Chapter 10
With Aria still missing, Knox grew increasingly anxious.
‘Sir, the last footage we have of Ms. Winters is from her hospital room yesterday. After that, she seems to have disappeared.”
‘Pull up yesterday’s surveillance from her room.”
He refused to believe there were no clues.
Knox patiently watched three hours of footage but found nothing.
Just as his patience was wearing thin, a second figure appeared on screen–it was Mila.
For some reason, Knox felt a strange discomfort.
He continued watching.
What he saw next, however, froze him in place.
He even thought he must be hallucinating. How else could he explain such an outrageous scene?
The Mila in the surveillance video was completely unrecognizable–Knox had never seen this side of her before.
Gone was the gentle, caring woman he knew. Instead, she first mocked and taunted Aria, eventually escalating to
vicious verbal attacks.
If her complete personality shift wasn’t shocking enough, what Mila said next rooted Knox to the spot.
Because he clearly heard Mila say: She wasn’t sick at all!
Knox’s mind went blank, a sense of absurdity washing over him.
Just then, the specialist he’d hired knocked and entered.
The doctor held a thick stack of test results, his expression puzzled and confused.
“Mr. Rivera, as you requested, I’ve run every possible test on Ms. Montgomery, but I can’t find anything wrong with
her kidneys.”
“As for the end–stage kidney disease you mentioned–I stared at these reports for half an hour and found no
evidence of that either!”
By now, Knox understood everything–he had been deceived by Mila.
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She had never been sick!
Mila regained consciousness several hours later.
Remembering what had happened before she was sedated, her face turned ashen.
It was over. Would Knox know everything now?
Just then, the hospital door suddenly opened.
Then Knox entered, his face expressionless.
Mila felt too guilty to meet his eyes.
‘Mila, is there something you’d like to tell me?” His tone revealed nothing.
Mila had harbored a faint hope, but hearing this, her heart sank.
Knox stared at her and prompted: “You’re not sick. So all this time, you’ve been lying to me.”
Though panicked, Mila’s psychological resilience was strong. Thinking of Knox’s past affection for her, she formulated a strategy.
So Mila put on her most pitiful expression, struggling to sit up, but no matter how hard she tried, her lower body wouldn’t move.
she suddenly burst into tears, her voice breaking as she clutched Knox’s sleeve.
‘I’m sorry… I’m so sorry, Knox. I lied to you, but I had no choice… I didn’t know how else to be near you…”
‘I know you still care about what happened years ago, so you wouldn’t easily forgive me. But I… I just couldn’t let you go, Knox. I love you. I didn’t know what else to do…”
‘I was wrong, yes, and I’ll accept whatever punishment–yell at me, hit me, I deserve it. But I don’t regret what I did because all I wanted was to be close to you, just a little closer to you–that’s all. I’m sorry… I just loved you too much…”
After all, she had been the woman he’d cherished for over twenty years. Seeing her like this, Knox’s resolve softened.
He sighed and said, “But we can’t be together. Don’t you understand that?”
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