Believe him?
Olivia wiped the corner of her mouth. Her lip was bleeding from the violent kiss. There was no love in the kiss at all.
At that moment, she was full of anger and couldn't feel anything else.
She sneered, "I won't believe you, and I don't want to listen to what you say either."
People who were angry often spoke without thinking.
"Do you not want to listen to me?" Sam looked at her, feeling like he was mocking himself. "So, it doesn't matter what I do now, because you would never believe me. Do you want me to tear my heart open for you to look at it?"
She didn't like what he said at the end. She stared at him incredulously, as if she was looking at a lunatic. Then, she decided to ignore him.
"Is that what you want?"
He grabbed her hand and insisted on an answer.
She tried to shake his hand off, but he held it tighter and asked her, "Do you? Do you want me to cut my heart open?"
"Sam, how childish could you be? Let me go!"
"So what if I'm childish? You want to abandon me and our child anyway. I have to do everything I can to try to save our relationship. If not, I will never forgive myself."
Then, he actually took her to the kitchen.
He couldn't think of a self- inflicted injury trick. Instead, he came up with a dangerous plan. Regardless if it was a rash move, he wanted to try it, even if it might seem stupid.
When Olivia asked if he would feel regret if something were to happen to her that day, he wanted to tell her yes.
He regretted it very much. He knew he couldn't lose Ollie.
"Sam, what are you doing? Let me go, let me go!"
She had a bad intuition as she was being pulled into the kitchen.
He said to cut his heart open. He couldn't be serious, could he?
If that was indeed what he was going to do, she really wished she could kill him. She gathered her courage and said angrily, "If you dare to do such a childish act, I will never forgive you for the rest of my life." "What should I do?" He looked at her with lost eyes and murmured, "You no longer want to stay in the relationship no matter what I do, and I can't live without you. I might as well cut my heart open for you."
He then actually went ahead and opened the cabinet with a disappointed and pained expression. He continued, "No matter what you see in the end, perhaps you will start believing me after I do it."
She saw him opening the cabinet and almost reaching for the knife. Her face turned pale with fear and said while she grasped his hand forcefully, "Stop. Stop right there."
He continued to reach towards the knife as if he did not hear what she said.
When he finally held the knife in his hand, Olivia's face was as pale as paper. She kept her calm and said, "Sam, I promise that whatever you try to do, I will do the same as you did. Do you think that you are the only one who is cruel?"
His hand stopped moving upon hearing her words.
It was effective.
"You want to cut your heart open, right? Come on, cut my heart open first and see what it looks like. Otherwise, I will have to do it myself after you're done."
Then, she moved forward to take the knife from him. He panicked when he saw her moving towards him and put the knife back to its holder immediately.
"Give me the knife!" She was as fierce as a tigress. She tried to snatch the knife from his hand.
He thought he could threaten her with the trick earlier, as he was planning to ask her to reconsider her decision of leaving by doing that. He never had the intention to kill himself.
What was that supposed to mean?
Her mind was suddenly in a mess. She pushed his hand away and turned her back to him.
"Let me think about it. I don't want to discuss this today."
"Okay." Sam didn't want to provoke her anymore so he just followed her wishes obediently.
After she returned to her room, Sam sat alone in the living room. His cheek was throbbing with dull pain from her slapping as the incident earlier replayed in his head.
Undeniably, he had made a stupid mistake that day.
How could he do such a thing?
Based on Ollie's character, she probably hated his behavior.
He smiled bitterly at the thought. Then, he gently caressed his own cheek.
As he thought of that, he texted Maddox.
"Young Master Yardley, your trick was useless, and I was slapped in the face."
His wife was by his side when he received the text message. He took a glance to see it was Sam who sent the text message and placed it back into his pocket without even reading it.
When his wife went to the bathroom, he took his cell phone out and replied pridefully.
"It must be because you didn't cause a severe injury to yourself. How could she slap you if you were on the verge of death?"
As he read the text message, he suddenly felt inspired.
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