The President’s Mistake A Tale of Love and Regret

Freya looked up at Michael with a calm expression, despite the pain in her knee from the recent kick.

"Mr. Michael, I don't think my brother, a child, holds any value for you."

"You brought him here to force my compliance, and I'm not resisting."

"I don't believe I'm important enough for someone like you to go to such lengths, unless it's about your daughter, Abigail."

"Hmph!" Michael's face changed slightly, surprised at her composure.

Freya continued, "I boldly guess that bringing my brother and me to the open sea isn't just about avenging your daughter."

"It was Nathaniel who killed her. I was merely an accomplice. Killing me would only make Nathaniel more guarded, making it harder for you to seek revenge against him."

"Besides, you've brought me here. If I were to avenge my loved ones, I wouldn't waste words. I'd kill you directly."

Freya gasped for breath, her knee still throbbing. Her arms were held up, exacerbating old injuries and causing her pain.

But after enduring three years in prison, she had developed a strong tolerance for pain.

At this moment, she appeared to be on equal footing with Michael, calmly stating, "You must want something from me, something so important that you're willing to risk offending Nathaniel to get it."

Michael was taken aback, feeling a chill down his spine from her insight. She seemed eerily composed, giving him an unsettling feeling.

Both veterans of Saeville's business world, Michael had known Killian and his family for years. He remembered the little girl by Killian's side, cute and clever, but not as unsettling as the woman before him now.

Michael stared at her coldly, and decided to drop the act. He wanted to threaten her, break her mentally, then force her to tell him everything he wanted to know.

But she's so determined that he slightly panicked.

He tried threatening her by almost cutting off the rope holding Mason in the air, but all she did was just watch in silence.

"What did Abigail say to you in Stanna before Nathaniel shot her?"

Freya was momentarily stunned, then chuckled, "Nothing much. She told me to die."

She mimicked Abigail's expression and repeated the words "go die" mockingly. Michael's face twisted with rage. He grabbed a stick from a nearby thug and struck Freya in the abdomen, making her double over in pain.

"Say it! What did she say?" Michael demanded, nearly driven mad by Freya's defiance.

Freya, struggling to breathe, looked up and laughed, "She told me to die. Isn't that why I'm here today?"

"Fine! You don't care about your own life, but do you also not care about your brother's?" Michael pointed to Mason, who had fainted from crying and exhaustion from all the hanging.

Freya knew this was a psychological battle. She needed to force Michael to reveal the truth he was hiding, to buy more time for Sawyer to rescue her. She couldn't give in now.

She had to bear with the torture, only then her and Mason could live.

She regretted not paying more attention to Abigail's last words, but at the time, she was preoccupied with her conflicts with Nathaniel.noveldrama

Now, Michael's desperation brought those words sharply back to her mind.

Michael, frustrated by Freya's silence, sat back in his wheelchair, massaging his knee. "You're just as stubborn as your father."

"How about this: you tell me what Abigail said, and I'll tell you a secret about your father and Nathaniel's mother."

Freya's expression changed slightly, then she laughed, "What's the use of that? It's just an old love triangle from twenty years ago. Knowing or not knowing doesn't matter."

Michael laughed, "Ms. Gomez, you're

quite carefree. But Nathaniel has always hated your family. When

Zander's plane crashed, it wasn'et

Killian's fault. He was just a

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scapegoat! There was someone else behind it! Don't you want to know

who?"

Freya's gaze turned cold. If Michael wasn't lying, then Nathaniel had wronged her family terribly.

He had been targeting the wrong enemy all this time.

If that's the case, Nathaniel owed her and her family too much, way too much.

Michael smiled, "Don't you want to know who manipulated both families, causing them to turn against each other?"

"This person is a master schemer!"

"Tell me one secret, and I'll tell you one. Deal?"