The Marriage That Never Existed novel Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The men exchanged terrified looks, trembling, not one of them daring to speak.They weren’t fools; they knew that if they told the truth, their lives would be over. Adrian saw right through them. With a single glance, the bodyguards behind him moved in.

Within moments, the group was beaten to their knees, begging for mercy. One of them, his face covered in blood, finally broke down and spoke first.

“We—we were just doing a training exercise… a surgical practice…”

Adrian’s hand trembled slightly.

A training exercise… was it really a coincidence?

“And the person you used for the procedure–who was it?”

They all shook their heads frantically, tears streaming down their faces.

“We don’t know! We were just told to come here… we don’t know anything!”

“Please, we really don’t know anything! Have mercy on us!”

Adrian’s eyes were cold, stripped of all warmth.Then his eyes settled on one of them.

“You said the person on the operating table was a doctor too?”

The man pointed out froze, trembling all over.

Just as he was about to speak, Lila appeared.

Her heart pounded as she took in the scene.

She was pale, and she clutched Adrian’s arm nervously.

“Adrian, what’s going on? Who are these people?”

Adrian turned and gave the bodyguards a look. They quickly dragged the men away.

“It’s nothing. Just a few questions I needed to ask.”

His gaze dark and unfathomable as it fell on her.

A suspicion had already begun to form in his mind—one he prayed wasn’t true.

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An hour later, the bodyguards returned from questioning, just as Adrian’s phone rang.

It was his assistant.

“Mr. Holt, we’ve confirmed it. The order to ‘teach Mrs. Holt a lesson‘ came from… Miss Lila.”

“And, sir–Mrs. Holt was taken from the detention center this morning. Miss Lila picked her up

herself.”

“The destination was the hospital.”

The place where Lila had taken me was that same operating room.

At that moment, another guard shoved a man into the room, bloodied and broken.

His left leg was snapped, his wrist and fingers bent unnaturally, and he lay on the floor like a heap of flesh, sobbing through the blood and tears.

“We were called in for human testing… I swear, I didn’t know who the woman on the table was…‘

“But–but I saw a red mole on the left side of her chest…”

“We didn’t mean to at first, but the sounds from the next room–they were too much… we

couldn’t hold back…”

“I’m sorry! Please, please forgive me!”

Adrian stood there, motionless, his expression unreadable.

Yet the air around him was suffocating, charged with a crushing intensity.

He thought of what he’d been doing earlier–lying with Lila in the next room–while I was

enduring inhuman torment.

His fists clenched tight. He couldn’t bring himself to believe it–that the woman on the operating table was really me.

Nor that anyone would dare touch me.

The next moment, the hospital’s security footage arrived.

The screen showed me being taken inside, but there was no clip of me leaving afterward.

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“Where is she? Where did you hide her?”

Adrian’s restrained voice carried the fury of a cornered beast, his eyes gleaming with danger.

“I don’t know–I swear I don’t know!”

Adrian kicked the man hard in the chest, the cold fury on his face barely contained.

Then he turned to Lila.

“Why did you do it?”