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"Independent young artist." Nara's father said. "Senseless. How dare you do something behind us. Don't you feel ashamed to have such wench as your sister Devon" as her head the comment, Devon out of anger hit her again and Dariya fell down spraining another angle of hers. She was dragged again making her stand up but she couldn't.

"Stop," Nara said.

"You stay out of it."

"What is that so wrong I did?" Dariya asked Devon.

"You disobeyed the elders and stabbed us from behind. What will people think of us? Letting you do everything cheap."

"There is nothing cheap in this," Nara spoke up defending Dariya. "Already you ruined all your children' life. Why are you doing it again to others."

"You knew this?" Devon asked her. Nara looked at her father.

"You knew she has done this and didn't tell us?" her father walked towards Nara and lifted his hands. "How dare you misbehave and learn the culture of this family. Devon clenched his fists as he heard his father in law tarnishing his family.

"No" Dariya stopped and covered Nara. But Nara's father pushed her away and Dariya fell on one of her vases and fell along with it. It broke into pieces under her weight and cut her wounds on her left side the body, from head to toe. She stood up again and defended for Nara "she is pregnant don't touch her." Dariya shouted to make Nara stay out of the fight.

Edgar came running to see what was going on because of him getting a text from Nara. His parents seemed to have gone straight home.

"What" everyone looked at Dariya. Devon looked at Nara. "Is it true.?" He asked her and she nodded crying. Looking very pale, face drained out of blood.

"Why didn't you tell me?" her father asked her.

"Stop it, father," Devon spoke up for the first time. "I know what to do with my wife. You stop." He said.

"Yet you didn't know how to care your own sister." She told Devon tears running down her face. She felt her legs going weak and head feeling dizzy.

"Stop it. You have no right over my family." Heiden entered the house and ordered.

"Nara is my daughter." The old man replied.

"She is my son's wife. You have no more such rights in this family." Heiden said in anger.

Dariya felt too weak to stand. Her one side of the body was bleeding. Her peach Chiffon dress began to drench in blood from the wounds. No one seemed to have noticed it. There was someone standing behind Heiden, tall. She couldn't identify who it was In her blurry vision. Dariya collapsed down. She thought she saw Lu Han a moment when she opened her eyes. She heard her father shouting at everyone in the distance. She heard Kiara too screaming on her top voice. Nara was heard crying.

"Don't fall unconscious. Dariya. Dariya. Stay awake." She thought she heard Lu Han. She wished it was him thinking she was hallucinating.

Edgar stood shocked to have witnessed what Dariya's life was like. Tears rolled down his eyes. He felt guilty for what he had done. He had only meant to surprise her that costed her life. Dariya's vision turned white and faded.