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Ava stared into lan’s eyes. Tears filled her eyes, yet she was stubborn not to reveal her emotions to him.
This man was not the lan who she had known. He had become a whole different man. She felt like this man was someone really cruel. His words were brutal, and they almost ripped her heart.
When lan noticed the tears in the corner of her eyes, his grip did not loosen a little bit. Her tears enraged him more.
Did she think that he would sleep with her like other men did?
He let go of her hair and saki,
“What did you think? I call you here to warm my bed?”
Her heart ached as she lowered her lashes and moved back.
He shook his head and grabbed the packet of cigarettes from the table.
He pulled out one and lit it. His moves were quick as if only the smoke could ease his anger.
After taking a long smoke inside, he looked at her.
She had already gotten off the couch.
She glanced at him. After examining her from head to toe, he sneered.
“I can never desire something like…”
He pointed at her body with the fingers that held the cigarettes and then said,
“This.”
She clenched her jaw as she had reached the highest level of tolerance. She nodded her head and replied,
“You better stay away from this woman then.”
After saying that, she headed toward the door.
“Where are you going? Did I permit you to leave?”
His furious voice rang throughout the room. Tears streamed out of her eyes. Because he was facing her back, he could not see it.
She did not stop her steps and walked toward the door.
When she stopped at the door, Ian glared at her for not listening to him.
“You are fortunate to have a brother like my Gamma. Otherwise, I would have reached you and punished you for what you had done years ago.”
There was something in his voice that she could not understand. But it was surely rage.
She blinked her eyes, and more tears fell down on her cheeks.
She opened the door to leave. But her steps paused.
She did not turn to him, but there was something inside her heart that she wanted to tell him.
She took a long breath and mumbled,
“I will wait for the day when you realize that I was not your criminal, but I had to receive the full punishment for something I never did.” $1
She left the door and did not forget to close it behind her.
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The room turned completely silent.
Tan’s eyes were fixed on the door for a long time.
He did not know how long his gaze lingered on it while smoking. He looked away when he got a call.
He glanced at his phone and saw Stephen was calling him.
He glanced at the closed door again.
The ring did not stop.
He grabbed the phone and switched it off.
He was fuming inside, but his facial features were calm.
He just kept smoking. One, two, three… so many cigarettes were extinguished within minutes.
There were a lot of cigarette butts on the floor around the couch. He did not even bother moving them or smashing them on the ashtray.
His focus was on the door. Ava’s words kept repeating themselves in his mind.
He recalled what had happened in the past.
It was three months after his accident when he started to look for Robin everywhere in the pack. He discovered that the boy had flown away from the pack after learning that he had caught Ava in his room.
For once, he questioned himself whether he had mistook Ava.
Stephen was the one who tried his best to reach the truth because he did not see what Ian had seen. So he could believe in Ian.
A few weeks later, they located Robin. He started to live overseas. lan told his men to take him back to the pack.
Robin was afraid when the men brought him to Han.
The first thing Ian did was punch him so hard that it broke his nose
He beat him mercilessly while yelling at him,
“Tell me that you were the one who plotted all of this. She is not a cheater. Tell me that I misunderstood her. Tell me you were the one who did all of this.”
His friends thought Ian had gone insane in Ava’s love once again. They tried to hold him to stop beating Robin. But fan got into a fight with them.
“What do you think? Even if it were her fault, I would let this boy go? He dared to touch what was mine. I will kill him today.” Robin could not take his beat, as he was nearly dead. He kept screaming in pain and saying that,
“I did not do anything. She was the one who seduced me. I was afraid of you. But she is the one who said you would return to the pack after three days.” 1
Ian stopped beating him. He remembered telling only Ava about the day of his return.
“She wanted to sleep with Luke as well. But you had caught them together. So she could not do that. The truth is that she was sleeping around with other boys outside the campus. You couldn’t understand-”
Ian did not let him speak as he began to kick him on his stomach. Robin spilled blood and was almost killed by Ian.
At that time, Ian’s father came there with his officials and stopped him.
Ian or Stephen did not tell any of them about Ava. Ian’s father sent Robin to the hospital and said that Robin’s father was a respected pack’fighter, so he would not let Ian do anything wrong with him.
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The men around Ian said that a boy who was on the verge of deatli could never lie.
It was obvious to lan’s friends that Robin was not lying. Because hone lle could save him from getting beaten. He still said what he was saying from the start.
It broke Stephen’s trust in Ava entirely.
However, Ian got his clarification that night.
Ian still remembered everything very clearly.
While letting out a ring of smoke out of his mouth, he sneered.
“Punishment? When it comes to cheating, no punishment is enough.”
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