Chapter 6
He picked up my phone with shaking hands and saw only a recording app on the screen.
He opened the recording, and that young man’s voice came through.
“If Vera hadn’t been obsessed with Chase back then, and hadn’t threatened suicide when he rejected her, and hadn’t used her family’s influence to crush Chase,
Chase never would’ve had us teach her a lesson that night.
But her mouth was so vicious, the guys couldn’t help wanting to scare her. Who knew she was barren?
She threw you under the bus to save herself.
When your dad came looking and called the cops, the guys were pissed and spread the word about her being barren everywhere.
She could crush us, but we couldn’t tell the truth?
Miss Summer, we had no idea she’d blame everything on you and your dad. Someone like that–how’d you even become friends with her?”
Jasper couldn’t process it. Why was this different from what Vera had told him?
Wasn’t it because I was jealous of his feelings for Vera that I hooked up with thugs, not only humiliating Vera but spreading news of her condition everywhere?
Even my dad was supposedly an accomplice–if he hadn’t called the police, it wouldn’t have blown up so big that even the Colthorne family couldn’t cover it up.
Which indirectly caused Vera’s mental illness.
So all these years, to get revenge for Vera, he’d imprisoned me in the basement, using Dad’s medical bills to control me, turning me into a plaything without dignity.
“Go investigate!”
He slumped to the floor, remembering how I’d tried to explain this to him more than once.
But he just wouldn’t believe that the Vera he’d cherished could have liked someone else behind his back.
While waiting, he was a complete mess, pacing frantically around the basement.
He opened my phone again–inside was just one photo of us from middle school.
Back then he was sunny and handsome, arm around me, grinning carelessly: “Summer, I’m gonna marry you when we grow up.”
“No way, my dad’s just your family’s driver. I’m not good enough for you.”
“But what if I like you anyway?”
Back then, my heart raced and I smiled so wide I couldn’t hide it.
But after Vera showed up, every time she said something ambiguous in front of him, he never showed me a kind face again.
“Sir, we found everything.”
His assistant’s voice interrupted Jasper’s memories.
He took the thick stack of documents from his assistant, growing more shocked as he read, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the paper edges, knuckles white from gripping so hard.
“Vera’s biggest crush back then wasn’t the school heartthrob Jasper Colthorne, but a thug named Chase.”
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“I wasn’t the one who insisted on dragging Vera out that night–Vera wanted to sew Chase, and I went along because I was worried about her. When we ran into danger, she abandoned me.”
“The ones who spread the news about her being harren were those thugs–it had nothing to do with me or my
dad
*After she completely lost Chase, when she noticed Jasper’s teenage feelings for me, she used every trick in the book to badmouth me and put ra down in front of him, making him gradually hate me.”
“During all these years of imprisonment, she often came to the basement behind Jasper’s back to torture me for no reason.”
The more Jasper read, the more horrified he became.
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