The Deal
Cindy’s face was filled with horror as soon as Arielle mentioned the pigsty. “How did you know? Have
you always known?”
Without answering the woman’s question, Arielle ordered the bodyguards to move Cindy to the pigsty.
“No! Stop it! I don’t want to go back there.” Kicking her legs, Cindy struggled like a madwoman trying to
escape her captors but to no avail.
It did not take Vinson’s bodyguards long to get Cindy completely under their control.
“So you don’t want to go back there?” Arielle then nodded understandingly. “That’s not a problem, but
you have to promise me something.”
Cindy would do anything to stay out of the pigsty, for she could still remember how she was forced to
sleep with pigs and be fed with pig fodder.
“Name it!” demanded Cindy with gritted teeth.
“It’s simple, really. All you have to do is tell me how you and Henrick got my mother killed, and I’ll let
you go.”
Cindy’s face quickly turned pale but remained adamant. “As if! What makes you think we’re the ones
responsible for your mother’s death?”
As much as she wanted to leave that barn, Cindy knew that she would be sent to prison even if Arielle
did let her go. Worse than that, her life could be in danger if word got out. This is a terrible deal, and I’m
not going to agree to it!
Without responding to the woman, Arielle scoffed and took a step back before snapping her fingers.
Immediately afterward, the two bodyguards lifted Cindy and started to head out with the woman.
“Let me go! Let me go now! If you dare leave me in the pigsty like your father did, I swear you’ll pay for
it when I get out! Do you hear me?”
“Perfectly,” answered Arielle coldly as she stared at the woman, unfazed by the threat.
Although the last thing Cindy wanted was to go back to the foul-smelling sty, she was unwilling to give
what Arielle wanted either.
Still gagged and bound to a pillar, Matthias seemed even more agitated as he made all kinds of noises
to attract attention.
“Wait,” commanded Arielle when Matthias finally got her attention.
Immediately, the bodyguards stopped in their tracks as ordered.
Before Arielle could reach Matthias, Vinson swiftly rushed over to remove the gag in the man’s mouth
before turning to look softly at Arielle. “I’ll handle this. There’s no reason to get your hands dirty over a
man like him.”
In response, Arielle smiled warmly at the gentleman before setting her icy-cold glare back on Matthias.
“It seems like you have something to say… tell me.”
After taking deep breaths to ease the pain, Matthias explained himself. “Ms. Moore, I admit that what
Cin and I did was wrong. If you let us go, I promise you that you’ll never have to see us ever again.”
Compared to Cindy, Matthias was more calm and reasonable, for he knew well what kind of situation
he was in.
“Is that really the best you can do? Tell me. Do you take me for an idi*t? I have no doubt that you can
keep your promise by staying far away from me, but what about Cindy? That woman’s convinced that I
killed her daughter. You think she’s going to just leave me alone?”
“What do you want me to do then?”
Arielle tucked her hair behind her ear calmly before answering, “Like I said, I’ll let both of you go as
soon as Cindy tells me the truth.”
“That’s it?”
“That’s it.”
Matthias then turned to Cindy and pleaded, “Just tell her what she wants to know, Cin. Please! You
know well that we’re not getting out of this if you don’t give her what she wants.”
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