How to Destroy a Cheater Without Saying Goodbye novel Chapter 175

"You ruined my grandson's life, got him thrown in jail, and drove my husband to a stroke. I hope you die!"

The old woman lunged at Eddy again with the knife, but Eddy caught her wrist in a viselike grip. With a sickening crack, her fragile bones gave way. The blade clattered to the floor as she collapsed, limbs splayed, and passed out cold.

Clutching the wound in his side, blood seeping between his fingers, Eddy stumbled out of the cottage.

His last shred of hope gone, Eddy radiated a murderous energy, his eyes wild and dangerous—a specter out of hell itself. No one dared get in his way.

Outside, the two kidnappers were already surrounded by his security team.

Rage burned away any sense of restraint. He grabbed the nearest kidnapper, all the pain and anguish of the last days boiling over. His fists came down, again and again, knuckles splitting, blood blurring his vision. Each blow landed with a roar: "You lied to me!"

"Sir!" the head of security shouted, but no one dared intervene. Eddy was almost feral.

The kidnappers' faces turned to pulp. Blood pooled beneath them. Eddy, pale as death, staggered, barely able to lift his arm. Despair filled his eyes. "Why did you lie to me?" he demanded hoarsely.

He'd realized the truth. The voice from inside the cottage—his wife's voice—had just been a cheap audio splice, background noise from Hedwig's wedding. Did they really think he wouldn't recognize the deception?

Even he'd tried to fool himself.

If he could just have believed the lie, maybe she would have come back to him.

He would have done anything for that.

"You destroyed the Yates family!" one of the kidnappers suddenly screamed, hysteria cracking his voice. "Because Vincent cheated, you bankrupted us, had him thrown in prison, you killed my father!"

"Vincent just made the kind of mistake any man might make!"

The words stabbed straight through Eddy's heart.

"You cheated yourself! What right did you have to do this to us?"

They screamed their accusations at him.

Eddy's fists clenched, and he drove the man to the ground, pinning him with a boot to the chest. "He betrayed my sister, tormented my wife, and you dared to kidnap her, to hurt her?"

"He deserved to die—and so do you!"

He stomped down, shattering the kidnapper's hand. The man howled, staring up at the monster Eddy had become.

"Maniac!"

"You're insane!"

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