Chapter 339
The moment those words dropped, Jarred’s brow violently creased.
In the pitch-black depths of his eyes, pure hostility and freezing anger layered over one another.
He looked down at the trembling, dying woman on the bed.
Then, he shifted his gaze to the woman standing beside him, completely relaxed and utterly unbothered.
Sienna’s expression was stunningly cold and detached, with that infuriating, almost imperceptible smirk still hanging on her lips.
Against the backdrop of the room’s miserable, tragic atmosphere, her complete indifference was blindingly arrogant.
In an instant, a violent, chilling darkness overtook Jarred’s eyes.
He looked up, shooting a lethal glare at the trembling maid cowering in the corner. His voice was as cold as frost.
“What exactly happened in this room? Tell me everything. Do not leave out a single word p>
Terrified by his glare, the maid violently flinched, nearly dropping the tray in her hands.
She stuttered, “I-I don’t know the details… Mrs. Sterling shut the door.
“I was standing outside… I only heard Ms. Carlyle screaming inside. She was crying and screaming the entire time p>
“It sounded so agonizing, absolutely heart-wrenching… B-but I was too scared to come upstairs and look p>
As she spoke, the maid cast a terrified, trembling glance at Sienna.
There were too many emotions buried in that look—raw fear, extreme caution, and deep reverence.
From the very second Sienna stepped foot onto the property, her dominant, suffocating aura had forced everyone to hold their breath without realizing it.
It felt as if the person standing before them wasn’t just a woman, but an unsheathed blade—beautiful, highly dangerous, and ready to draw blood at any moment.
Jarred clearly understood what the maid’s eyes were saying.
Sienna had come in mercilessly, and Celeste hadn’t stood a chance.
Jarred frowned.
It was a microscopic shift, almost entirely unnoticeable.
But Celeste caught it instantly.
She knew Jarred too well.
The more emotionless this man appeared on the outside, the more violently the storm was raging inside him.
And the fact that he was actively holding back his temper meant there was still room to maneuver. It also meant she needed to throw more fuel onto the fire.
“Jarred p>
Celeste weakly raised a trembling hand. Her fingertips were so pale they were nearly translucent as she pointed directly at the perfectly straight figure standing by the door.
Her voice was shattered and hoarse. It was her. Sienna tried to kill me.
“She wanted me dead. If you had arrived even a second later… I absolutely would have died right here on this floor p>
Her bloodless lips quivered nonstop, her tragic, wailing cries echoing through the room, practically begging for pity.
Watching her thoroughly ruined state, Jarred’s handsome, sharp features completely froze over, dropping the room’s temperature to absolute zero.
But Sienna simply laughed.
Meeting Jarred’s suffocating, violently dark gaze, she casually stood up straight and clicked her heels toward the bed.
“You’re saying I tried to kill you p>
She stopped at the bedside, looking down from above at Celeste huddled beneath the blankets, slowly scanning her from head to toe.
“But aside from your legs, the rest of you seems perfectly intact p>
Celeste’s crying abruptly hitched.
Sienna tilted her head, dropping the perfect amount of feigned confusion into her tone. “But speaking of which… weren’t your legs completely paralyzed a long time ago? How is it that you suddenly have feeling in them now p>
The question dropped like a massive bombshell.
Celeste’s sobbing instantly derailed. Her entire body locked up.
She instinctively curled her legs tighter, a flash of pure panic darting across her eyes.
Jarred’s dark, brooding eyes narrowed sharply. The tight knot between his brows instantly loosened.
His calculating gaze shifted from Sienna and landed squarely on the woman pretending to be fragile on the bed.
Sharp and predatory as ever, he instantly caught the microscopic movement of her legs beneath the sheets.
Celeste frantically tried to pull herself together, her mind racing as she forced the tears to fall even harder. Jarred please listen to me! can explain p>