All Chapters of I Don't Want That Last 0.1 Point: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

"Mathilde, what are you making a scene about now?"Liam Reed frowned at me.Before I could answer, Victoria Adams stepped forward, took my hand, and began explaining, "Mathilde, while I was missing, a jerk deceived me and got me pregnant. I had nowhere else to turn, so I asked Liam for help. Please don't be upset."I tried to pull my hand free, but she used the movement to let herself fall to one side.Tears welled up in her eyes almost instantly."Even if you can't forgive me, you don't have to push me..."Liam was caught off guard for a moment. Then his expression darkened."Mathilde Conrad! Have you lost your mind?"He shoved me aside and rushed out of the simulation room with Victoria in his arms.My legs had taken the impact of the car that would have hit him. Now, as I crashed to the floor, a sharp pain shot through my body.Gritting my teeth, I looked down at my phone.I looked at the 99.9 points on my phone, and my eyes began to sting.My nose stung, and my eyes beg

A sharp, furious voice suddenly rang out across the banquet hall."Victoria! You're carrying my kid! Stop pretending you're innocent!"Victoria's face drained of color, and her body began to tremble. Seeing her distress, Liam immediately stepped in front of her, shielding her from the man."Watch your mouth!" he snapped.But the man was too enraged to listen. He grabbed a paring knife from the table and lunged at Victoria.Liam instinctively pulled her into his arms to protect her. His sudden movement knocked me off balance, sending me stumbling into the knife's path. The blade pierced me.A wave of blinding pain tore through my body. Blood quickly soaked through my shirt, yet Liam didn't even spare me a glance.His attention remained entirely on Victoria, as though I weren't even there. But that man wasn't finished. He yanked the knife back and lunged at her again.My vision blurred as I struggled to stay conscious. Just before everything went dark, I caught a glimpse of Liam

The next afternoon, while Liam was away, Victoria barged into my room, claiming she wanted to disinfect my wounds.Before I could stop her, she poured a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and table salt over the raw lash marks on my back. The liquid fizzed against my torn flesh, and I screamed in agony.I tried to twist away, but the servants she'd brought with her pinned me face-down against the rug, leaving me unable to escape."I'm doing this for your own good," Victoria whispered, leaning close to my ear. "If you don't leave the Reed household, next time you'll face more than the family punishment."Just then, a furious voice rang out from the doorway."You despicable creature!"Liam's grandfather, Arthur Reed, had arrived unannounced. The moment he saw Victoria pouring the mixture over my wounds, his face darkened with rage."The Reed family will never accept a vicious woman like you! I'm telling Liam everything right now.""You old fool! Don't you dare!"Victoria rushed after

In five years, Liam had never sent me so many messages.[Mathilde, I know the truth now! Victoria is a complete fraud!][Mathilde, where are you? I've searched every corner of the psychiatric facility, but I can't find you anywhere.][Mathilde, please come back. If you do, we'll get married right away.]I stared at the texts and felt nothing but bitter irony.After everything I'd endured for him, he still thought marriage was the answer. Yet the promise I'd once sacrificed so much to fulfill meant nothing to me anymore.Elliot leaned over, caught a glimpse of my screen, and asked with a half-smile, "What's wrong? Having second thoughts?"Not answering, I removed the SIM card from my phone and tossed it into the ocean.At last, the world was quiet.Elliot smiled with amusement. "That works, too. I'll get you a new phone. Here's to your new life, Mathilde."Two years ago, I'd saved Elliot's life by pure chance. At the time, I hadn't known he was the successor to the world-renow

Liam came to my classroom for his scheduled cleaning shift.While bending down to tidy up the clutter, he suddenly collapsed.I rushed him to the campus infirmary, where the doctor felt his burning forehead before carefully unwrapping the sweat-soaked, stained gauze covering his back.The moment I saw the wounds underneath, my fingertips trembled involuntarily. The burns were badly inflamed, with festering tissue and pus oozing from the damaged skin.It was hard to believe that the man lying before me was once the formidable CEO of the Reed Group, someone who had commanded entire boardrooms with ease. Now, he'd reduced himself to this state.Liam drifted in and out of consciousness. His chapped lips kept moving, repeatedly whispering my name in a low, raspy murmur.I didn't see him again for the next three months.The little coastal town was beautiful.Every evening, I took slow walks along the coastline. The sea breeze brushed against my hair, gradually carrying away the fatig