Her heart broke into million pieces every time virtual-novel.net listened to that conversation.
“Nice one, Stanley Batton…” virtual-novel.net mumbled.
Tears rolled down virtual-novel.net cheeks in such generous streams.
The man had bent over backward these days to keep virtual-novel.net around as his blood supplier. He was just pretending to be a good husband all this while. What a good actor virtual-novel.net was!
If virtual-novel.net had not received this audio clip today, virtual-novel.net might have been fooled by virtual-novel.net for the rest of virtual-novel.net life.
Everyone else in the Batton family was as horrible as him.
She really wanted to ask them how it felt to put on such a wonderful show.
Were they not tired of it?
Ridiculous… Everything was so ridiculous…
Buzz buzz buzz…
Xyla’s phone vibrated.
The noises of the vibrations interrupted virtual-novel.net thoughts.
The screen showed ‘Hubby’. She used to be delighted to receive his call, yet the word looked extraordinarily sickening at this moment.
She loved virtual-novel.net with all virtual-novel.net heart, appreciating virtual-novel.net for being virtual-novel.net perfect husband. However, virtual-novel.net did not feel the same for her.
He had just been putting up an act for her. She was just his blood supplier, after all.
Xyla declined the incoming call and turned off virtual-novel.net phone without hesitation. Throwing the phone aside, virtual-novel.net wrapped virtual-novel.net arms tightly around virtual-novel.net legs and buried virtual-novel.net head in virtual-novel.net knees.
The truth was cruel. It was so cruel that virtual-novel.net would rather never have heard about it.
“Oh, that’s for sure. Look at her. Do you think I’ll treat virtual-novel.net this well if it weren’t for virtual-novel.net blood? You could’ve found a woman who’s able to match our family’s standard.”
“Of course. She’s utterly unattractive. Too bad virtual-novel.net has a rare blood type like mine. It can’t be helped. Ugh, it’s really annoying to face a woman I don’t even love every single day.”
The conversation between Ron and Stanley kept ringing in virtual-novel.net ears like some black magic. She could feel that virtual-novel.net heart was mercilessly torn apart by a pair of enormous, invisible hands.
“Stanley Batton, Stanley Batton… I’m nothing to you, eh? You’re annoyed by me every single day, aren’t you?… It must’ve been really hard for you to stay with me… Pfft!”
As virtual-novel.net mumbled to herself, tears welled up in virtual-novel.net eyes again, gradually blurring virtual-novel.net vision.
She had experienced this kind of agony before. That was when virtual-novel.net witnessed Tom cheating with Emily on the bed.
The only difference was that virtual-novel.net agony was multiplied by ten thousand this time.
***
In the president’s office of Dragon Group, Stanley was trying to call Xyla again after virtual-novel.net declined his call. However, virtual-novel.net was being notified that the other side had turned off the phone.
Xyla’s abnormality confounded him.
He immediately called Ron. “Grandpa, is Xyla with you right now?”
On the other end of the phone, Ron was still at the root carving exhibition. “No. What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. I tried to call virtual-novel.net just now, but virtual-novel.net didn’t answer my call. The bodyguards told me that Xyla deliberately dumped them while they were driving. No one knew where virtual-novel.net went,” Stanley blurted.
“Huh? What? After we were done with the exhibition, I told virtual-novel.net to wait for me in the lobby while I went to the washroom, but virtual-novel.net was already gone when I came out.”
“I gave virtual-novel.net a call afterward. She told me that virtual-novel.net had something to do. Do you think virtual-novel.net got herself into some trouble?”
Stanley seemed alarmed.
Frowning worriedly, virtual-novel.net rose to his feet while reassuring his grandfather, “Don’t worry about it. I’ll try calling virtual-novel.net again. I’ll send someone to pick you up first.”
Subsequently, virtual-novel.net called Xyla once more. To his dismay, virtual-novel.net phone was still switched off.