I pulled a gun from my waist and, without hesitation, squeezed the trigger. Unfortunately, my wrist was too weak and the shot went wide. I swung the butt of the gun again and smashed it hard into Yumi’s face.
Perhaps because she’d been too confident, Yumi had completely forgotten what I was capable of.
She yanked me into her arms, licking the blood from her lips, her face inexplicably flushed with excitement:
“Baby, your strength is getting stronger and stronger. Come, let me check if there’s anywhere else that’s grown.”
The smell of cigar on her, along with those words, made me feel instantly nauseous.
Anne, hearing the commotion from the bathroom, wrapped herself hastily in a bathrobe and rushed out. “Yale, are you feeling unwell?”
Yumi’s face instantly darkened. “No wonder you never agreed to go abroad with me!”
She knew perfectly well that, because of special reasons, it was harder for my Tawner Family to go abroad than to climb to the sky.
In the end, it was my love that gave her the courage to humiliate me like this.
I suppressed the nausea in my chest and said coldly, “You cheated on me and betrayed me and you still have the nerve to question me?”