There were afflictive coldness and pain coming out from her heart.
His husband was cheating on her in front of her. What was more egregious than this?
A few minutes later, the room came out a wave of ambiguous voice. Each sound of voice mercilessly pricked in Vivian’s heart like a knife, which made her face pale out of pain.
The voice rose higher and higher as if it were going to knock the ceiling down.
Vivian raised her hand to cover the ear forcibly. She could not stay any longer and ran downstairs like to flee.
But the noise was so loud that, even though she was huddled in the Kitchen, it kept getting into her head and making her restless and miserable.
Vivian, holding glass platform, forced to dig the cold stone with her fingers, making her nails white.
She should run away.
Suddenly Vivian flashed out such an idea in the mind, like wildfire, which instantly swept away Vivian’s reason.
With her face pale, she walked quickly toward the gate.
She wanted to get out of here and never come back…
When at the door, she reached out her hand and put it on the cold metal door.
With a gentle push, she could open the door and escape.
But she had no strength out of no reason.
She escaped before, but Ashton took away all her cash and documents. She had no penny and she was unable to live outside. Even if she can live in a friend’s home temporarily, what should her brother do?
Ashton still held the life of her brother Aryan Woods in his hand.
Vivian closed her eyes, feeling helpless. It was like falling in the abyss, with her body falling, but she cannot catch a bit can rely on things.
She can’t run, can’t fight, but only endure.
What was the meaning of such a marriage and life for her?
No, she can’t.
She and Ashton had to divorce.
She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down, then sat on the sofa, covering her ears and pretending that she did not hear the dirty voice upstairs.
This was an ordeal like suffering in a hell ended an hour later.
Vivian breathed a sigh of relief, put down the hand that covered in-ear.
After half an hour of silence upstairs, there was finally a faint sound of the door opening and Ashton came out.
He changed into a clean shirt and trousers, and came down the spiral staircase calmly, with his face relaxed and vaguely amused.
He was cold and gloomy when he was with Vivian, he had no such a pleasant relaxation like this.
Her fingers on the knee cannot help but force to tighten, feel like the heart was forced to grasp, making her feel pain to suffocate.
Ashton walked through the living room and to Vivian. He said coldly, “Nicole will live here, you take good care of her.”
Vivian frowned slightly. What was she to him?
A cheap servant?
Vivian looked up at Ashton with her cold eyes, “Ashton, now that you have a new person, it’s better for us to divorce. When the time comes, you are free to choose a girl.”
Ashton drooped dark eyes, of which his mind could not be told.
“Vivian, I said there is no way to get divorced with me. Do not ever want to leave here.”
Vivian felt pain in heart but calm even if her face was pale. She fixed her eyes on Ashton, “Ashton, you cheated. If you don’t agree to an amicable divorce, we’ll have to meet in court.”
Surprisingly, Vivian exposed sharp claws in front of Ashton, like a wild cat that she used to be.
Not a word of what she said was what Ashton wanted to hear.
He bent over slightly, once again put out his hand to pinch Vivian’s chin, without force convergence, which warned this woman.
“Good, Vivian.” He said, “Well, we’re trying to figure out what happened when your mother killed my parents? And the copy of my company secrets you sold, we’ll do it together in court. I wonder what will the Woods family pay for it!”
Every word was like the most powerful knife, stabbing in the tender side of Vivian in a fatal manner.
Things happened before…
The sins of her mother, and that secret document she didn’t even know about…
These things pressed heavily on Vivian’s shoulder, which made her have no longer strength to speak.
She turned pale and took a hard breath, then said weakly, “Ashton, what my mother owes you, I can pay it back in other ways. Have you not avenged yourself on me enough these two years?”
Ashton pinched her chin more and more forcibly, with an eager to crush the delicate bone directly into pieces. The pain made Vivian get red in eyes.
“The other way? Vivian, besides your body, do you still have other valuable thing? Your sick, mentally retarded brother? Don’t forget I’m paying for his medical bills too!” His smile became colder and colder, “Vivian, you cannot pay it back for your rest of life!”
Thinking of Aryan Woods, Vivian slightly widened her eyes. Looking at this strong but reasonable man, her emotion suddenly burst after suppressing for a long time.
She suddenly raised the corner of her lips to reveal a sad and bleak smile, “Ashton, then I will pay it with my life, is it enough?”
This sentence suddenly let Ashton froze, even the force of holding Vivian’s chin has loosened a bit.
He froze for a while, grind his teeth and asked, “Vivian, what do you mean?”
Vivian looked at him with a smile, with no answer. There was a determination in her bright eyes.
Ashton was smart, and he definitely understood what this woman meant.
He forced to Vivian’s chin, making huge pain to her so that the expression was painful. Her eyes became moist and the determination inside them was gone.
“Vivian, if you dare to die, I promise your brother will live as dead! Just try it!” At last, he pushed away her thin chin, leaving a few distinct fingerprints on his fair skin.
Vivian hung her head, bit her lower lip tightly. Her fine body was tense, but she had no force to fight back.
Her only brother was still in Ashton’s hands, and she had nothing to negotiate with him about.
Even death was wishful thinking.
Vivian smiled sadly, feeling desperate. With her eyes and eyebrows drooping, her face was bleak and lifeless. She was like a puppet that was completely removed its soul.
Looking at her appearance, Ashton felt that his heart was pricked with pain.
He stood a step away from Vivian, pressed his thin lips and forced to endure the soft words in his mouth.
The room was dead silent until a woman’s voice interrupted it.
“Ashton, I’m hungry. Let’s go out for dinner.”
Nicole Burton stepped down the stairs in high heels, interrupting the suffocating pressure in the room. She held Ashton’s arm lovingly and said in a soft as a spoiled child tone.
“We’ll go out to dinner and buy me some things. If I move in, everything in the bedroom will have to be changed. It’s all dirty.”
Ashton’s voice was inexplicably hoarse, he was expressionless, “It indeed is dirty and should be changed.”
Nicole smiled, “There is only one room here. If I move in, what should this woman do?”
Ashton looked at Vivian with a cold smile, “She will live in the utility room downstairs.”
Nicole stared at Vivian with a soft smile, “Sorry for that. By the way, I will go out with Ashton later. Please tidy up the bedroom upstairs. When we come back, I hope it will be clean.”
Their words were saying that Vivian was dirty.
Vivian raised her eyes and looked at her, said in a smile, “The things I used are indeed dirty, but the person I used is dirtier.”
She used not only the bedroom upstairs but also the man on Nicole’s arm.
Ashton’s eyes were deep. He sated at Vivian coldly. How dare his woman say he was dirty?
Nicole was stunned and later angry. She rushed to Vivian and pointed at her face, “What do you mean?”
Vivian stared at the angry Nicole with cold eyes, “Literally.”
“How dare you say I am dirty?” Nicole’s face contorted. Bursting into anger, she raised her hand toward the face of Vivian…