Mending trust

The woman was emaciated, her hands were stained with blood, and her body was ruthlessly pressed to the ground.

"The best newcomer lawyer back then is nothing but a lump of mud now." A cold and harsh voice rang above Giana's head.

Giana raised her head desperately and looked at the charming face in front of her. Who would have thought that a popular star in the showbiz was so vicious?

"Alexia Jerome, why?" She asked in a trembling voice.

"You killed my sister, and you still have the face to ask why?" Alexia sneered, with a cold face and extremely sinister eyes.

"It's not me... I was wronged!" Giana said painfully, shaking her head constantly, trying to straighten her body. Her black eyes were fixed on the man standing beside Alexia.

That was... her former boyfriend, William Hawthorn! The man who once said that he would protect her for the rest of his life.

In the past, when her finger was accidentally pricked by a needle, he would feel distressed for a long time. But now, he just watched her being tortured like this.

"William..." Giana shouted to the other party with almost all her strength. "Please... believe me..."

He was still the same as before, dressed in a suit and leather shoes. There was only gloom and indifference left in his black eyes.

Alexia said, "William, you won't sympathize with this woman, will you? She is the murderer who killed my sister! I did this just to let my sister rest in peace."

She held the man's arm affectionately, and when facing the man, her sinister expression turned into a pitiful one.

"She deserves it. There is no need to sympathize." William gently stroked Alexia's well-maintained hair. "You can do whatever you want."

Giana's eyes widened suddenly.

Deserve it?!

Ah!

This man who once held Giana in his palm now only had an aversion to her.

Not knowing where the strength came from, Giana broke free from the person holding her body, struggled to crawl forward, and tried hard to get closer to William.

"William, I don't know what happened to that car accident. I really didn't drive drunk that day. It was Zoe Jerome's car... that hit me..."

Thud!

A foot stepped heavily on the back of Giana's hand, which caused bone-piercing pain.

But none of these could match the severe pain in Giana's heart at the moment.

She raised her head with difficulty, looked at William who was stepping on her left hand with a leather shoe, and couldn't believe that he would go to this extent.

She took a deep breath, her voice sounded hoarse. "Have you ever loved me?"

"What I regret most in my life is finding you as my girlfriend," William said in an extremely cold voice.

"William, break her hands. She drove the car with both hands and killed my sister," Alexia said.

The next moment, Giana heard him say "Okay!"

…

"Ah!" Giana opened her eyes suddenly, only to realize that she had dreamed about what happened in the prison back then.

She looked down at her calloused hands. After three years in prison, her hands were no longer as delicate and smooth as they used to be.

Although the nails of her fingers had grown, her hand was still injured.

At that time, Giana's fingers were all broken. Through skeletal self-healing, her hands had not completely lost function. But the finger joints looked a little distorted, and she couldn't perform many fine movements well.

Whenever it was cold and damp, the fingers would be more painful.

Sometimes the pain was so severe that Giana wanted to chop off her hands to get rid of the pain.

Because of a car accident that year, she was accused of drunk driving and killed Zoe. Besides being the eldest daughter of the Jerome family, Zoe was also the fiancee of Kason, who was powerful in New York.

After that, she was betrayed by all her relatives, was kicked out of the house, and was finally sentenced to three years in prison.

Standing up, Giana picked up the cleaning tools that were lying aside.

She was wearing a sanitation worker's fluorescent overalls. Her delicate face was slightly reddish due to the cold weather. Under her almond-shaped eyes was a delicate nose and light pink lips. Her long hair was simply tied into a ponytail.

If people only looked at her face, they may think Giana was just a college student who has just left school. It was just that she didn't have the vigor of a young girl, instead, she looked a little dull.