Seeing the worry on his face, the pain made my reaction slower.
So Noah had been standing there the whole time, watching Millie torture me.
Even when I was forced against the wall covered in needles, I was hurting so badly that I cried out.
He still ignored it.
But Millie only got a small scrape.
Yet Noah rushed over to her in panic.
I pulled at my lips and stopped looking at them, then turned around to leave.
Behind me, Noah’s cold voice suddenly sounded.
“Brielle, did I say you can leave? You really disappoint me too much!”
“I already told you, stop using your rude and controlling attitude on Millie!”
“Millie sincerely did this for your own good. She wanted you to learn manners, and this is how you treat her? You fought back and even shoved her down! Whether you want to learn today or not, you still must learn it!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Noah’s bodyguards stepped in front of me.
He tightly held me down and forced those shoes filled with broken glass onto my feet.
After that, the bodyguards tied my hands and dragged me forward by force.
The sharp glass instantly sliced through my feet, and even my breath carried the smell of blood.
I tried to struggle, but they only treated me even more roughly.
The glass pierced deeper into my feet until they slowly became numb.
Right before I passed out, Noah’s smiling face suddenly appeared in my mind.
“Brielle, you can stay proud forever. I’ll always protect you.”
He wasn’t my protection, he was a liar…
When I woke up again, I was already in the hospital.
My feet were wrapped in bandages and raised high.
Noah rested beside my bed, dark circles under his eyes making it look like he had stayed there for a long time.
Not long after, he suddenly woke from sleep.
The moment he saw my eyes open, he immediately pulled me into his arms and said in a shaking voice.
“Brielle, you finally woke up. I didn’t know there was broken glass inside those shoes. Please forgive me, okay?”
He hurriedly placed the apology gifts he had prepared long ago in front of me.
Every item was expensive, but I didn’t even spare them a glance.
I only calmly asked, “Where’s Millie?”
Noah paused for a second before softly saying, “Brielle, Millie already knows she was wrong. She didn’t mean to do it. After hearing you got hurt, she cried for a long time, too. For the sake of these gifts, can you forgive her?”
I mockingly laughed.
“Noah, Millie almost ruined my feet forever. Do you really think I’d believe she didn’t know there was broken glass inside those shoes?”
“The wall she made me stand against during posture training was covered in needles she prepared. Did you really not notice them? Or did you just pretend not to see?”
Noah clearly didn’t expect me to speak so coldly.
He frowned and said, “Brielle, you really misunderstood Millie. She’s not that kind of person.”
Before he could finish speaking, his phone rang.
In just a second, Noah’s expression completely changed.
He stared at me with dark eyes and clenched his teeth.
“Brielle, I already told you Millie isn’t that kind of cruel person. Why did you still have someone kidnap her?”
