جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 9

A month had passed since I was imprisoned and stripped of my voice. Finally, my wife, Kayla Jebb, sent word. "Go see if that jinx has learned his lesson."Knowing Kayla was coming back, the maids yanked me out of the cage, unlocked the rusty chains securing my wrists and ankles, and threw me into scalding water to scrub me clean.The water was so hot that I could barely breathe, yet the maids were shaking with laughter."Mr. Reed, we've gone to so much trouble to teach you some discipline these past few days. It hasn't been easy.""When Ms. Jebb gets home, you know what to do, right?"I lay sprawled on the floor and nodded numbly, only to be met with another round of mocking laughter.I was the only son of the Reed family in Jolville. Back then, I controlled the entire economy across Southern Jolville, and none of these maids would have dared treat me this way. But now, I had nothing left. I was completely at their mercy. "That's what I'm talking about. As long as you do as

The closer they drew to the end, the harder it was to escape their fate. If this had happened back then, I would definitely have panicked if I had seen Kayla's countdown. I would have done everything I could to help her, even if it meant sacrificing my life. But Kayla had done so much to hurt me. She manipulated my feelings, had me tortured, and took my family's entire fortune. She deserved to die for that. Back then, when Kayla had me sent to the villa to be taught a lesson, the maids there beat me black and blue. Once, I tried to scare them off by writing, "If Kayla finds out about this, you're doomed!"At that time, I was naive enough to believe that Kayla had only sent me here to take out her anger on me, and that she wouldn't actually hurt me. After all, we had been married for years. Besides, my family's fortune was already hers. I was no longer a threat to her. If she no longer loved me, she could have simply filed for a divorce, yet she didn't.It wasn't until the m

At that moment, everyone in the room panicked and hurried over to check on Kayla. But as the pool of blood beneath her grew larger, no one dared make a move.Sebastian was the one who remained calm. He ordered a few maids to carry Kayla downstairs and had another call an ambulance. Everyone was in a panic. After Kayla took over my family's fortune, she became one of the most powerful people in Jolville. She was an only child too. If anything happened to her, none of them would get off scot-free.As the ambulance sirens drew closer, everyone grew more frantic. A few carried Kayla out of the room, some went to open the door, and others went to meet the paramedics. No one noticed that I had slipped into the grotto in the garden and crawled out of a small opening.I had kept that as my final escape route, and I didn't dare use it unless I had to.If I failed to make my escape, the maids would capture me again and beat me even worse. Aside from that, they would tighten security arou

Something suddenly occurred to Kayla, and her eyes widened. But she quickly denied it, clenching her fists as she stared at me with bloodshot eyes. "Sebastian would never do that to me. Never! Only you, Isaac. You're the only one who wants me dead."I leaned back comfortably in the chair next to her bed. "You can ask your family to look into it. Check if Sebastian secretly met with someone at Cloud Mountain a month ago. "And after that, you slept with him, didn't you? As time went by, you started feeling weaker and weaker…"For the first time, Kayla didn't argue with me. I left it at that. I decided to let her figure out the rest on her own.The easiest way for Sebastian to change his fate was to sleep with someone else. If Kayla had cared about me even a little and refused to sleep with him, she might not have ended up like this.Perhaps she had brought this on herself after all.After leaving the hospital, I had someone gather evidence that I had been abused at the villa a

At the same time, Kayla had her sights set on me again. She took the initiative to text me an apology and even asked me out to dinner. As we ate, she made a point of trying to win me over again.I had spent ten years chasing after Kayla, and this was the first time she had given me her attention. Still, I didn't turn her down and allowed her to keep trying to win me over. Ashley thought I had fallen for Kayla's charms again, so we had a big fight. Right now, she was giving me the cold shoulder. Of course, I wasn't about to fall into the same trap twice. As I continued seeing Kayla, I got plenty of her family's secrets out of her. Kayla thought her charms had finally worked, so she started pestering me to remarry her. "I didn't know what was going on at the villa back then."It was Sebastian who hired those maids. I was so heartbroken when I found out what actually happened. You're the only person I've ever loved. You saved my life, remember?"Let's remarry. I promise I don't