Remarriage Failed Again Today

Annabelle Linton’s face was already swollen, but when she looked at Charles King, she appeared so serene it was as if she felt no pain at all.

"If you don’t want to get caught, you shouldn’t do the crime. You should have known this would be the outcome when you did this. Did you really think you could hold onto money that was never yours to begin with?

All that’s happened is you’re back where you started. At least you’re still able-bodied. Can’t you live a simple, peaceful life somewhere else? If you kill me, do you have any idea what the consequences will be? You’ll more than pay for it with your own lives..."

Annabelle’s calm words reached Charles King, causing him to waver.

’That’s right... I had nothing to begin with...’

Seeing Charles King’s hesitation, Faye Sheffield exploded. "Charles, we’ve come this far, do you think we’re still afraid of death? We have nothing left! Even if we stay alive, we’ll be nothing but the dregs of society, just barely surviving! Is that the kind of life you want?

No! I won’t accept this! I refuse to live like this! Besides, we’ve already kidnapped this bitch. If we don’t kill her today, do you really think she’ll let us live?"

Her final words were a rude awakening. When Charles King heard them, his hesitation was instantly replaced by a sinister glare.

"Fuck!" He glared at Annabelle Linton with venomous fury, then slapped her hard across the face. He pointed his gun at her. "I almost fell for that bitch’s tricks. Why are we wasting our breath on her? Let’s just finish her off! After we’re done with her, we’ll go after that bitch Carla King. If I’m miserable, then none of them get to be happy! If it comes to it, we’ll all die together!"

With that, he cocked the gun and aimed it right between Annabelle’s eyes.

Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Faye Sheffield stopped him.

"No." She let out a deranged, spiteful laugh, the ugliest side of human nature etched onto her features. "Don’t you think dying like this is letting her off too easy? I told you, I want her to suffer a fate... worse... than... death!"

With that, she took out her phone and dialed a number.

’Aaron Wyatt, you like this woman so much, don’t you?’

’Well, today I’m going to let you watch with your own two eyes as other men have their way with her!’

She had loved Aaron Wyatt for so many years, but she knew they were two parallel lines, destined never to cross.

She didn’t care about that.

But she would not stand by and let Annabelle Linton have the man who was so far out of her own reach!

Faye Sheffield touched her face. ’The distance between us was already vast,’ she thought, ’and now, I suppose it’s impossible to ever close it, isn’t it?’

She smiled desolately.

Her eyes welled with tears. ’It doesn’t matter anymore. Do I even care about that now?’

’It’s all over anyway!’

She dialed Aaron Wyatt’s number and approached Annabelle Linton with a syringe in her hand.

...

Piles of documents were stacked in front of Leona Grant. Normally, a man of his abilities could get through them in an hour or two, but today, several hours had passed and he hadn’t managed to read a single word.

His heart was racing with a terrible premonition. He couldn’t shake the feeling that something bad was about to happen.

Leona Grant frowned and called Annabelle Linton.

He didn’t know why, but he desperately wanted to hear her voice, even if it was just a single word.

"BEEP... We’re sorry, the number you have dialed has been switched off..."

He tried a total of five times, but he still couldn’t get through.

Leona Grant frowned and pressed the button for his intercom.

"KNOCK KNOCK—" Chase walked in. "President."

"Find out where Annabelle Linton is."

’Because of her job, Annabelle’s phone is on twenty-four hours a day. There’s no reason for it to be off.’

’Where in the world could she be?’