Chapter 284

All this time, everything Vivienne thought had been part of a beautiful love story turned out to be cold, hard manipulation. Sebastian had calculated every move so precisely that it made her blood turn to ice. He'd pored over and manipulated everyone's thoughts and feelings, wielding them to his advantage. Had his recent kindness toward her been a show for others, a mere smokescreen to placate her and his enemies? Vivienne's lungs struggled to pull in air. She looked up, her eyes colliding with his near-obsidian ones, and felt like she'd been plunged into icy water. She pointed out, "The fact that you've wrapped up your act at this moment proves that the whole incident has blown over. Melanie is no longer of any use to you, so I reckon I have no value to you, either. Can you let me go now?" Sebastian stared at her, his eyes like chips of ice. "I know you've been harboring a grudge over what happened with Melanie, but everything's over now." "What the hell does that mean, Sebastian