Never Mistake a Queen for a Lapdog novel Chapter 1249

"I'm terrified!"

"Please, I'm begging you, let me go! I swear I'll never do it again!"

She sobbed pitifully, but the hulking bodyguard remained entirely unmoved. His response was the same cold, mechanical command: "Jump."

This time, there was a sharp edge of impatience in his voice.

He added a grim warning: "If you don't jump, I'll throw you off."

Rowan's cries turned hysterical, her tragic wails echoing through the cavernous aquatic center.

Claire felt a twinge of unease. "Isn't this going a bit too far?"

It wasn't that she felt sorry for Rowan, but rather she was worried Wilbur might get into legal trouble.

Wilbur replied with absolute nonchalance, "What are you afraid of? If anything happens, I'll handle it."

He even had the leisure to casually twirl a lock of Claire's hair around his finger. "Remember this: if someone bullies you, you bully them back double. If they have too much backing for you to touch them, someone else will naturally step in and handle it for you."

After delivering his twisted life lesson, he looked up at her, a wicked, teasing smirk spreading across his face. "I only feel good when you feel good."

Before Claire could even process his words, a piercing shriek ripped through the air. Rowan plummeted from the thirty-foot platform.

More accurately, she was violently shoved off by the bodyguard.

The moment she smashed into the water, the screaming was abruptly cut off.

A chaotic flurry of bubbles erupted from the depths. Seconds later, Rowan broke the surface, gasping, choking on water, screaming, and sobbing all at once...

She was an absolute trainwreck.

At this point, Claire actually did feel a sliver of pity for her.

But the vengeance didn't stop there. Men waiting by the edge immediately dove in, dragged her out of the pool, and hauled her right back up the stairs to the diving platform.

It finally clicked in Claire's brain. Wilbur had said 'double.'

Which meant Rowan had to jump twice.

As Rowan was being dragged back up to the platform, a realization suddenly struck Claire.

She whipped her head to look at Wilbur, her eyes full of confusion. "Don't you like Rowan? How can you bear to treat her like this?"

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