WARNING: VIOLENT SCENES AHEAD

^^ SHANSHAN ^^

"You can't get away with that," Mona dropped her hands and started to approach me. "I had my guards waiting for you outside."

I cautiously stepped back to keep some distance between us.

"Stop trying to avoid me and give that back to me," she motioned a finger on me, but I just let out a mocking scoff, making her expression confused. Each time she did that to me when I was in high school, I would shakily go to her and knew immediately that something wrong was gonna happen.

"Do you think I am still afraid of you? I knew you just lured me out here to open this scroll with my own fingerprint. Whatever is inside this, I know you don't want me to see it." I lifted the scroll, showing it off to her while walking back towards the room's small balcony. "What secret are you hiding, Monalyn?"

"My secret? Hah!" She let out a burst of hysterical laughter then looked at me with mocking eyes, making me stiff. "I'm sure you don't wanna know!"

My grip on the scroll tightened. Once again, I got curious, thinking that what Monalyn said might be something she had been hiding against my father and me.

"Brush it off!" I told myself. "As long as you have the file, you have all the answers."

I rejected her, and before I could run towards the balcony and jump off, she spoke again.

"Your father loved you!"

I almost lost my balance because my feet came to an abrupt stop.

"What?" I mumbled, turning back to her. I was just a step away from the balcony. She succeeded in stopping me with those words alone.

She crossed her arms and tilted her head, a smug expression showing on her face, making me more irritated and starting to feel fear. "You really thought your father didn't love you just because he wanted you to take over the business? He forced you to follow his path because he feared that one day, your stepbrothers might take everything away from you. After all, you are his only child."

She then sat on the couch and crossed her legs. She was for sure in control right now as I nervously listened to what truth she wanted me to hear, just like that day when she revealed to me about the things my dad did to Jungkook's family.

"He was hoping that you would have interest in ruling the company when you grow up, so he asked me to train you."

I swallowed hard, feeling a prick in my chest. Those things she called 'training' actually tortured me.

"But unfortunately, you firmly refused."

"I'm not here for a story-telling. Just tell me directly what you want to say." I burst with impatience, but she ignored me.

"Your father is strong, intelligent, and a hardworking businessman. That was why I fell for him even if he was from a far country in Asia. He trusted me too much that he never realized that he fell for my trap."

"A trap?"

I furrowed my eyebrows and glared at her with a puzzled look. "What did you do to my father?!"

She scoffed at me and chuckled sweetly with her hands on her mouth. "Fine," she crossed her arms again. "Since you're about to die in my hands, I will tell you what I did... do you really think your father died from a natural illness? You're wrong. I was drugging him for years."

Silence.

She began to giggle, suppressing it at first until she burst into laughter. "HAHAHAHA!! Your father was never aware that I'd been putting something in his drinks! Hahahahahaha!" She wiped a tear from laughing too much and then looked at me with mockery. "All he wanted was for you to have a bright and peaceful future, but you've hated your dad with that. What are you gonna do now?"

I gritted my teeth, a tear voluntarily flowing on my cheek as I clenched my fists, unable to believe the evil woman in front of me.

"You... you killed my father?!" My voice cracked at the end of my sentence, failing to keep my strong side.

"I did," she admitted without fear.

How dare she?! How dare she was even proud to tell me that she killed my father?!

"AND!" She lifted a finger and raised her eyebrow, making me jump. "I.." she whispered sweetly, loud enough for me to hear. "Before you fled away from us, I had been drugging you too."

"What?" I whispered to myself. My jaw literally dropped while my eyes grew wide in shock that I could faint in a minute. "Is that the reason why I was suffering from this disease?... The reason... The reason why I'm about to die?"

"But you left, and that disappointed me so much because I failed to kill you. Without you and your father, I can have my children take over the company. So I lured you here to kill you! My plan was so perfect, wasn't it? Hahaha!" She clapped her hands and laughed proudly, being so confident that she felt safe around me because her bodyguards were just outside, ready to shoot at me if I ever attacked her.

But rage rose from my chest, making my body burn with anger, wanting revenge. "Murderer! Greedy Monster!"

"YOU'RE A MURDERERRR!!!" I lunged towards her and pinned her shoulders, pushing her lower on the couch and making her squeal in surprise. I heavily breathed as I glared at her with anger. "You've ruined everything ever since you came into our lives! YOU RUINED OUR LIVES!!!!!"

Her expression went blank, but then she began to laugh in victory, wanting to hear those words from me. Right. She won. I was already suffering the effects of the drugs she fed me, and later I would die from it, but I would not let her get away before it could happen. She needs to die before I do!

Letting madness get the best of me, I lifted my hand with the silver scroll and hit her with it on the head twice, a thing she didn't expect me to do.

"Stop it! Wait!" she screamed, but I didn't listen.

She had to feel my rage. I let go of the scroll and punched her repeatedly with my own fists while she tried to defend herself. I didn't know where my sudden strength came from. I just guessed that it was gathered from my burning emotions.

I had her trapped on the couch with my legs and continued to hit her endlessly while she squealed and screamed for help.

"YOU'RE NOTHING BUT AN EVIL MONSTER! YOU'RE A BEAST! A HUNGRY BEAST!! YOU SHOULD PAY FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE!!!"

She was the reason I have suffered every day! She was the reason why my family was destroyed! Because of her, my relationship with my father had been spent hating each other for years!

I could kill her. I wanted her to be dead!

She helplessly looked towards the doorway, breathlessly screaming for her guards behind the door for help. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! GET IN NOW !!!"

I didn't care if they would catch me. What mattered to me was to punch Mona to death before they could shoot at me. I expected the door to swing open, but I heard screaming and bullets shooting outside the room.

Moments later, my vision began to dim, black dots appearing and disappearing in front of me, but I still continued to beat the evil woman under me. Blood started to flow from the side of her head, and my knuckles could feel the pain from punching her. I did not want to stop, but the pain in my head started to take control of me, making me stop and feel the fast and loud beating of my heart. My chest was beginning to tighten, and my head felt heavy. I was dizzy.

I leaned away from Monalyn, who was also out of breath and groaning weakly from the punches she received. Assuring that she couldn't stand up and ran away, my soul started to give up, making me slump in relaxation and collapse backward.

I hit my head on the floor, making my inner self scream in pain while my body felt numb and helpless. My eyes were teary and weary, but I forced them open to see Mark rushing in with his men.

They were the ones who stopped Monalyn's bodyguard. I smiled inside.

"He came to save me."

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