Victor instinctively stepped in front of me. He picked up the red cape used for bullfighting and covered me entirely.
Shivering, he looked at the newcomer with a fawning smile. “Uncle Antonio, are you here to watch our rehearsal?
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I could’ve come to pick you up.”
Antonio narrowed his eyes, his expression cold. “Why do you have Grace’s phone?”
Victor glanced at the blood–stained phone in his palm and hesitantly asked, “Uncle Antonio, does Grace have any connection with your guys?
“Otherwise, how could I have answered her lover’s call and ended up speaking to you?”
At the mention of the word “lover,” Antonio’s face darkened instantly.
“Lover?”
“Well, they say family scandals shouldn’t be aired in public, but you’re involved in this after all.”
“It’s about my wife… The one my mother forced me to marry. I didn’t even attend the wedding. She must have held a grudge and ended up getting involved with some other man. She’s even pregnant with his child and trying to pin it on me.
“She never steps outside. Thinking it over, she could only have interacted with bodyguards or drivers in the house.
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“I was just teaching her a lesson…”
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Antonio pulled out a gun, the click of loading echoing in the air.
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He raised it, pointing it directly at Victor’s forehead. “Lover? Do I look like a lover to you?”
Victor broke into a cold sweat, raising his hands, trembling.
“I… I wasn’t talking about you…”
Victoria playfully skipped onto the scene, spinning in front of Antonio with an innocent and sweet smile.
“Uncle Antonio, how do I look in this outfit? If you’re interested in today’s performance, why not take a seat and enjoy the show?”
Trying to ease the tension, she giggled. “Even if you didn’t come today, you’d get to see a great show tomorrow anyway.
“You see, Grace insisted that the baby in her belly is yours. So Eline and I worked together to teach her a lesson on your behalf, Uncle Antonio.
“Uh…”
Antonio suddenly grabbed her by the throat.
His guys finally arrived late, leaning in to whisper a report into his ear.
“Mr. Kaufman, the doctor we arranged for Ms. Parrish’s prenatal checkup at the hospital informed us… She’s been taken away.”
Barely conscious of the torment, I finally heard a familiar voice. I whimpered, trying to call out, but my throat had already given out.
I didn’t even make a beep.
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Across half the stage, Antonio finally noticed the bundle wrapped in the
red cape.
As soon he lifted the cape, a bloody scene unfolded.
“Call an ambulance!”
Antonio held me tightly, his entire body exuding a chilling and even murderous aura.
“Who did this? Was it them?”
The three stood frozen in place, too terrified to move. They nearly fainted from fear.
“Gracie, if only I had come sooner.
“I rushed to conclude the peace talks in Italy. I was so eager to return and see you, but I never imagined you would suffer like this!”
He wiped away my tears gently with my calloused fingers, which were accustomed to holding a gun.
I kept bleeding, soaking the carpet beneath me.
Antonio trembled as he lifted his blood–stained hands, letting out a guttural roar of pain.
“Don’t be afraid, Gracie. I’m taking you away right now.”
At the moment he rose, the beasts who had been prowling around me grew restless. Victor immediately struck, blinding the one who tried to lunge forward.
Blood splattered across Victor’s clothes, dampening his pants.
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Antonio picked me up before turning to the three who had already been restrained by his guys. His voice was ice–cold. “Tie them up and take them to the hospital with us. If anything happens to Gracie, they’ll die.”
Eline and Victoria shivered, their faces pale.
Victoria clutched Antonio’s pants, refusing to come. “Uncle Antonio, what do you see in her? Why do you protect her like this? The baby she’s carrying is nothing but a bastard!
“If you don’t believe me, just have Eline cut her open and do a DNA test! She’s a lying whore, Uncle Antonio. You can’t let her deceive you!”
Antonio kicked her away, his bloodthirsty gaze full of hatred.
“Get lost.”
Victoria collapsed onto the floor, unable to believe what had just happened.
So, the woman was really carrying Uncle Antonio’s baby?
If that was true, they had just killed the rightful heir of the Kaufman family.
Not only would Antonio never forgive her, but the entire Kaufman family would never let her go. She had just lost all her privilege as the adopted daughter in the family.
Unlike Eline, ‘she had no baby to rely on.
The thought sent a chill through her entire body.
In ICU…
Having finished examining me, the doctor shook his head regretfully
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Antonio remained by my bedside, watching the surveillance footage from the hospital. His fists clenched so tightly that even his knuckles turned white.
One of his guys rushed in.
“The three of them claim that they know nothing. All of them said they did it for the interest of the Kaufman family.”
Antonio sneered. “They know anything?
“They showed no mercy when Grace explained it to them over and over again.
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“Now. Whatever they did to Grace in that hospital, they’ll suffer the exact same thing.
“Since they’re so stubborn, start by giving them a hundred lashes with a whip every day.”
My body was covered in wounds, stitched together with hundreds of
sutures.
I lay there motionless, breathing faintly with the help of the ventilator.
Antonio glanced at me before turning back.
“I will make them take the price of harming my woman.”
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