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She took a taxi back to the villa.
She had not come home all night. When Elijah got back that morning and did not see her, he lost it and yelled at the servants.
“She didn’t come back all night?
“Are you all dead? My wife goes missing for a whole night and none of you even thought to go out and look for her?
“Get out! Get out right now!”
He grabbed a vase and threw it to the ground. The shattered pieces skidded right up to Anna’s feet.
When Elijah looked up and saw her standing at the door, he froze for a
second.
However, his face darkened again very quickly. His voice was icy as he questioned, “Why didn’t you take your phone with you? Where were you all night? Answer me!”
Anna’s phone had gotten lost by the roadside when her parents had their accident. By now, Elijah had sent someone to retrieve it.
He was gripping that phone so tightly while his face twisted with cold malice.
It was like he was not holding her phone at all, but some kind of evidence that she had betrayed him.
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Anna had seen this side of him too many times over the years.
Elijah claimed he loved her more than anything, but his love was a cage. If he could not find her for a few hours, he’d go crazy.
The reason he had not even noticed she was gone until morning was probably because he had spent the night with Myla.
He always acted like he cared so much, but in the end, it was just his possessiveness talking.
Anna slowly walked up to him and lifted her eyes to look at this man who had ruined her life.
Six years ago, after school, she had found Elijah badly injured on the street while she was heading back to her tiny rental.
She had been scared at first and wanted to walk away, but he grabbed the hem of her skirt.
“Help me,” he said.
She had seen the desperate look in his eyes and could not walk away. So, she brought him home and cared for him and that was how this twisted story began.
Elijah was almost 1.9 meters tall. He was lean, strikingly handsome, and with eyes so deep they always seemed to burn with intense love.
Anna had once been swept away by his wild devotion and agreed to be with him.
Later, she slowly found out that everyone in the Tremblay family was sick. in the head. They were born paranoid, dangerously obsessive, and controlling to the extreme.
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Elijah’s uncle had once gotten so obsessed with his wife that he thought she was cheating, lost his mind, killed her, and then killed himself.
And Elijah? He was the craziest of them all.
He secretly put a tracker in Anna’s phone, listened to all her calls and messages, and beat up any guy who showed interest in her.
If a male classmate talked to her too long, he would get threatened. Even her male teacher was forced to transfer classes.
Anna had broken up with him once as she could not stand his suffocating
control.
However, he snapped and stabbed himself more than a dozen times right in front of her.
He told her, like an addict, that if he could not have her, he would rather
die.
In the end, she caved and came back. He swore up and down that he would not control her anymore.
Yet, just last month, she had been out shopping and a boy asked for her number.
She politely turned him down, but Elijah still sent men to beat the guy half to death.
She blew up at him, fought with him, and broke up again. That was when Elijah promised to see a psychologist.
Instead, he fell for his psychologist, Myla.
While they were at it, they even made up some so–called “healing game.”
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He actually believed Myla when she told him that if he just got enough love from her, maybe he would stop being such a controlling freak.
Anna’s tears dripped down, blurring Elijah’s handsome face.
He was not sick. This was who he really was.
He’s a giant beast starved for love–feeding on it with his whole being just
to feel something, even for a moment.
At the end of the day, a monster is still a monster.
How stupid she had been to think she could save him?
She blamed herself internally, “Elijah, I really regret this.
“Why did I ever fall for a monster like you and end up dragging my parents to their deaths?”
Elijah saw her crying, paused, and then pulled her into his arms, his voice suddenly gentle.
“There, there, I was just worried when you didn’t come home last night. You were probably with your parents, right?
“Don’t worry, I got the best doctor for them. I promise they won’t have any scars. Next time you see them, just tell them to be nice and respect Myla, okay?”
“Respect?” Anna’s eyes filled with a cold, vicious light. She laughed through her tears. “If you want respect, go get it from hell!”
Suddenly, she shoved the broken porcelain shard deep into Elijah’s chest.
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