Chapter 170: I Want A Divorce
When they heard a noise outside, Vivian put on her hat and hastened to leave.
Scout walked around Scarlett and then said, “Stop pretending you are not awake! You overheard what we said, didn’t you?”
Scarlett moved her fingers and said, “I know who’s behind this.”
“You want to die?” he said as he held the sharp knife against her neck. His eyes glittered with greed and blood lust.
“I can’t survive this time because you have prepared to kill me, haven’t you?”
“You are a smart woman!” he said as he moved the knife away from her neck. “If you want to blame someone, just blame yourself because it’s all your own fault. How dare you steal my boss’s man?”
“They are divorced,” Scarlett said calmly.
“Divorce… if Francis hadn’t been so cruel to my boss, she definitely wouldn’t have left America and suffered great hardship overseas. ” He punched Scarlett.
Although it hurt a lot, Scarlett didn’t cry out in pain.
“Scout, I got her!” It was from Sam.
Scout stood up and kicked Scarlett, “Stupid woman!”
Claire was thrown to the ground. The kidnappers walked towards the bag full of money.
“Here’s five million dollars. Wow, that’s too much!” one kidnapper said.
“You’re an idiot! We’ll have one hundred mills later.” Sam said.
“Yeah, yeah, you are right. How long will it take? Should we go and wait there?” he asked.
“We still have forty minutes left.” Scout took a look at the watch. “We have nothing to do now; how about we have fun with her?” He pointed at Claire.
“We can take some nude photos of her, and I dare say that she won’t turn us in? Besides that, she is the one who paid us to kidnap that woman.” Scout sneered.
A couple of men started tearing off Claire’s clothes.
“Don’t make it ugly. And make it quick!” he said.
After that, some of them started joining in, and the others were left there looking at each other.
“What are you gonna do?” Sam asked Scout.
“There is another woman in the back. Why not have fun?”
“Don’t you want to live?” Sam said angrily.
“As long as we take photos of her nude and threaten to spread them, she won’t dare to call the police. Who’s gonna mess with us?”
“Of course the police won’t, but what about Francis Sandler? He is rich and powerful. Whoever we kidnap or blackmail, that’s no problem, but we can’t hurt this woman.”
Scout moved his neck and laughed, “Okay, we just don’t touch her.”
Scarlett overheard everything. With a small blade she kept hidden in the sole of her left shoe at all times, she managed to kick her shoes off and get free.
Because her hands were tied behind her back to the pillar, she had to bend her legs to move the shoe toward her hands. Fortunately, the pillar was huge, and she was pretty flexible. The blade was sharp, so she easily cut the rope that bound her hands. The advantage of growing up on the streets was that Scarlett knew how to protect herself.
Scarlett got rid of the rope and stood up. She prepared to escape from the back door.
“Stop! Don’t move!” Someone shouted out.
She stopped there and stared at the person walking out of the darkness. It was Scout.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
“Aren’t you naive to think that you can get away so easily?” He had a gun.
“Well, you are really a loyal dog to Vivian.” Scarlett laughed sarcastically.
“Yeah, I’m her loyal dog, but you are more pathetic than I am because you are gonna die by my hand,” he said. He had an abnormal muscle twitch in his face as if he was on drugs.
Scarlett said, “Are you on coke?”
“It’s none of your business!” he said.
“Well, you might regret what you are doing now when you come down from it.”
Scout blinked his eyes very quickly and said, “If you are kind, why don’t you save your sister? She’s getting gang-raped right now.”
Scarlett moved a bit and smiled ironically, “I can’t even save myself, how am I gonna save her?”
“Yes, you are right.” He said as he moved his finger and pulled the trigger.
However, nothing happened because the gun had no bullets.
Sam secretly came out from behind and knocked him out.
Scarlett instantly took out her watch and pressed the pause button.
“Madam, Mr. Sandler is waiting outside in the car!” Sam said respectfully to Scarlett.
It turned out Sam had been Scarlett’s man this whole time.
“Okay, I will leave the rest to you. About Claire, you’d better give Jenifer a call and inform her about what’s happened! She will be surprised to see what happened to her daughter.”
“Shall we take her to the hospital?” he asked.
“Yeah. Anyway, you take the others to the police station. My purpose is to send Vivian to prison.”
“Yes, madam!”
After that, Scarlett went to the parking lot. Francis was waiting for her in the car.
“Have you got evidence?”
“Yeah!” she replied.
“Are you happy now?”
“Yeah!”
“Well, this time, she will be sentenced to at least ten years. You’ve done a great job,” he said. Though he was praising her, his face was blank.
“Are you angry with me?” Scarlett said as she took him by the arm.
“Scarlett, I want a divorce.”
Upon hearing that, Scarlett felt her world fall apart.
“Divorce? Is he out of mind?” Eve was shocked. She never expected it would end up like that for Scarlett and Francis.
Scarlett sat on Eve’s sofa in a daze and said with a pillow in her arms, “He didn’t look like he was kidding…”
“Wow, he is ridiculous. He forced you to marry him, and now he just told you that he wants a divorce, without any explanation either. He really is heartless.” Eve said in anger because she thought Francis was treating Scarlett very unfairly.
“Maybe I have broken his heart!” Scarlett took a sip of water and said, “Well, I admit that I really neglected his feelings when I was fighting against the other women.”