Her Rebirth of Retribution

Calista looked at him steadily, then after a moment, she shook her head with a smile. "For the first time, I realized that you, too, have moments where you escape from reality."

She spoke with an air of ease. "Broken legs and muscle atrophy are nothing. Keep walking with me, and I'll show you many more interesting things."

As Calista spoke, she led Kallum inward.

"I'm not going!" He grasped Calista's arm in a hurry. "You're not allowed to go either! Your illness is severe. I'm taking you to see a doctor."

"What about the truth? Don't you want to know the truth?"

Kallum had never felt such regret before. He wished desperately he could turn back time. "I don't want to know anymore. I don't want to know anything! Callie, as long as you're with me, I don't need to know anything else." Despite his denial, the way he looked at Calista as he spoke was filled with sorrow and panic. He chose to believe, as there was no other way to explain everything that had happened.

However, he no longer wished to know the details. All he wanted now was to keep Calista by his side and let all those d*mn things vanish into thin air.

Calista chuckled lightly. "So, you still believe me."

She clasped his hand in return, a smile gracing her lowered gaze. "But now that it's been said, we can't turn back, can we? Why don't we continue, then? I just asked you, If there's no going back, would you still want to know the truth? You said yes. You wanted to know." Kallum's palms were sweaty; he had messed up once again. He shouldn't have come, let alone entered.

"Have you calmed down? Now, are you ready to hear me out?"

The possibility of losing Calista filled him with dread. Yet, as Calista had said, once something was spoken, there was no turning back. His only options were to choose between gaining a clearer understanding or remaining in the dark.

After a lengthy silence, Kallum, despite the piercing pain in his heart, looked at her numb yet eerily smiling face and asked in a deep voice, "So, are you still Calista?"

At that moment, Kallum began to understand many oddities. If Calista was not Calista, her drastic change in temperament could be easily explained. However, there were similarities between the Calista of now and the past, making it somewhat far-fetched to claim she wasn't the same person.

"I am Calista, but simultaneously, I'm also not her." Calista chuckled, her voice echoing in the underground, carrying an ethereal quality. "You could never possibly imagine how many years I've loved you. In our past life, I loved you for over twenty years, But you didn't love me. That's all right. No one said that love always yields results. Moreover, since there were so many misunderstandings between us in our previous life and how you disregarded me, I had no chance to explain. The growing distance between us seemed like an inevitable outcome."

At that point, her formerly gentle demeanor changed dramatically, turning somber. "But I never anticipated that the person who once seemed so out of my reach would also be one of the ones to cause me harm. Someone caused me to be infected with K Virus, and was captured and brought here to be inhumanely studied for three years. Three years. Do you have any idea what I ended up looking like? A zombie, a drowned corpse, a piece of trash. Maybe even worse... Yet, this place is the Fairchild family's ancestral property!" Calista suddenly let out a sneer. “Can you believe it? I always thought you were harmless, but I was tormented for three years in your ancestral property. How could you have not known? I loved you so much, so very much. Yet, after knowing my situation, you never once extended a helping hand to me."

Observing the sudden pallor on Kallum's face, Calista laughed, her conjectures growing even more malicious! "Perhaps you knew from the very beginning. Back then, your cousin had contracted the K virus. He must have come to you for help. Then, Someone told you that I was a special infected individual. Sacrificing me, who was already infected, to save others is a no-loss deal no matter how you see it, isn't it? As long as you spare my life, and once you succeed, you could just reimburse me and return me my freedom. That way, you wouldn't feel like you wronged me, am I right?"

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Kallum's heart clenched in anxiety. He stumbled backward, colliding with a piece of equipment. Instinctively, he retorted, "So, this is just your speculation. You can't be sure that I was aware of this matter. Maybe I wasn't involved at all."

However, his explanation was far too feeble. The likelihood that he was unaware of the events that had transpired with the ancestral property of the Fairchild family was incredibly slim.

Even if he was unaware, it could only be because he didn't care, so he left the task to someone else. Yet, the sheer indifference was more than enough to make Calista despise him. Kallum thought. That's right. That's enough to make her resent me.Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

"I have no proof." Upon hearing his words, Calista continued to smile, but her eyes reddened and became filled with malice. "Still, as long as this piece of land is yours, it's enough for me to cancel the wedding."

She shook her head, a bitter smile playing on her lips. "I guess you already knew, didn't you? You just didn't care. After all, I was just your unwanted fiancée. Whether I lived or died, what did it matter? Since I contracted the K virus, not only could you save others by using

me, but it also gave me a chance to survive. Your conscience wouldn't be affected in the slightest because when you despise someone, you won't bother to think too much about them."

Kallum clenched his eyes shut, a desperate wish coursing through him. He wished none of this had ever happened. If only I hadn't brought her here. If only none of these events have taken place.

"Callie..." He walked toward her, suddenly pulling her into a tight embrace. It seemed that only in this way he could feel that she was still his.