The Traps of the Black Swan

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Looking at his adoring gaze while softly pinching her cheeks, "I love you." She heard him profess.

She knows he loves her but is he trying to trick her to confess?

Her lips curled up and stuck her tongue out at him before chuckling seeing him wordless.

After pinching her cheeks hard, he went to the main point, "Do you think President Kim is with Seungri?"

Out of seven who tortured her in the Shipyard warehouse, they all knew six. So he directly asked her to know her opinion because according to the reports he got about Hayden, he wasn't involved with anything.

Ruby Jane shook her head promptly. Hayden wasn't involved in anything that was related to the tragic event of her life.

"That day Seungri and others went to meet Gra... grandfather faking about a project. Grandfather had turned down working with Seungri lying a reason. Anyway, Seungri went there to know about me."

A little relief coursed through his heart after knowing he didn't judge Hayden wrongly. "Then why are you avoiding him?"

Ruby Jane pouted, she might sound childish but she just couldn't get over the things easily. "I never blamed him for anything before three years but now I feel like he could have avoided everything that happened in my life."

She wasn't blaming him for her encounter with Seungri or her wedding with Vance. She blamed him for her birth and how her parents treated her.

When Hayden knew her mother hated Shane and she tried to abort Jennie so many times, why did he have to force them to get married?

When he knew her parents weren't treating her well, she always fought to live her life, why didn't he take her away from them?

Why did he have to indoctrinate her as her parents loved her but her little brother needed more attention?

Why did he persuade her as endurance will mend everything?

Why did he have to coax her every time she wanted to leave from there and study with Zain in boarding school?

She wasn't old enough to understand her parents' physical and verbal abuse, couldn't he protect her from all of it?

He shouldn't have to make her a good girl, he could have just made her strong who could see reality.

If he had told her the truth about her life and parents, wouldn't she have grown stronger?

Wouldn't she have avoided looking forward to little affection from her parents?

Was she such a big burden just to leave a room in the Kim mansion?

Was it worth living with parents when she was treated worse than a child of a mistress?

The world didn't even have an idea there was an elder daughter until she came of wedding age. Why? To sell her for some benefits at the company end.

If she had grown strong, wouldn't she have ignored her pretentious parents?

Lisa understood why she was avoiding Hayden. She had respected and followed his footsteps to become a businesswoman. Excluding Zain, she only got family love from Hayden.

If she meets him, she would definitely blame everything on him and she didn't want that to happen.

Lisa wanted to embrace her but Ruby Jane secured him on her lap flashing a weak smile, "I understand he was devastated after losing grandmother so early. Then he couldn't tolerate his elder son started targeting younger son."