Chapter 7
Ethel charged at me, but Triston stopped her.
“Huh! You’re protecting her?”
With crossed arms over her chest, she gritted her teeth and snorted. “I guess you didn’t know. She’s a slut!
“She slept with another man for eight years and had an abortion for him. What do you see in a tramp like her?
“Go away! Or I’ll have you arrested for raping me!”
With that, Ethel tore her dress and rubbed her hair. She was about to shout when someone pulled her hair and dragged her aside.
“How dare you disturb Marly’s rest!”
Benson suddenly rushed in, pulled Ethel’s hair, and kicked her in the back of her knee, ignoring her scream. “Didn’t you wanna kneel before Marly the other day? You have an opportunity now!
“Kneel! Apologize to her!”
Flustered, I took Triston’s hand subconsciously.
This sight stabbed at Benson’s heart like a knife.
He yelled hysterically, “Marly! How could you hold another man’s hand?”
Then, something seemed to dawn on him. Looking at me, he went on, “I see! You’re still mad at me.
“You’re trying to make me jealous. You wanna prove I still care about
you, don’t you?
‘Marly, you don’t have to do any of this.
“I know! I understand now.
“You’re only with this man to pay my debt.”
Amidst Benson’s excited, incoherent statement and Ethel’s intermittent curse. I figured out what happened.
Benson waited for me on his wedding day, but I didn’t show up. He flared up on the spot.
He called me nonstop and postponed the ceremony again and again. Ethel tried for hours to calm him down. In the end, she had to threaten to take her own life. Finally, Benson let the ceremony begin. But when the screen was supposed to display the wedding photos of Benson and Ethel, a video was played.
Ethel thought it was my idea and hated my guts for it. But in fact, the culprit was my mercenary dad.
The high–definition multi–angled footage of the hotel’s surveillance. camera revealed what Ethel did the other day.
Next, it was some videos of things from the past eight years, including how Ethel had told her gangster girlfriend about her target when she was at school.
“My classmate Benson is a rich fool. Some eye contact with me and he thinks I’m smitten with him.
“He’s equally loaded and young, better than those old men. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have given a damn about that inexperienced boy.”
Another video exposed how furious Ethel had been when the Grover
family declined in power.
“Shit! I chose unwisely!
“Luckily, there’s this idiot Marlene. To help the Grover family, she even begged her dad, with whom she had been out of touch for years.
