Nicole had had the misfortune of meeting one of those brutes when she went to see Jarrod.

That guy was strong enough to crush her with bare hands.

Having been rude and demeaning, that guy treated her like dirt and even took advantage of her before her leaving.

The mere thought of him made Nicole's skin crawl. If Jarrod planned to offer her up to such a beast, she would rather face the grim reaper himself.

At this moment, Nicole gritted her teeth and spat out, “Jarrod, you're getting married. Why can't you just leave me alone?"

"Because tormenting you is just too damn entertaining," Jarrod said, his voice dripping with chilling honesty, as if she were nothing more than a plaything.

Fueled by anger and desperation, Nicole lunged at him and scratched him with her nails.

“Jarrod, you bastard! I don't owe you anything!

You have no right to do this to me!"

Before she could do any real harm, Jarrod easily subdued her. He then touched his neck where her nails had grazed him.

Thinking of that Jamie, his fiancée, must be mad at him if she saw the scratches on his neck done by Nicole, he looked at Nicole furiously.

"What makes you think you don't owe me anything?" He pressed his foot onto Nicole's hand and scoffed.

"Didn't you enjoy yourself when you made fun of me back then?"

Nicole grimaced from the intense pain in her hand and managed to utter, "Jarrod, I went to find you back then, but I was mugged and knocked unconscious on the road. By the time I woke up, you had left the country."

After watching Nicole suffer in pain for a while, Jarrod lifted his foot and asked, "Miss Lawrence, do you think I'm a fool?"

Back when he had felt hopeless and cornered, Nicole had been his last beacon of hope. She had promised to run away with him.

But what had he found instead?

In a video, Jarrod saw Nicole sitting leisurely on an armchair and said with an amused smile, "That idiot is waiting for me at the harbor. How pathetic..."

Jarrod knew he was the idiot she was laughing about.

She had shoved him into the quagmire and ground his face into the dirt.