Chapter 1. Let Me Live,Please

"A bride who died in her wedding dress, on her wedding day. Isn't that a good headline?" The mocking voice flooded past Jasmine's ears but the pain that shot through her bones was greater,it made her unable to concentrate on his words.

Clutching on her stomach, her hands wrapped around the knife that was plunged into her stomach, A single tear drop escaped her eyes, then another before they started pouring like an open dam.

Pain wrapped around her. She weakly raised her gaze to look at the man before her. The man she loved, the man she wedded barely an hour ago.

Tears clouded Jasmine Trevor's eyes as she weakly called out "Why, Jack...?" Her voice weakened and trailed off.

In her white wedding dress, the front was stained deep red with blood. Her makeup was smudged as sweat dripped from her forehead, colliding with her tears. 

Jack Raven snorted as he took a step towards her. They were at the rooftop of their wedding venue. 

"Don't you get it, Jasmine? I don't want to be with you but your sick self keeps sticking up to my skin!" He cursed, making Jasmine tremble.

She was shaking violently, as she opened her quivering lips "But you claimed that you loved me! You went through with the wedding, Jack! You should have turned me down." 

A snarl appeared on Jack's face "Why should I have turned you down when I could get something from you?? It's such a shame, dear Heiress of the Trevor's family that you fell for a guy like me. It's such a shame" he shook his head, a look of hatred on his face as he stared at Jasmine as if she was the most pathetic person in the planet.

Well, at the moment, she probably was.

Jasmine staggered backward, she started to realize everything, a small self-mocking smile formed on her lips, and she let out a shaky breath. Her eyes darted around the ground of the rooftop, finding it hard to come to terms with everything that was happening.

Her chest hurt as she tried to process the recent events and all he had said. Jack chided, not giving her a leeway. 

"Getting married to you and finishing you off after some time was the initial plan but then again, I am impatient. I can't wait to get you off my skin because I can't wait any moment to be in the arms of Lucinda!" Hearing the name of his ex-girlfriend, Jasmine snapped her eyes at him.

Her eyes widened, and she raised her eyebrows, making small wrinkles form on her forehead, the betrayal gnawed at her heart. "Lucinda?? You're back with your ex-girlfriend??"

Jack took another step towards her and Jasmine took a staggering step back. The nearer he got, the farther Jasmine wanted to get away from him. 

"Just so you know, we are back together, and being your fu*king husband, I'll have your properties to myself when I finish off your parents too. I'll elope with Lucinda and we will have a great life together." He snapped, forcing Jasmine's chest to go up and down from the hot blood flowing through her body.

Jasmine yelled at him, the knife still standing proudly on her stomach, cutting through her. "You fool" 

Jack shrugged. Jasmine cursed "I had a misunderstanding with my parents all because of you. I chose you even when they were against me being with you! But you...." She soon lost the energy to talk, she couldn't say any more words as she collapsed to the cold ground.

The cold breeze blew her hair, sending small, sharp electricity through her whole body. Today was supposed to be the happiest day of her life.

Jasmine Trevor was the only child and heiress of the Trevor family while Jack was just a businessman who swept her off her feet. Jasmine spent her whole life chasing after him. She was the happiest when he finally agreed to marry her when she clocked twenty-five. 

She loved him to the point where she had a fight with her parents who didn't approve of him.

She threatened to take her life if they didn't allow her to marry the man she thought loved her. They had to relent because they cherished her that much. 

The wedding was grandeur, reporters and elite members attended their wedding. It was on live broadcast. 

After concluding the wedding, Jack sneakily took her to the rooftop claiming he had a big surprise for her.

Well, this was the biggest surprise of all time...a stab in the stomach and being told he never loved her. 

"You can't do this to me, Jack..." Jasmine whimpered, thinking she was probably having a nightmare and if she shook her head hard, she'd magically escape this nightmare.

But Jack's grinning face was still staring back at her, letting her know this was reality! She was going to die on her wedding day!

"You are nothing to me, Jasmine. I love Lucinda and it has always been so. You were just a stepping stone to achieving my goals. Since you are of no use to me, you should go to hell" With that, he launched at her and grabbed her hair, pulling her along with the hair to make her stand on her feet.

Jasmine winced as the pain almost made her grow numb. She was met with his maniacal eyes that glared down at her. 

The pain on her scalp and belly intensified and she didn't realize when she let out that word "Please.." 

She whimpered, she could only beg for her life "Please, spare me. Take everything but let me live" she pleaded with him but his grip on her hair tightened instead.

"You think I'm a fool?? Your family is rich, Jasmine! If I let you go, you'll rant on me and I'll be apprehended. I can't let that happen, I can't let go of my dreams of being with my darling Lucinda." He scoffed at her as if she was a joker.

Never before had Jasmine badly wished someone could intrude on them. She hoped someone could just walk through that door and see this...and save her from Jack's claws. But no one came....No one.

"You'll regret this, Jack" she gritted out with the last ounce of strength in her.

Jack grinned, his eyes shining with determination "I'll regret not killing you" With that, he grabbed the knife from her stomach, earning a deep groan from Jasmine.

He pushed the knife into her belly, making Jasmine's eyes widen in shock, blood gushed out of her mouth as a gasp followed.

Pain shot through her bones, clouding her senses as she felt her life slipping away gradually. 

Hot tears ran down her cheek as her eyes welled up. Amidst the suffering, Jasmine felt a hard push and then, she could feel herself falling. 

She felt the wind touch her ears again as she was about to embrace the afterlife. 

A large ball of blood jumped out of her mouth when her body crashed on the hard floor, the ache spread across her almost lifeless body.

Her head spun and her eyes turned into a circle shape. Faint cries and whispers soon followed but they all sounded distant to her ears.

Lying in her pool of blood, Her wedding dress stained red, Jasmine remained numb on the ground, her life force almost slipped away.

Clicking of cameras by surrounding reporters. Shouting and whimpering from the people around echoed but all seemed to have faded into a blur. 

With the last shred of strength, Jasmine begged for a second chance. A second chance to change her fate, to make everything right and...To Seek Revenge!

After that, she suddenly felt jelly, her body giving in and darkness clouded her vision, her life slipped away as she embraced Death.