Chapter 333 Charlotte's Break with Martin
After shedding some tears, Charlotte was about to head back outside the operating room when her phone rang – it was Hunter.
Before she could express her concern, Hunter launched into a furious tirade.
"You useless fool, you've gottenyou almost got me killed, you idiot!. Did you conspire with Martin just to set me up? What, now that you're on good terms with him, it's back to sibling harmony? Team and teaming up against me, the outsider?"
Charlotte was heartbroken, not only because her sincere feelings were unreciprocated, but also because they were so grossly misinterpreted.
"I didn't,… how could I ever hurt you? You know I'd betray the whole world before I'd betray you."
"Hmph..."
Hunter let out a scornful chuckle,laughed scornfully, expressing his disdain and contempt for her bare.
"I will never forgive you in my lifetime.. Don't contact me ever again. I can't stand to even hear your voice anymore – it. It sickens me…"."
He was about to end the call.
Panicked, Charlotte blurted out, "Don't do this,. I really care about you,; you can't just ignore me. What will I do if even you turn away fromleave me too?"
"What you do is"That's none of my concern."
With that, Hunter hung up decisively.
The busy signal from the other end of the phone left a void in Charlotte's heart. Biting back tears, she desperately redialed Hunter's number, persistent, incessant.
Biting back tears, she desperately redialed Hunter's number.
No answer.
She kept calling, persistent, incessant.
Finally, he answered,. "I told you to stop bothering me. There's nothing between us anymore. Charlotte, don't make me despise you…"."
And with that, the line went dead again.
When Charlotte tried once more, his phone was already switched off.
She felt completely defeated; slumped against the wall, her tears fell silently.
Hunter truly didn't want her anymore.
He had abandoned her.
Her heart ached.
The man she saw as her entire world had rejected her, leaving the single ray of light in her dark life to vanish completely. How had it come to this?
How had it come to this?
Suddenly, a memory sparked, and she jolted upright. Without a moment's hesitation, sheShe burst out of the bathroom and dashed to the operating room doors. Grabbing Martin by his scrubs, she pounded on his chest, screaming at the top of her lungs.
"It was you, wasn't it? ?!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "You used me against Hunter, didn't you?! I'm your own sister,. hHow could you do this to me? Why did you manipulate me? Your birthday wishes for me were all a lie, justall to gain my trust, and then to useused me for your vendetta against Hunter, right?"
The commotion instantly drew everyone's attention.
Seeing the scuffle, Jessica hurried over and pulled at Charlotte. "Charlotte, whatWhat are you doing? This is a hospital; we can talk about this later. Randy's still in surgery!"."
Charlotte was beyond reason.
Her hands clung fiercely to Martin's scrubs, her eyes blazing with fury.
"Martin, I hate you!, I hate you so much!..."
Martin's brow furrowed, deeply concerned that the noise could disrupt the surgery. He grabbed Charlotte's wrists, intent on taking her away.
He grabbed Charlotte's wrists to take her away.
"What are you doing? Let me go... Where are you taking me?"
Jessica stepped in front ofbefore him, fearing for Charlotte's safety. "Martin, she's your own sister. You can't hurt her."
Martin replied, exasperated, "I'm not going to hit her. I just want to take her somewhere we canto talk and clear things up."
Relieved at his words, Jessica stepped back, allowing him to leave with Charlotte.
But Charlotte refused to move, struggling fiercely. "Let me go,. I'll never trust you again. You're a liar, you've. You turned Hunter against me, and I'm your own sister.. How could you be so heartless..."?"
Unconcerned with her resistance, Martin forcefully pulled her into the hallway.
Charlotte's fists kept raining down on his chest.
"How could you use me like this... And to think I felt guilty for betraying you. It's laughable that I ever believed your lies. I hate you, I despise you..."
Martin seized her hands and pinned her against the wall.
With her hands immobilized, Charlotte started kicking at him.
Every time she thought about how her relationship with Hunter had ruptured because of her own actions, her blood boiled with resentment—she hated herself so fiercely, she wished she could end her life with her own hands.
A vein throbbed visibly on Martin's forehead;, his voice laced with impatience as he said, "I gave you your chance. You're the one who didn't value it."
"When did you—"…"
Before she could finish, Charlotte was struck by a sudden memory of that night at the dinner table when Martin had pointedly asked if she had something to say to him.
She had dismissed it as her own misgiving at the time.
Noticing her realization, Martin spoke in a heavier tone,. "You made your choice betweenchose Hunter andover me a long time ago, didn't you?"
"I... I..." Charlotte found herself at a loss for words.
"You knew that if that flash drive got into Hunter's hands, it would spell disaster for the Langley Group. And still, you sneakily handed it over to him, didn't you?" Martin pressed on.
Charlotte forgot her tears, unable to meet his piercing gaze, and hung her head in guilt.
"I couldn't just watch him fail... He's fought so hard to get where he is; I couldn't let it all be for nothing..."
A touch of scorn passed through Martin's eyes as he said, "So, for his sake, you'd betray me, betray the Langley and your family?"
Hearing the sarcasm in his voice rekindled the rage that Charlotte had just begun to quell. She raised her head defiantly, her eyes slicing into him. "Yes, I betrayed you for him, I betrayedand the Langley familyfor him, and I would betray the whole world for him if I had to."
Martin was momentarily taken aback before his disappointment became unmistakable.
With nothing left to lose at this point, Charlotte let everything spill out in frustration.
"Why shouldn't"Of course, I betraychose him over you for him? What have ! Why wouldn't I when you everand the Langleys have never done anything for me? What has the Langley family ever done for me?
When I was thrown into school to fend for myself since first grade, whereWhere were you?
While I during my school years when I was being bullied, where were you?
When I was forced to crawl between themy tormentors' legs of my tormentors, where were you?
When they, made meto drink their urine, where were you? What about when they were branding mebranded with their cigarettes?
Locked, and locked in a bathroom for a full day and a night—where were you then?
Nearly? Or what about when I was nearly raped by my stepfather—still, where were you?
And, and when I lay alone in the dead of night, hidingsilently crying under the covers silently crying, where? Where were any of you?"?!"
Charlotte's voice was a raw scream, unearthing a past she had buried deep within herself for over a decade, a past she had never dared to confront until now.
It was as iflike she had expended every ounce of her strength and courage.
Tears streamed down her face, her nose running as she resolutely rolled up her sleeves.
There, multiple gruesome scars unveiled themselves on her arm. Tiny scars the size of cigarette burns stood out starkly and jarringly against her fair skin.
Tiny scars, the size of cigarette burns.
They stood out starkly, jarringly against her fair skin.
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