Selina’s eyes darkened for a moment, then she replied lightly, "I was badly hurt, but I got through it."
Ethan let out a low whistle. "That’s honestly a miracle."
Selina lowered her gaze. Yeah, a miracle.
Her memories from four years ago were hazy. After recovering from her illness, a lot of things became a blur. All she remembered was that she had saved someone, lived with him for almost two weeks, and then Angelica’s people came after her.
When she woke up again, Uncle Gordon and her brothers wouldn’t say a word about how she got hurt. She tried looking into it but found nothing, except that Angelica was behind it.
If luck hadn’t been on her side, she would’ve died back then. And yet Angelica...
Why did the would-be killer get to live so comfortably, looking glamorous, standing at the top as the Morris Family heiress?
Selina tilted her head slightly. Strange... where had she met that man? Where exactly had the attack happened? Why couldn’t she remember anything clearly?
Logan tapped his fingers on the table, forcing down the rising rage in his eyes, mind fixated on one thing—four years ago.
Four years ago, when he was blind and on the brink of death, a girl saved him. They hid together, moving place to place to escape those hunting him. Then, she disappeared. And somehow, Angelica took her place.
Selina got her injury four years ago too. Could everything have happened in the same time frame? Was it just a coincidence?
After Ethan finished treating her, he stepped outside with Logan.
"You wanted to ask me something?" Ethan said.
Logan frowned. "What caused the scar on her neck?"
"Hmm... based on a preliminary assessment, it looks like the wound was caused by a knife. But the scar doesn’t look like it was made in a single cut—it seems more like someone repeatedly cut the same spot several times. Judging by the pattern of the scar, the person holding the knife probably wasn’t very strong—either a woman, a small-framed man, or maybe the blade itself wasn’t sharp enough. That would explain why it took multiple cuts to go that deep. In any case, it’s a stroke of luck that the attacker wasn’t stronger, or the knife sharper—otherwise, Selina might not have survived."
Logan’s expression grew darker. "So she went through all that pain... for a long time?"
Ethan nodded. "Yeah. Whoever it was clearly hated her. If they just wanted her dead, they’d have used a faster method. This was meant to make her suffer."
Logan slowly closed his eyes. "...She never told me."
And he, as her husband, never even asked.
Who had done that to her? Had they paid for it yet? Should he make them?
Ethan shook his head. "It’s not your fault. From what I can tell, she’s probably forgotten what happened."
Logan narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"
"Sometimes when a person goes through extreme trauma, they’ll subconsciously block the memory. I think Selina fits that. And you mentioned Gordon and Gavin were hiding things from her? This could be it. Maybe what she went through was so bad that they decided it was best to let her forget."
"They probably didn’t want her to relive the pain."
Logan slowly curled his fingers into a fist. "Ethan, help me investigate something."
...
The next day, after class, Selina was walking down University Road when she overheard a few people talking.
"Poor Selina..."
"It’s honestly hard to watch. That cheating jerk and that shameless homewrecker—how can they show their faces? What’s Selina supposed to do now?"
"She worked so hard to get here. After everything Angelica did to her, now this..."
"Keep your voice down! Some of those big celeb fans go to this school too. You don’t want trouble."
"I just can’t stand seeing Selina treated like this!"
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