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Had she gone insane?
Marilyn and Elsa had always gotten along well, sharing similar interests, so of course Marilyn knew Elsa had been faking her illness.
What she never expected was that fate would play such a cruel joke-Elsa had pretended to have late-stage stomach cancer, and in the end, she actually developed the fatal disease.
Remembering what the doctor had said while Elsa was unconscious, Marilyn’s eyes flickered with pity.
“The doctor said that as long as you cooperate with treatment and stop letting your emotions swing so wildly, you could still have almost a year.”
Elsa’s mouth opened so wide it could have fit a whole egg.
She truly felt like she was trapped in a nightmare she couldn’t wake up from.
Before her hysterectomy, her health had been fine. How could she suddenly have something as ridiculous as late-stage stomach cancer?
She couldn’t accept it.
But after pinching herself hard several times, feeling the sting of real pain, she knew she wasn’t dreaming.
Marilyn had really just told her this nonsense-that she was terminally ill.
With reddened eyes, Elsa stared unblinking at Marilyn, searching her face for any trace of a lie.
But Marilyn didn’t look like she was lying.
That meant she really had this deadly disease?
“No! I can’t have late-stage stomach cancer!”
Elsa refused to accept the truth. She clutched her head and screamed hysterically.
“Before I returned home, I had a full check-up! Back then, I was injured, yes, but I wasn’t sick with anything this deadly. Marilyn, tell me this isn’t real! You’re joking with me, aren’t you? Tell me! Tell me!”
Her face twisted, as terrifying as a vengeful ghost.
Marilyn flinched at the sight of her madness.
But remembering they were bound together on the same rope-that she still needed Elsa’s backing if she wanted Lily gone from the Luke family, and Adeline erased forever-she swallowed the urge to bolt.
She stepped forward, gripped Elsa’s hand, and said hoarsely, “Calm down.”
“Getting this worked up will only make your illness worsen faster.”
At those words, Elsa froze, finally quieting down.
Seeing her words had an effect, Marilyn pressed on. “That bitch Lily has ruined you, yet she’s still living so well. How can you just give up like this? Medicine is advancing every day. I believe if you stay in good spirits and follow the treatment, you can recover!”
Elsa’s eyes were still blood-red, like they might bleed.
She hated it. Hated it so much!
It was Lily who was shameless, Lily who deserved to die. If anyone should be sick, it should have been Lily. Why was it me who had to suffer such a fate?
If God were unjust, then I would seek justice for myself!
Gripping Marilyn’s hand with all her strength, Elsa rasped, “You’re right. As long as Lily’s alive, I can’t die. If these doctors can’t treat me, then the world’s top specialists abroad will! If it weren’t for that bitch Lily targeting me over and over, I never would’ve gotten this damn disease. I’ll make her pay. I’ll make her hurt more than me, despair more than me, beg for death and never find it!”
Elsa’s grip was so tight it hurt Marilyn’s hand.
Marilyn didn’t actually agree with her reasoning.
Elsa’s illness was fate-it had nothing to do with Lily.
But since their interests aligned, she would never voice that thought.
Because only if Lily were cast out of the Luke family, ruined beyond repair, cou she and Victor have their happiness. Only then would the Luke family truly acce her.
Then the Luke fortune would be hers, and even the gifts James, Grace, and the others had once given to Lily would fall into her hands.
The jewels, handbags, watches, clothes-they had always been hers to begin with!
Putting on a look of difficulty, Marilyn said, “Lily shamelessly throws herself at men, and yes, it’s disgusting. But now she’s carrying James’s child. Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Mom-they all treasure her. With the whole Luke family protecting her, it’s almost impossible for us to make her pay.”
Elsa’s gaze turned icy as it swept over Marilyn.
She was no fool-of course she could see through Marilyn’s schemes.
Marilyn wanted to use her as a knife.
Elsa hated being used.
But since Marilyn had entangled herself with Victor, and Elsa did need her support, she chose not to expose her.
Her father had influence in the underworld, and Marilyn knew it-that’s why she kept trying to push her into acting against Lily.
But Elsa wouldn’t let Marilyn stay untouched.
That way, their bond would be tighter.
Their fates would rise and fall together. And once Marilyn married into the Luke family, Victor would become her ally too.
Elsa took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling violently before it slowly steadied again.
With a twisted, cruel curl of her lips, she sneered, “Yes, the bastard in Lily’s belly really has brought her plenty of benefits.”
As she spoke, her hand instinctively brushed against her own flat stomach.
The thought that Lily had risen in status because of the child she carried, cherished and protected by the entire Luke family, while she herself had been ruined by that bitch and forever stripped of the chance to be a mother-her hatred burned so fiercely she could have skinned Lily alive.
Her chest heaved again, and she bit her lip hard to stop herself from breaking down and screaming.
Her face contorted, and after panting heavily for a long moment, she finally managed to find her voice again. “The only reason the Luke family favors Lily so much is because they’re convinced the child in her belly belongs to my cousin.”
“Marilyn, tell me-if the whole Luke family believed that bastard she carries was the product of her cheating with another man, do you think they’d still hold her in the palm of their hands?”
“Elsa, you mean…” Marilyn’s eyes lit up with sudden realization.
The curve of Elsa’s lips grew even more venomous. “What fun would there be in simply killing that bastard in her belly? No. I’ll make everyone believe the child she carries is the result of her sleeping around. The Luke family-what kind of family are they? And my cousin-how proud is he? When they see a video of Lily whoring herself with another man, when they hear that man himself admit the child is his, they’ll want nothing more than to destroy that bastard with their own hands. Once Lily’s disgraced, cast out of the Luke family, hated by everyone, we can humiliate her however we please, punish her however we want.”
Marilyn’s eyes blazed with excitement.
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Truly, Elsa was the most cunning, the most ruthless-this plan was brilliant.
But still…
Her smile dimmed a little as doubt and worry crept in.
“James has bodyguards watching over that bitch day and night. Getting some sleazy man to ruin her won’t be easy. How can we even…”
Elsa smiled.
It was a smile more chilling than any demon feeding on flesh and blood.
“Of course I know my cousin protects that bitch well. It won’t be easy to throw her into some pervert’s hands right now. But I have another way.”
There was no one else in the VIP ward.
Still, when Elsa revealed the details, she leaned in close to Marilyn’s ear and whispered.
Marilyn had still carried a flicker of concern, but after hearing Elsa’s flawless plan, she broke into a radiant grin.
She was certain-this time Lily would be disgraced, abandoned by the entire Luke family, despised beyond redemption.
Once she finished off Adeline too, no one would be able to shake her position as the Luke family lady.
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