Bride of Retribution: Aloof Billionaire's Dominant Game

Charlotte mechanically nodded her head. She had always wanted to know why Atlas Hallow married her, but the prospect of uncovering this secret filled her with fear, as if she was about to reveal something terrifying.

The recorder was in Kinsley Lee’s pocket, but she didn’t take it out. Instead, she reached into her coat and switched it on.

Turning on the recorder was like opening Pandora’s box, as it played the conversation between a man and a woman.

”Are you saying everything is ready with Charlotte and you’re going to have her bear a child for me? Just thinking about our child growing in her womb makes me somewhat grateful to her...”

”Yes, I promised you, and I will do what I said. By next year, I will give you the child...”

Charlotte was utterly stunned. As the afternoon sunlight began to penetrate through the glass window, her pale, astonishingly small face was reflected on it, her long lashes covering all expressions of sorrow and desolation.

Those words pierced through like sharp arrows, penetrating straight through her chest so quickly that she couldn’t dodge them, so swift and overwhelming that she wished she could just die on the spot.

The feeling was so terrifying that Charlotte couldn’t even describe it, like a bird about to spread its wings being caught and mercilessly having both wings broken. There were no visible bloody wounds, yet the pain was excruciatingly persistent.

Echoing in Charlotte’s ears were Atlas Hallow’s words, stating next year he will give their child to her, and Hailey Hill’s remarks about their child being in her womb. These words made her whole body tremble, nausea overwhelming her, her stomach churning as if she was truly about to vomit...

She barely managed to convince herself to let it go, but those few lines were like tearing open a wound in her heart, gradually bleeding out as she leaned powerlessly against the sofa, the cold sensation sweeping through every cell of her body, numbing her entirely.

In truth, the pain wasn’t the most terrifying part; the most frightening was being trapped in a terrible despair.

As she opened her eyes, a chilling light slowly seeped out from them. Although Kinsley Lee, who revealed the truth, had her own motives, Charlotte couldn’t doubt the authenticity of that conversation. She could never mistake the voices of Atlas Hallow and Hailey Hill.

Furthermore, even if you gave Kinsley Lee a hundredfold courage, she couldn’t fabricate something like this.

Slowly rising to her feet, she moved towards the door like a drifting soul.

The person sitting behind her revealed a strange and sinister smile. This day had finally come, and she was waiting to see how Atlas Hallow would resolve it.

Apparently, Charlotte really knew nothing.

Does she even know whether the child in her belly is truly hers?

Thinking of this made the smile even more sinister.

Charlotte didn’t head towards the elevator but mechanically climbed up the long wooden staircase, floor after floor. She wanted to cry aloud, but found her eyes dry with not a single tear flowing.

Hailey Hill had health issues; could it be that she was infertile?

From the first time she met Hailey Hill, she had noticed something was slightly off about her, different from normal women, missing something. Could this be why she couldn’t conceive, unable to produce eggs normally?

So when she asked for a child, did Atlas Hallow marry someone else casually to help them have a child?

Is that how it is?

Is it because Hailey Hill couldn’t have children, with possible issues in her womanhood, making her incapable of satisfying a man’s needs, which resulted in her becoming a tool for satisfying his needs and bearing children for them?

Does he love Hailey Hill that much, enough to do something so contrary to human nature?

Her mind was both painful and chaotic, as Hailey Hill lived in his house, used his bank card, with arrangements made for her family long ago by Atlas Hallow. Charlotte stubbornly believed he would have feelings for her.

Did he ever like her, even just a little?

Sadly touching her slightly rounded belly, she could confirm this was her child, but what did Atlas Hallow intend to do? Would he be cruel enough to give their child together to Hailey Hill for comfort?

The situation was so tangled that she couldn’t make sense of it, numbly climbing up, already reaching the fifth floor, yet seeming not to see her bedroom just ahead, mechanically taking another step.

But that step missed...

Instantly, it was as if the world spun around her, her balance lost. Instinctively, she reached out to grab the handrail, but it was already too late. Her delicate body fell like a flower drifting in the wind.

”Someone, quick, it’s an emergency...”

”Ah, what should we do...”

”Call an ambulance immediately, call Butler Kent to inform the master...”

Hearing the scream, the servants rushed to the fifth floor, yet at the fourth-floor stair corner, they saw a scene that seemed to almost make their hearts stop.

The young madam lay precisely at the fourth-floor stair corner, seemingly unconscious, her forehead rapidly swelling though there were no apparent wounds, they knew the seriousness of the situation.

Receiving the call, Butler Kent was beside himself.

He was out for a health check today, and such a thing happened today.

”Explain clearly, what exactly happened?” Butler Kent asked, his voice shaking as the servant on the other end of the line stammered, anxiety breaking him out into a cold sweat.

”The young madam fell down the stairs, from the fifth floor to the fourth floor, and passed out, she looks very badly hurt...” The servant seemed to be trembling, and Butler Kent threw on a coat and rushed out, unable to complete a few remaining tests.

”Ah...” the doctor, watching Butler Kent hurry away, jokingly remarked, ”this old man’s quick moves, his health must be alright.”

Little did the doctor know, Butler Kent dared not delay, as a life was at stake.

”Hurry back.” Butler Kent pulled open the car door and urged the driver from the Hallow Family who brought him to quickly return, thinking all the while how to explain this to the master and why such a thing happened today.

But he had to report it, needing first to understand what happened back home. The ambulance should already be on its way, but what can be done?

Having been a housekeeper for so many years, he faced numerous troublesome incidents, but this one was undoubtedly the most challenging.

Atlas Hallow, unaware of what had happened, was in the middle of a senior executive meeting, which had been going on for a while with no sign of ending.

Seated at the head of the table, enveloped in the endless light streams, his gaze swept over everyone below, exuding a chilling and murderous aura, his sensuous lips almost tightened into a line, making everyone there rather tense, as their CEO didn’t seem to be in a particularly good mood this afternoon.

Even Atlas Hallow himself wasn’t sure why he felt irritated and suppressed.

The phone vibrating on the desk caught his cold gaze, sweeping over the phone number with a hint of unease stirring within him, a feeling he never had before, as Butler Kent never called at such a time.

What has happened?

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