Chapter 2

Autumn pointed at me.

Her eyes filled with panic and fear.

Eleanor thought her daughter was angry that I wanted to call off the engagement.

“Sweetie, your father is teaching this scum a lesson!”

Richard grabbed the chair again, ready to hit me.

I was in too much pain to straighten up.

Completely unable to resist.

“No…”

Autumn cried out loudly to stop him.

But the chair was already coming down.

*Bang!*

The thick chair shattered with a thud.

And I coughed up blood from the impact.

“Dad, don’t hit my husband!”

Autumn cried out, her eyes red.

“This scumbag isn’t your husband!”

Richard said coldly.

Then.

He walked up to me, knelt down, grabbed my collar, and stared at me with a gaze like a bottomless pit.

“Do you know why I’m hitting you?”

I didn’t speak.

The intense pain made me tremble constantly.

“It’s not because you want to break off the engagement with my daughter.”

“And it’s certainly not because you want to abandon her.”

“It’s because… you’re not human!”

He paused.

Richard then shared his findings.

Apparently, on the night of the engagement.

When Autumn was raped.

I was actually in the men’s room.

A hotel cleaner saw me.

In other words.

I most likely saw the man who raped Autumn.

“Is… is that true?”

“He saw him?”

Eleanor couldn’t help but rush to her husband.

“That’s right.”

“He definitely saw him.”

Richard said with certainty.

“Why did you tell the police you didn’t see the culprit?”

Eleanor yanked my hair.

Her expression was unusually fierce.

“It must have been someone he knew.”

“But that person is someone he can’t afford to cross.”

“So he didn’t dare tell the police.”

“Afraid of retaliation!”

Richard said chillingly.

“Is that it?!”

Eleanor demanded, her voice full of rage.

I was in too much pain to speak.

But facing their questions.

I still forced myself to answer, despite the intense pain.

“I… I didn’t see the culprit!”

“You’re lying!”

Richard stared at me with icy eyes.

“The hotel cleaner said so.”

“She saw you coming out of the restroom then.”

“And another man leaving in a different direction.”

“You one hundred percent saw the culprit!”

“Why are you afraid to say it?”

As Richard finished speaking.

Liam suddenly walked over, grabbed my collar, and forcibly pulled me to my feet.

Then, without asking a single question.

He repeatedly punched me in the face.

I was almost unconscious.

Only then did he roar at me.

“You bastard, just tell us!”

“Who was that man?!”

Seeing my silence.

Liam grew even angrier.

“You won’t say, huh?”

“I’ll kill you!”

The next second.

Liam’s face twisted into a snarl as he clamped his hands tightly around my neck.

This time, it wasn’t a threat.

He genuinely wanted to kill me!

I could feel his hands squeezing with all his might!