Chapter 8
Looking at him like this just made me sick.[]
Being stalked by someone you despise is absolutely disgusting.[]
“Grayson, you’re not doing this because you know you were wrong. You’re doing it to make yourself feel less guilty.“[]
Grayson froze, then shook his head frantically. “No, that’s not it. I want you back. I can’t lose you.“]]
“You want me back?“]
I glared at him with pure venom. “Who the hell do you think you are? My mom died because of you!“]
Grayson’s face went deathly pale, despair flooding his eyes.[]
He knew it then. We were over. Forever.]
How had it come to this?]
He’d just wanted to repay Mirena. He’d just…]
Maybe he’d been briefly swayed by Mirena’s fake innocent act.[]
But deep down, he’d always loved his wife.[]
Otherwise why would he have defied his family’s objections to marry someone they considered “beneath him“?]]
He’d only wanted to repay a debt. He just underestimated how evil people could be.]
Silas hired the best legal team to prosecute Mirena.[]
She was charged with arson and homicide.[]
The Langfords threw her under the bus to save their reputation.[]
The trial was a media circus.[]
Reporters shoved microphones in Mirena’s face.[]
“Why did you start the fire?“]
“What did you have against the victim?”
Mirena was led out in shackles, her eyes wild, her face haggard.[]
She looked straight into the camera and burst into maniacal laughter.[]
“Because I don’t have a mother!“[]
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“She knew I was motherless, but that bitch kept flaunting how good her mom was to her…“[]
“If I can’t have it, neither can she.“]]
The courtroom erupted in chaos.]
The livestream exploded online.[]
【This woman is absolutely psychotic.]
[Disgusting. Hope she rots in hell.]
【She’s jealous that other people have mothers? What a freak!] []
Grayson testified as a witness.[]
But in the end, he voluntarily confessed that he’d known about my mother’s heart condition and deliberately chose not to save her.[
“I did something unforgivable. I have to pay the price.”
He looked at me with desperate, all–or–nothing resolve in his eyes.[]
Grayson got two years for negligent homicide.[]
The Langford family immediately released a statement disowning him.[]
Mirena got twenty years.[]
Only when she heard the verdict did Mirena finally panic.]
She screamed and sobbed in the courtroom.[]
“Why? Why are you doing this to me?“]
“I’m sorry! Grayson, I’m sorry! Help me! I don’t want to go to prison!“]
She was so used to being spoiled by Grayson.[]
For years, no matter what she did, he’d always taken her side.]
Even when she drove drunk and hit someone, Grayson covered for her.[]
Why was this time different?]
Grayson never looked at her once. His eyes stayed fixed on me the entire time.[]
Two years later, Grayson got out of prison.]
By then, his reputation was completely destroyed.]
The Langfords had cut him off completely.[]
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I heard he locked himself in our old house, drinking himself into oblivion every day.[]
That mansion still had scorch marks from the fire.[]
Silas wanted me to leave. “Sera, if you stay here, he’ll keep harassing you.“[]
I shook my head. “Uncle, there’s no need.“[]
I knew Silas was worried about me.]]
If I left, he’d definitely come with me.]
But his business empire was here.
I didn’t want to hold him back anymore.]]
Besides, Mom was buried here. I couldn’t leave her.[]
And I wasn’t the one who should be running away.[]
Silas tried again. “Want me to get rid of him for you?“]
“Uncle, don’t dirty your hands with trash like him. Let him rot in whatever gutter he crawled out of.“[]
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