Chapter 120
A
Sloane’s POV
“Sloane, no… I was wrong. Please don’t do this. I was really, really wrong.”>
He held the back of my head, trying to kiss me, but I pressed my lips tightly shut. His eyes were vacant as he stared at me.§ “Sloane, you’re so sweet… I must have been blind. I don’t want you to carry any shadows when you’re under me again.“} He covered my eyes and drove a knife into his thigh–just a finger’s width away from his private part.
He slashed over the name he once carved there until they were no longer recognizable. Then he finally dropped to his knees.}
“I love you, Sloane. I really, really love you. If I hadn’t mistaken you for someone else, we… we could’ve been so happy together. But it’s not too late… right?”
Right after he said that, he passed out. I wanted to leave, but his men were watching me day and night.
Gunner lay in bed for an entire month.
The moment he woke up, he asked for me.
“Sloane, I’ve already contacted the registry office. They’ll be here soon. Let’s get married, okay?“}
“The one! love is Dwight! You’re nothing to me!”
I had no patience left for him. I was afraid that if I didn’t leave soon, Dwight would lose his mind.} “Sloane, I’m the one you love.”
“No, the man I love is Dwight–not you, Gunner!“}
That broke him.
“Destroy the Astors. Cripple Dwight. I want to see how he thinks he can compete with me!“}]
To him, the entire Astors was nothing. The third son of the Carnegies feared no one. He really was forcing me.
“This has nothing to do with the Astors. I don’t love you. If you’re so capable, then make me love you. But I never will. Not in this life.” “You’re pushing me, Sloane. You belong to me. No one can take you. Anyone who dares to feel something for you–I’ll kill them!“} He dragged me back to the room, pinned me to the bed. I couldn’t move. He’d completely forgotten the doctor’s warnings. He unbuckled his belt and tore off my clothes. We were both exposed–he wanted to pull me into his very bones. I slapped him hard.§
Then I grabbed the scissors from the nightstand and stabbed his shoulder. That was when he finally snapped His face was full of pain.
“Sioane! You really hurt me?! You used to hold me like I was your whole world!”
“If my aim had been better, that stab would’ve gone straight into your heart!”
He hadn’t thought I meant it. That I truly wanted him dead. But there was no trace of love for him left in me.
I tumed the scissors on myself, aiming straight for my heart.”
of it, even just a little.
“If you touch me again, I’ll die right here. Gunner, it’s either you or me! If we can’t live together, then let’s die together!“>
I drove the scissors into my chest–but his hand caught it first. The blade pierced through his palm.§
His tears fell onto my bare skin.
“You win, Sloane. I can die… but I can’t bear to see you die.“}}
He stood up and walked away.
After that day, the men around the villa were all dismissed. Gunner disappeared from my world overnight.
When Dwight found me, he didn’t ask a single question. He just took me to register our marriage and brought me home. “Sloane, no one can tear us apart anymore, right?”
“Yeah.“%
I didn’t know where Gunner went. All I knew was that he swiftly monopolized every major industry in Los Angeles.
Soon, the Carnegies’s status rose again, and the third son became more mysterious… and more brutal.
No one knew what had happened.”
All they knew was that he renamed every property the Camegies owned after one word.
“Sloane.”
(The End)
