Before coming here, Natalie had slipped a small folding knife into her pocket. She knew that getting Dylan away from Hamilton would require a fight to the death.
She pulled out the knife, shoved it into Hamilton's hand, and then grabbed his hand, pressing the blade against her own chest.
"I cheated on you. I humiliated you. I tarnished the great Mr. Amos's reputation. I even had another man's child, and to this day, I don't regret a thing. In fact, it was liberating. If I had the chance to do it all over again, I would still choose to sleep with another man!"
She laughed as she spoke. He wanted to act like a madman? Fine, they could both be mad.
"So if you have any guts at all, you'll kill me!"
Hamilton's hand tightened around the knife's handle, his heart pounding in his chest. A voice in his head screamed, Kill her, kill her!
He gritted his teeth. "You think I don't dare?"
"Of course you dare!"
"Natalie!"
"You were the one who drove me to cheat in the first place!"
"You're still making excuses for yourself!"
"And you were the one who cheated first, with Maria!"
"I never touched her back then!"
"Really?"
Natalie scoffed. "You didn't touch her, you just snatched a role I worked my ass off for to give it to her. You just left me stranded in the mountains for her, forced me to my knees for her, and tried to strangle me more than once for her!"
Hamilton gritted his teeth. "That was what you owed her, and what you owed me!"
"So just kill me. I'll pay you back with my life. Isn't that enough?" Natalie asked, tilting her head with a smile.
Hamilton's eyes were bloodshot. The Natalie he remembered was fragile and timid, someone who needed to lean on him, to be protected by him, someone who seemed like she couldn't live without him. But to leave him, she had chosen the most brutal method possible, and for six years, she had never once appeared before him again.
He was cruel, but wasn't she just as cruel?
Especially now, when she was daring him to kill her.
It was as if she was certain he wouldn't be able to do it. But what right did she have to be so certain?

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