I felt better knowing that Elena was living there with another man. If she hadn’t been, I would have had to worry about her trying to get Max back.
We went right up and hit Elena a few times. A housekeeper who was dressed simply came out of the house.
I don’t know what Elena was thinking. She had a huge villa with almost no staff. This made things very easy for Max and me.
Max pulled Elena to the corner, and I followed closely behind, feeling excited. The more he hit her, the less likely it was that they would get back together.
I was feeling pretty good about myself when I realised we might have hurt someone’s feelings.
I had met the famous Mr. Zack before, but I didn’t know that the old woman was his mother!
People later hit us with bags over our heads. It must have been Ryan who told them to do it.
But we were too scared to upset him.
Max started taking me to a lot of social events to help save our business.
But that stupid Max was trying to get in touch with Elena without my knowledge.
What a dumb thing to do! Why would she give him the time of day? Because he doesn’t clean up after himself?
Everyone knew I was the one who broke up Max and his wife three years ago.
Then I got a lot of pictures of Max and Elena together.
I was so angry that I wanted to go see what they were talking about.
Why should he leave me now that things are hard, just so he can have fun by himself?
That was just a dream!
I heard a cleaner in the hotel lift say that sulphuric acid was good for cleaning up bathroom stains.
I quietly took the sulphuric acid from her cart and put it in my pocket. Just as I was about to go look for Max, he came back.
I couldn’t stop laughing as I watched him hold his burning skin. He would never have a good life again!
I got ten years in prison for assaulting someone on purpose.
It felt like an invisible hand was pushing everything forward from the start.
I finally understood that it was all part of Elena’s careful plan when I saw her scornful smile.
From the pictures that were meant to make me angry to the sulphuric acid—someone had been planning every move to send me to hell.
But I realised too late that I was already a prisoner.
Max got burned badly, and I had a lot of scars too.
I was sent to jail before I could get the right care.
I was given five years in prison. I didn’t want to, but I looked up at Max one last time.
Did he care about me?
Yes, probably, because he left his fiancée to run away with me.
But no was also true.
He would leave me for money as well.
This was my punishment, and it was also Max’s.
I would be in prison for the rest of my life.
A few months later, the burned parts of my body started to leak pus.
After that, I got a high fever and had to go to the hospital right away.
At that point, I found out that Max had already died from an infection.
I probably wouldn’t be able to avoid the same thing.
I found out on my deathbed that something had been added to the sulphuric acid. This caused a silent, undetectable infection that killed me.
I’ll never see her again in my next life.
I closed my eyes and a tear of regret rolled down my cheek.