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Chapter 2

Tamara didn't hesitate. She immediately climbed over the railing and jumped into the sea. Amidst the roaring gale and crashing waves, she thought she then heard Jared's emotionless voice, saying, "Fish her out two minutes later. "And watch her. If anything happens to her, you're all dead meat!" Then, Jared turned and left without bothering to stay. Tamara's brutally slashed heart only finally stopped hurting when the sea finally sucked her in and dragged her under the surface. She kept swimming out to the middle of the sea and finally caught up to the tied-up body that was thrown into the water—and realized that it had been a fake body after all. It was only then that she stopped panicking. When she was finally pulled up from the sea, she was unconscious. Somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness, she thought she heard Jared's bodyguard, Baxter Simons, say, "Mr. Fender! We've found Ms. Lambert's whereabouts. She's just nearby, and about to leave for the sea!" When Tamara finally came to, Queenie was busy throwing off Jared's hand with an angry expression on her face. "Your wife hates me! What's the point of you looking for me anyway? Are you really going to help her tear me up into a million pieces and feed me to the sharks?" It was yet another accusation out of nowhere. Tamara felt her heart drop as she looked at Jared, right next to her, hoping to see the tiniest bit of trust that he still had in her. However, Jared's eyes were on Queenie the entire time, and he never even glanced in Tamara's direction once. Tamara's chest began to hurt. She gripped the blankets under her in a death grip. "Since she made you unhappy, would it be better if I punished her for you?" Before Tamara could even process what was happening, Jared immediately barked orders at Baxter, telling him to lock Tamara up in the basement where it was a pitch-black hell. Tamara had claustrophobia and was scared of dark places as well. As soon as she was locked up in the basement, her breathing turned erratic and shallow. Ever since getting together with Jared, he had always made sure to leave out a night light for her even when they went to bed at night. And if she wanted to use the toilet in the middle of the night, he would always tag along behind her. He even forbade her from using the elevator at home. "Tamara, I won't let you face the darkness anymore." But now, he'd thrown her in the dark basement just for the sake of making another woman happy. The fear ate into Tamara and spread throughout her body. She desperately scrambled over to the door, trying to escape the dark, but the darkness only followed her everywhere she went. "Jared… Jared, let me out…" Nobody answered except for her echo. Even the air around her was starting to feel like a vacuum. Just before Tamara was about to pass out from her phobia, the door was finally opened. Jared stood at the door, the light shining from behind him, while his figure was still enveloped in a dark shadow. "Do you finally admit that you were wrong?" he asked, looking down at her condescendingly. Tamara's nails and fingers were a gory, bleeding mess from trying to grip the floor beneath her. She opened her mouth and said in a choked-up voice, "I was wrong…" "So what did you do wrong?" What had she done wrong? That was a good one. What had she actually done wrong? "I was wrong for…" The word "wrong" wrapped itself around her heart and nearly squeezed the life force out of her. She spat out a mouthful of blood on the ground. However, Jared ignored the blood and just held Queenie's hand, interlacing their fingers tightly together. Suddenly, Tamara knew what she'd done wrong. "I was wrong for meeting you in the first place!" Jared stiffened. His hold on Queenie's hand also tightened instinctively. It wasn't until Queenie whined in pain that he carefully released her. Tamara suddenly began to laugh. However, the more she laughed, the more her tears streamed down her face. She recalled everything that had happened in the past, and everything felt like a slap to her face. "I was wrong for falling in love with you. I was wrong for even marrying you in the first place!" Jared's eyes turned dark. Just as he was about to say something, Tamara suddenly fainted and stopped moving. He frowned hard. Just as he was about to pick Tamara up from the ground, someone next to him suddenly shrieked, "Ms. Lambert's having a fever! Get the doctors!" … When Tamara finally regained consciousness, she heard the maids gossiping among themselves outside the door. "I pity Mrs. Fender for turning out like this. Mr. Fender didn't even care that she threw up blood and just went to check on Ms. Lambert's temperature instead." "Haha, I knew it! From the moment she climbed into Mr. Fender's bed, I knew that he'd eventually get sick of her and throw her aside. She's just from a tiny, unknown family, after all." "Wanna bet when Mr. Fender's going to divorce her and throw her out into the streets?" A divorce? Tamara blinked her dry and weary eyes and tried to ignore the annoying voices outside. She suppressed the sharp pain in her chest and grabbed her phone from the bedside table. Fred's text message was still on the lockscreen. She tapped on it and read, "He's not good to you. Are you still going to stay? "I've told you before when he asked for your hand in marriage that you're both not fit to be together, but you didn't believe me. "But I made him sign a prenup back then. If you're the one to bring up divorce with him, he has no right to stop you at all." Before this incident, Tamara never doubted Jared's love for her, and she also never dreamed of leaving him. But today, she'd changed her mind. "Dad, I want to leave now." Fred's reply was quick and almost immediate. "Alright." Fred then called her a while after, as if worried that she'd change her mind again. "Are you sure that you want to leave?" Tamara's eyes were empty. She shivered hard, but she still replied in a determined voice, "I am." "I've got your flight ticket. It's in 15 days' time."

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