I looked at the man’s shocked face and gave him a calm smile. “Am I disturbing you?”

A guilty look flashed in Logan’s eyes. “I am sorry, Miss Varch. We made that dress without your permission…”

“It is fine. If Miss Heggart likes it, that is an honor for the dress. I can give the copyright of this design to you as a wedding gift.”

Elise froze for a moment. After understanding my words, she turned to look at Geff, her eyes full of joy and hope.

But this time, he did not look at her. I felt a burning gaze fixed on me.

Geff frowned and took a step toward me. “A wedding gift? Tyara, are you crazy? Even if you are jealous, there should be a limit!”

I looked at him in confusion. He called this jealousy?

“I think this is good. It is unique, and it is free. It saves money.”

Geff stared at me, as if he wanted to say more. Just then, the staff pushed the dress out.

The white silver fabric flowed like water. The hem was embroidered with silver patterns, and tiny diamonds were set on the dress like a shining galaxy. It was not loud or flashy like normal wedding dresses. Its simple mermaid shape was like a beautiful mermaid from the deep sea.

I looked at the dress and felt the heart I had when I designed it. That heart believed that a beautiful mermaid would grow legs for true love.

Elise’s voice broke the silence. She picked up the dress and happily held it in front of the mirror. “Wow, Logan, your staff is really careful. They even made it in my size.”

Looking at Elise’s back, my eyelashes trembled slightly. To be honest, I suddenly felt sorry for the woman I used to be. Everyone knew the truth, but I refused to believe it and willingly became a joke for ten years. The wedding dress I designed myself was secretly changed into another woman’s size.

A sharp pain spread from my heart through my whole body.

Elise suddenly came over and grabbed my hand, smiling sweetly at me. “Tyara, you are the designer of this dress. Why don't you help me put it on? I do not mean anything bad. I just think you understand this dress better…”

She pulled me into the fitting room. Then she gave me a jealous smile, and a cold feeling ran down my back.

“Tyara, do you really think one simple design can change Geff’s heart?” Elise looked at me with a twisted, ugly expression. “I am telling you, Geff only has me in his heart. Today he can come with me to try on wedding dresses just because I said so. Tomorrow he can make your name disappear from the marriage paper!”

I stepped back and said carefully, “I don’t care who is in his heart anymore. I will leave him.”

Elise laughed coldly. “Leave? Everyone knows you are just Geff’s loyal pet. You pretend not to care just to make him curious. You are really sneaky.”

As she spoke, she slowly walked toward me, the killing intent in her eyes growing stronger.

I moved back little by little until my back hit the window. My heart was beating wildly. “What are you doing?”

“What am I doing?” Elise glanced back, then showed me an innocent smile. “I am helping you face the truth.”

With that, Elise pushed me hard out of the window.

The next second, an overwhelming feeling of falling covered my whole body.

When I opened my eyes again, a man was sitting beside the hospital bed. I opened my mouth, but the pain in my throat made me frown.

Adrian heard the sound and turned around. The cold look in his eyes became gentle. He handed me a cup of water and said seriously, “What is Geff even doing? If it had not been snowing heavily in Larkridge these days, you would not have survived.”

My eyelashes trembled as the memory of the wedding dress shop rushed back.

“I did not want to tell you this, but you must know… you fell from such a high place. It was already a miracle to survive. And because your emotions were not stable, the baby… could not be saved.”

The dull look in my eyes finally changed.

After a while, I weakly forced a smile. “Maybe it is better that the child did not come into this world.”

After all, if the little one knew what kind of man his father was, he would probably hate his mother.

Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly saw the bandages on Adrian’s arm, and my gaze shifted.

“You are hurt?”

Before Adrian could answer, his assistant spoke first. “Mr. Donovan rushed here as soon as he got off the plane. He happened to see you being pushed down, and he got hurt while trying to save you…”

Adrian gave the man a cold look, telling him to stop.

I looked at him with mixed feelings. So many words were stuck in my throat that I did not know how to say them.

He seemed to understand and gave a light smile. “It is fine. Just a small injury. Do not feel guilty. Everything has been arranged. In three days, everything will disappear.”

Through Adrian, I looked at my reflection in the mirror in the distance.

After a long moment, I nodded slowly. “Thank you.”

When I returned home from the hospital, I went straight to the bedroom to pack my things.

But inside, I saw Elise in a bathrobe. She froze for a moment when she saw me, then smiled brightly and turned around. “Oh, Tyara, your luck is really good as always. Guess what happened these past few days?”

Looking at the woman who caused my child’s death, my heart started beating wildly, beyond my control.

Elise raised her hand and showed the huge diamond ring on her ring finger.

I recognized it at once. It was the first ring Geff gave me when he proposed. It was our promise ring. I kept it in a box, afraid to scratch it, never willing to wear it.

“I told Geff I was going to get married. That day was meant to be our final goodbye, but I never expected my words to provoke him… to make him…” Elise glanced casually at the big bed behind her.

