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A new intern had heard about the lucky statue in Derek’s office and thought it might bring him fortune.
He touched it daily, but when Derek walked in unexpectedly, the intern panicked and the statue shattered.
They all ended up at the police station, and that was when the truth began to unfold.
Two officers faced Derek.
“Derek, we’ve confirmed that your statue contains a corpse.
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“Female, around thirty, three months pregnant when she died. We can’t do a DNA test yet because of the formaldehyde, so we don’t know her identity.
“They smashed her face with a blunt object to hide who she was,” the officer continued, giving Derek a hard look.
“Now, we’re giving you a chance to confess. Did you kill her? Do you know her? Were you involved in turning her into a statue?”
Though Derek had been calm for the past three years, the realization that he’d been touching a dead body all this time made
him sick.
Pale, he leaned against the table and threw up.
Seeing this, the officers handed him a glass of water.
After rinsing his mouth, he wiped his lips and murmured a “thank you“.
From above, I watched him react to the news about the statue, a strange satisfaction washing over me.
Three years ago, I had sold everything to save him, only to be brutally murdered by Vanessa.
She injected me with drugs, leaving me helpless as I watched her carve up my face with a knife.
I begged her to let me and my baby go, but she just laughed, picking up a sculpting hammer and smashing my face piece by
piece.
“Eva, Derek only cares about your looks. You really think he loves you? If I hadn’t gone abroad, you wouldn’t have had a chance
to cling to him, and he wouldn’t have married you.
“You want to hold onto him? I’ll make sure you get what you want! I’ll turn you into a statue, so he can see you every day!”
That was how Vanessa sealed me inside that statue and presented me to Derek.
Day after day, I watched him, desperate to scream that I was her victim, but no matter how loud I tried, he couldn’t hear me.
I could only watch as she comforted him and helped him rise from the ashes.
They embraced, kissed, and
even got engaged.
“Babe, who’s better, me ex–wife?” Vanessa straddled Derek, her gaze fixed on my
