Chapter 4

The man wore a white shirt with red flowers, and his features were sharp.

He walked to Serena’s side in just a few steps.

The moment he stopped, he saw me standing behind her.

My expression did not change, and I did not move.

The scent of the man’s cologne already hit me head-on.

He let go of Serena’s arm.

Then he walked toward me step by step.

“This man looks so familiar.”

He sneered, reached out, grabbed my collar, and leaned closer to look.

“So handsome, no wonder she kept you hidden.”

The next instant.

He punched me hard in the face.

“Did you enjoy sleeping with my woman, Ethan?”

Serena instinctively frowned and grabbed him from behind.

But he shook her off at once.

“She disappears for a while every few months, and Ethan, you’re really something.”

“You hooked her so well that she can’t bear to leave you.”

He looked down at me from above.

“Back then, I thought you were living a good life with savages on this deserted island, but I didn’t expect you had stolen my woman.”

“If I hadn’t been monitoring her schedule every month, I still wouldn’t know what good thing you’d done.”

I raised my head and looked straight at him.

“You’ll get what’s coming to you.”

He seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, and he laughed darkly.

“Ethan, you seduced my wife, and I’ll get what’s coming to me?”

“When I was sick and in the hospital, she still had to come here to see you from time to time.”

“You know I’ve never been a generous person, and the fact that I haven’t thrown you into the sea already means I’m being nice to you.”

I laughed mockingly.

The next second, I lunged forward and shoved him.

“I’m talking about you stealing my life!”

“My SATs!”

“Are you still pretending you don’t know?!”

He lost his footing and staggered backward with a muffled groan.

Then he stumbled into Serena’s arms.

She reached out to hold Mason and comforted him in a low voice.

“Are you okay? Does anything hurt?”

She lifted her foot and kicked me hard in the stomach.

The veins on her forehead bulged, and her tone was impatient.

“Ethan! Can you have some conscience? You’ve lived so well on this island, you weren’t married off to a fisherman, you weren’t beaten, you had food and drink, and you even had a child.”

“Why are you being so unreasonable, and how dare you attack him?!”

“It looks like I’ve been too good to you!”

I clutched my stomach, curled up in pain.

She supported Mason and kicked the door open.

I lay on the ground, watching the backs of them as they left.

I forced down the nausea rising in my chest.

I glanced out the window.

A group of men in black stood guard at the door and discussed quietly.

“So this is the lover Miss has been keeping, and he’s really bold.”

“Exactly, he got caught and still dared to attack sir.”

“I’ve never seen Miss treat any other man nicely, so what’s special about this one?”

“I heard he used to be a top student.”

“Can he be a better student than sir? Besides, on this deserted island, what use is being a top student?”

“At most, he’s good in bed, so Miss made an exception and kept him.”

I did not dare wait for the pain in my body to fade, and I crawled up and grabbed the phone Serena had left behind.

I crouched down and dialed with trembling hands.

The call connected.

I felt as if I had grabbed a lifeline.

“Aunt Alexandra, my mom is dead, I’m in this place, save me!”

I did not wait for the person on the other end to respond and hung up immediately.

In a few quick moves, I controlled the phone and sent my location.

Then I deleted every trace.

After putting the phone back in its original spot, I sat down against the wall.

Although I called her my aunt.

I had always hoped.

That if only Mom had married her back then.

She was a student my mom had sponsored, and she had climbed up from the bottom.

She had loved my mom all her life.

But she still had not been able to protect her as she wished.

A woman’s footsteps sounded outside the door, and my nerves instantly went taut.

She had just stepped inside.

But the phone I had put back in place suddenly started ringing wildly.