Chapter 10
The massive screen behind the altar flickered to life, displaying not the romantic montage of thias and Scarlett that guests expected, but something that made the rround rollectively gasp–explicit videos featuring a woman who was unmistakably Scarletl
The Scarlett on screen bore no resemblance to the demure, traditional woman Dias thought he knew. This version was aggressive, uninhibited, and clearly in control of each encounter. Most disturbing was the parade of different men–none of them Elias–who appeared alunguide her in various hotel rooms.
Ilias felt as though he’d been punched in the stomach. This couldn’t be the same woman who had insisted on waiting until their wedding night, who claimed to have had only one boyfriend before him. The woman who blushed when he kissed her in public and built her entire persona around traditional values!
Shocked murmurs rippled through the crowd. Several guests raised phones to capture the unfolding disaster, while others averted their eyes in embarrassment.]
Scarlett clutched Elias’s arm, her face contorted with panic. “Illas, baby, this is all fake someone doctored these videos!” Her voice cracked with desperation You know me. I would never do something so disgusting. Someone’s trying to ruin our special day!”
Trom the front row, Thas’s mother rose to her fees, her expression glacial. “Elias James Delaney, a woman like this cannot become part of this family. End this embarrassment now.”
haar, Elias’s best man, leaned in close. “Dude… those videos don’t look edited. The lighting, the different locations… that’s high–level production if it’s take
But when Elias looked at Scarlett’s tear filled eyes, something in him hardened. He’d already chosen her over Charlotte repeatedly. He couldn’t be wrong about her–not after everything he’d sacrificed.
He grabbed Scarlett’s hand and turned to face the crowd.
“Enough” he shouted, his voice echoing across the beach. “I believe Scarlett. This is clearly sabotage, and i will find whoever is responsible.
He fixed the guests with an icy stare. Anyone who shares a single frame of these fabricated videos will find themselves blacklisted from every social and business catle in New York by tomorrow morning. That’s not a threat–it’s a promise.-]]
The murmurs immediately died down. Everyone present knew Eliss h
s had the connections to make good on that threat
Just as the officiant nervously prepared to continue, Ellas’s assistant hurried forward, discreetly passing him a mandla folder with URGENT 16
stamped across it
Scarlett noticed and quickly tried to redirect his attention,
en, her fingers digging into his arm. “Elias, please, let’s finish the ceremony first. Everyone’s waiting.
But it was too late. Ellas had already opened the folder and begun sening its contents, his expression shifting from confusion to disbelief to horror with each turning page.
The documents contained meticulously gathered evidence of Scarlets deceptions. The sex tape allegedly created by Charlotte had actually been Scarlett’s doing Sturlett had approached him initially to pay off gandiling debts to dangerous people. Each manipulation was detailed with dates, screenshots, and witness
When he reached the final page, Dias physically staggered backward as though struck ||
The color drained from his face as he read the nundiral reports, Scarlett’s kidney condition–due very reason Charlotte had donated her kulvey–bad been self inflicted. She had deliberately ingested antifreeze mixed with juice over several weeks, creating kidney damage that would bind Elias to her through guilt and obligatiun
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Charlumes pale face as she agreed to donate her kidney. His own cruel word “Everyone che can live or die—I just need you to get better. The slap hed delivered when fir accused hier of stealing. Her silent tears as stor gathered the insken pieces of her father’s pendant. The way bed humiliated her by exposing her private letten. Her voice, suit but determined. The nutapierested in you anymore. His
And most damming of all–he had forced her to undergo major
without anesthena for a woman who had orchestrated her own cordical crisis |
“My God he whispered, has youre
Voice breaking
What have I done? []
The wedding collapsed into chans. After the guests were ushered away by security. This systematically destroyed the elaborate decorations, ripping down flower walls and overturning tables with barely controlled rage. The custom designed diamond ring he’d spent months selecting was hudleil lato tur serati with all has strengh ||
Talan, pleaser Scarten begged, tears streaming down her perfectly made up face. “Let me explain I did it because I love you so much–I was desperate
thes condidit even look at her. Derry word from her mouth nove sounded like potion All he could see was Charlotte’s face–Charlone who had never lied to Jin, who had sarrihend for him again and again, who he hail driven away with curlly and indifference.||
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When the destruction was complete, he made a phone call in a private medical facility, scheduling an
Tility minutes later, Scarlett found herself strapped to an operating talde in a private clinic, her pleas for merry falling on deaf ears||
“No anesthesia.” Dias instructed the surgeon coldly, a terrible symmetry to his decision. She doesn’t deserve IL-|||
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As Scarlets screams filled the operating roots, blood soaking through her voedding goven, Ellas watched impossively. The kidney that had est would be returned–one way or mother.||
But even a justice was served. Eisas knew with crashing critainty that no amount of retribution agidust Scarlent could undo what he had done to Charlotte. The realization settled over him like a shroud he had lost the one person who had truly loved him, and he had no one to blame but himself ||
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