Chapter 11
When the sunset dyed the plane tickets to Santorini red, Robert was stuffing a warm baby into his suitcase for Sienna. “The newly discovered ancient fungal community in the Arctic Circle was able to decompose petroleum pollutants.”
He tapped his fingertips on the scientific examination invitation letter, “Some scum created this disaster, someone has to clean it up.”
Sienna threw the diamond bracelet that Lewis had given her into the Aegean Sea.
The waves swallowed the brilliant moment, and she remembered last week at the law firm, when Lewis’s assistant said, “Mr. Mcclure is accompanying Ms. Hudson to try on wedding dresses.”
Seven days later, the Arctic Circle.
The aurora spilled like spilled fluorescent paint on the sky, while Sienna. calibrated the spectrometer with her breath.
Robert suddenly wrapped his arms around her from behind, saying, “The audience is ready.”
He pointed to the icebreaker three hundred meters away, Lewis’s scarf fluttered on the deck.
“Was the performance expensive?”
Robert’s breath sprayed on her car.
Sienna suddenly remembered the night of the graduation ceremony when Lewis was whispering in her ear.
“Don’t make a sound later.”
When the aurora suddenly brightened, Robert’s lips pressed down.
Sienna grabbed onto her winter coat tightly, just like the angle of their first kiss. The only difference was that back then, Lewis had his palm cushioning the back of her head, but now her head hit the ice pillar heavily.
“Bang!”
The observation station’s bulletproof glass shattered into a spiderweb.
pattern.
Lewis burst in with a fire axe, his eyes bloodshot like the aurora. “Stay away from her!”
He pulled open his collar, and Robert calmly wiped the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth, saying, “After Mr. Mcclure finished beating his fiancée, he still had time to catch an affair?”
He clicked on the top trending video, where Tracy was crying and speaking about domestic violence at a press conference.
Sienna suddenly coughed violently, spewing out bloodstains that blossomed into red plum blossoms on the ice.
Lewis hurried to help, but he was dazzled by the emerald necklace around her neck, which was the engagement ring he had hidden in the safe. It was now hanging on the titanium chain given to him by Robert.
“Did you think she was healing?”
Robert threw out the test report. “Your oil waste gave her a blood disease!”
He pulled up Sienna’s sleeve, and there were needle marks forming
ellipses along her veins. “She had undergone dialysis seventeen times in the past three months, while you were busy picking out wedding dresses for Tracy!”
Lewis’s engagement ring rolled into the crevice of the ice.
He remembered three months ago when Sienna kept complaining about dizziness, but he just threw her medical examination report into the shredder, saying, “Don’t be so dramatic.”
The aurora suddenly turned blood red.
Robert’s icebreaker ship received an alarm, and a large screen displayed Tracy’s encrypted email.
“Acquired 32% equity of the Mcclure Group.”
Sienna wiped the bloodstain off her mouth and, in front of him, pressed the send button, synchronizing the evidence of pollution by the Mcclure Group to the global media.
“Are you crazy?!”
Lewis went to rob the computer. “If the Mcclure Group falls, survive either!”
“Then let’s die together.”
you won’t
Sienna untied her winter coat, with a test tube incubator tied around her waist. “The bacterial colony that grew in the contaminated ice layer you caused could extend my life by thirty days.”
She tiptoed and kissed Robert’s chin. “We’ve watched the live broadcast of the Mcclure Group’s bankruptcy enough.”
When the icebreaker started tilting, Sienna felt the consent form for the test tube baby inside her pocket.
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In the package Tracy sent yesterday, there was also an ultrasound report, and the estimated gestational week was exactly the night Lewis said she was “faking illness“.
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