Chapter 634
She pushed herself off the freezing floor, her face drained of color as a manic laugh escaped her lips.
“I don’t deserve it? For over a decade, I was the one by his side! Not Sienna p>
Celeste shrieked, her voice hoarse with a reckless determination to burn everything down. “I’ll have you know I’m the only one who knows the formula!
“If you keep pushing me, I will die right here, and his grandmother will have no cure! She’ll suffer a painful death from the poison p>
Declan’s gaze turned somber.
Celeste panted heavily. “Either Jarred comes to see me himself, or we all go down together p>
She wagered her own life and the life of his grandmother in one desperate gamble.
She was betting on Jarred’s ultimate weakness, knowing he would never just stand by and let his family die.
Declan’s expression darkened.
He knew Celeste wasn’t bluffing. She held the only antidote, and there was no alternative.
After days of this stalemate, with her holding firm and threatening suicide, he had no other choice.
After a brief silence, Declan pulled out his phone and dialed Jarred’s number.
The call connected immediately.
The man’s detached voice filtered through the speaker, the exact voice Celeste had obsessed over for years.
“Speak p>
Just that single syllable brought tears to Celeste’s eyes, her stubborn facade crumbling in an instant.
Declan lowered his voice. “Boss, she won’t break. She swears she won’t hand it over unless p>
Before he could finish, Celeste threw herself toward the phone, her voice desperate and pitiful.
“Jarred! You’re finally talking to me! I stood by you for over ten years, ever since we were kids.
“I protected you, kept you company. My feelings for you have always been real p>
“Are you really going to do this to me? You’re tossing me aside forever just because of Sienna p>
She rambled on about their shared history, desperately trying to use those years to pry open his cold heart.
She hoped he would remember their past and show her mercy.
But the line remained dead silent.
It wasn’t a silence of hesitation or sympathy; it was a profound, suffocating apathy that radiated through the phone.
Celeste could feel the icy distance from his end, utterly devoid of emotion.
It was as if her decade of devotion was nothing more than an irrelevant joke to him.
“Jarred Celeste bit her lip, tears streaming freely down her cheeks.
“Nothing is proven yet! How can you be so certain that Sienna isn’t the one lying to you p>
After a long pause, Jarred’s voice echoed out, colder than ice and utterly stripped of patience “Are you done p>
“Let me make this clear. Whether you hand over the formula or not, I will show you no mercy p>
The moment the truth was exposed, she had lost all value to him.
She had burned her own bridges.
Celeste’s heart plummeted, her final shred of hope shattering completely.
She finally realized that playing the victim was useless.
If her tears wouldn’t move him, she would show her true colors.
If she couldn’t have Jarred, and if her years of plotting were ruined p>
The feigned vulnerability vanished from her eyes, replaced by a vicious, calculating greed.
“I can give you the formula, but I have two demands p>