Chapter 216 Resolving the Nutjob’s Scene
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“I don’t love him anymore. If you do, then you figure out how to keep him close. I’ll even wish you both the best, that you grow old together and have kids carly.”
Sydney’s gaze shook as she stared at the young woman in front of her. The seriousness etched on Dawn’s face stunned her for a moment.
<i>So </i><i>she </i><i>doesn’t </i><i>love </i>him <i>anymore</i>.
<i>What </i><i>a </i><i>pathetic </i><i>joke</i>.
The thought nearly dragged augh out of her.
This same girl once followed Austin everywhere like a lost shadow. He had always kept himself stiff and proper, dering over and over that he was nothing more than her uncle.
But now Dawn had a ring on her finger, and the man who was supposed to marry Sydney had tossed her aside like she was worthless. He was even nning to elope with the woman he once swore was only family.
A bitter smile pulled at Sydney’s mouth, but when her head lifted again, her eyes burned with pure venom and rage.
“How can you stand there and im it doesn’t matter?”
Her voice sliced through the silence like a de across ss.
“He cares about you more than anyone else. You need to admit it. If something happened to you, he woulde running.”
Austin hadn’t answered a single one of her calls in days. Her mind screamed with only one truth.
She had to find him. She had to force the words out of him. She needed <i>to </i>hear why.
Her face twitched as her fury spiraled out of control. She clutched the baseball bat tighter, her knuckles pale, and stepped toward Dawn with a heavy tread. Her throat rasped as the words spilled out raw. “Do you even realize I’ve always been jealous of you?”
Her eyes glistened with a wild fever. “Yes, I set you up before. I won’t deny it. But even when I tried to tear you down, Austin never stayed angry at you. At most he scolded you, then it was over. Tell me now, just how deep do you run in his heart?”
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Dawn’s face didn’t shift. Not a single ripple crossed her calm surface. Those words carried no power over her anymore.
A wound was still a wound. No matter how small orrge, pain was still pain.
In seconds Sydney stood face to face with her. Her eyes brimmed with poison as she spat out the words.
“You’re the woman he loves most. That means you must die!”
The bat came crashing down with deadly force.
Before Dawn could move, a strong hand shot out and seized it in midair. The sound of wood mming against flesh cracked through the room.
Dawn’s head snapped sideways in shock. Ethan stood beside her, his face carved sharp, his eyes narrowed and locked on Sydney with a gaze so cold it could freeze stone.
“Trying to get yourself killed?” His voice was low but thunderous.
Dawn’s breath seized. She grabbed his hand, fear thick in her voice. “Your hand! Is it alright?”
When she wrenched the bat away, she saw an angry welt marked the center of his palm all the way to the base of his thumb. The red line stood out viciously.
Her eyes burned with tears as she whispered, “I could have dodged the bat. She was trying to break bones. You shouldn’t have-”
“It’s nothing.”
Ethan pulled her into his chest, his voice calm, his touch steady. “It’s only red. It’ll fade in a bit.”
As <i>if</i><i>. </i>Sydney had meant to kill. The wound would not vanish that quickly.
Her silence hardened into something sharp. And she turned around.
Sydney hung there like she had gone vacant. Her head was bowed, trembling but silent.
The crack of Dawn’s palm striking her cheek ripped through the room.
Sydney’s head snapped to the side. She froze, dazed, her cheek burning with the mark.
“If you’re losing your mind, then check yourself into a hospital. Stop walking out here and dragging the rest of us into your chaos. You’ve burned through everyst drop of patience I had. If I see you again, I’m going to give you a beating worse than this. Don’t try me.”
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Sydney’s hollowugh echoed as she slowly raised her head.
The red imprint med across her face.
“You hit me? How dare you-”
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Before her words even finished, Dawn’s other hand cracked across the opposite cheek. She shook out her fingers and spat, “There. Now both sides match. You don’t need to thank me.”
Her stare was cold as stone. “Tony, why aren’t you calling the cops yet?”
Tony nearly choked.
He had been watching like it was a show, but her suddenmand jolted him stiff.
“Y–yeah, I’m calling them right now!”
God help him.
He never thought Dawn had this kind of fire.
Those ps alone looked painful enough to echo in his skull.
Dawn didn’t look back. She told the staff to watch Sydney, then seized Ethan’s hand and dragged him inside. She refused to rest until she had ointment on his palm.
“Honey, I told you, I’m fine.” Ethan sighed, helpless, but let her fuss. He stayed quiet as she dabbed ointment and wrapped gauze, indulging her every move. “You don’t need to do all this.”
“This isn’t too much,” Dawn shot back, her eyes reddened as she red at him.
“She hit you with everything she had. If you don’t use medicine, you’ll be hurting tomorrow.”
She did not stop rubbing the balm on his welt.
Her fingers moved slow and careful, filled with worry and guilt.
She hated seeing him hurt because of her.
Ethan hardly felt the sting, but watching her fuss so tenderly pulled a smile to his lips.
She was stunning when she was like this.
If she ever got mad at him in the future, maybe he could use an injury to win her heart again.
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Dawn didn’t catch the thought flickering in his eyes. She tied the bandage off and said, “We’ll take it offter. Right now it keeps the medicine in ce. If it stays too long, your skin won’t breathe.”
Ethan studied the neat bandage and hummed withzy amusement.
“Honey, who taught you that gauze makes ointment work better?”
Her eyes lifted with a spark. “Self–taught. Got a problem with that?”
His mouth curved into a grin. “Well, it works, so no.”
Before another word passed, sirens screamed outside, breaking through the night.
The police had arrived fast, pulling in within minutes.
When Dawn and Ethan stepped outside, Tony was already exining the chaos that had just shaken the house.
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