Too Late He Wanted Me Back Chapter 21
Earlier, when Seraphina left in a military jeep, she uploaded her conversation with Cyenne at the hospital to the internet.
At first, the recording did not attract much attention. After all, Seraphina did not have many followers on social media, and she had not spent any money promoting it.
But the interesting part was that Francesca followed Seraphina’s social media account.
It had to be said, Francesca hated Cyenne to the core.
She had even wished she could strangle Cyenne with her own hands.
Now that she had found leverage against Cyenne, she naturally was not going to let it go lightly.
So Francesca spent a fortune to promote the recording across the entire internet.
The recording exploded at once. Overnight, its views surged into the tens of millions. If Jaylen had discovered it then, he could still have spent some money to calm public opinion, but he happened to be busy looking for Seraphina and paid no attention at all to the news online.
So the recording only grew more and more viral, and its view count reached into the hundreds of billions. Even the Canyer family’s stock was affected.
Garrett was furious. He searched everywhere for Jaylen, but could not find him.
That was because Jaylen had taken a military jeep to the Lunar Ladder Project base.
With no other choice, Garrett had to step in personally and, with thunderous measures, wipe all negative news about the Canyer family from the internet.
But the rumor that “Jaylen murdered his own flesh and blood for his mistress” had already spread so widely that everyone knew it.
At this point, even Garrett could no longer keep covering for Jaylen.
“Jaylen, I warned you long ago. That fool Cyenne was going to ruin you sooner or later, but you just would not listen,” Garrett said coldly. “Now look at this. The rumors she spread have completely destroyed your credibility. No matter what statements the Canyer family releases now, the public will not believe you anymore.”
“To preserve the Canyer Group’s reputation, I can only remove you from your position as president of the Canyer Group. Starting today, the Canyer Group will pass to your younger brother, Tyrese Canyer. From here on, you will work behind the scenes.”
Jaylen was nearly driven mad with rage. He had never imagined that even after deciding to give up on Cyenne, she would still stab him in the back again.
And this time, that betrayal cost Jaylen everything!
His reputation was utterly ruined, and he also lost his status as the Canyer family’s heir!
In a fury, Jaylen grabbed an iron rod and went to the dungeon to settle accounts with Cyenne.
He beat Cyenne until she was half dead, then blinded both her eyes and crippled both her hands. In the end, he sold her into the mountains to serve as a breeding tool for an old bachelor.
After tormenting Cyenne, Jaylen adjusted his mindset and then began frantically trying to please Seraphina.
He cooked for Seraphina himself and prepared all three meals a day for her, but Seraphina did not take a single bite and even flipped the table over in return.
He sent Seraphina roses every day. To show his sincerity, he even planted an entire rose garden for her with his own hands. All 90,000 roses in that garden were planted by him personally.
But Seraphina set the rose garden on fire in return and burned it down.
He gave Seraphina jewelry, and she threw it into the trash. He gave her designer clothes and luxury handbags, and she burned and cut up every last one of them, refusing to keep a single item.
After more than half a year of tormenting each other like this, Jaylen finally broke down. “Sera, what exactly do I have to do for you to forgive me?”
Seraphina was tired too. She felt it was time to bring everything to an end.
So she pulled out a gun. “You should be familiar with Russian roulette, right? There are 7 chambers, but only 1 bullet in the gun, so there is a 1 in 5 chance of getting shot. You and I will take turns pulling the trigger, 3 times each. If after those 3 rounds neither of us is dead, then I will forgive you.”
Jaylen froze instantly. “Sera, do you really have to be this heartless?”
“Yes, I do,” Seraphina said coldly. “Because as long as I am alive, I have no way to forgive you. So I am handing the choice over to heaven. If neither of us dies, then it means even heaven is urging me to forgive you, and then I will.”
“Fine!” Jaylen said through clenched teeth. “Then let’s place our fate in heaven’s hands together!”
With that, he snatched up the handgun from the table, aimed it at his own head, and pulled the trigger without the slightest hesitation.
“Bang—”
The first shot was a blank.
The second shot should have been Seraphina’s turn, but Jaylen did not hand the gun over to her. “Sera, how could I bear to let you risk your life and gamble with heaven? I am the one who did wrong in the first place, so I will fire all 3 shots myself. If I am still not hit after these 3 shots, will you get back together with me?”
“Fine,” Seraphina said coldly.
So Jaylen fired the second shot without hesitation.
At the same time as he pulled the trigger, he shouted, “Seraphina, I love you!”
“Bang—”
The bullet flew out, and blood splattered all over the floor.
Jaylen’s eyes widened, and he collapsed with a look of utter disbelief on his face.
And Seraphina finally gained her freedom.
She went to the cemetery and took out her son’s ashes. Then she found a place of clear waters and beautiful mountains and buried his ashes beneath an ancient tree.
Resting in such a beautiful place, her son would surely be blessed with a good life in his next reincarnation.
With her only remaining attachment finally resolved, Seraphina returned to NASA and once again devoted herself wholeheartedly to her country’s aerospace cause.