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The contract stated that I was to turn myself in at the police station and that I was responsible for the building collapse during the earthquake back then, the one that trapped Tricia and Jimmy in the rubble and killed one of them.But at the time, I was hiking in the mountains, and I'd left Scott to handle everything at the company alone.It was his cutting corners during construction that made the building unable to withstand the earthquake, leading to casualties. And now he actually wanted me to be the scapegoat and even transfer all the company shares to Tricia.If I signed this contract, I'd probably spend the rest of my life behind bars.After reading the contract, Nicky angrily tore it to pieces."Scott, you're despicable and shameless!" Nicky snatched the phone away and broke down in tears as she spoke to the person on the video call. "Scott, take a good look at me! I'm your sister! Didn't you say you'd take care of me for life? Hurry up and come down to save me! I'd ne

"Arlene!" Nicky, already sent up to safety by me, saw me swallowed by the sand and jumped down after me without a second thought. Using her one remaining arm, she dug me out of the sand and forced me upright so I wouldn't suffocate.I knew this couldn't go on. I no longer had the strength to climb back to that slope. "Nicky, I'm definitely not going to make it. Use me as your shield. You survive this and go find Drake, understand?" Drake Preston was the true power behind the Preston family. With him around, he would surely clear my name.Nicky wrapped her one arm tightly around me."No, Arlene. If we die, we die together. I never want to see that animal Scott again!"Even injured, I was still stronger than a pampered heiress who had grown up in luxury and now had a severed arm. Ignoring her struggles, I bound her tightly with rope.If it came down to just one of making it out alive, then I was going to make sure it was her!Seeing the desperation in my eyes, Nicky stopped f

Drake wasted no words. He strode over and delivered a backhand slap so fierce that Tricia immediately dared not speak another word.Scott, disregarding everything else, scrambled to his feet and placed himself between the two."Drake, have you lost your mind? This is Tricia we're talking about!"Drake grabbed him by the hair and forced him to look at Nicky's now-cleaned face. "Take a good look. Is this a lunatic?"I refused to let go of Nicky's hand. She was such a wonderful person, and now I'd never get to go shopping with her again or sit around trash-talking and spilling tea.Tears streamed down my face.Scott, having seen Nicky's face clearly, was stupefied."No! Impossible!"He suddenly knelt beside Nicky and pulled up her sleeve. There it was—the butterfly tattoo, identical to the one on his own wrist."I didn't kill Nicky! It was her! Arlene secretly swapped them! She's the one who killed Nicky!"He pointed at me, eyes bulging as if they would split apart.Drake stepp

Before we went in, Drake filled me in on everything Tricia had confessed to him.It turned out she'd been infatuated with both Drake and Scott since she was a kid. But of course, what she really loved was the Preston family fortune.She knew Drake was too clever, so she targeted Scott instead. And her first step was to eliminate me.Thus, she used her position at the company to whisper poison in Scott's ear day after day. That idiot actually believed I was the kind of person who would stand by and watch someone die."Tricia had to kill you to become Scott's rightful wife," Drake said.I nodded slightly, feeling the bitter injustice of it all for Nicky to have died because of such a scheming, venomous person.I had barely reached the door when I heard the two inside wildly screaming at each other."Scott, you worthless coward! You did it, and now you won't own up to it? What does your killing of Nicky have to do with me?""If it weren't for your instigation, I never would have g