The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)
Chapter 1224

"Haha! Are you scared?"

Michael looked at Aria's pale face, and he couldn't help but laugh.

He was a very handsome man, but because he was usually cold and distant, no one dared to look at his face.

Furthermore, Aria rarely saw him smiling. He would usually sneer, so people would be frightened of him. However, this time, Michael was smiling from the bottom of his heart.

When he smiled, he had a faint dimple on his right cheek, so he looked like a friendly neighbour.

Besides, his smile was pure and attractive.

At this thought, Aria quickly turned her head over.

Wait! Did she say that he was attractive?

How could she think that Michael was attractive?

He was an inhumane demon!

On the other hand, Michael remained silent. He wanted to light up another cigarette, but he had finished all of them.

After Valentina died, he couldn't live without nicotine. He smoked more and more, so now he was addicted.

Then, he frowned at the empty cigarette box, but he didn't leave.

He looked at the traffic outside and said in a low voice, "Let me tell you something. After I avenged Valentina, I returned to her hometown. I wanted to take her parents to where I lived and treat them as my parents, but their parents kicked me out of the house and didn't even want to see me."

"Hah! They called me a devil! In fact, they scolded me and asked me how could I be so cruel? They believed that those people should just be punished by law, so why should I tear them to pieces one by one? When I heard that, I thought they were joking with me.

"Well, why didn't they say anything when they treated Valentina this way? She was just a weak woman! Alas! How could the murderer be so cruel? I believed that I should get revenge for them because of an eye for an eye, but their parents thought I was a sinner and a devil. They told me I was not good enough for Valentina and said that luckily their daughter didn't marry me. Otherwise, they wouldn't know what I would have done to their daughter!"

When Michael was talking about that, a trace of heartache and pain finally appeared on his face.

When Aria saw the pain on his face, she felt upset too.

"Urgh! How could they do this to you? You did this for their daughter, didn't you?"

She was right.

He had done everything for Valentina, but her parents did not understand him. Thus, he felt upset and devastated, but he never thought about this.

Thus, the only person he cared about was Valentina.

After all, everyone had their own way of getting revenge.

If he handed those b*stards over to the law, it would be impossible for them to escape death. However, the way they died would be too quick and easy.

After all, they didn't deserve a quick death for what they did to Valentina!

At this thought, Michael's eyes became icy-cold again.

"However, I can't blame them. After all, they are all good people, and they have led happy lives. Hence, they don't know how dark and cruel the world is. They only know that their daughter was sacrificed, and the army conferred her as a martyr. They believed that Valentia did it for the glory of the family, so they were proud of her. But, if I had a choice, I would throw away this stupid pride! After all, I just want her to be alive so that she can spend every day with me and raise our children together! Urgh! I just want us to spend the rest of our lives happily."

Suddenly, Michael choked with sobs and his eyes were moist.

How long had it been?

It had been a long time since he had missed Valentina so much.

After all, nine years had passed!

He had been living the life of walking dead, but today, he had torn his own wound open again. When he realized how he used to be, he couldn't help but tear up.

Right now, Aria was completely stunned by what she was seeing.

After all, this man seemed to really love the woman named Valentina.

Aria thought that if she also had such a boyfriend, she could rest in peace.

But what about her fiance, Maverick?

Well, Aria did not want to think about him at that moment.

She lowered her head and whispered, "He picked me up from the streets."

Michael was a little shocked when he heard that.

He just wanted to tell her what he had been wanting to tell Valentina these years, but he didn't expect Aria to tell him her story.

Michael frowned slightly when he heard this, but he didn't interrupt her.

Then, Aria continued with a bitter smile, "Alas! I was an orphan, and I have been in the orphanage for since I could remember. The children there are annoying, and they always like to bully me because I have yellow skin and black eyes that are different from them. Furthermore, the dean wouldn't help me. I can only eat their remaining scraps. I thought I would grow up like this in the orphanage, but Maverick appeared when I was 14 years old.

At that time, he came to me like an angel and asked me whether I wanted to leave the orphanage and go with him. His smile was too warm, and he had the same skin appearance and eyes as I did, so I followed him without hesitation. After all, I told myself that I just wanted to find someone who looked the same as me."

At this thought, Aria suddenly burst into tears.

Her sobs weren't loud, and she only sobbed softly. So, Micheal could only see tears falling down from the corners of her eyes.

