After all the shock and fluctuating emotions, Arianne slumped in the car seat, feeling like an empty shell. “Let’s go back,” she said weakly.
Thinking about the call from Helen that she had rejected earlier, she took out her phone and called back. The call was very quickly picked up and brought right to the point. “You knew it was Aery who hit me, right?”
Helen choked on the other end of the line. “Ari… I’m sorry…My hands are tied. Both of you are equally important to me, but I have my difficulties too… I’m sorry…”
Arianne sneered. “Sure, you have your difficulties. I deserved it. I deserved this miscarriage, I deserved being nearly killed. Didn’t you ask me for a favor before since you gave birth to me? I owed you the life you gave me, so now… I have repaid it with the life of my child. From now on, I don’t owe you anything else.”
She immediately hung up after saying that and blocked Helen’s phone number in one go.
After doing all that, she let out a long sigh of relief.
As expected, Mark didn’t return to the Tremont Estate that night. Arianne returned to work as usual the next day with the bandage on her forehead. Although she was still very weak, she had no desire to be bedridden in Tremont Estate. Only by being in the office did she feel alive.
Eric, who’d been informed of the car accident that she was involved in, felt worried when he saw her coming back to work. “Do… you need a few more days of rest? I can let you take a month of paid leaves.”
Arianne smiled at him. “I’m fine, Mr. Nathaniel. Please return to your work.”
Eric frowned. He could sense a change in her but couldn’t quite put a finger on it.
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