Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
I have to consider your feelings?”
“You… You’re cruel!” Flossie glared at him with eyes that burned with hatred. “I’ll kill you one day, mark my words!”
“Yes, I believe you will,” Halston sneered. “Your brother is the most important person to you, so it’ll be normal for you to want to kill me.”
He reached out and grabbed her hands, then put them on his neck. His gaze clear, he urged her softly, “Do it-strangle me to death. I won’t resist. I’m already drunk, so I won’t be able to fight back either… If I’m dead, no one will hurt your brother.”
“You don’t think I will?” Flossie’s eyes turned fierce as she gripped his throat tightly. She could easily break his neck if she wanted to.
“No, I don’t think you can.” Halston laughed coldly, his gaze challenging.
“Fine, I’ll grant your wish if you want to die that badly.” Flossie gritted her teeth and dug her fingers into his skin, gripping his throat hard.
“Ugh!” Halston’s face instantly turned red, and veins bulged on his forehead and neck. After a while, his eyes started to roll back into his head.
“Hard—Harder. I’ll have no regrets… if I die in your hands.” Using his last bit of consciousness, he whispered to Flossie. Blood started oozing out of Halston’s mouth, and if Flossie used a bit more force, he would be dead.
But at the last moment, she could not bear to do it. She let go of him and sneered, “Killing you would be too generous. I’ll ruin you one day, just you wait and see.”
After that, she got up and left.
“Flossie…” Her figure gradually turned blurry, and Halston fainted.
“Halston, wake up…” Halston heard anxious voices. He woke up, unsure of how much time had passed. He was lying in the hospital with thick bandages around his neck.
“How long have I been unconscious?” His lips were dry, and he was weak. His neck and vocal cords were badly injured.
“A whole day! You scared Madam Francine and me!” Seraphina held his hand and cried. “What happened? Why are you hurt so badly? How can we survive if anything happens to you?”
Halston withdrew his hand, his expression cold. “I’m sure you know why.”
Seraphina still had tears on her face. “Halston, what… What do you mean? I don’t get it.”
“Hmph, you don’t get it? Where is the ring you hounded me to give you?”
“Er…” Seraphina looked away, avoiding his gaze guiltily. “I didn’t pay attention. I—1 might have lost it.”
“What a coincidence! You lost it beside Quinton’s pillow?”
Halston sneered in disappointment. “You know I hate scheming women the most. You had everything, so why do you refuse to let them go?”
Seraphina stopped pretending after hearing what Halston said. In fact, she was waiting for this after leaving the ring there.
“Yes, I left the ring beside Quinton’s pillow on purpose to distance you and Flossie. Go ahead if you want to punish me, but I don’t regret what I did.” She then lifted her head and closed her eyes, waiting for his decision.
“You…” Halston did not expect her to admit to it, and he was fuming. He didn’t know what to do with her. He couldn’t bear to punish her given their past and all her sacrifices for him, but he couldn’t pretend it had never happened.
“I have nothing to do with that woman; you should know that all I care about is you. However, what you’ve done will only make me hate you more.” Halston swallowed, and the pain in his throat brought a frown to his face. He was still very weak, but his dangerous aura filled people with trepidation.
“Hmph, all you care about is me?” Seraphina scoffed, acting like she had heard the most preposterous joke. “Stop fooling yourself. We’re not stupid. Don’t you know who you care about? I didn’t want to do this, but you don’t care about me lately. You always have an excuse when I want to meet you.
In the end, it was because you were with that woman… I’m your fiancee and we’re going to get married soon, but you spent all your days with that woman in the hospital. You even went fishing with a doctor to save her brother, but you say that you have nothing to do with her and all you care about is me?” She burst out, resentment and dissatisfaction clear in her tone.
Seraphina narrowed her eyes at him. “If I did nothing about it and let you be intimate with her, I’d have to suffer the pain of being abandoned by you again. The whole of Beach City knows that we’re about to get married. I can’t be humiliated like that, let alone my family!”
“Yes, maybe I didn’t handle it well, but that isn’t a reason for you to harm people.” Halston’s gaze was icy. He had only now realized just how horrible Seraphina really was. “I’m going to hold a press conference to call off our marriage.”
“What?” Seraphina grabbed his hand and burst into tears. *
Halston, stop messing around. You said you love me the most and will be with me forever. This is just a small conflict. Why do you want to call off our marriage?”
“I did want to spend the rest of my days with you, but you’ve let me down. I doubt if the person I love is you.”
“Halston, what do you mean? You remember what happened between us, don’t you? We made so many memories together. Why aren’t I the one you love?” Seraphina panicked when she heard his words, worried if Halston had recalled something.
After all, Seraphina had done something dishonorable with Halston’s brain surgery.
She had replaced Flossie in his mind with her so she could win all his love.
However, he was being so cruel to her now that she wondered if the surgery had lost its effect.
“That was the past.
Now I know for sure that you’re not the one I like.” Halston’s answer was blunt and honest, filling her with despair.
Halston’s words might be cruel, but he could no longer lie to himself.
He knew that she was not the type that could bewitch him, and he couldn’t figure out how they fell so madly in love with each other in the past.
“If I’m not the one you like, then who is?” Seraphina choked on her tears, her eyes wild.
“It’s Flossie, isn’t it? She charmed you the moment you saw her, and you changed your mind.
Didn’t you even consider that I only did it because I love you? You forced me to doit!” “Yes.” Halston nodded.
“So I’ll bear the consequences.
You were the one who pulled off Quinton’s oxygen mask, but it was because of me.
However, Flossie wasn’t cruel enough…
She didn’t kill me.” When he chose to hide the truth and protect Seraphina, he knew that he had inexplicably become her accomplice.
He had been prepared to be killed by Flossie, and thought it would all be over but …
‘Flossie, you’re too kind!’ “Halston, what do you mean? Did Flossie do this to you?” Francine had opened the door and come in, and when she heard his words, she dropped the bowl of chicken soup in her hands.
Seraphina immediately went to Francine and held the latter’s arms, complaining.
“Madam Francine, hurry up and talk some sense into Halston.
That woman nearly killed him, but he wants to call off our marriage for her.
My family and I will be greatly embarrassed.
Please do something!” “Oh, stop crying.
Leave this to me…” Francine patted Seraphina’s shoulders and comforted the latter gently.
Looking solemn, she walked up to Halston.
“Were you telling the truth? Did that woman do this to you?” “Yes, she did…
but I deserved it.” “You’re even defending her!” Francine massaged her temples, feeling her blood pressure rising.