Winner Takes All

In a matter of seconds.

Amber's face was filled with fear and confusion.

Compared to the loud thump on the floor above them, the threat from the mysterious man and a slap was nothing.

The spine-chilling sensation!

What it meant to her was the fear was like the sky came crashing down on her.

If her cover had been blown.

Everything she had, for now, would be all gone!

And even... the mask she had been wearing would be torn away.

"What should we do? What should we do?"

Amber was flustering to the core. She then grabbed the mysterious man's arm with both of her hands. And tears caused by the slap of the mysterious man were finally flowing down from the corner of her eyes. She wanted to become Amber because the life she's living now had everything she ever wanted.

She didn't want to be Shirley because Shirley had been buried in a hole on that fateful night. And from that hole out came Amber!

As she had slowly gotten used to the luxurious life she's living. Amber looked at the mirror every day and getting used to the gorgeous face she had. Even though she was aware that this mask with her flesh still had its gap.

But when luxury, fame, and splendor surrounded her, when dream became a reality.

Shirley had long gone.

Although she was wearing this facade that made her Amber, living someone else's life. She was totally fine about it.

This was everything she wanted. She didn't want to become Shirley again and lose everything she had now.

The mysterious man's cold stare was radiating a murderous intent.

In response to Amber's flustering, the mysterious man shoved Amber's both hands away from him.

And hurriedly walked upstairs.

Amber followed him from behind, still feeling nervous. She then murmured with a soft voice beside the mysterious man's ear, "Should we murder her if the cat's out of the bag?"

With no hesitation, even with her tone of inquiry, her words were firm and straightforward to the extreme.

At that moment, Amber was ready for the worst.

She didn't care whether she got blood on her hands if she could keep everything she had now.

Even if that person was living in the same house.

Killing her and everything could still be kept as a secret.

If not, there would still be a chance that everything would unveil.

The mysterious man didn't reply, but he picked up the pace and walked upstairs.

From the moment they heard the thump until now, upstairs was dead silence.

The mysterious man was in the front while Amber followed behind.

They both quickly walked up the second floor.Content rights belong to NôvelDrama.Org.

The moment they looked at the corridor.

Both of them were stunned.

And Amber's panic and nervousness were all relieved all in a sudden at that moment.

At the end of the corridor was Vinna's room.

This was because Vinna had been taking care of Yael and staying up too late. So Mr Ward assigned her room to the second floor to be more convenient to her.

But at that very moment, the door of her room was fully open.

Vinna was lying on the floor face down, her head on the corridor while the lower part of her body was in her bedroom.

The position where Vinna's head was resting where a pool of blood could be seen vaguely.

"She knocked herself out?"

The mysterious man focused his gaze and hastily walked towards Vinna that was at the door.

As for Amber, she let out a deep sigh of relief. Her face was calm as she followed him casually. She even grumbled as she walked towards her, "You bitch, you scared the hell out of me. Why won't just kill yourself instead?"

The mysterious man who was not far from her heard this. He turned his head around and stared at Amber. This scared Amber which made her recoiled in fear.

Vinna was lying flat in a pool of blood. Her pale face also was stained with blood. The sight was horrendous. As she lay there unconscious with the pungent smell of blood filling the air.

As the mysterious man checked Vinna's condition, she flipped Vinna over and saw a scary wound on her forehead that was still bleeding.

"It's so disgusting."

Amber standing beside them, was fanning in front of her nose, her face full of detest.

"Who are you talking to?"

The mysterious man glanced at Amber which shocked her and her expression changed drastically.

Following that, Amber leaned on the wall and stayed quiet. But the way she looked at Vinna whose face was stained with blood, there wasn't empathy and shock in her eyes, there were only endless of despising and coldness.

It was like she cared more about the stained floor than Vinna, who was bleeding out a lot.

"I'll take her to the hospital."

The mysterious man took a first aid kit and helped wrap Vinna's wound on her forehead with bandages, and then she carried her in his arms. When she walked past Amber, he threatened her with a coarse cold voice, "Keep your greedy ass face to yourself and be the person that you're supposed to be. I can give you all of this, of course, I can take it all away from you too. And bury you once more. If anything like what happened this morning happens again, the deal between us is over. Also, you should consider yourself lucky, Vinna knocked herself out because of she fell over because of exhaustion, and not because of knowing your secret."

"..."

Amber's face went pale, she was also dumbfounded. Her hands were held together as she couldn't dare to speak up to the mysterious man who was carrying Vinna.

After the mysterious man's silhouette had disappeared at the corners of the stairs.

Amber's face immediately became cold as ice.

Merciless, hatred... filled her gaze.

She furiously gritted her teeth as she spoke, "You can give me all of this, and indeed, you can take it all away. But when I become the true Amber, I'll make you regret!"

As she spoke, she punched the wall out of anger, "And when I become the wife of the head of Hughes family, who on earth will oppose me by then?"

At LJ hospital.

The mysterious man was looking at the unconscious Vinna, his gaze was deep.

Thankfully, it wasn't something serious, she just only lost some blood. They stitched the wound on her forehead and wrapped it with bandages, and that's basically everything.

Just to be safe, the mysterious man requested Director Lansing to have Vinna in the same ward as Yael.

"Now, you can spend a few days here with him. That's great."

The mysterious man shook his head and looked at the time. He's calculating how long before Daisy and Brent return home. And to ensure that Amber wasn't planning on exposing herself again, he didn't stay long. After he greeted Director Lansing, he took off and went back to TM villa district.

After escorting the mysterious man.

Director Lansing walked into the ward, and checked again on Vinna's injury. He then wrung his hands and sighed, distressed as he spoke.

"Poor Vinna, you're born with such high status. Why did you do this to yourself?"

He turned around and looked at Yael who had many tubes and wiring on him as he spoke. Finally, he smiled and said, "Kiddo, you got yourself a loyal girlfriend who keeps taking care of you every day. You should have wake up with a laugh, you know."

After he said this.

He stayed in the ward for a few minutes.

Director Lansing then shook his head. He glanced at Vinna, sighed, and left the ward.

Click!

The door of the ward was closed.

The ward was quiet.

There were only beeping sounds made by the monitors and instruments. And also the sound of ventilators.

After three minutes.

Vinna, who had been unconscious with bandages wrapped around her head, her eyelids fluttered a little. And then tears streamed down from the corner of her eyes.

At that same time, her lips were also trembling...

Her breathing became rapid, Vinna instead bit her lips forcefully and didn't let go even when it was bleeding because she was afraid that she would cry out. So that... she might... be exposed...0000