The tone of his voice suddenly rose a few degrees, and he shouted angrily, "What did you say?!"

I ignored him and prepared to leave with Renee.

However, when I dragged my suitcase past Bowen, he suddenly grabbed Renee's wrist.

He pulled her hard towards himself, his eyes red with anger.

"Divorce? Just because I took Maria to the hospital and didn't participate in that fake wedding with you, you want a divorce? Are you fucking crazy?

"What's wrong with me saving someone? What did I do wrong? Besides, Maria was injured because of your mother! And now you're threatening me with divorce?

"Fine, get divorced, I'll let you go!"

The suitcase was thrown to the ground, and Bowen lifted his foot and stomped on it.

He was so angry that his neck veins stood out.

I quickly pulled Renee back behind me to protect her.

She was timid, and her small body was trembling, almost crying on the spot.

At that moment, I realized how stupid I was to agree to let Renee marry Bowen!

Bowen stepped on the suitcase over a dozen times, and it finally burst open under the weight.

Mom's belongings were scattered all over the floor.

He didn't have time to take his foot off, and his shoes stepped directly on the clothes, leaving white fabric with several footprints.

I screamed out loud and took a step forward to push him away.

"Don't touch! Get away!"

Adam's face was colder than ice, and there was suppressed anger and a warning tone in his voice.

"Bonnie, my patience is limited, don't test my limits again and again!"

I rushed forward to protect Mom's belongings.

The Kain brothers looked at each other, and Bowen immediately understood, pulling me and Renee away.

Adam handed the thermal box to Maria and stood in front of the suitcase, picking up a few clothes and glancing at them before a sneer appeared at the corner of his lips.

Then he casually threw the clothes on the ground and lit a cigarette for himself.

The lighter was clenched in his hand.

"Treating a pile of garbage as treasure? What are you pretending to be pitiful for? Did I not give you food or clothes?

"You knew the wedding was fake, so what are you crying about now? Can a fake wedding be more important than a human life?

"I said I would make it up to you, are you not satisfied yet? Do you like this pile of rags? Fine then!"

Before I could react, he lit the lighter and suddenly let go.

The flames ignited instantly on my mother's belongings.

I screamed out immediately, "No!"

Wanting to rush over, but my neck was tightly held by Bowen and I couldn't move forward.

The usually gentle Renee had gone crazy at this moment.

Her eyes were bloodshot, her mouth opened wide as she bit down fiercely on Bowen's hand.

Taking advantage of Bowen's hand loosening, she turned around and gave him a fierce slap on the face.

Instantly, everyone was frozen in place.

Maria quickly put the insulated box on the table and rushed up to hug Renee in her arms.

"Don't worry, Bowen has no malice, he just wants to solve your problems with each other!"

But Renee immediately broke free from Maria's hold and grabbed her hair with one hand.

Maria was pushed to the ground, allowing Renee to sit on top of her, beating her fiercely.

The heartbreaking screams echoed through the room.

Bowen held me tightly, preventing me from moving, and kept calling for his brother.

Adam saw this and became so angry that he rushed forward, grabbing Renee's hair and pulling her off Maria.

He pressed her head against the wall and hit it hard three times.

Blood began to flow from Renee's forehead.

I screamed in a trembling voice, but could only watch helplessly as Renee's struggle subsided.

In just a few minutes, my mother's belongings were burned to to ashes in the flames, leaving indelible marks on the ground.

An unprecedented sense of helplessness and frustration engulfed me.

I opened my mouth, but no sound came out.

Tears streamed down my face as my gaze fell to the ground covered in black ash, and my broken heart burned with the flames.

When he proposed the secret marriage three years ago, I should have known that Renee and I were just pawns to be used by them to placate the Kain family, and they had only ever loved Maria.

Unfortunately, I realized this too late.

Adam discreetly wiped his hand with a tissue, then went to console Maria.

She sobbed piteously for a while, and Bowen finally released his grip on my neck, not because he was soft-hearted, but because he was busy handing Maria a tissue.

I watched the two men from the Kain family surrounding Maria, their voices filled with concern and tenderness.

Maria gradually stopped crying in their soothing voices.

At that moment, I felt ridiculously stupid for the past three years.

I lifted my foot and walked towards Renee, who lay motionless on the ground. I just wanted to take her away from this place.

But Maria still wouldn't let us go.

Clearly, she was the one who won, but at the moment when I helped Renee up, she came to us with the thermos box, looking pitiful.

"Bonnie, I'm sorry... I am really sorry. I didn't expect it to end up like this. I know you hate me, but this is something I got for your mom, please accept it for her..."

I slowly lowered my head and looked at the culprit who had caused my mother's death.

My emotions suddenly lost control.

I grabbed the thermos box from her hands and slammed it onto her head.

In the next second, sticky soup flowed down her head, her hair stuck together, and the smell of meat mixed with shampoo was nauseating.

My eyes were bloodshot, and I shouted angrily, "Get out of here! Don't pretend to be nice in front of me!'

Adam glared at me with a warning look.

At the same time I moved, he rushed to my face.

His shoes kicked me hard in the stomach.

Then he quickly hugged Maria, using his thousand-dollar shirt to wipe the soup from her head.

