The Coldest Man in the Room Melted Only for Me novel Chapter 377

When Riley regained consciousness, her neck throbbed violently. Before her mind could fully clear, a familiar voice echoed from in front of her.

"Awake?"

Riley focused her blurry vision, only to see Seraphina. Realizing her hands and feet were bound, she struggled into a sitting position on the floor, staring at the woman in confusion. "Why did you tie me up? Where am I?"

As she spoke, she scanned the room.

Seraphina sat leisurely on the sofa, legs crossed and arms folded over her chest. "You're at Riverside Gardens, Building 3, Room 901."

Riley's gaze snapped back, her brow furrowing tightly. "You're the one who knocked me out?"

Seraphina smirked, nodding. "That's right."

"Where is the suicidal patient?"

Seraphina let out a mocking snort. "What patient?"

Seeing that condescending smirk, something clicked terrifyingly into place in Riley's mind.

The mistress, the cheating, the childhood sweetheart, being sent abroad, returning to the country, the divorce... Could it be... "You were the online patient?"

Seraphina's lips curled into a derisive sneer. "Finally figured it out?"

Riley's eyes went wide with sheer disbelief. She had never, in her wildest dreams, imagined that her anonymous online patient was someone directly involved in her own life. Not even soap operas dared to pull a plot twist like this.

Seraphina threw her hands up in a dramatic shrug, watching Riley like she was the entertainment. "Surprise! Bet you didn't see that coming, huh?"

Remembering what the online patient had confided in her, Riley glared at Seraphina. "So you and Pierce didn't just get together after you came back. You've been together this whole time?"

"Exactly! He forcibly sent me abroad, and I was so heartbroken I got a new boyfriend. But the minute I posted our relationship on my feed, Pierce flew straight to me. He told me he wouldn't allow me to be with any other man, and just like that, we were back together."

Seeing the color drain from Riley's face brought Seraphina an immense, twisted sense of satisfaction. She continued, "After that, he used 'overseas business trips' as an excuse to visit me all the time. He spent way more time with me than he ever did with you, his actual wife."

Pierce had cheated on her right at the beginning of their marriage. And she had been completely fooled for an entire year, like a total idiot!

It was all in the past now. She had already managed to extract herself from that disgusting, tangled mess.

Riley straightened her spine and stared coldly at Seraphina. "You say he loves you? Then did he marry you? I divorced him, and he still doesn't want you. You bore him a son, and he still won't marry you. Is that your grand definition of love?"

Like a cat whose tail had just been violently stomped on, Seraphina instantly snapped. She lunged forward, grabbing Riley by the collar. "If it weren't for you constantly clinging to him, he never would have abandoned me and our son! This is all your fault! Everything is your fault!"

Riley tilted her chin up, meeting her crazed glare flawlessly. "I never clung to him. On the contrary, he's the one clinging to me, begging me to remarry him."

"Liar! That's impossible!" Seraphina shrieked, violently shaking her head. "He loves me! If he didn't love me, why did he fly thousands of miles just because I got a boyfriend?! Why did he let me have his child?! Why did he bring us back to take care of us?!"

Riley found it purely laughable. "If he truly loved you, would he have let you stay his mistress? Would he have allowed your child to remain an illegitimate bastard with no name and no title?"

"Shut up!" Seraphina screamed, shaking Riley violently by the collar. Her neck and forehead bulged with enraged veins. "You used the divorce to force him to cut ties with me! He was supposed to be mine! You stole him from me a year ago, and now you're using dirty tricks to rip him away again! You even sent someone to ruin my life! I'm going to kill you! I am going to kill you!"

With that, her hands shot forward, clamping viciously around Riley's throat. She looked like a completely feral lunatic, her bloodshot eyes bulging so far out of her skull they looked ready to pop.