After Seeing the Danmaku, I Destroyed the Cheater and the Vixen

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I went along to help my best friend catch her cheating man, and ended up locked in a bathroom by the very "other man," left there to be tortured.

Now I lay on the floor, barely breathing, and the baby I'd carried for just over three months had become a pool of blood beneath me.

I struggled to dial my best friend Gail Perry, and suddenly a line of danmaku scrolled across my vision:

【Don't call. She set this whole thing up!】

【Gail Perry has been sleeping with your husband for eight years. She finally got pregnant with a son, and a fortune-teller told them Nathan Henson's first-born son would be the Henson family heir.】

Nathan and I had been together for ten years, and he'd betrayed me for eight of them.

I was drowning in grief. I wanted to call the police, and the danmaku scrolled again:

【Don't! Nathan and Gail are in this together. He's already paid people off. The second this blows up, you'll be buried under fabricated scandals and walk away with nothing.】

Then what am I supposed to do?

【Call Nathan's good buddy. He's a lawyer, and he's in love with you. He'll help you for sure.】

:

Blake Gilbert...

That quiet, reserved man who followed Nathan around like his shadow.

He'd help me?

A knock came at the door, and then Gail's voice.

"Madison Swanson, are you in there? Open the door!"

My grip tightened on the phone as the danmaku flooded the screen:

【This is bad. Gail brought Nathan to catch you in the act!】

【Call Blake now. He's the only one who can save you!】

I fumbled and pressed Blake's number.

The line connected, and his voice came through.

"Madison? Is that you, my brother's wife?"

Choking back tears, I kept my voice low and told him everything, start to finish.

"Gail and Nathan are right outside the door. What do I do?"

Blake was silent for a few seconds.

"Clean up the scene right now, then open the door and confront her."

"Insist that Gail deliberately had someone beat you until you miscarried. And tell her you've already called the police and they've taken the man away."

"I can't get back in time. I'll have my colleague find the man first. You gather as much evidence of Nathan's affair as you can. In two days I'll be back, and I'll make sure Nathan walks away with nothing."

Blake's voice cut off.

I dragged myself up off the floor, turned on the shower with shaking hands, and scrubbed frantically at myself and the blood on the tiles.

The knocking outside grew urgent.

"Madison, open the door!"

"If you don't open it, I'm coming in!"

I shut off the water, shoved the bathroom door open, and walked barefoot to the door, water mixed with blood dripping onto the floor behind me.

I yanked the door open and met Gail's seemingly frantic eyes.

She stared at me, froze for a moment, and tears slid down from the corners of her eyes.

"Madison, what happened to you? Why are you covered in blood?"

"I only stepped away to the restroom, and when I turned around you were gone. I looked everywhere, and only after asking the staff did I find out you'd gone into this room with some man."

"Do you two know each other? What did you do in here?"

【Don't fall into her trap. She wants you to admit to an affair with your own mouth.】

I didn't answer. I slapped her across the face.

She stared at me, stunned, then in the next second threw herself into Nathan's arms.

"Nathan, I really don't know what happened. I only called you because I was afraid Madison was in danger."

"If I'd known Madison was sneaking around with another man behind your back... I never would have..."

"Drop the act!" I cut her off, seething.

"That man already confessed that you ordered him to drag me into this room and beat me until I lost the baby."

"The police have already taken him away, and I will not let this go."

The color drained from Gail's face, and her eyes went to Nathan.

Nathan, who hadn't said a word this whole time, stepped forward and took my hand.

His gaze was tender, his voice carrying its usual doting warmth.

"Madison, the baby's gone, but we can have another. Don't blow this out of proportion."