"My relationship with Tyrone is none of your concern, Mr. Lawson. Whether he's using me, or how he plans to use me, I honestly don't care. What matters is that he's willing to give me exactly what I need right now." Alicia looked Vincent in the eye as she spoke again. "I'm married now. Next time we meet, please pretend you don't know me."
With that, Alicia turned and walked away without hesitation.
Vincent's hands clenched into fists. He'd never imagined a day would come when Alicia would leave him so decisively.
He had always thought Alicia was the kind of woman who couldn't breathe without him.
He'd convinced himself that in this lifetime, if anyone was going to walk away, it would be him, not her.
But reality proved him wrong.
Now that Alicia had a better option, he could be tossed aside just like that.
"Alicia, what about after the divorce? You're making enemies left and right by siding with Tyroneâwhat happens when you're no longer his wife?"
Vincent stood and grabbed her wrist, desperate.
She was determined to send both Henry and Mira to prison, which meant she'd made enemies of the Holloway and Lawson familiesâthe most powerful names in Seaview City.
Unless Alicia and Tyrone stayed married forever, those people would never let her go.
"The Lawsons aren't just me," Vincent blurted out, trying to explain. "If it were up to me alone... Mira would go to prison. She needs to answer for her own mistakes. If it were just my decision, I would have sent her away four years ago."
He wanted Alicia to understandâit wasn't that he didn't want Mira to pay for her crimes, but that the Lawsons were more than just him.
Mira was the only daughter in the family, spoiled since childhood. She never thought about consequences, because as long as she didn't cross the truly powerful, her family always cleaned up her messes.
She never expected that messing with Alicia would come back to haunt her after all these years.
"Besides... I did punish her. I sent her overseas for four years," Vincent insisted, as if that alone should have been enough.
Four years away from home, wasn't that enough to make up for what Mira had done to Alicia?
"Do you even understand what permanent hearing loss means, Mr. Lawson?" Alicia's voice shook as she pointed to her left ear. "It means I'll never hear a sound with this ear againâfor the rest of my life."
Vincent simply couldn't grasp the impact that incident of bullying had on her.
"Do you know why I ever fell in love with you?" Alicia looked at him, a small, sad smile trembling on her lips and tears welling in her eyes. "Because when I was at my breaking point, ready to do something desperate, to take them all down with me and end it all... you appeared."
Four years ago, Mira and Henry's cruelty had nearly broken her. She'd truly considered taking them with her into oblivion.
But then Vincent showed up.
He'd pulled her out of the darkness and promised that from then on, no one would ever hurt her again. "You said you'd give me a home..."
Alicia was obsessed with the idea of "home."
Her life as an orphan, being adopted and sent back over and over again, had left the very word with a kind of lethal sting.
Vincent had given her a home when she was lost and suffocating, when she needed it most.
"But now, Vincent, the person giving me a home isn't you. It's Tyrone," Alicia said, her tone edged with bitterness as she slowly stepped back.
"So you're just going to stop loving me and love him instead, is that it?" Vincent's voice was frantic, desperate.
Alicia told him she didn't love him anymore.
He panicked.
"Yes." Alicia nodded, then turned and walked away.
Whether she would fall in love with Tyrone, she didn't know. What she did know was that she no longer loved Vincent.
"Alicia!" Vincent called after her, but she didn't look back.
The girl who once did everything he said had finally stopped obeying.
Vincent was left reeling, his thoughts a tangled mess, his world suddenly off-kilter.
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Rich Radiant and Over Him (Alicia and Vincent)
ï¤Chapter 75 Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse ï¤Chapter 760 - 756: Encountering a Man with Evil Intentions Crystal Waters.
After Alicia's livestream incident, Crystal Waters had been forced to close for a period of "internal review." Now, it was just beginning to open its doors again.