"Yvonne, I''ve always known what a good person you are. I truly wanted you to be my daughter-inw, but it seems Matthew wasn''t fortunate enough to deserve you." Mrs. Gonzalez patted Yvonne''s hand gently, her eyes welling up. "You deserve someone better, my dear. Matthew... he''s not worthy of you."


    Yvonne offered a small smile and said her goodbyes before walking down the steps.


    "Yvonne!" Matthew''s voice, raw and hoarse, called out behind her. "Goodbye."


    They both knew what he meant. This wasn''t just goodbye for now; it was goodbye forever.


    He remembered carrying her on his back through the mountains to watch the fireworks, promising her a sky full of them, promising her the world. He had meant it then. But promises were only real in the moment they were spoken. His love had been real, but so had his greed and his betrayal.


    Yvonne didn''t slow down, didn''t look back. She just kept walking away.


    After leaving the Gonzalez vi, she had nned to drive back to the Spencer estate, but halfway there, she received a call from Sandra. Her voice was strained with exhaustion and frustration.


    "You need to get to the hospital. Marina tried to kill herself again.”


    Yvonne hung up and pressed down on the elerator, racing toward the hospital.


    She could hear the screaming before she even reached the room. It was Marina, her voice a raw, desperate shriek.


    The Marina that Yvonne knew was gentle and soft-spoken, but the woman in that room was hysterical, lost in a frenzy of madness. Even Lucien, her fiancé, couldn''t get near her to calm her down.


    "What happened now?" Yvonne asked, frowning. Just yesterday, Marina and Lucien had reconciled, happily nning a small wedding in their hometown. What could have pushed her back to the edge overnight?


    Sandra exined, "George called Marina this morning and told her to meet Mr. Ward at a hotel tonight. She refused. A few minutester, he sent her several videos. After she


    ched them, she just... snapped. This afternoon, she sent Lucien out on an errand and tried to jump from the window. A nurse doing rounds found her just in time But she''s been unstable ever since. Even Lucien can''t get through to her. If this keeps up, she''s going to have aplete breakdown."


    "What kind of videos?" Yvonne asked.


    "What do you think?” Sandra said with a bitterugh.


    After the paparazzi incident, Mr. Ward had been left frustrated and unsatisfied. The near-miss had only made him more obsessed. To keep his most important shareholder happy, George had ordered Marina to see him again. But Marina, having reconciled with Lucien, was ready to give up her career for a quiet life


    with him.


    George, however, refused to lose control of his pawn. The videos he sent were of


    Marina with other men-clients she had been forced to sleep with in the past.


    Seeing herself on screen, naked and


    entangled with stranger after stranger, had shattered her. If she refused George, he would send the videosto Lucien, maybe even leak them to the public. If she obeyed, she would be trapped in that d?r abyss forever, and Lucien would never forgive her.