We Were Once Called Losers Chapter 04
Justin pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, his gaze darting back and forth between me and the large screen.
If he just said he didn’t know me, this whole farce would be over.
However, Justin remained silent.
He lowered his eyes, avoiding my gaze.
When he looked up again, his face had shifted into an expression of profound heartbreak.
“Miss Rothschild.”
He sighed. “I told you a long time ago, there is no possibility between us.
Why do you keep pestering me?”
“To the point of… even crashing my wife’s banquet to make a scene?”
My eyes widened, a sudden chill sweeping through my entire body.
“What did you say?”
My voice trembled.
“Are you crazy?
I’ve never even met you!”
But Justin wouldn’t look at me anymore.
He turned around and grasped Arleth’s hands.
“Arleth, I’m sorry.
She’s the one who kept harassing me. I was too soft-hearted for a moment and didn’t reject her harshly enough.
But I swear, you are the only one in my heart.”
“I will handle this. Please don’t be mad, okay?”
Arleth’s face twisted into a hideous scowl.
“Slut!”
Arleth whipped around and kicked me viciously in the stomach.
Caught completely off guard, I was sent flying backward, crashing heavily onto the floor.
The pain in my internal organs was so agonizing that my body convulsed.
“What else do you have to say for yourself?”
Arleth shrieked, completely losing her mind.
“My husband has already confessed!
And you still dare to deny it!”
Looking at Justin’s evasive eyes, I finally understood.
Of course he knew I wasn’t the woman in the photo.
But he wanted to protect the woman he actually loved.
So he didn’t hesitate to throw me under the bus as his scapegoat!
“Justin… you will rot in hell…” I glared at him with deadly intent.
A flicker of guilt flashed through Justin’s eyes, but he quickly masked it with cold indifference.
“Drag her up.”
Arleth’s voice was freezing cold.
“Make her kneel!”
Several bodyguards immediately rushed forward, pinning me to the ground and forcing me to kneel toward the large screen.
Arleth pointed at the motionless Julian on the floor.
“Drag him over to that display stand!”
That display stand was rigged with an extremely strong electromagnetic field to showcase levitating jewelry.
“No!”
My eyes widened as I screamed and struggled. “
He has an implantable defibrillator in his heart!
The strong magnetic field will cause him to go into cardiac arrest!
I’m begging you!
Let him go!”
Arleth turned a deaf ear.
The bodyguards dragged Julian to the side of the display stand.
The moment he got close to the stand, the monitoring patch on Julian’s chest let out a piercing, continuous alarm.
His body began to convulse violently, his eyes rolling back in his head.
“Julian!”
I let out a heart-wrenching scream, my voice instantly cracking.
Arleth walked up to me and raised her hand.
A resounding slap landed on my face.
My cheek swelled up instantly, and I tasted the metallic tang of blood at the corner of my mouth.
Arleth rubbed her wrist, her eyes venomous. “
That slap was to teach you some manners.”
She raised her hand again. “
And this slap is for being so shameless.”
The alarm from the monitoring patch grew increasingly shrill.
Looking at Julian’s face as the life slowly drained from it, my heart turned to ashes.
I bit my lip hard, my eyes locked fiercely onto hers.
“You’d better pray that you kill me today.
Otherwise, I’ll make you regret ever being born.”
Arleth laughed out loud.
“Regret?
I don’t know if I’ll regret it, but I’ll make sure you regret being a mistress.
Let’s see how you seduce men without this pretty face of yours.”
Saying so, she took the knife handed over by her bodyguard.
The tip of the blade glinted with a chilling, cold light, pressing straight toward my cheek.
Just at the moment the steak knife was about to slice open my skin, I closed my eyes—
Bang!
The rolling shutter door was violently torn open.
“You dare touch my sister?”