“Tell your boss to throw this woman out. Kennedy Corporation will pay the penalty. If not, this bar won’t open again.”
Without looking back, he left with Paige.
I looked at Max and Paige holding hands tightly as they leaned against each other, and my heart went completely cold.
The bar owner came running after hearing the noise. She was an old friend of mine and started cursing Max angrily, calling him a monster.
She couldn’t understand why I didn’t just take off my mask and make those two lose face.
“What difference would it make if I did or didn’t?”
She stayed quiet for a moment before sighing. “A man who won’t even let you touch him, what did you ever see in marrying him?”
I gently swirled my glass, watching the red wine shimmer under the light. It looked just like the blood Max had once shed for me when he was still a boy.
After his parents went bankrupt, they had no choice but to end their lives.
The old butler, driven by greed, sold Max like a toy. I was the little slave bought by that rich man.
To avoid being poisoned mute, I pretended to be unable to speak and only used sign language. Max stabbed the rich man in defiance and was beaten again and again, left to starve over and over.