Chapter 273


    Chapter 273


    The atmosphere around Bryant plummeted as he steadied his grip on the gun. aiming it directly at Dorothy


    Dorothy shook her head frantically. “No... please, Bryant, don''t...


    But Bryant''s expression was stone—cold, unyielding. Yet, when our


    eyes met for a fleeting second. I caught a glimpse of the profound restmint hidden deep within his gaze.


    Jarrod was still counting down, “Two...”


    Bryant clenched his jaw, his wrist giving a slight twitch as he cocked the gun single-handedly.


    “One...


    The gunshot echoed — but in that critical moment, Bryant swiveled the gun away from Dorothy and aimed it squarely at me!


    I was paralyzed, my blood running cold


    So, it was me he was willing to forsake all along.


    Even if it meant my death.


    my vision blurring.


    Despair seeped into my very bones in an instant, as I stared nkly in Bryant''s direction, my


    Though the anticipated pain never arrived, a piercing agony throbbed somewhere deep inside me.


    Tm doing this willingly...”


    “Trying to win you back...”


    “TIl take the next ny-nine steps, just stay here and don''t back out on thest one.”


    “Jane, I’m serious, and I will make amends. I can’t lose you"


    Im the one with impure thoughts.”


    “No matter what happens, you have to trust me.”


    All the promises of winning back his wife, all the derations of profound love, turned into a cruel joke in that moment.


    All lies.


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    It was me who was foolish, naively hoping he would choose to save me...


    He would never choose me. Never


    How could I be so naive?


    Jarrodughed again, "Haha, Mr. Ferguson, don’t be mad, it was just a joke. One is Ms. Myers, the other your wife, for now, at least. I wouldn''t dare te


    “But I must say, Mr. Ferguson, even you can’t escape the age old tale of chasing something new and discarding the old!”


    A thinyer of frost seemed to cover Bryant''s dark expression, "Can we go now?


    “Since you''ve chosen Ms. Myers, of course, you can take her with you, by all means!” Jarred said.


    it know him, it would be invisible.


    The man who had assured me of his trust that morning didn''t even spare me a nce now. He went straight to Dorothy, untied the ropes binding her,


    Bryant walked over his face a mask of barely discernible struggle. To anyone who didn''t


    “Jarrod, Bryant scoffed, as if he''d


    heard the-world’ s funniest joke, i.


    disdainfully retorting, “what makes


    you think I would give up significant


    profittor an ex-wife? Hast she held


    me-back enough?” Content. ‘belongs


    to“ “


    Jarrod tentatively spoke up. “Mr.


    Ferguson, what about Mrs.


    FergusonaJf you insist on taking ￠


    both, wetean make it work. We could


    negotiate the West End project”


    terms; just cede another twenty


    peréent of the profits to us.“Content


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    in such a


    Hisst words were crystal clear, yet deeply cutting, stabbing right into my heart with sharp precision, causing me a jolt of pain.


    I looked up to see a faint smile on his face, as if he was merely engaging in light banter.


    In that moment, a wave of bittemess surged up to my throat.