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Just as I reached out to take the locket Amelia Green was handing me, it slipped through my fingers and cracked in two on the floor. Amelia gasped, staring at the broken pieces. Her eyes instantly welled up. "Scarlett, if you don't like me, you could have just said so. You didn't have to humiliate me like this, throwing my gift on the ground. I..." Before I could get a word out, my husband Owen immediately stepped in front of her, shielding her from me. His eyes blazed as he looked at me. "Scarlett, that was too much. Amelia was just trying to be nice, offering you that locket, and you threw it on the ground? Apologize. Now." I was still processing his reaction when golden text flashed before my eyes. [Here we go, the classic poor heroine suffering arc. Waiting for her to fall off a cliff and lose her memory so Owen can have his regretful chasing phase.] [And it's just the start. Amelia fakes dropping the locket; Owen just wants an apology. Next up: forced abortion drink, cuts out Scarlett's heart. Brutal.] [Can't she just jump off the cliff now? I just want to see her wreck both of them. Like, destroy them.] I blinked. I had to jump off a cliff first before I could fight back? Why not now?