used to destroy people, we turned back on him with interest.Gus handled the outside operations while I handled Serena, using her to keep Ethan occupied while we monitored his every move. Ethan was too arrogant. He genuinely believed he had clipped every one of my wings. That arrogance was exactly what I needed. Step by step, working from the inside and out, I hollowed out his company. And finally I had the evidence to bring him down.Then the assistant leaned in and said something to Ethan. Whatever