Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 1538

Listening to Mercedes's sharp reprimand, Calony's face instantly darkened like storm clouds. He let out a harsh, chilling laugh, his massive hand suddenly clamping down on her jaw with enough brutal force to nearly shatter her bones. "Are you really that convinced that James's plan is completely infallible? Nagging me about what I shouldn't have done... What, are you still in love with the man?"

Mercedes gasped in sharp pain, forced to tilt her head back to look at him. "You know better than anyone what cruel things he did to me. How could I possibly still love him? I am just analyzing the situation objectively. Calony, he is The States' absolute top elite soldier. You shouldn't be questioning his strategies."

Those words stomped ruthlessly on Calony's hyper-sensitive, arrogant ego. "To hell with your elite soldier!" Calony forcefully raised his hand, violently throwing Mercedes back against the massive, plush mattress. Before she could even attempt to scramble up, his towering, bear-like frame crushed down onto her.

"Where do you think we are? This is the Delta! There's a massive black-market laboratory built directly underneath Hector's main headquarters. Every single warlord who survives on the knife's edge of death around here understands these high-tech androids better than we do. James actually delusions himself into thinking he can use a piece of scrap metal to bait out an extreme lunatic like Dean, do you really think that's possible?"

Calony's heavy, ragged breath washed over Mercedes's face, carrying a suffocating, nauseating pressure. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Isn't that the old saying your people love to use? Since James didn't have the stomach to risk it, I, as his ally, made the hard choice for him. Is that really such a crime?"

Before the last word even left his mouth, a sharp tearing sound echoed as Calony mercilessly ripped her dress apart. Stripped of all tenderness, driven entirely by a punishing need to vent his wounded pride, he invaded her violently.

"Ugh..." Mercedes's entire body went rigidly taut in blinding pain. She sucked in a breath of cold air, her fingernails digging frantically into the bedsheets. Yet, she bit down on her tongue, too terrified to utter a single word of protest. She knew perfectly well that her previous words had accidentally pierced his veil of guilt, completely enraging the tyrannical man. He was far too arrogant, far too domineering. Even though he likely realized deep down that he had royally screwed up James's meticulous setup, a high-and-mighty warlord like him would rather die than bow his head and admit a mistake.

Mercedes squeezed her eyes shut in sheer despair, allowing him to brutally vent his animalistic rage on her body. Hot tears slipped from the corners of her eyes, soaking silently into the pillows. To cleanse her past, to climb to the absolute zenith of wealth and power, she had no choice but to swallow this vile humiliation.

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