“Baby, I’m so sorry… You’ve suffered so much because of me, the man’s voice came through the recorder.
“It’s okay.” the woman replied sweetly. “Td do anything for you.”
“If only we had money,” he sighed. “If we had enough, you wouldn’t have to go through this… and we could keep our baby, too.“% “Don’t worry,” she said softly. “I’ll be heading back soon. Magnus is still waiting for me back home.“X
“Magnus? The ex you told me about? The one from the Colon Corporation?“W
“Yeah, that’s him. He’s crazy about me she confirmed.
ong to start quietly
“When I get back, Ill get a job at his company, maybe as his assistant. He trusts me completely–I’m sure it won’t take long moving his assets over to us. After that, we can disappear together and start fresh”
“By the time he realizes what’s happened, Colon Corporation will be nothing but an empty shell. And we’ll have our own family, just like we dreamed “K
The recorder kept playing, but Magnus couldn’t listen anymore.
He slowly lifted his head, his gaze landing on Sabrina, who was now deathly pale. His eyes burned with rage, the rims turning red.
“No.. no, Magnus, it’s not what you think! Please, listen to me!” she stammered, trying desperately to explain.!!
The evidence is right in front of me,” Magnus said coldly. “What could you possibly say to explain this?“)
“… …” Sabrina’s lips moved, but no words came out. She was completely at a loss under his furious stare.
“Why, Sabrina?” he asked, voice raw. “I loved you. Why would you betray me like this?%
In his fury, Magnus grabbed her by the neck, squeezing so tightly it seemed like he might snap her delicate throat.
Despite his rage, Sabrina suddenly laughed, a hollow, broken sound.
“You loved me?” she scoffed, her voice shaking. “If you really loved me, would you have thrown me into a den of wolves?”
“Three years,” she choked out. “Three whole years you were playing house with Chelsea back home, and you had no idea what kind of hell I was living in over there.”
Magnus’s grip loosened slightly, his anger giving way to confusion. “What… what are you talking about?”
“What am I talking about?” Sabrina let out another harsh laugh and shoved him away. She crumpled to the floor, her body shaking.
“You sent me to the UK… straight into a nightmare. Straight into the hands of my father, the man I feared the most.”
Her words hit Magnus like a punch to the gut. He stumbled back, shaking his head.
“I didn’t know… I swear, I didn’t know…“}
“Of course you didn’t!” Sabrina snapped, her voice breaking. “Because you never cared enough to find out.”
“I was barely there three months before he found me,” she went on, her voice shaking with fury. “I thought prison would’ve changed him. But he only got worse! He gambled away everything. And when he lost it all, he came for me.”
Sabrina’s voice broke, but she kept going.
“You want to know what he did, Magnus? He sold me to a nightclub. He let them do whatever they wanted to me. As long as he got his money.”
She lifted her eyes to him–eyes filled with pain, rage, and a heartbreak so raw it was unbearable. “Where were you when I was lying there, covered in bruises? When I was begging for it to stop?”
“…” Magnus opened his mouth but found no words
“Il tell you where you were,” she snapped, voice cracking. “You were back home, marrying Chelsea.”
“I woke up one morning in a filthy, bloodstained bed, only to see pictures of your beautiful wedding splashed across every headline.” “Magnus… do you have any idea… just how hopeless I felt in that moment?”
Third Person POV
Chapter 17
