Chapter 1 Everything for Her


    Audrey Watson died at 22.


    She was disfigured. Her legs were broken. Before she died, she had been confined to the basement for a year.


    Abuse and torture happened to her every day. When she died, she was scrawny, her face unrecognizable.


    Her b*dy was dumped in a mountain. She died with her eyes open. But someone looked for her b*dy day and night until he found


    her.


    It was a man wearing a ck overcoat. He appeared in the dark, creepy woods and strode over.


    In the shadows under the night, Audrey, who had be a ghost, couldn’t see the man’s face. But he emitted an overbearing


    and menacing aura.


    He bent and went down on one knee before the stinky b*dy.


    His slender and well-shaped fingers gently caressed Audrey''s unrecognizable face.This text is property of N?/velD/rama.Org.


    Audrey''s ghost went closer to him. Her gaze went upward from the man’s Adam’s apple.


    With chiseled features, his face was impable, like a heavenly work.


    Audrey looked at him in disbelief.


    It was Sterling Howard!


    In Audrey’s senior year in high school, she had seen him as her archenemy.


    Who would have thought that Sterling would be the one collecting her b*dy?


    Back then, Audrey was foolish and did unforgettable harm to him. She had thought Sterling must hate her guts.


    Sterling stared at Audrey’s swollen, rotting face with his ck, intense eyes. Suddenly, he reached out and gathered the b*dy in


    his arms.


    Sterling took her to an ind with chirping birds and blooming flowers. It was a resort called Dream Ind, Audrey’s favorite


    vacation destination when she was alive.


    Then, it became personal property and was no longer open to visitors.


    Now, the lively ambiance was gone. A patch of lilies and sunflowers, Audrey’s favorite flowers, were grown before the fancy vi.


    The b*dy was so hideous that even Audrey was too frightened to look, but the tall and upright Sterling didn’t seem to mind.


    Holding Audrey’s b*dy, he walked straight into the house.


    After a moment of hesitation, Audrey also entered the vi.


    Apiece of news was being broadcast on therge liquid crystal disy in the living room.


    “An explosion took ce in Soulpath Church at 10 a.m. on June 20, 2020. The bridegroom Corbin Howard and the bride Kelsey


    Cole died on the spot. The police have investigated the case. Sterling Howard, the new young head of the Darnell n and the


    richest man in the world, is considered the main suspect...”


    “Sterling is said to have suffered from severe depression. He’s cold, entric, paranoid, and grumpy...”


    Learning about the death of Corbin and Kelsey, Audrey shivered all over. She clenched her fists so tightly that her fingernails


    stuck deep into her palms. Now that revenge had been taken, the pent-up hatred in her chest vanished, reced by excitement


    and happiness!


    The venomous Corbin and Kelsey, who tore her family apart and tortured her to death, finally got what they deserved!


    It served them right!


    But did Sterling kill them?


    motion came from the basement. Audrey moved over.


    Sterling had taken off his overcoat. He was wearing a neat, exquisite ck shirt, the top two buttons unbuttoned. Audrey had


    been put in a ss casket. Bending, Sterling was changing her clothes andbing her hair.


    The back of his shirt became taut when he bent, entuating his aloof, sturdy, and tall figure.


    Audrey hadn''t seen him again after high school.


    Her eyes reddened as she watched Sterling slowly smooth the tangles of her dry and yellow hair with his slender, clean fingers.


    Her lips slightly trembled when she said, “I hurt you deeply. Why don’t you cut me to pieces?”


    But Sterling couldn’t hear her.


    Seeing that Audrey was neat, he took out a cyan ceramic bottle and raised his smooth-lined and aloof jaw.


    Audrey knew it was poison in the bottle from the smell. Panic and disbelief filled her eyes. “Sterling, what are you doing?


    “You already avenged my death. And now, you’re gonnamit suicide for me? I’m not worth it!


    “Sterling, don’t do this. Do you hear me?”


    Audrey shouted and screamed to stop him, but it was useless.


    Sterling gulped the poison and slowlyy down in the ss casket.


    He turned his head, looked at Audrey with his abyss-like ck eyes, and held her rotten hand. Then, he whispered in her ear ina


    deep, husky voice, “Audrey, | kept my promise.”


    To hell with the promise. When did Sterling make a promise to her?


    Blood flowed out of Sterling''s mouth. Audrey’s head seemed to explode. A sharp pain seized her heart. She cried out in despair


    like a beast, “Sterling!”