“You’re lying, Scarlett! You’re lying!” She seemed to be in great agony as she buried her face in her hands.
I pursed my lips and kept quiet. Those two kids… Ashton has never addressed the situation directly, nor has he ever admitted to anything. He says he never laid a hand on her, but he never questioned how the kids came to be. I’m guessing he’s trying to protect her dignity or something. Judging by Rebecca’s reaction, I think she knows Ashton didn’t touch her too.
As the car pulled up outside Serene Villa, I glanced at her and noticed that her eyes had reddened, evidently suppressing her emotions.
“Would you like to go for a tour?”
She looked at me and asked coldly, “What are you trying to do, Scarlett?”
“Have you give up on Ashton,” I said. For seven years, I’ve let Rebecca stay around Ashton because I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of her, nor was I capable of getting rid of her. But since I’ve started to do so, there’s no need to stop now!
She shot me a cold glare and sneered. “You seriously think that’s going to happen?”
I arched an eyebrow at her. “We won’t know unless we try!”
She shot me a disdainful look as I got out of the car.
Looking up at the villa, I saw that the plants in the yard had all wilted.
“Ashton and I stayed in this house when we first came to K City. I was going to show you the other villa in J City at first, but… I figured it was unnecessary as you’ve already realized that the interiors of Ashton’s villas are the same.”
“So? You think showing me this is going to make me give up on him?”
“I don’t really know much about Ashton’s villa in K City. The only thing I know for sure is that our fingerprints are the only ones that can get the door open. He said this house belongs to us, you see,” I said with a shrug as I opened the front gate using the fingerprint scanner and motioned for her to have a look inside.
The look on her face turned ice-cold as she followed me into the house without saying a word.
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