Chapter 5

The moment the video connected, Ethan's furious voice came through.

"Lily Lynn! You made a mistake and won't let me criticize you? How dare you hang up on me!"

The next second, his voice cut off abruptly.

Because what he saw wasn't my face, but Damien's cold, cruel expression.

Damien sneered. "You're right. She did make a mistake. Her mistake was driving the price up to eighty million before backing down, making me waste all that money."

"So I'm going to punish her."

With that, he raised a finger slightly. A bodyguard beside him swung a club viciously into my back.

I coughed up blood.

Damien spoke again.

"Ethan Chase, if you come back right now to trade places with her, I'll consider sparing her life."

Blood covering my face, I begged the Ethan on screen. "Ethan, save me!"

His face went deathly pale.

"Damien Foster, don't touch her! I'm coming back right now. Wait for me!"

But then Sophia's and Eric's voices came through the video.

"Ethan, today is the day we're getting our marriage license. You promised to celebrate with me. And Eric has been looking forward to this day for so long. Can't you bear to disappoint us?"

"Daddy, Eric doesn't want Daddy to leave. Can't Daddy just stay with us for one day? Please, Daddy..."

Ethan hesitated.

I trembled, pleading desperately. "Ethan Chase, please come back and save me."

Finally, Ethan looked up at me, apology in his eyes.

"Lily, I have something very important here and can't get away right now. I'll head back first thing tomorrow morning. I believe you'll find a way to hold on until then."

"When I get back, we'll have the wedding right away, okay? Just hang in there."

I laughed---laughed wildly, laughed miserably.

Damien immediately grabbed the phone and said to Ethan on screen, "I don't have that much patience to wait for you. New York to Las Vegas---four hours is enough. Ethan Chase, you choose."

Ethan choked.

He turned to look at Sophia and Eric, their eyes full of pleading.

He gritted his teeth. "I'll definitely be there by eight tomorrow morning. Damien Foster, don't touch Lily!"

I gave the screen a desperate smile.

"Ethan Chase, forget it. I'm tired of waiting."

With that, I looked at Damien and said calmly, "If you want revenge, do it."

Damien didn't hesitate for a second. He reached out and shoved me hard.

My body went light as I fell over the edge of the rooftop.

Wind roared past my ears, along with Ethan's hysterical roar from the phone.

"Lily! No!"

I closed my eyes.

Ethan Chase.

I'll never interfere with your family of three again.

Never again.