He's such a paranoid freak, thinking she hid the child, and he's torturing her in all kinds of ways to make her hand it over, thinking she's a pretentious woman, so everything she does is seen as scheming in his eyes...
Word by word, he continuously humiliates her.
"What are you saying?"
Alexander's face darkened immediately.
"Mr. Alexander, it's time for your medication," Hailey coldly looks at him and says indifferently, "Perhaps there is a cure for paranoia. You shouldn't give up."
The next second, she is viciously thrown to the ground by Alexander.
"Bang."
Hailey falls heavily, her internal organs aching intensely.
Alexander steps on her leg, his eyes furiously staring at her, his face hideous, "Do you know that you're courting death?"
His irritability and excessive arrogance are symptoms of paranoia, but no one has ever dared to mock him to his face.
The unwise woman... has touched his bottom line.
Hailey makes no sound.
Alexander grinds his foot on her leg and finally restrains his urge to kill, striding away.
Hailey lies motionless on the floor, with the glow of the sunset shining through the floor-to-ceiling windows and casting on her, like illuminating a lifeless doll.
Without even an expression.
After a long while, Hailey sits up from the ground, numbly lifts her skirt, and sees a large area of bruising on her leg.
It was when Alexander stomped on it in a fit of rage.
She deliberately provoked Alexander, knowing full well that people with paranoia should not be provoked, but she did it anyway.
But if she hadn't, she would definitely not have escaped an assault today...
She could see that the more she tried to please, the more interested Alexander became in her, which was completely contrary to her goal of regaining her freedom.
She didn't want to...
She didn't want to lose her body, her dignity, and still not have freedom; she would rather die.
In the spacious hall, Hailey sits silently on a comfortable sofa, her face pale and numb.
"Miss Hailey, in my opinion, you are a smart and resilient girl, how could you..." Feng paces in front of her, looking at her worriedly.
He never thought that Hailey would provoke Alexander, still using his biggest taboo to provoke him.
This was completely unexpected.
"What punishment does he intend for me?"
Hailey's voice is numb and very calm.
She knows that Alexander will not easily let her go.
"The young master instructed us to throw you into the forest," Feng says, frowning deeply, "Do you know there are guards around the forest. You can't run out, plus without food and water, within seven days..."
"I will die."
Hailey states her own outcome.
She guessed that Alexander would not let it go, but she didn't expect him to be so ruthless. It seemed she really stepped on his sore spot.
"There is only one way out for you now, and that is to hand over the baby and submit to the young master... maybe there is still hope..."
"Can I make one last phone call before I die?" Hailey asks softly.
"Miss Hailey..."
"I know calling the police won't help, I just want to make one last call."
Hailey says, looking up at Feng with pleading eyes.
Probably to call her adoptive parents.
Feng looks at her pitifully, and finally, with a helpless sigh, he waves to have the landline moved in front of Hailey, fulfilling her last wish.
Hailey sits on the sofa, looking down at the antique telephone in front of her, wanting to lift her hands to pick it up, but her hands are as heavy as a thousand pounds, making it hard for her to lift them.
She is not sure if the person at the other end of the phone is willing to listen to her call.
After a long time, when Feng thought she was about to petrify, Hailey finally slowly reached out and picked up the phone, her index finger pressing a sequence of numbers on the phone that she could recite backward.
Each number took all her strength.
It felt like waiting for several centuries, the ringtone in the receiver was long enough to kill someone...
"Hello?"
A slightly effeminate male voice sounded in the receiver.
He answered.
Hailey sat there, her soul seeming to have left her body, her insides completely blank, leaving only a chaotically beating heart, and the receiver almost slipped from her hand.
"Who is this?" Not hearing a response for a long time, the voice on the other end of the line showed a hint of impatience.
"It's... me."
Hailey spoke, her voice carrying a tremor.
A long silence, the air seemed to be stagnating.
Thinking the other party didn't recognize her voice, Hailey paused and said again, "It's me, I'm Hailey."
"I know it's you." Katherine's voice on the other end instantly became cold, "Didn't I tell you, don't call me privately, I don't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings."
Coldness that keeps people at a distance.
Hailey listened in a daze, suddenly not knowing how to ask him for help, "Qianchu..."
"That's not an appropriate way for you to address me." Katherine spoke coldly, "After all, I am your future brother-in-law, sister."
A "sister" pulled their relationship apart by several planets.
Yes, he is about to become her brother-in-law, and it is appropriate to call her sister, even though she is two years younger than him in age.
Hailey bitterly pursed her lips and after a while said, "What if I said I am now being kidnapped, would you come to save me?"
If there is one person in this world who can save her, it must be Katherine.
She stubbornly believes this.
"Kidnapped? Who would kidnap a painter who has nothing? What do you lack? Are you silly from drawing comics?" Katherine sneered, his voice even colder, "Hailey is your sister after all, it's not like a responsible sister to fabricate lies and pester her own brother-in-law, is it?"
Fabricating lies.
Why does everyone think she is lying? Alexander is like this, and so is Katherine...
"I'm not lying. Please come and save me..." she pleaded.
Feng stood by, not stopping Hailey from asking for help, as it was useless anyway, no one could save anyone from the young master's hands.
"If you really have been kidnapped..." Katherine's disgusted voice sounded in her ear, he paused, then word by word he said, "When they kill you, I will, for the sake of kinship, collect your body."
He said, when they kill you, I will collect your body.
Hailey felt like she was thrown into an ice cellar, cold from head to toe, freezing her to the point of numbness.
Her heart ached to the point of numbness.
Alexander treated her that way, and she felt she might as well die, but after all, she still wanted to live, she wanted to live by Katherine's side...
But Katherine brutally cut off her last hope.
He wouldn't come to save her.
He made her feel a despair more painful than death. She thought that as long as she asked, he would come to save her...
It turns out that everything was just her being too naive.
"Hailey has a show. I'm going to accompany her now."
Katherine was about to hang up the phone, showing no desire to continue the conversation with her.
"Still can't remember me?" Hailey asked before he hung up, asking a bit urgently.
This was her last inquiry.
"Hailey, don't you think you're boring? Is it interesting for you to pester me like this?" Katherine coldly retorted, his tone of voice full of disgust, not hiding it at all.
She was thoroughly disliked...
Hailey's long eyelashes trembled, clutching the receiver's white fingers from the effort, she wanted to just hang up the phone, but she couldn't, she was reluctant to let go.
This was her last phone call before death.
She clutched the receiver tightly, blinked her dry eyes, and slowly said, "Katherine, listen, I have tried, my efforts can only go so far. If one day you remember me, please..."
Please visit my tombstone.
Katherine didn't give her a chance to finish, hanging up directly because he heard Hailey urging on the other end, he always prioritized Hailey.
Hailey listened to the silence in the receiver, her heart aching.
He wouldn't even listen to her last words.
Katherine.
As a child, he was not liked by the family because he was blind, rigid, and silent, and was fostered in her home.
Six years ago, he had an operation to restore his vision, but due to a small twist in the operation, he lost all his memories.
Then, he fell in love with Hailey, her sister.
What a soap opera.