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If John pushed just a little harder, she would go over the edge.
If she landed on the back of her head, even if he didn’t break her neck, there was a very real chance she’d dic.
She’d close to death before.
But never like this.
She was terrified-terrified of splitting her skull open, of being paralyzed, of shattering her face or never waking up again.
She couldn’t believe it. She couldn’t believe that John would go this far-that he would actually want to kill her.
He had no right. No right to treat her like this.
“John, put me down!” she shouted.
Her body continued to tilt backward.
Her legs were slipping. She could barely keep herself hooked on the rail.
Her upper body dangled, one wrong move away from a deadly fall.
“I didn’t push Elsa! 1-“
His grip tightened.
The next words caught in her throat like shards of glass.
His eyes blazed with fury and disappointment..
“You didn’t push Elsa? Are you saying she threw herself down the stairs?” he snapped. “She’s already. terminally ill. Do you know this fall might kill her? You think she’d risk her life just to frame you?”
“You weren’t like this before, Lily. When did you turn so bitter? So cruel?”
“She did throw herself down, 1-I have proof…” Lily rasped.
But her throat ached so badly, and her body was tilted so far back, that her voice came out garbled and hoarse. No one could make out what she was trying to say.
“John, you-
To Simon, she looked like a dying swan-neck craned, gasping, on the verge of falling. He felt a strange discomfort rise in his chest.
He took a step forward, instinctively wanting to stop John.
But then he looked down at Elsa, lying there, soaked in blood.
How could he worry about Lily, and still call himself Elsa’s?
In the end, he didn’t move.
“Lily, speak up! What the hell is wrong with you? You tried to kill her because you’re jealous, is that it?”
John’s voice cracked with rage. “What gives you the right to hurt Elsa? The one who should be bleeding out on the ground-it’s you, not her!”
“I didn’t hurt Elsa…”
But her voice was still lost, buried under pain and airless gasps.
She couldn’t reach her phone. She couldn’t pull up the video that showed Elsa throwing herself down the stairs.
She couldn’t prove her innocence,
A surge of fury swelled inside her-hot, bitter, helpless.
She hated John for being so cold, so blind, so cruel.
She hated Elsa for her poisonous heart, for always coming after her, and for John-this blind, deluded man-to always believe her without question.
She was choking on the injustice.
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She had the truth, the evidence. And still, she was the one being threatened, being hurt-maybe even about to die.
She gripped John’s wrists with both hands, trying to pry him off her neck.
But her strength wasn’t enough to save herself.
If anything, the movement only worsened her balance. Her body wobbled, dangerously close to toppling backward.
“Simon… I didn’t hurt Elsa.”
Lily knew Simon couldn’t be trusted. He wasn’t some good guy.
But no one else was there. John had gone insane.
She could only hope Simon had even a shred of decency left.
“I-I have proof. I…
Simon could vaguely make out what she was saying.
And as he watched her struggle, her body trembling on the edge of a deadly fall, something deep in his chest twisted with pain.
But Simon didn’t believe a word Lily said.
He also didn’t want to disappoint his precious Lizzy, so his voice came out cold and cruel.
“Lily, I don’t want to hear your excuses. I just want to see you pay in blood.”
But she wasn’t making excuses.
She was telling the truth.
A crushing sense of helplessness devoured Lily’s heart, followed by a tidal wave of emotions that left her too drained to even want to keep fighting.
But why?
Why should she be the one to suffer the consequences when someone else had done wrong?
The one who deserved to die wasn’t her-it was Elsa, that venomous snake, and those two blind fools, John and Simon.
She didn’t want to die. She didn’t deserve to die.
And yet, it felt inevitable.
“Lily!”
Just when she thought John was going to break her neck and toss her over the railing, the stairwell door burst open again-and James came striding in.
He caught sight of Lily-most of her body already past the edge of the railing-and his heart nearly stopped.
Normally calm and composed, he actually lost his cool for once.
His eyes burned with fury. In a blur of motion, he shot forward and drove his fist squarely into John’s face. At the same time, his other arm wrapped tightly around Lily’s waist, pulling her securely into his embrace. The sheer terror of what could’ve happened still gripped him like a vice. Even with her safely in his arms, he couldn’t shake the fear.
Just moments ago, John had been tightening his grip, and Lily had truly believed she was going to die. She hadn’t expected James to appear out of nowhere and drag her back from the edge of hell.
In that instant, it was as if the world around her disappeared. The only thing she could see, the only thing she could feel-was James.
Earlier, when they’d hurt her, when she’d been cornered, all she felt was fury, fear, and injustice.
But now, with his strong heartbeat echoing in her ears, all she felt was a deep, aching sense of grievance.
Her lashes trembled. Tears spilled down her cheeks and soaked into his shirtfront
She knew James didn’t like being touched, especially by her. And this was the second time he’d saved her tonight. She didn’t want to repay his kindness by clinging to him
But she couldn’t help it.
The fear, the humiliation, the sheer weight of it all was too much. Her legs were weak, her knees barely holding her up.
So she allowed herself this moment, resting in his arms, letting her tears fall-one by one-onto his heart.
James usually hated physical contact.
But right now, with her trembling in his arms like a wounded child, he couldn’t bring himself to push her away
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