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My lips curled up in an icy smile–Dylan would be welcoming a few brothers soon, it seemed.
Meanwhile, John headed abroad on a business trip soon after he woke up, only sending me a text before he left: [Wait for my return. Don’t worry–I will take responsibility.]
I didn’t put much thought into it—even if taking responsibility meant giving me money, he would definitely marry me once my pregnancy test came back.
However, I just didn’t expect the wait would be such torture.
Every servant seemed to have seen the moment I left John’s study with my clothes unkempt.
They all presumed I would get together with Dylan, only for him to announce Lily as his fiancee the next day, even telling the servants to give her special treatment.
As such, they were left gossiping among each other.
“Then who did Dr. Jones hook up with?”
“Who else could it be? Must be some man she just met. She really messed up big time now, since the family forbids the
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servants hooking up without approval.”
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“You think? She always looked so prim and proper, but turns out to be so thirsty.”
Levi had seen me enter the study, but kept quiet without John’s instructions.
And as the gossip spread, Dylan was visibly in a bad mood.
Still, the servants were keen to get on Lily’s good graces by harassing me endlessly.
My laundry would end up in the dirt for no reason, caked with muddy footprints.
Even my usual drinks were filled with filth that would leave anyone retching.
“Oh, Dr. Jones. Your laundry was dropped again,” Lily said with feigned sympathy, twirling her thermos cup. “Those servants are really unruly.”
I glared coolly as she smiled smugly at me, picking up my laundry and left silent.
Meanwhile, the rumors continued to spread, with people now
claiming that I had been unruly since I was first brought into the Sullivan household.
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There were also those who called me a maneater, even spicing up the color of my underwear that I put on at work with vivid details.
“I heard Dr. Jones was having a tryst with the gardener yesterday…”
“You don’t say! I saw with my own eyes–she appeared from some corner of the garden, and her clothes were all wrinkled!”
I gritted my teeth as I endured the humiliation—the rumors were merely meant to make me leave.
Still, as I was going to look for Levi and ask him to defend me, turned into a hallway and ran headlong into Dylan.
I
He grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the nearby study, leering at me in cool disdain as he demanded, “You really love to seduce men, don’t you?”
I struggled, trying to free myself from his grip, but he was frighteningly strong.
As such, I simply smiled coolly as I shot back, “Mr. Dylan, forget believing the rumors–you’re trying to force yourself on me now?”
His grip tightened. “You’re a tramp! How dare you talk to me like that?!”
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However, I simply held his gaze in silence.
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After a while, he finally got to the point, “I know you love me. So as long as you behave, I’ll let you be my mistress.”
“I refuse,” I replied right then.
Smack!
He slapped me across the face, bellowing at the same time, “How is he better than me?! You’re really testing my patience here! Just stop seeing him already!”
caught off guard, and my lips bled.
Dylan’s gaze lingered on my face, and he appeared pained for
once.
Even his tone softened, “Quit throwing a tantrum. Other than becoming my official wife, you will get everything Lily gets.”
laughed coolly. “Like I said, I refuse.”
Dylan picked up the documents from the desk and flung it at me. “Then leave my house! This is not a place where private doctors hook up with any man she sees!”
I turned to leave, not stopping to look at him twice—leaving
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suited me just fine, so I could be spared having to watch him and Lily getting sweet on each other.
However, as soon as I left the study, I found Lily standing at the door, glaring at me venomously. “Why do you insist on coming between me and Dylan?”
I snorted. “Only someone like you would want Dylan Sullivan. I certainly don’t.”
As I strode past her, she suddenly screamed, “Dr. Jones?! What are you doing?! No!!!”
I turned, startled to see that she was already falling down the stairs.
I was still gaping and confused, while the servants hurried to Lily downstairs.
Dylan dashed out of the study, picking her up and crying in a pained voice, “Lily!”
Covered in cuts and bruises all over, Lily’s tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at Dylan and said miserably, “It’s not her fault–it’s mine. It’s normal for her to get upset that I took you away… But I just couldn’t bear to give you up…”
“Wendy Jones!” Dylan bellowed furiously. “How dare you hurt Lily! Hold her down!”
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Several servants promptly grabbed me, forcing me painfully down on my knees, leaving me gasping in pain.
As Dylan looked down at me loftily, he demanded, “Which hand did you use to push Lily?”
“I didn’t push her,” I growled through my teeth. “Check the
cameras.”
“No… There’s no reason to check,“Lily promptly sobbed in Dylan’s arms. “It’s all my fault… I fell on my own, it’s not Dr. Jones‘ fault.”
“You’re way too kind for your own good,” Dylan sighed as he gently stroked her hair. “You don’t have to defend evil people like her.”
I chuckled in self–deprecation–it didn’t matter when or where, Dylan would never believe me.
“Fine!” Dylan snapped coolly then. “Since you won’t say, I’ll break your right hand!”
“No, stop!”
I cried out in panic—as a doctor, my career would be over if my hand were broken. “Take me to the police if you want. Don’t you
dare hurt me!”
However, Dylan laughed savagely instead. “Bring me a hammer!
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Since you’re so worried, I’ll start with your little finger!”
Lily looked up in his arms and grinned spitefully at me too, leaving me gritting my teeth.
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Why did they get to torment me repeatedly when I had done nothing wrong?!
Soon, Dylan took the hammer himself, and bludgeoned my little finger.
I almost blacked out from the pain, and had to clench my jaw to stop myself from passing out, while my little finger was completely bent out of shape.
“That’s for not learning to behave,” he whispered into my ear. “What’s gotten into you? You were such a good girl in our past
lives…”
I never heard what he said after that, as the realization struck
me–he had been reborn too.
Hatred new and old swelled inside me, and I glared at him
murderously.
He raised the hammer again, and said, “Why don’t you start begging? Do that, and I’ll spare you.”
“Never!” I snarled through my teeth. “Either you die, or I do!”
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Incensed, Dylan raised the hammer in the air, but that was when an authoritative voice bellowed, “What do you think you’re
doing?!”
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