Chapter 22: Prove You're Smart

Melissa's POV I briefly read it while squinting my eyes hard. Expectantly, Lord Scott stretched a hand to me to receive the paper. With shaking hands, I handed it to him. I was so tensed as my chest fiercely pounds. As soon as he read it, a devilish smile crammed his face. "Since you decided to save him. He will be put to death by other Whale's Snipers." My feet wandered aimlessly toward the back until I got stopped by the bed. I sutured at him unwaveringly while my butts docked on the bed and got bouncing me up like a rubber band. 'This wasn't my decision! Not at all!' I shook my head vigorously as I did not want to admit it. Right there, my thought got playback to the moment I saved the Priest. If not for the fact that the gunshot was a sedative, I would have died by now. Then, how on earth was I supposed to stop a sniper's bullet from hitting a man? In all my life, I have learned how to kill but not to save. "I'm doing this for you, Melissa. You oppose your marriage, thus I believe