He Gave Her Strawberries, Gave Me Hives (Ford and Sylvia) novel Chapter 132

Chapter 5

I endured the pain and flatly denied it. “I didn’t…”

“Still trying to argue!”

Caspian roared, floored the accelerator, ran several red lights, and screeched to a halt in front of a hospital.

Completely ignoring my still–healing right leg, he dragged me roughly into a hospital room.

Dahlia sat on the edge of the bed, her face a mask of devastation.

When she saw me, her eyes filled with tears. “Scarlett, if you don’t like me, I can just stay away from Caspian from now on. Why did you have to do something so cruel?”

“If Caspian hadn’t gotten there in time, I might have…”

She choked up, unable to finish, as tears streamed down her cheeks and onto the bedsheets.

Caspian rushed to her side, stroking her back tenderly, his heart aching. “Don’t cry, Dahlia. I’ll get justice for you.”

Then, he threw a stack of photos at me, which scattered across the floor…

The photos showed three menacing–looking thugs.

Dahlia was cornered in the middle, her clothes torn, her face streaked with desperate tears as she struggled violently.

Caspian glared at me, his eyes dark as ink. “If I hadn’t found out in time, Dahlia’s life would have been ruined!”

“Scarlett, you’re completely insane!”

A chill crept up my spine, inch by inch. I stared at the man in front of me, feeling like I was looking at a complete

stranger.

Back when those deepfake photos of me were all over the internet, he never once stood up to defend me, just let the rumors fester for days, trending on every platform.

And now, based on nothing but Dahlia’s word and these unverified photos, he was pinning the blame on me!

My hands clenched into fists as I shook my head and pleaded, “I didn’t do it!”

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“Still denying it!”

Caspian said coldly, “My men have already taken the three suspects away. They identified you personally.”

“As for the physical evidence-”

His face darkened. He clapped his hands, and two bodyguards walked in, holding an evidence bag. Inside was a diamond ring with the word “Scarlett” engraved on the bottom.

I looked down at my bare ring finger, stunned. “Our wedding ring? How could…”

“We have the culprits and the evidence. What else do you have to say for yourself?”

Caspian’s eyes were filled with disgust. “Men, strip her.”

The two bodyguards stepped forward. “Ma’am, our apologies.”

A wave of intense panic washed over me. I resisted instinctively, my lips trembling. “What are you doing?”

Caspian looked down at me. “Atoning for your sins, of course. I want you to expérience everything Dahlia went through, personally!”

“Caspian, you can’t do this to me!”

I frantically slapped away the hands that were all over me, terrified and horrified.

But the strength difference was too great. My clothes were torn off, and a cold shock ran through me as I hunched over in humiliation, trying to cover my chest.

Phones and cameras were shoved in my face. Caspian himself pinned my arms and legs, forcing my body to be more clearly exposed to the lenses.

Tears streamed from my eyes. All the blood in my body rushed to my head. I looked at him with grief and fury, my voice sharper than it had ever been.

“Caspian, you bastard!”

“Let me go! Get off me!”

But the hands continued to roam over my body, the disgusting sensation overwhelming my nerves.

Jeers assaulted my ears. I was like a cornered cat, eyes red, screaming and kicking until I could taste blood in my throat.

Seeing me in this state, Caspian seemed to hesitate.

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He was about to tell the men to leave, but then Dahlia suddenly said pitifully, “Caspian, if you feel bad for Scarlett, then just forget it.”

“I’ll be fine. I don’t want what I went through to ruin your relationship…”

Her tear–filled eyes instantly extinguished the last flicker of compassion he had for me.

He stared at me and ordered harshly, “Continue!”

Several burly figures lunged at me with leering grins, and a foul presence violated my body.

I was like a broken doll, left to their mercy.

“Caspian, I hate you-”

I screamed with all my might, crying until my tears ran dry, until my throat was too raw to make a sound.

I don’t know how much time passed before the men finally pulled away.

My body went limp, and I collapsed onto the floor, feeling as if I’d been run over by a truck, the pain so intense I

could barely breathe.

Caspian wrapped me in a blanket and carried me to the bed. Looking at my lifeless face, he seemed to feel a twinge

of remorse.

But when he spoke, his voice was still cold. “If you hadn’t hurt Dahlia, it wouldn’t have come to this.”

I didn’t answer. My heart was dead, filled with an endless silence.

Back home, I desperately scrubbed my body, trying to wash away the vile traces, over and over, until my skin was raw and bleeding.

I slept until noon the next day, barely waking up.

When I turned on my phone, I froze.

The top three trending topics were blaringly clear-

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