I slid to the ground helplessly as my back crashed heavily against the wall.

After cleaning up most of the mess, Maria's face was already drenched in tears.

Adam tore off his dirty shirt and threw it aside.

He walked up to me, bent down, and grabbed my face, squeezing it so hard that it felt like my jawbone was about to break.

Just as he raised his hand to hit me, Maria spoke in a tearful voice.

"Adam, don't get angry. It's all my fault. I thought the ticket was fake, thinking she would arrive later. I should have made the food earlier if I knew she would come. It's all my fault, I ruined your wedding. It's normal for Bonnie to be angry..."

Bowen quickly handed her a tissue and even thoughtfully brought a towel to wipe her hair.

Hearing this, I was so angry that my eyes were bloodshot and my temples throbbed.

My mother had saved money by canceling her ticket and taking the train instead.

But in her mouth, it became a deceitful lie.

"Shut up! You have no right to talk about my mom!"

After the words fell, Adam slapped me in the face.

Blood stains overflowed from my lips, and a fishy sweetness surged in my throat.

But he angrily said, "You should shut up! If you say one more word, I'll tear your mouth apart!

"This fake wedding was all arranged by Maria for you. What right do you have to shout at her?

"Who are you? If your mother knew that you repeatedly used her illness as an excuse to propose marriage, would she be so angry to be choked?"

A crack appeared on my face with a look of resentment.

Only mockery remained in my heart.

Thinking of that cheap wedding scene, a cold smile appeared at the corner of my mouth.

No wonder everything was so hasty.

It turned out that from the beginning, Maria never intended to let them go to the wedding scene.

Everything that had happened today was all part of her well-planned scheme.

Seeing that I was silent, Adam had thought I was repenting.

His voice was filled with contempt. "Maria even bothered to contact a wedding planner to make up for it and also found connections to get your mother an appointment with the hospital's experts. You don't deserve it with the way you're acting!

"Apologize to Maria right now. Take your Renee and get out of my house!"

As I reached out to grab his arm, I spoke coldly.

"Make up for it? Don't you think it's ridiculous? Even if it were made up for a thousand times, she could ruin it a thousand and one times! We don't need it anymore, just have her arrange it for the three of you! Renee and I are not worthy of it!

"Apologize? Unless she kneels in front of my mother and gives her a head bow and confesses her sins!"

His anger was instantly ignited, biting his teeth as he spoke.

"Bonnie, am I giving you face? Can't you understand human language?

"This fake wedding was something you kneeled for two nights and one day to get! So, don't you want it now? Or are you afraid that your mother's illness will be exposed as fake?

"Three years ago, you told me she was on the verge of death, saying she wanted you to marry me. Three years later, she was on the verge of death again. Your mother's life is pretty tough..."

I didn't expect my mother's illness to be used as a bargaining chip in the fake marriage.

In an instant, all the blood in my body coagulated, and I clenched my fist with all my strength, my knuckles trembling.

"Shut up! You don't deserve to mention my mother! You don't deserve it!

"Adam, divorce now! I don't want to see you anymore! You three scumbags will be together for the rest of your lives!"

When Adam heard me mention divorce again, he suddenly grabbed my neck with both hands.

His strength became heavier and heavier, and my face turned purple from suffocation.

Maria had just cleaned her hair and hurriedly stepped forward to hold Adam's hand.

Adam couldn't bear to contradict her, and finally let go of me before I suffocated.

Maria walked up to me, tears of grievance swirling in her eyes.

She bent down to reach out to help me but was pushed away by Renee, who had just woken up, with such force that her hand hit the cabinet foot behind her, causing her to let out a pained groan.

Bowen immediately wrapped her in his arms and tenderly examined her wound.

He then turned to Renee and angrily said, "Is it that you don't remember what you've done? Now you're even threatening me with divorce! I've put up with your mother's acting for three years, and I'm tired of it! Whether she dies or not has nothing to do with me!"

Adam's face had already become extremely gloomy.

I had just pulled Renee up and was about to leave, one-legged and stumbling, when I heard him grit his teeth and say, "Can't you hear me? You two, apologize to Maria!"

Everything that just happened completely destroyed the last trace of hope in my heart.

At this moment, hearing his voice, I only sneered and said, "We have nothing to do with each other anymore. What right do you have to make me apologize? The one who should apologize is this vile person who made my mother die!

"No, all of you are equally vile, you are a perfect family!"

I had just taken a step out of the door when my neck was suddenly grabbed by Adam and pulled back.

Renee had no time to save me, and her face was filled with worry.

Adam forced me to kneel in front of Maria, with his shoes firmly stepping on my lower leg, preventing me from moving.

He then called his assistant on the phone and threatened, "Apologize now, or I don't mind having your mother alive for the funeral!"

The phone had already been dialed, and the threatening expression in his eyes was getting heavier.

I bit down hard on my teeth and spat in his face.

The next moment, he immediately said coldly, "Cancel the wedding and change it to Bonnie's mother's funeral! After three years of delay, now I will make her really die! Cancel the appointment for Maria's hospital registration as well!"

The other end quickly responded, "Mr. Kain, Ms. White's mother passed away at the wedding this morning..."