A Widow's Poison, A Wife's Rebellion novel Chapter 1229

The line went dead.

Listening to the dial tone, Fairfax violently hurled the phone across the room. It shattered against the wall with a sickening crack.

He lit another cigarette, his hands shaking slightly.

"Heh..."

She really was alive. He had suspected it, but having it confirmed was something else entirely. A tidal wave of pure hatred washed over him.

But intermingled with that hatred was the agonizing echo of her words: *Two innocent lives I lost when I was with your family.* The sheer agony of that memory violently diluted his rage. Pain and hatred waged a brutal war inside him, threatening to rip him apart.

...

Smaro Town.

When Herbert returned to the cabin, the atmosphere around him was suffocatingly heavy. Stepping out of his car, he spotted Starla sitting quietly in the small courtyard. Romy was busy in the open-air kitchen nearby.

He walked straight up to Starla.

"We need to leave," he stated flatly.

Starla didn't respond.

"Fairfax knows I'm alive. He's undoubtedly figured out you are, too."

It was disastrous news. As he spoke, Herbert's gaze shifted toward Romy, his eyes flashing with lethal intent.

Starla followed his gaze. "It wasn't her."

Herbert frowned. "You already know?"

"What did you just say?" he asked, his voice deadly quiet.

*Going back to Marina City.*

She had never truly let Fairfax go. The moment she realized her mother's death wasn't directly tied to Fairfax, the guilt must have consumed her. She was going back to him.

"You still can't let him go, can you? You never did," Herbert growled, every word grinding through his teeth.

Starla didn't say a word. She just stared at him, her eyes so desolate and cold it was driving him insane.

"Have you completely forgotten how he mentally butchered you over Brinley?" Herbert demanded. Brinley's very existence had nearly destroyed her. "And now? He actively despises you because of what happened to his family. There is zero future for the two of you!"

That was the brutal reality of Starla and Fairfax's destiny. The chasm between them was too wide, filled with too much blood to ever cross.