Chapter 2 Pay Back Twice As Much
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"No!"
Lia woke up from the agony of the burning fire.
"Lia, what's wrong?"
A familiar face appeared in front of her.
Aubrey?
Lia's pupils trembled violently.
No...
It had been many years since Aubrey had dressed up in this simple, pure style.
Lia looked around, and her entire body froze.
Lia was in a bar. Aubrey took Lia here six years ago on the day before Lia's eighteenth birthday to celebrate Lia's upcoming birthday.
Lia then looked down at her hands. Her hands, which had been scarred, were now fair and delicate.
Lia... seemed to have been reborn back to the beginning of all the tragedies!
"I went to the bar and asked for a glass of lemonade for you. Drink it. You will feel better." Aubrey, who was full of concern, handed over a glass of lemonade.
Lia stared at the glass of lemonade and felt a chill in her heart. Back then, she lost consciousness after drinking it.
After that, she vaguely remembered that she was taken to a dirty back alley by a group of men, where she was stripped naked and photographed...
Back then, Lia was too stupid and trusted Aubrey too much. Lia was so stupid that she never thought that Aubrey had tampered with the glass of lemonade.
At Aubrey's entreaties, Lia didn't tell her family that it was Aubrey who took her to the bar that day.
Everything that had happened in the past six years flashed quickly in Lia's mind.
The nude photos taken in the alley showed up at Lia's eighteen-year-old birthday party, and they also went viral. The rumors of her being raped by a group of men became a big scandal. No one believed in Lia's innocence.
Lia's parents had a tragic car accident right after then, and there were no bodies found.
Lia broke off with Luka, her grandfather!
She was locked up in the madhouse, suffering inhuman torture day and night...
At last, Lia recalled Luka's withered and haggard appearance and that blaze!
Lia's deep hatred infiltrated every cell in her body.
Since she had been reborn, she would not repeat the same mistake!
"Aubrey, it's chilly. Can you grab me a shawl?" Lia said.
"OK!" A hint of impatience flashed across Aubrey's eyes, but she still put down the glass and went to grab the shawl for Lia.
Lia lowered her eyes and curled her lips coldly. Before Alfred tricked her into signing the agreement of share transfer, Aubrey had never refused her anything.
Lia exchanged her glass with Aubrey's expressionlessly.
Moments later, Aubrey returned with the shawl.
Aubrey carefully and gently wrapped the shawl around Lia. It was as if the woman torturing Lia in the hospital wasn't Aubrey at all.
"Aubrey, thanks for being so nice to me and taking care of me. Though we are not allowed to drink wine, water works, too! Cheers!" Lia said with an innocent smile as she picked up the glass of water.
Aubrey had tampered with Lia's glass of water, and she expected Lia to drink it up quickly. Seeing that Lia was so foolish and wanted to toast, Aubrey immediately picked up the glass and clinked it with Lia's. "I will always be nice to you. We will be besties forever!"
With that, Aubrey gulped down the glass of water.
Seeing this, Lia slowly drank up.
Aubrey stared at Lia excitedly.
Suddenly, Lia looked at Aubrey and smiled. The colorful lights in the nightclub shone on Lia's beautiful and delicate face, making her smile a little strange.
Aubrey was stunned and observed Lia's face. Then she figured that there was nothing strange. Lia was still the innocent, silly girl she always was.
...
The rain poured heavily.
A few men dragged Aubrey, who was unconscious, into the dirty back alley behind the bar.
Lia wore a cap and looked at them coldly.
These men were here on Aubrey's demand.
Back then, Lia was dragged into this back alley, and then they took those nasty photos of her!
To win Lia's trust, Aubrey didn't ask these men to do anything to Lia. They just took Lia's photos.
Then, when the whole world turned their back on Lia, Aubrey stood firmly by her side...
Lia thought of how touched she was at that time and felt sick.
Lia handed a piece of paper to a nasty man. "I've changed my mind. You guys can do whatever you want with her. Just make sure she's alive. Also, I don't want photos. I want videos. Send them to this email address."
Lia thought, Aubrey had put me through so much.
How can tit for tat be enough?
What I have suffered must be paid back twice as much!
"Sure! We have all the good stuff here. I promise not to break her!" When the nasty man heard that they could do whatever they wanted, he immediately became spirited.
Lia didn't say anything else and went straight out.
The vulgar and unpleasant conversation between the men sounded behind her.
The neon lights in the distance elongated Lia's shadow on the wall. She took a look, and her shadow looked like a devil.
So what?
Lia was a devil that crawled out from the underworld to claim the lives of those who once hurt her.
It was just the beginning.
Just as Lia was about to leave the alley, a pair of hands suddenly reached out from the darkness. Before Lia could react, she was dragged into the darkness.
The buildings on the same street as the bar were very dense.
Lia was dragged into a crevice between two buildings by those big hands.
"Shh!"
The man pressed Lia against the rough wall with one hand and covered her mouth with another.
The space was so narrow. Their bodies were almost stuck together.
Lia was a little dumbfounded.
Soon, there was a rumbling of footsteps outside.
The man looked outside coldly, like a beast that could go out hunting at any time.
Coincidentally, there was a light passing through the crevice. At that second, Lia saw the man's face.
It was a face that was deadly stunning. In her last life, she had met him once by chance. Although she disliked him, she was still shocked by how handsome he was.
It was Derek.
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