Chapter 0442
As the police car cruised toward the suburbs, I felt increasingly desolate. Claudia’s words lingered in my
mind.
“Ariana, you have no idea how much pain you’ve caused Nick,” she said.
Fear was no longer evident in her eyes. Instead, she eyed me curiously, as if the more tragic she made. Nicholas sound, the guiltier I would feel.
She showed me a video on her phone. The surveillance footage was somewhat blurry, but it was still possible to discern what Nicholas was doing.
He was writing, but he suddenly froze, looking like a lagging character in a virtual world after receiving too many commands all at once. Once his mind sorted through the commands, the pen’s function was no longer to write.
A few people rushed into his room. They took the pen from his arm and injected an unknown substance into his body.
His tall frame immediately went limp, and he was carried to the bed without any form of dignity. From that moment on, pens would no longer exist in his room again.
In the next frame, Nicholas was clearly arguing with Claudia about something. His fury startled her, but he calmed down after she handed him the phone.
Cradling the phone against the wall, he had remained silent for the entire afternoon. Yet, he seemed unaffected when his phone was taken away at night.
“Do you know why Nick stopped being obsessed with his phone?” Claudia asked.
1 shook my head.
She said, “Because Nick said, ‘She never called me“.”
Sucking in a deep breath, I asked, “Why didn’t he just tell me?”
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