Chapter 139: Evidence?
Chapter 139: Evidence?
(Ethan’s POV)
Looking at the petite woman in front of me, kissing me intimately with a pained expression, my mind flashed back to the five years we had spent together. During those years, because of my misunderstanding and prejudice towards her, I had deliberately ignored her.
I didn’t see her kindness, didn’t accept her devotion, and didn’t take anything she did to heart. Only in this way, I felt, had I not betrayed Victoria.
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I thought I had truly ignored her completely. But now, I could clearly recall every detail of our time together.
Her gentleness, her understanding, her deliberate attempts to please me… She had been completely devoted to me. The image of the Olivia who loved me deeply in my memory
contrasted sharply with the cold Olivia before me.
I felt a prickling pain in my heart. I closed my eyes abruptly, not daring to look anymore.
I just continued to let the bits and pieces from five years ago surface in my mind, as if, in this way, Olivia hadn’t changed. Lost in memories, my breathing gradually deepened.
Finally, I couldn’t help but take the initiative. Olivia was forced to endure.
Her back against the door, her body remained stiff. No matter what I did, she couldn’t respond.
All she felt was repulsion and endless coldness. She thought she couldn’t escape this time.
But unexpectedly, I only kissed her deeply and shallowly. In the end, I didn’t go too far. I
stopped.
Olivia subconsciously opened her eyes. Our eyes met.
Mine were dark and filled with desire. Hers were clear and cold, without a trace of indulgence.
After staring at each other silently for a few seconds, I let her go and turned to take a cold shower in the bathroom. Olivia walked to the Master Bath Suite, picked up her Ivory–Handled Toothbrush, and started brushing her teeth, trying to erase my scent.
I came out of the shower and saw Olivia still brushing her teeth. My face instantly darkened.
I strode over and snatched Olivia’s toothbrush. “Enough.”
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“Liv, since you’ve compromised, why torture yourself? Just follow your heart. Can’t we start over? Isn’t that good?”
She used to like it. She enjoyed it too. As long as she was willing, I would do my best to make it up to her, to compensate her and Lily for everything I owed them.
“Ha.” Olivia sneered. “Start over? Ethan, you’re truly ridiculous. Is Lily’s life so insignificant?”
(Victoria’s POV)
At Rosewood Haven, I hadn’t slept all night. The next day, in the evening, I called Connor
Blackthorn.
“Con, I’m waiting for you at home,” I said sweetly into the phone.
This was the first time Connor had come to my home in the evening. But he still habitually disguised himself.
Wearing maintenance worker’s overalls, he walked into my home. Only I was at home, sitting
on the sofa.
Seeing Connor walk in, I immediately called out softly, “Con~”
Connor didn’t, as he had in the past, immediately rush over like an eager pup as soon as I
called. He looked at me, his gaze deep, with a hint of anticipation in the depths of his eyes.
“Vicky, have you thought it through?” he asked cautiously.
“Yes!” I nodded emphatically.
Connor’s tense body finally relaxed because of my nod. He hadn’t slept all night either.
The process of waiting for me to contact him was agonizing. He was afraid that I wouldn’t be
willing to leave with him and Emma.
“Vicky, when Emma comes back from school, we’ll tell her that I’m her real father, okay?”
Connor asked, his eyes shining with hope.
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“Okay,” I smiled tenderly.
That one word “okay” brought tears to Connor’s eyes. After longing for it day and night, this
wish was finally coming true.
“Vicky, I love you,” Connor couldn’t hold back any longer.
He stepped forward excitedly, his eyes red, touched my face, and lowered his head to kiss me.
It was still half an hour before Emma finished at school.
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Connor was very excited now and kissed me passionately. I didn’t refuse.
I let Connor kiss me frantically. I even impatiently tore open my nightgown.
Connor was stunned. Then he looked at me with a wicked smile.
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Connor no longer restrained himself and pushed me into the sofa. He pressed my hands with
his own and treated me the way I liked.
At this moment, the door suddenly opened from the outside, and Ethan Stone rushed into the
living room. He saw the two entangled figures in the living room.
At the same time, my shrill and desperate cries rang out in the living room, “No! Don’t touch
me! Let me go!”
(Connor’s POV)
I was caught up in the moment and didn’t hear the door open, so naturally I didn’t know that
Ethan had come in. Victoria’s sudden struggle, resistance, and cries didn’t make me
suspicious.
I only thought she was too into the act. So I cooperated with her role–playing, assuming the
posture of an abuser, suppressing Victoria.
I pretended to be rough and sneered, “Scream! Scream louder! The louder you scream, the
more excited I get! Now that you’ve fallen into my hands, let’s see who can save you!”
I was too absorbed in my performance, I didn’t notice the triumphant smile that flashed
across the corner of Victoria’s mouth. Until Victoria cried out in my arms, “Ethan, save me!”
I was stunned when I heard the name “Ethan.” My first reaction was that I had misheard.
But the next second, I felt a strong force grip the back of my neck and yank me up. The other
party was very strong.
I, who was nearly six feet tall, was easily pulled up by the other party. Before I could react to
the sudden situation, I was kicked hard in the chest.
The kick was extremely powerful, sending me staggering back several steps. I lost my balance and fell to the ground.
