Chapter 4
At the hospital, Robert had gathered the nation’s top medical team just to treat Emily’s scraped elbow.
“Does it still hurt? Don’t worry, I’ve made them pay. I promise this will never happen again!”
Emily’s eyes reddened, but she kept sulking and ignored him. Only when the redness faded completely, revealing her fair skin, did Robert finally dismiss the doctors.
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In the VIP ward with no outsiders, Robert knelt on one knee to apologize to Emily.
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Hearing “move in together,” Emily finally
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were clear but tinged with flustered shyness, like a pure white snow rabbit trapped in thorny bushes.
Robert’s heart clenched at that gaze. This strange thrill captivated him
more than a blade slicing through flesh. He loved watching every ripple of emotion she showed because of him.
After soothing Emily, Robert immediately called the butler, his tone turning icy again.
“Get Sarah and all her things out of the main residence. Throw them into that empty house in the western suburbs.”
“Robert, Sarah… Sarah hasn’t returned since she left last night. I thought
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she… was with you.” The butler’s voice faltered.
Robert’s heart sank.
Last night… in his rage, he seemed to have let those men violate her. But that flicker of unease was instantly suppressed.
He forced himself to remain ice–cold to face the unfamiliar, burning warmth Emily brought—a warmth threatening to consume him.
“Then clear out her belongings immediately. Everything she touched, throw it away and replace it. Tonight, the villa must have a new mistress,” he commanded, leaving no room for doubt.
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“She got what she deserved,” he told himself. “At worst, I’ll just give her more money during the divorce.”
He pushed Sarah’s shadow out of his mind.
Picking up Emily, he carried her back to the bridal suite he once shared with Sarah, moving with a reverence akin to a pilgrimage.
Every trace of Sarah had been wiped clean, even the oversized wedding photo he’d never truly looked at was gone.
The air now hung heavy with a new, icy chill.
Yet when Emily, like a startled fawn, surveyed this gilded cage with wide, innocent eyes, an inexplicable void flickered through Robert’s heart.
“This…is your home?” Emily tentatively traced the words into his palm, her gaze filled with bewildered innocence and a faint, hidden dread- sight that fed his dark possessiveness.
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He pulled Emily’s impossibly slender waist close and addressed the servants standing rigidly at attention, too terrified to breathe.
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His voice rang out, sharp and commanding, “From today, she is the lady of this house. Her preferences are the only rule that matters.”
“Yes, Robert,” the butler began, opening his mouth as if to speak, but Robert’s icy gaze pinned him where he stood.
Robert’s world began revolving around Emily.
For the first time, Robert cut back on hours at the dungeon and underground casinos, shifting most business to his estate.
One look from Emily, and he’d whisk her away, buying every naive joy she craved.
He proclaimed her his fiancée to the world, openly clearing paths for Emily and her slum–dwelling family. That merciless king of hell who’d once skinned traitors alive now played the fool as a reckless tyrant.
Until two months later, when Johnson’s hosted a premier charity gala on Wall Street.
Robert suddenly remembered Sarah–the shadow who’d once navigated every dirty deal and hollow social circle for him.
The phone only emitted a cold, mechanical voice, “The number you dialed does not exist…”
Robert’s face darkened dangerously. “Well played, Sarah. Playing hide- and–seek with me.”
He immediately ordered bodyguards to his western suburban villa to apprehend her.
The report came back: the villa had been vacant for months, covered in
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dust–Sarah had never set foot there.
“Impossible!” Robert shattered his wineglass against the wall, shards spraying everywhere.
“Who warned her?! The butler or Victoria?!”
The crash startled Emily from her nap. Gliding downstairs barefoot in a silk nightgown like a soft cloud, she traced the words in his palm with concern–filled eyes, “What happened?”
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Staring into Emily’s untainted gaze, frustration surged through Robert for the first time.
Sarah was the weapon he had meticulously crafted, a venomous serpent slithering effortlessly through blood–soaked mires.
No matter how pure and radiant Emily might be, she couldn’t unravel that entangled and bloodstained web of interests overnight.
“Company matters.
He stiffly avoided Emily’s touch, leaving her behind for the first time as he personally sought out Sarah.
Yet, even after turning the world upside down, he found nothing.
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