“They left me permanently deat in one ear, with multiple fractures all over, and I nearly lost my eyesight! You should know how many years they’d ger for that!:
These years, the le money Mars had spend on her rent, tuition, and living expenses didn’t even come close to what she should’ve received as compensation “Mac, would you have let Mindy go to prison? Avery questioned him. “I heard she smashed a rich girl’s head open with a beer bottle at the bar
“yip spent alminst one million dollars and offered a big project just to get the other party to drop the charges, right? Am I not worth that kind of money?”
Just because she was an orphan and easier to manipulate, Marcus had lured hot in when she was just a teenager with no experience in the world, with nothing more than a ako anda bouquet
Over the years, whenever he visited her, he would buy her little gifts the cakes, le cream, and fresh flowers. There wasn’t anything wrong with these gifts, but he’d never put his heart into
“In the end, are you upset because I didn’t give you enough? Marcus glared at Avery angly and yanked her closer toward him. “What about Gideon? What did he promise you? Why are you so desperate to throw yourself at him, to be his mistress?”
Avery tried hard to push him away. “That’s right–I’m desperate. Gideon promised me three million dollars a year. Can you do that?”
Marcus frowned as anger flared visibly in his eyes.
Avery smiled cold. She knew Marc could offer her more than that, but in his mind, she simply wasn’t worth it.
“Did he touch you already?” Marcus was losing it.
When Avery didn’t answer him, he grabbed her by the chin and asked again, “Tell me, has he touched you?”
Avery had seen Marcus lose control like this before. Three years ago, when her depression was at its worse, she’d clung to him constantly. That time, Marcus would keep her by his side and had taken het along to his private gatherings.
During one of them, one of his friends get drunk and harassed Away. Marcus lost it and beat that guy up.
Looking back, Avery could understand why her younger self had fallen so deeply in love with Marcus.
He was someone with power who naturally carried a natural shine. He’d buy her cakes and flowers to cheer her up, and he would even fight for hat. He even promised her a home. How could
Back then, she couldn’t see it clearly. But now, she disto Back then, Marcus hadn’t fought for her he was fighting to himself. He simply didn’t allow others to tarnish his possession. in wasn’t love, but possetenest
