Chapter 59
Enrica figured she probably wouldn’t last another five minutes. So, she had to settle her father’s situation quickdy.
Miguel watched Enrica closely, a flicker of doubt in his mind. She’d drunk the truth serum. There was no reason for her to lie. Could it be that the videos really had nothing to do with her?
But the idea that someone else might be holding that kind of leverage over him made his skin crawl
He flicked the ash from his cigarette and said, “Alright. Find out who sent you those videos and tell me. Do that, and I’ll let you go.
ca’s eyes reddened. At that moment, her disappointment in Miguel reached a breaking point.
he had never intended to keep his word. He lied about letting Charles off if she drank that glass.
The beet pulsing through her body intensified. Her legs were already starting to give out beneath her. She knew she couldn’t stay there a second longer. There were both men and women in this room. If she stayed, there was no telling what might happen.
Since Miguel had only been toying with her from the start, then fine. She was done.
Her gase landed on Miguel. The drug was already affecting her, making her eyes glassy, and her expression was tinted with sadness and despair. But to Miguel, it looked like a kind of desperate longing
Irritated, he frowned and snapped, “Enrica, stop looking at me like that. I stopped loving you a long time ago. You’re disgusting.”
Enrica acted like she hadn’t heard him. Her voice was low and steady, each word spoken with quiet finality. “Miguel, from this day on, I owe you nothing”
She let out a soft laugh and lowered her head. Her tears fell silently. “Three years ago, you showed up when I was at my lowest. I thought you were my savior. Fot three years, I gave you everything. Even when I thought you tell for someone else, I let you go. At the very least, we could still be triends someday. But I guess today I finally met the real you.
“You’re not the man 1iell in love with three years ago.
family has power and money. I can’t fight you. But I can hide. From now on, whatever happens to my dad and me–whether
As for my father, forget it. The Zucker fa we live or die—it’s our fate.
“Goodbye, Miguel ”
the staggered out of the room before the drug could take full hold of her
I felt like a goodbye that had been long overdue. Something that should have happened the day they divorced. But back then, with Miguel and Sheila pressing her from every side, she hadn’t been abde to let go. She couldn’t say goodbye, not what she was still holding on
But today, Miguel’s words had cracked someting inside her wide open. All the things she’d once cherished, and all those sweet memories she had tucked deep
inside benteart, shtered in an instaci
For the first time, she finally understood that thus man was no longer the one she’d loved.
And from that moment forward, she would ever hold onto my illusion about Miguel again
Enrica wiped her tears and walked away in silence
back inside the private room, Miguel sat frozen, his brow tightly furrowed. He hadn’t moved since the moment Enrica lett.
Even as the cigarette burned down to his fingertips, he didn’t flinch
