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Blood clung to her dark lashes, blurring her vision, but her mind was crystal clear.
John had pushed her-for Elsa.
Even after she said she had evidence, he still didn’t believe her.
Her mom used to tell her that love was sweet. That it meant having someone. A place to belong. A soul no longer alone.
Her parents had each been drifting, alone in the world-until they met. Then, they were no longer lost souls, but husband and wife with a place to call home.
Lily had always believed love was sweet.
So why did loving John hurt so damn much?
The pain spread from her temple to her chest.
It was agonizing and overwhelmingly painful.
She felt extremely suffocated.
After almost ten minutes, she finally managed to push herself up off the floor.
And she finally understood-
Love was only sweet if you loved the right person.
Her pain… was because she’d loved the wrong one.
And now, she had to change that.
No matter how hard it was, she had to escape this suffering.
Yvonne had followed John from a distance.
Seeing him rush out of the hotel with Elsa bleeding from her hand, she naturally assumed it was Lily’s fault.
Outside, she ran into Simon.
She knew how protective Simon was of Elsa and immediately ran to him, asking him to punish Lily for what she’d done.
Lily hadn’t even had time to shut her door completely when-
Simon stormed in, rage rolling off him like a thunderstorm.
Bloody fragments of the wedding dress lay scattered across the floor.
Lizzy’s blood was everywhere.
He’d already been ready to tear Lily apart after hearing Yvonne’s version of events.
Now, seeing the carnage himself, he wanted to rip her to pieces.
“How dare you hurt my Lizzy again? How dare you!”
Simon lunged and grabbed Lily’s wrist, gripping it hard.
“You’ve hurt her again and again… Lily, you deserve to die! Come to the hospital and apologize to her. If she doesn’t forgive you… you won’t need these hands anymore!”
Simon had confronted and threatened Lily many times since Elsa came back.
Lily hated him.
She had no desire to argue.
She quickly unlocked her phone to show him the video she’d taken.
But he thought she was trying to call for help. He slapped the phone from her hand and seized her other wrist.
His beautiful, carefree face was now twisted in hatred.
“Trying to get help? You hurt my Lizzy. You’ll pay for it!”
He dragged her toward the door.
“I’ll say
Bang! it one more time-go to the hospital and beg for forgiveness. Or I swear I’ll-“
He didn’t get to finish.
Lily suddenly lunged forward and slammed her forehead into his face.
He froze.
He couldn’t believe she’d just headbutted him.
He wanted to punish her. To make sure she’d never forget that hurting his Lizzy had consequences.
But in that moment, as her lips brushed the corner of his mouth-
Her lips were soft. Way too soft.
He forgot everything.
That was his first kiss.
And while he stood there stunned, Lily yanked her hands free and pressed play on the video.
“Simon, open those damn squinty eyes of yours and see for yourself-was I bullying your precious Lizzy, or was she setting me up?”
Lily’s mocking tone snapped Simon out of his daze.
When he realized she’d just insulted him, he exploded in a fit of rage.
Just as he was about to blow up, he noticed her hand coming awfully close to his face.
He frowned, ready to bark at her to back off-he wasn’t the type of man who got seduced by any random woman.
But then he saw what was in her hand: a phone.
And on that cracked screen was a video of Elsa’s face.
Despite the damaged display, he could clearly see Elsa, crazed, shredding a pure white wedding dress to pieces. When the last scrap was nothing but tatters, she looked up, her gaze sharp and vicious, and glared at Lily.
The next second, she jammed the scissors straight into her own hand.
Simon’s eyes flew wide.
The shock hit so hard, he couldn’t even react at first.
To him, Lizzy had always been a warm, sunny girl.
Back when they were trapped beneath the rubble, those two days had felt endless. There was no light. No hope. He was starving, hurting, thinking the wreckage would be his grave.
But every time he lost hope, she would comfort him, encourage him, swearing that someone would come save them.
She was afraid he’d pass out and never wake up, so even after two days without water, with her voice hoarse beyond recognition, she kept talking. Kept him awake.
She liked music. She even sang Rolling in the Deep with that broken voice of hers.
In his heart, Lizzy was the purest, kindest girl in the world.
He couldn’t believe that that girl-the one who once pulled him out of the darkest hole in his life-could glare so viciously, could frame someone so cruelly.
And just as he was still reeling from the disbelief, Lily’s voice rang out again.
“As you can see, she stabbed her own hand. I never laid a finger on her. My conscience is clear. So, Simon
-are you still going to make me apologize to your dear Lizzy?”
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“I…”
Simon’s perfectly handsome, aristocratic face showed a rare flicker of confusion.
He hadn’t expected it at all.
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