"You're lying!" Evelyn screeched, her face paling as she looked at Finnick. "Finnick, you can't trust him! He's trying to frame me! Vivian's kidnapping had nothing to do with me, I swear!"
"Shut up." There was no outburst of anger, nor any loud roar of discontent. Finnick just calmly directed that simple phrase towards Evelyn before turning back to Mark. "Continue."
His voice sounded calm, but his slightly trembling body and tightly clenched fists betrayed the fury inside of him. What is all this?
"Back then, Evelyn wanted to break you and Vivian up, so she contacted me to plan Vivian's kidnapping together. Evelyn also promised me that if the plan succeeded, she would help me obtain your share in the Norton Corporation."
"Liar! I said no such thing!" Evelyn was at a loss for what to do, resorting to continuously interrupting Mark loudly and trying to signal him to stop in a way that Finnick couldn't see.
But when Mark remembered how Vivian had threatened him yesterday, he could only go on.
"I agreed and also helped transport Vivian to the warehouse. Evelyn hired four random men to rape Vivian, but Benedict came to Vivian's rescue right before it could happen."
"I never did that! Stop lying!" Evelyn tried to lunge forward to physically stop Mark from talking any further, but Finnick reached out and gripped the handles of her wheelchair tightly.
"Continue," Finnick growled out. There was a ticking time bomb inside of him, ready to explode at any moment.
A little intimidated by Finnick's hostile aura, Mark swallowed the lump in his throat. "Later, Evelyn misled you to think that Vivian had been raped in order to drive a wedge between you two. She also paid off the doctor that had examined Vivian to lie to you about the results.
"She told me that as long as you believed that Vivian was no longer pure, you would hold that grudge against her forever and that regardless of whatever Vivian did, you two would eventually break up because of a lack of trust."
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