She then continued to say, "Maverick was good to me. He gave me the best food and dressed me in the best clothes. Furthermore, he also bought me the doll that I always wanted but couldn't get. Slowly, I started liking him. He also told me that I was very obedient, and he liked it. So I tried to be good to him. We lived together for a year, and he said that I needed to be powerful if I wanted to stay with him because I was too weak then. Hence, I agreed without any hesitation at that time because I wanted to be with him."

"No one had been so kind to me, and no one had ever asked what I wanted. He was the only one who did so. He gave me warmth and everything I wanted. For me, that was heaven. He said that when I was powerful enough in the future, he would help me to find my biological parents. Then, we would ask them why they had abandoned me. I knew he wanted to help me. So, when he asked me to improve myself, I didn't want to disappoint him."

"After that, I was brought to an isolated island. Many children had the same skin colour as me there. Back then, I was quite happy. After all, apart from Maverick, the people I met back then weren't from my country. No one knew how happy I was when I could meet a few children that had the same skin tone like myself." "Our training was tough, so I always cried alone in the middle of the night. However, no one came to comfort me. At that time, I missed him very much, and I wanted to call him. But they said that I couldn't do that, and they would only let me go back after I had improved my skills."

"In the end, I stayed there for three years. Now, I finally knew who those people were. I wanted to make friends, but we never got to do that. We only fought cruelly with each other! Over the past three years, I was scarred and bruised, but finally, I was able to return to his side. He told me that as long as I came here to kill you, he would marry me and let me be his most beautiful bride."

When Aria said that, her face was already filled with tears.

She raised her head and stared right into Michael. Her eyes reminded Michael of Valentina, and she had, "I had no choice! Alas! I love him too much. I know we don't have any grudges between us, and I made a mistake by coming here to kill you. But... but this is the only way I could pursue my happiness. After all, I'm a person who craves affection. I have no relatives and no friends, so I have only him. For this man, can give up my principles and conscience. After all, I just wanted to achieve the happiness that belonged to me. But in the end, I screwed everything up."

Upon hearing her words, Michael's eyes softened a little.

Perhaps other people couldn't understand those feelings, but he could understand how Aria felt.

She had never gotten affection before. Hence, when she saw that she could finally get what she wanted, she worked hard to achieve her goals.

Yet now, she lost all her hope. Therefore, Michael thought she was probably desperate at that moment.

At this thought, Michael's heart suddenly softened.

Well, he probably felt this face because she had a familiar face.

After a while, Michael said softly, "You killed one of my brothers. Zeck was about to get married, but you killed him."

Aria looked up abruptly, and her eyes were full of astonishment.

"What? I didn't kill anyone! I just hurt them."

"But, Zeck had lost too much blood, and it was too late for them to save him. He passed away not long ago."

Well, Michael knew that it was too cruel of him to say this to Aria right now.

After all, he believed that Aria did not intend to kill anyone, but Zeck had died after that.

So, she had to bear the consequences of her actions.

Aria's eyes changed from astonishment to shock, but then a blank look took over her face.

"You're going to kill me, right? I can see that you care a lot about your men."

"Yeah, they have been with me for nine years. Besides, they were the ones who had saved my life when I almost died."

Aria was in despair after hearing what Michael had said.

"Will you kill me?"

"I will. Tomorrow, I will kill you in public, and you will die with Zeck."

Michael said these words with a trembling voice filled with regret.

After hearing that, Aria couldn't control herself and started crying at the end.

"What did Maverick say? Didn't he say he would come to find me? He's my fiance!"

Michael's furrowed his brows together when he heard this.

He hadn't looked Maverick up. However, based on what Aria had told him, he knew that the man was definitely the head of a professional hitman organisation.

So, how could such a person have feelings?

Even if he had feelings, he would never fall in love with a fool like Aria.

Obviously, Maverick had used her!

Maverick knew her feelings towards him, so he used her as a tool so that he could give Michael a present.

He remembered that he had taken advantage of this woman not long ago. He thought that he could let her live as his comrades would spare her after he had done so. After all, he felt that it was more important to keep Aria's life than her virginity.

But no one had expected Zeck to die.

Hence, he knew that he couldn't trade Zeck's life with Aria's precious virginity!

What should he do then?

He stole her virginity, but she killed his friend. Was he really going to kill her tomorrow?