Chapter 17
The phone dropped from Ethan’s hand.
His eyes widened in shock.||
What the hell? Is this some kind of sick joke? Did Scarlett put you up to this? Where is she? Take me to her now:
“I want to see how much she paid you to tell such a ridiculous lie for her
His assistant didn’t move. Instead, he handed Ethan a file (
Boss… these are Scarlett’s medical records. She had liver cancer. It was diagnosed over a month ago,
Ethan staggered, nearly falling over.
Over a month ago)
That was exactly when he’d cheated on her for the ninety–ninth time right in front of her ||
That day he’d watched her humiliation with amusement.[]
He even had his date wear Scarlett’s pajamas to mock her
Check it out! Looks better on her than on you, right?” ||
“Hey Scarlett! Ninety-ninth times, huh? You still hanging around after all
f all this shit?
Memories rushed back like pages caught in the wind
No wonder she looked so awful that day!
No wonder she got thinner and more ja
Jaundiced every day.
And he’d laughed at her, humiliated her.
Ethan’s chest tightened so much he could barely breathe.
le never imagined hearing about Scarlett’s death would hurt this much:[]
He
How could this be? Shouldn’t lie be happy?
His fists denched tighter and tighter.[
Just as his assistant started to speak again, Ithan shoved him aside and bolted out the door.
He rushed to Tania’s apartment.
His got told him Tania must know something:
How could Scarlett be dead? It wasn’t possible
That had to be it – Tania was a nurse. She must have helped Scarlen lake the medical record|||
Scarlet just wanted to laumiliate him, to make him look foolish ||
He pounded frantically on Tania’s door ||
Sann, the door slowly opened ||
Compared to his frantic alger. Tanis seened cerily calm ||
He lunged forward, grabbing her cullar |
“Tell me Where’s Scarlet? Where the fuck is she? Are you hiding her? What game are you two playing? How could scarlett be dead? É
“The can’t be dead! She just cant||
Tania remainest calui
pushed Ethan’s hands away![]
She calmly pushed
Then she turned to get the third letter.
Seeing this. Ethan snatched the letter and tore it to pieces, throwing them to the floor.[]
“Enough! Just tell me one thing! Scarlet… is she really sick?“]
Tania noticed he couldn’t even say the word “dead”
She found in darkly amusing.
“No.”
Ethan’s eyes darted to her, filled with hope.
But Tania’s next words felt like being pushed into an endless abyss.[]
Not sick. Dead“]
“Dead. Do you understand? Scarlett is DEADE
Her slender finger pointed to the pleces on the floor.
She looked at Ethan with contempt
“Don’t you want to read it? Thats her final message to you.”
Ethan’s eyes followed her finger
The scattered paper fragments, stirred by a light breeze, still showed traces of writing.
Ethan stepped back.
“No way… this can’t be real
Someone like Scarlett is tougher than weeds. How could she possibly die?
Tania’s eyes were red as if bleeding. Her fists clenched
She bent down to pick up the pieces than had torn.
Without a word, she walked up to Ethan
She stuffed them all into his hands.
“Take a good book. This line it’s real
With that, she turned and left
In his dazed state, Jahan stared at die straps in his hands.|
He hadn’t really listened to Tanis words]
This time it’s real?
Had there been lanes when it wasnT7||
