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I mustered my courage and struck her face forcefully.

My fingernails scraped her skin, causing blood to trickle down her cheek.

She immediately adopted an expression of utmost distress.

Jeremiah snapped back to reality and rushed towards me.

He seized my hair and violently pushed me against the counter, shouting furiously.

"You heartless woman! You're insane! How could you terminate my child?"

"You'll pay for this with your life! I want you dead!"

The glass display shattered, its shards embedding themselves in my forehead.

I felt oddly numb, my gaze unfocused.

Humans were peculiar beings.

In his past, he had personally ended the child's life for Yvonne.

Now, he sought to kill me in revenge for his offspring.

Indeed, what we couldn't possess always seemed most precious.

The shop assistant summoned security, finally ending this chaotic scene.

Jeremiah eventually calmed down after Yvonne's intervention.

However, his eyes still burned with hatred when he looked at me.