My back and the back of my head hit the ground hard, and a sharp pain shot through me.
Just as I was about to get up, the security guards who had followed Ethan in stepped on my
chest, pinning me down. It was only then that I saw clearly who had arrived: it was Ethan
Stone.
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I wondered how Ethan could have appeared here so coincidentally. Then I saw Victoria, disheveled on the sofa, suddenly throw herself into Ethan’s arms and cry, “Ethan, it’s a good thing you arrived in time. Waaah… I was almost r***d by him.”
(Ethan’s POV)
My face was terrifyingly gloomy. Anger surged in my eyes.
I quickly took off my overcoat and draped it over Victoria. I turned to look at Connor, my eyes
like those of a dead man.
Not long ago, Victoria had called me. On the phone, she had said fearfully, “Ethan, I keep feeling like someone is following me. Can you come and stay with me? I’m really scared.”
Her voice was filled with terror. Seven years ago, Victoria had been attacked, and she was particularly sensitive about this.
I, worried about what might happen, had told the security guards responsible for Victoria’s safety to go to Rosewood Haven immediately to protect her. I had also driven over myself.
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Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered, I saw Victoria being held down on the sofa and assaulted. And the person trying to violate her was actually Connor Blackthorn, the culprit who had tampered with Olivia’s brakes and caused her car accident and fall into the river.
(Connor’s POV)
Lying on the ground, I heard Victoria accuse me of trying to r**e her, and I felt as if I had been struck by lightning. I belatedly realized that everything had been planned.
Ethan’s appearance was no coincidence. The words Victoria had just said to me were not true
either.
She had never intended to leave with me and Emma. Not only that, but she also wanted to use
Ethan’s hand to deal with me.
The moment this thought crossed my mind, my heart felt as if it had been stabbed, bleeding profusely. I was both heartbroken and sad.
I had already witnessed Ethan’s methods two years ago in Olivia’s case. If Ethan really
believed that I was trying to r**e Victoria, he would definitely send me to prison, and, as two years ago, I would be given the harshest sentence.
Two years ago, after the incident with Olivia, I had willingly gone to prison for them. Because I
loved Victoria deeply, and because I thought that Victoria, like me, loved and cherished our
daughter and would take good care of her.
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I had been very relieved to leave Emma with Victoria. Now, I knew that she was abusing
Emma.
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Thinking of the needle marks and bruises on Emma’s body, thinking of what Dorothy had said, that many times, Emma had come out of Victoria’s room with a swollen face, thinking of the video she had shown me of Emma’s pitiful appearance in the freezing cold, what I had seen
might just be the tip of the iceberg.
Without me watching over her, if Emma was left with Victoria again, who knew how much more Emma would suffer. I couldn’t bear to see my precious daughter hurt again.
So, I couldn’t go to jail. Moreover, I had to get Emma back and keep her by my side.
But this meant that I would have to hurt Victoria, the woman I loved to the core. On one side was the woman I loved deeply, and on the other was my precious daughter.
While I was torn, Ethan walked up to me, his voice like ice shards. “You want to die that much,
huh?”
His words fell, and he kicked me. A sharp pain shot through my ribs again, and I screamed in
agony.
I curled up on the ground, drenched in cold sweat. In the midst of extreme pain, I still couldn’t help but look past Ethan at Victoria, who was leaning against the sofa a few steps away.
In my heart, I still held a glimmer of hope for her. Maybe I was wrong.
Maybe Ethan’s appearance was really an accident, and Victoria had only said those things out
of fear and desperation. But…
I met a pair of very indifferent eyes. There wasn’t a trace of affection for me in those tear–filled
eyes.
My heart instantly plunged into an icy abyss. I could no longer deceive myself.
Victoria really wanted to send me to my death. The scales that had been wavering in my heart
tipped towards my daughter.
Just as Ethan was about to kick me again, my eyes turned red, and I shouted, “Alpha Stone, I didn’t force Victoria. It was Victoria who called me here. She was willing, she has always been
willing.”
I said this also to let Ethan know about my relationship with Victoria. Once Ethan knew everything and abandoned Victoria, Victoria would have no way out and could only take Emma
and be with me.
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Ultimately, I still wanted to be with Victoria and Emma, a family of three, forever. I didn’t want
to lose them.
“Do you think I’m blind?” Ethan thought of the scene he had witnessed upon entering, and his eyes were filled with anger.
He kicked me hard in the chest again. I couldn’t withstand it, and blood trickled down the
corner of my mouth.
Despite the intense pain, I didn’t give up. Driven by the conviction in my heart, I continued, “Mr. Stone, everything I said is true.”
“Ethan, I didn’t! He’s slandering me!” Victoria sat on the sofa, looking at me with disbelief,
screaming in distress, her face filled with the pain of being wrongly accused:
“Vicky, am I slandering you, or are you lying?” I looked at Victoria and asked heartbrokenly.
Ethan looked at me. The way I called “Vicky” sounded so natural, and the look in my eyes
when I looked at Victoria was too affectionate.
It made him, who had unwavering faith in Victoria, feel a flicker of doubt in his heart. Ethan
looked at me, his eyes as if trying to see through me.
After a moment, he suddenly asked, “Evidence?”
