Revenge of the Hideous Lady (Xyla Quest)
Chapter 834

Her heart broke into million pieces every time she listened to that conversation.

"Nice one, Stanley Batton..." she mumbled. Tears rolled down her cheeks in such generous streams.

The man had bent over backward these days to keep her around as his blood supplier.

He was just pretending to be a good husband all this while. What a good actor he was.

If she had not received this audio clip today, she might have been fooled by him for the rest of her life.

Everyone else in the Batton family was as horrible as him.

She really wanted to ask them how it felt to put on such a wonderful show. Were they not tired of it?

Ridiculous. Everything was so ridiculous...

Buzz buzz buzz...

Xyla Quest's phone vibrated.

The noises of the vibrations interrupted her thoughts.

The screen showed 'Hubby'. She used to be delighted to receive his call, yet the word looked extraordinarily sickening at this moment.

She loved him with all her heart, appreciating him for being her perfect husband. However, he did not feel the same for her...

He had just been putting up an act for her. She was just his blood supplier, after all.

Xyla declined the incoming call and turned off her phone without hesitation. Throwing the phone aside, she wrapped her arms tightly around her legs and buried her head in her knees.

The truth was cruel.

It was so cruel that she would rather never have heard about it.

"Oh, that's for sure. Look at her. Do you think I'll treat her this well if it weren't for her blood? You could've found a woman who's able to match our family's standard."

"Of course. She's utterly unattractive. Too bad she has a rare blood type like mine. It can't be helped. Ugh, it's really annoying to face a woman I don't even love every single day."

The conversation between Ron and Stanley kept ringing in her ears like some black magic.

She could feel that her heart was mercilessly torn apart by a pair of enormous, invisible hands.

"Stanley Batton, Stanley Batton... I'm nothing to you, eh? You're annoyed by me every single day, aren't you?... It must've been really hard for you to stay with me...

"Pfft."

As she mumbled to herself, tears welled up in her eyes again, gradually blurring her vision.

She had experienced this kind of agony before. That was when she witnessed Tom Sullivan cheating with Emily Quest on the bed.

The only difference was that her agony was multiplied by ten thousand this time...

***

In the president's office of Dragon Group, Stanley was trying to call Xyla again after she declined his call.

However, he was being notified that the other side had turned off the phone.

Xyla's abnormality confounded him.

He immediately called Ron Batton. "Grandpa, is Xyla with you right now?"

On the other end of the phone, Ron was still at the root carving exhibition. "No. What's wrong?"

"Nothing. I tried to call her just now, but she didn't answer my call. The bodyguards told me that Xyla deliberately dumped them while they were driving. No one knew where she went," Stanley blurted.

"Huh? What? After we were done with the exhibition, I told her to wait for me in the lobby while I went to the washroom, but she was already gone when I came out. I gave her a call afterward. She told me that she had something to do. Do you think she got herself into some trouble?"

Stanley seemed alarmed.

Frowning worriedly, he rose to his feet while reassuring his grandfather, "Don't worry about it. I'll try calling her again. I'll send someone to pick you up first."

Subsequently, he called Xyla once more.

To his dismay, her phone was still switched off.