Chapter 640. There’s No Escape

“You… you’re using me to lure Dave here? What are you planning?” Panic sharpened Bianca’s voice. The malice radiating from Blake was suffocating. “Blake, please, stop this!”

“Did you know, Bianca? I fell in love with you the moment I first saw you. Before you, my world was nothing but gray. You brought it in color.”

He ignored her desperate pleas, his expression far away, lost in his own thoughts. “And when I learned about our arranged marriage, the one our parents planned… do you know how happy I was? It felt like fate. But then… there was Dave.”

Blake crouched down, his eyes fixed on her, unblinking and intense. “He came and ruined everything. Took everything. So I thought… if he were gone, wouldn’t things go back to how they were meant to be?”

A twisted smile crept across his face. “If he weren’t around… would you finally come back to me? If he were out of the way, would I finally have you?”

Bianca’s blood turned cold. The truth struck her like ic