That was where he and I had been together on our wedding night.

Her voice continued, “He punished me for three days and three nights. No matter how much I begged, it did not stop. So, Tyara, it is not that I refuse to give Geff back to you. It is that he cannot live without me.”

I looked at her proud face, my stomach twisting in disgust.

Suddenly, Elise seemed to remember something and placed her hand on her lower belly. “Oh anyway, do you know why Geff immediately said the baby in my belly is his? Because… it really is his.”

The woman walked closer, looking straight into my eyes. “I told him to be careful not to hurt our baby, but he was still rough and out of control. He said he would make me pregnant again, so I would be tied to him forever.”

Elise smiled. “Maybe right now, I am already carrying twins.”

Her words made me shake with anger. I hit her hard, sending her to the floor. “Elise, before I divorce Geff, you will always be a shameless third woman!”

Looking down at her, I bent closer, my eyes burning with rage. “A mistress should know her place.”

The next second, the door was suddenly pushed open.

A furious voice froze me in place. “Tyara, what are you doing?”

Elise reacted first.

She covered her face and curled up, tears in her big eyes as she looked at Geff, like a little rabbit that had been wronged.

Geff rushed over and pulled her into his arms, full of pain and care. Without waiting for her to explain, he spoke in anger, “Apologize to Elise! Now!”

The pain in my hand was nothing compared to the pain in my heart. My lips trembled as I stared at him. “Apologize? Geff, do you know where I have been these past days?”

A cold laugh came from above. “You hated Elise and jumped off the building on purpose to frame her. Then, your trick did not work, so now you are losing control?”

So he really wished I was dead.

Geff clearly did not want to talk anymore. He picked up Elise in his arms and turned to leave the room.

I collapsed onto the floor as memories rushed through my mind. Then my phone rang.

“Go to the hospital tomorrow to clear out your mother’s things. In the afternoon, my people will come to pick you up.”

My mother was the president of the Yarlington Group. When her career was rising, she fell in love with my poor father.

She should have lived a bright, beautiful life. But after my father cheated on her, she collapsed from the shock and had not woken up since.

I never expected that years later, her daughter would face the same thing.

“I understand.” After hanging up, I wiped my tears and looked at the empty doorway.

Whatever.

Once these two days were over, everything would finally end.

The next day, I went to the hospital as planned, but my mother was gone from her bed. All the medical machines in the room had been removed.

In panic, I heard nurses talking.

“Did you hear? Mr. Sincle’s wife is in danger. She needs a heart transplant right away. And she is pregnant too.”

A bad feeling hit me. I knew “Mr. Sincle” meant Geff.

My heart tightened.

After finally finding the room, through the glass I saw Elise crying in Geff’s arms, and my mother lying beside her with an oxygen mask.

My heart jumped. I pushed the door open hard.

Geff froze when he saw me, then gave orders to the people beside him.

“Elise’s surgery is about to start. Throw her out. I do not want anyone to disturb Elise.”

Hearing this, I was even more sure of my fear.

I struggled with all my strength, not letting those people touch me.

“Geff, you are really going to give my mother’s heart to her? You are shameless!”

“Tyara, you know Elise is pregnant, yet you kept provoking her again and again. Now that she is sick, are you very pleased?”

I stared at the man with bloodshot eyes, filled with rage and despair. “I did not provoke her. The kidnapping was her scheme. She was the one who pushed me down the stairs. She was the one who killed our child…”

“Enough!” Geff’s face twisted, the veins on his neck bulging. “You are still trying to argue at a time like this? Fine. Then let your useless mother pay for it! This heart is what you owe Elise!”

Suppressing the pain in my chest, I took out a document from my bag and threw it at Geff. If he refused to believe the child in my womb was his, he could not possibly deny the hospital report. Even though that child was already gone, I still looked at him with a final sliver of hope.

In the next instant, a furious slap landed on my face. “Tyara, just because Elise is my first love, you refuse to save her! You are just as vicious as your mother. No wonder your father cheated on her!”

I knelt on the floor, staring at him in a daze. For the first time, I felt that he was a complete stranger. Everything I had once told him in trust had now become ammunition for him to humiliate me and my parents.

Elise pretended to be sympathetic. “Geff, Tyara must be heartbroken about losing her mother. Let her see her mother one last time, okay? Just let her fulfill her duty as a daughter.”

I glared at Elise as if I could tear her apart with my eyes.

The next second, Geff spoke in a cold voice, “Hold her down. I want her to watch with her own eyes as her mother’s heart is cut out.”

“Geff, you will be punished for this!”

Before the shining knife even came down, it already felt like my own heart was being torn apart.

“No! Don’t touch her!” I rushed forward. The moment I hugged my mother, the falling knife cut a deep wound across my back.

I closed my eyes tightly, as if I could not feel any pain at all. “Please… she will die!”