Ignoring her protests, I forced myself to start practicing shooting despite the pain. On the night with three days left on the countdown, just after Anne went in to take a shower, someone knocked on the door. From the security monitor I saw it was Yumi; I only opened the door after signaling the mercenaries to hide.
She eagerly locked the door behind her and rushed to embrace me. “Yale, I missed you so much…”
“Get out!”
Yumi didn’t listen — she leaned in and tried to kiss my lips. I opened my mouth and bit down with all my strength. The red lips that once fascinated me were shredded in an instant.
Yumi recoiled in pain and shoved me away. “Yale, let me explain. Sending you away was for your own good. Ryan’s family controls both the legal world and the underworld — you nearly killed him. I had no choice but to do that to protect you…”
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?”
She trembled, pointing at Anne who was still dripping wet and shouted, “Yale, do you even have a conscience? Who’s the one really cheating? You came all this way just to let me watch you cheat on me with my own eyes?”
Cheating on her?