Anne couldn't help but look at Sally with worried eyes. She just couldn't bear to see her dear child get traumatized. Rose's words were now incoherently structured, and Anne began to think that Rose had become fully insane.
But now, the most important thing to think about was to find a way out of the situation.
"Rose, I'm the only one you hate. It has nothing to do with my child. Look, I'm right here in front of you. I'll willingly accept it if you want to die with me. Just please let Sally go! You have a daughter too. I'm sure you understand. Look at Sally right now. She's just like your own daughter!" Anne pleaded as she looked straight into Rose's eyes.
Rose kept a frown painted on her face. She turned to look at Sally, whose cheeks were now covered with tears streaming across them. Her eyebrows resembled much of Kevin's.
Rose proceeded to smile as she turned her gaze again to Kevin. She couldn't help but wonder that if her child was Kevin's, would she end up looking like Sally as well?
Meanwhile, in the wedding venue, Sam checked his own phone. He was intensely watching the coverage of the breaking news.
Sam couldn't help but frown at Rose's behavior. He thought, as a doctor himself, that she was acting rather maniacally. There was no denying now that she had fully lost her mind.
Sam tried to call Kevin on the phone, but, as expected, he didn't answer because he was busy trying to reason out with Rose.
Sam's heartbeat complemented the heavy weight of his breathing.
Emily stood behind him, and immediately got worried after seeing how tense and nervous he was.
At this point, he couldn't hide his worry around Emily anymore. He kept gritting his teeth, and said, "The wedding ceremony is done, and we have to focus on the celebration and entertain the guests. But, Emily, I have to go now. It's very important. Can you forgive me for doing this?"
Emily looked at him with a cold smile. She did not say anything, but Sam had already left.
Although it was true that the main ceremony had been completed, there were naturally still other traditional practices they must complete.
With acute sense of importance, he left her behind in the ceremony to go and make sure Anne was safe.
Not too long ago, he even reassured her that he saw Anne merely as a good friend. But the bride felt betrayed as he left yet again to save that friend from danger.
She couldn't believe how naive she was! She felt all sorts of guilt, anger, and jealousy. For her, the pain was like a full force slap to the face.
She suspected that he said those words just to hide the fact that he still had residual feelings for Anne.
'Anne, from now on, I declare you my enemy!' she thought out loud. She gritted her teeth out of rage.
She fantasized about getting rid of Anne from her world. She wondered how much better her life must be by then!
"Rose, do you want to marry me?" Meanwhile, on the roof, Kevin tried his best to keep Rose occupied with a bright but desperate smile on his face. Nevertheless, he looked just as handsome, and elegant.
Rose simply continued to look at him with unchanging expression. He slowly approached her while stretching his hand. "Rose, I have fallen in love with you when we met again this time, but you hated me so much, so I couldn't get close to you. Now I know you still love me, so please, it's not too late. We can start over!
I don't love Anne anymore. I don't even care much about Sally either. Come here, now. We can be together, okay?"
The reporters around them couldn't help but feel the adrenaline rush through their system. The sound of the shutters of cameras clicking like a factory with endless metals clashing against each other was rather deafening. What Kevin said just now would be such a huge news!
Of course, most of them thought it was only a good use of his silver tongue, but they also wanted a piece of controversy to put up in the news.
Rose seemed to have calmed down, but only very slightly. She stared at Kevin again, but with visible confusion on her face.
"Rose, what's wrong? Do you still hate me? Don't you want to have a good, peaceful life with me? Kevin added.
He carefully chose his words to charm Rose even further.
"It's impossible! It's impossible! I know I've done so many things to seduce you, but you've always liked Anne better. I know these are all lies to save both of them!" She rigorously shook her head and screamed at him at the top of her lungs.
He took a step back and gently shook his head. "Rose, believe me. What I said is true. It's all true!"
She now violently shook her head like an insane person would. He was the man she absolutely adored and loved, but for some reason, it wasn't what she felt now.
'No! He's not…' An inner voice suddenly spoke to her like her conscience.
She turned to look at Anne again with her whole body in tension. The woman in front of her was supposedly the one she hated the most, but she somehow didn't feel repulsed by her presence.
She couldn't stop wondering what the hell was going on. Her mind seemed to be in a constant loop between anger and confusion.
When did it all go wrong? How come her emotions had betrayed her?
A memory hidden deep beneath her mind slowly crawled back like a monster waiting for its chance to return. She slammed her head with her fists, desperately trying to clear it up.
She was certain that she had forgotten something important. When Kim kidnapped her, he kept injecting her with an unknown substance every few days. That was another problem she couldn't stop herself from wondering.
She lost count of the nights she had been in the presence of the man in black, who kept repeating the words that manipulated her into hating the person she loved the most, and vice versa.
Those words acted like a cursed spell that led her to a prison inside her mind. The damage, as it seemed, was irreversible.
Anne was the one she loathed the most, but her adoration of her suddenly grew. She even loved her children. That feeling was now engraved in her heart, which she was unable to get rid of.
Moreover, the moment she saw Kevin, the anger welled up inside her so much that his every breath and the faintest of his voice would send a painful and annoying sting inside her head.
It felt like her world was turned upside down.
At this point, she had lost her mind that even she herself couldn't remember who she was.
'Kim! It's all because of his damned sick plot. What did he do to me? What did he inject me with?!' she kept uttering those words inside her head. How and why did this happen?
There were a lot of things inside the dark corners of her mind that started trying emerge. She couldn't take it anymore, and she screamed in agony.
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