138 Chapter 138

"Why are you so thin? Answer me…"

Chloe tried to stay silent, but when he asked for the third time, she couldn't hold back and finally replied, but as Chloe Gray, she spoke about her experience;

"I… I've been bullied until I can't eat anything…." Chloe replied weakly, hoping that Vernon would just forget about it and continue with what he was doing.

But Vernon froze for a few seconds before lifting his shoulder instantly. He stared at Chloe with such a dangerous gaze that she got intimidated immediately.

"Bullied?"

Chloe gulped nervously. She didn't want to delve further into this topic because she was ashamed of herself and her body. But Vernon's focus was completely on this thing…

"Who bullied you?" Vernon asked, his voice half grunting at this point. He looked angry— very angry, in fact, that his eyes turned bloodshot, scaring the fuck out of Chloe even though he didn't intend to scare her.

"I—It's…." Chloe halted before she mentioned the man who had been the bane of her life.

The man who hurt her so much until she had no self-worth of herself. The man who made her believed she was always fat and ugly. He had damaged her self-worth so much that she didn't even dare to divorce him much sooner, thinking nobody would accept her if she left him…

But, that man was also Vernon's big brother— whom he seemed to have a good relationship with. What would happen if she vilified Vincent in front of Vernon?

"Answer me, my love," Vernon urged. His eyes looked angry and also concerned at the same time. How he looked at Chloe gave off the idea that he was ready to rough up anyone hurting his woman.

'He... He won't remember anything in the morning, right? He won't remember that he is not talking with his real woman. He was talking to his ugly sister-in-law that he hated so much…' Chloe was attracted to the idea of telling her story to Vernon, hoping he'd understand.

'I want to tell him of what really happened and how bad I was treated by Vincent. I want him to know that Vincent is a horrible man, not only because he is a cheating bastard but also a gaslighter and an asshole that bullied his wife until she had suicidal thoughts!'

'He will forget everything after he woke up, and I can have someone to tell my story with, though that someone was drunk as hell,' Chloe thought.

Fueled by the rage inside her heart, she finally braced herself and told Vernon slowly, "I was bullied by my ex-husband."

"Ex-husband…" Vernon went silent for a while. He seemed to be thinking about something and showed a displeased expression soon after.

In his mind, he knew that his woman left with a bastard he had never seen as a family member. Vernon had a personal hatred towards that guy, and the hatred would continue growing until he got the chance to ruin that bastard's life and take what was rightfully his, which was his woman.

"He told me that I'm a fat, ugly whale. A fat woman like me doesn't deserve to be loved…." Chloe said weakly. "So I… I want to make him satisfied. So I had various extreme diets until I developed bulimia. I will throw up my food because my body refused to eat anything."

Chloe wanted to tell more. He wanted someone to protect her and listen to her worries, "He told me I have no worth because I'm just a stay-at-home mom. But he also won't allow me to work because he said I'm too stupid to work outside."

"Vernon, he told me that a woman like me deserved to be cheated because I'm not attractive for him—"

"That's enough," Vernon suddenly interrupted her.

"Ah, s—sorry…." Chloe apologized weakly. She thought Vernon's interruption was because he didn't want to listen to the truth about his big brother. Maybe despite his drunken stupor, he still remembered his big brother fondly.

Vernon suddenly got up from the bed and stood at the edge of the bed.

"That's enough. I don't want to hear more. It makes my blood boil. I will go to him now. I will smash his head open," Vernon said calmly. His eyes were cold, and he didn't hesitate when saying those murderous words.

Vernon turned around, intending to walk to the front door and go— somewhere.

"Wait!" Chloe quickly jumped towards Vernon and wrapped her arms around Vernon's waist. She hugged him from behind to prevent him from doing stupid things when he was drunk.

"Let me go, my love. I will kill him, then we can be together," Vernon said. It should sound romantic, but it sounded too psychopathic and crazy for Chloe. Besides, she believed that Vernon was no match against Vincent— money-wise, of course.

She didn't want to ruin a perfectly good man just because of one wild night when he was drunk.

"D—Don't do anything crazy, Vernon!" Chloe raised her voice, hoping that Vernon would listen.

"Why not?" Vernon asked. "He hurt you. He hurt my woman. I'm not a man if I don't kill him now."

"L—Let's just return to bed, okay? Let's rest, and uhm… if—if you want, s-s-sex…." Chloe said. She felt too embarrassed to even say something so vulgar.

…

Vernon seemed to have calmed down, but he didn't move from his current position and asked, "Do you still love him?"

"No, I don't—"

"Then I don't see a problem," Vernon said. "Though, even if you still love him, I will do anything to ruin him and take you back."

Vernon grabbed Chloe's hands and separated them from his waist. He turned around and looked down to stare at his woman who was on the bed, looking up at him with her beautiful eyes.

'This chapter is updated by Nov elB i n',

She was beautiful. Even if everything around him was so blurry, her face was still clear in his eyes. He caressed her cheek with his finger and rubbed her lips with his thumb, "Tell me, my love, why did you stop me?"