Chapter 438
Jarred’s breathing grew noticeably heavier.
He took a half-step forward, his soles crunching softly against the broken porcelain.
His dark, unfathomable eyes locked onto the woman in front of him.
“Not everyone possesses your ruthlessness and capabilities,” he said, suppressing his surging emotions, his voice raspy and restrained.
“You’re proficient in both Eastern and Western medicine, you know hypnosis, and you understand psychological intervention. But she barely scraped by when she took her medical licensing exam back then. She doesn’t have your ability to handle stress, let alone your confidence to turn a desperate situation around p>
Sienna had always been calm and composed, always decisive and ruthless when handling issues, having long cultivated an unshakeable mindset.
Yet at this moment, her breathing became rapid and erratic, her chest heaving violently.
However, the man in front of her was drowning in his own perceptions and biases.
He was completely oblivious to her breaking point, or perhaps, he simply had no heart left to care.
Sienna suddenly felt cold—the kind of cold that seeped out from the marrow of her spine.
She heard herself reply with that same icy, almost mocking composure, “And so? Is it my fault that I’m capable? Is she right just because she’s weak p>
“When you locked her away in that psychiatric hospital, did you ever consider that she wouldn’t be able to hold on p>
Jarred pressed in closer, his words heavy as a hammer.
“When you blocked every doctor from treating her and cut off all her avenues of survival… Did you ever think that she might actually waste away and die in there p>
Years of unruffled composure had long made it a habit for Sienna to never display vulnerability.
She closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembling slightly. The instant she opened them to fire back, her tone was utterly devoid of warmth. “Why should I have considered that p>
Those few indifferent words completely froze the last remaining trace of warmth in the air.
Jarred looked at her cold, resolute expression, the tenderness in his eyes vanishing in an instant, leaving behind an equally icy apathy.
He suddenly let out a cynical laugh. “Of course you wouldn’t. You turned a blind eye to her suffering. You even instructed your people to block anyone who tried to beg for mercy or bail her out—you just wanted her to rot away p>
“You’re right p>
Sienna admitted it plainly, without a hint of evasion.
Her temperament had long been forged by the world into something tough and sharp; she never dragged things out.
Even though her heart was currently a tumultuous storm, her face remained calmly detached, her pride unbending.
Jarred’s Adam’s apple bobbed violently.
He stared at her, his dark, deep eyes clouded with a heavy gloom.
“Many people die in this world every single day,” Sienna heard herself say, her voice so flat it lacked any fluctuation.
“Let alone the fact that Celeste disgusted me. I had no reason to make things difficult for myself p>
“Then you should be even more willing to accept reality.” Jarred’s voice had completely frozen over, the crimson in his eyes looking even more glaring
“Your apathy and heartlessness really did kill her. The Celeste you hated is no longer in this world p>
Looking at the detachment in his eyes, Sienna finally saw the reality before her with crystal clarity.
Now that things had reached this point, any further argument was pointless.
Those usually gentle and calm eyes now looked as if they were covered by a thin layer of ice. Clear yet freezing, they settled squarely on Jarred.
“Jarred,” Sienna called him.
Hearing his name, the man opposite her felt his eyelashes involuntarily flutter.
She had called his name countless times, but it had never made him. feel the way he did at this. moment so distant as if she had drawn a definitive line between them.
“I won’t just let this go,” Sienna said slowly, her voice flat and unyielding.
“I will dig up every single trace that’s been covered up until the truth is brought to light. Not a single person who helped cover up these wrongdoings will escape unscathed. Everything you all owe me, the justice you owe, I will take it all back, one by one p>
As her words fell, she refused to look at the infuriating man in front of her any longer.