MIDNIGHT Bride The CEO's TEMPTATION

Michelle was not the type to give up without a fight. She turned to the servants and said, "Seize them!"

Luckily, Noah had the foresight to bring his bodyguards, and they intervened. They defeated the servants, and then they took Michelle as a prisoner.

Crystal  pointed at a servant and said, "You, go and get a pot of boiling water."

"Me?" The servant shook her head violently. "You can't boss me around."

"This is your chance to redeem yourself!" Crystal exclaimed. "Which side do you want to be on when your master returns?"

The servant thought for a moment, and then she hurried into the kitchen to boil water. 

"This is bullshit," Michelle complained. By now, she had figured out that Clark's watch had a camera hidden in it, and she demanded to see it. When Crystal refused to show it to her, she made her hands into claws and lunged at her.

Luckily for Crystal, she had quick She stepped aside, stuck out her foot, and used Michelle's momentum to propel her to the floor. The angry woman landed on her face, and there was an audible crunch as the cartilage in her nose broke reflexes.

There was a moment of silence, and then Michelle sat up. The anger in her eyes turned to distress as she brought her hands up to her bleeding nose. She cried in pain: "Help me... Please…"

She tipped her head back to try to stop the bleeding, and when she opened her mouth, everyone gasped. Her two front teeth were shattered, and her mouth was full of blood. As she tried to talk, it dribbled down her mouth and ran down her chin, mixed in with the blood. There were bits of flesh, enamel, dentin, and cementum.

Those are my teeth - Michelle thought sadly. She had always been proud of her smile.

Crystal frowned. This might be God's will - she thought - but it is a pity that I didn't knock out a whole row of teeth...

Michelle shouted for her bodyguards, but Crystal had commandeered Eric's men, and they had restrained Michelle's bodyguards.

Crystal smirked. "Nobody's coming for you."

She pulled out her phone, took a few photos, and said, "I had better document this. I am sure you understand. It's for posterity."

"You bitch!" Michelle snarled.

"I may be a bitch." Crystal shrugged. "But at least my face isn't ruined like yours. There is no way that Paul will want you now." She turned to Nancy and said, "If I remember correctly, she slapped you. Do you want to avenge yourself?"

Nancy looked at Clark and then at Michelle, and then she thought about it for a while. Finally, her lips formed a smile, and she said, "I will punish her; not for what she did to me, though. I want her to pay for what she did to Clark."

"Aye," Crystal chuckled. "Let Vengeance be thy name!"

Michelle's entire body began to tremble. "If you dare hurt me, Paul will make you pay!" she shouted.

Nancy rolled her eyes. "Look at you. What is done is done." She stood up, folded her arms beneath her, and said, "There is no going back."

"In for a penny, in for a pound," Crystal giggled. "Hurt her good, Nancy!"

Nancy asked Noah to wait outside with Clark. "He doesn't need to see this," she said.

Clark frowned, and he began to cry. "I want to be with you," he whined.

"I'll only be there a few minutes," Nancy promised. "Be a good boy for Mommy, okay."

Clark blew a kiss to her and said, "Okay, Mommy. I will wait for you."

Once Noah and Clark were gone, Nancy glared at Michelle. "I have been waiting for this for a long time," she said. "But that shouldn't surprise you."

"Wh-Wh-What are y-you g-going to d-do to m-me?" Michelle stammered.

"I want to slap you," Nancy replied, "But I don't want to get your blood on me. So, I guess I'll have to get you cleaned up first." She turned to one of the servants and asked if the pot of water was boiling yet.

"I like the way you think," Crystal said admiringly. "Even your kindness is cruel."

"She needs to pay for what she did to Clark," Nancy said coldly. "It is one thing to mistreat another adult, but it takes a real degenerate to hurt a child. After today, she will think again before she hurts anybody!"

The servant nodded and brought the pot of boiling water into the living room.

"If we had more time, I would strip her down to her skivvies and throw her into a tub of boiling water," Nancy explained. She looked at Michelle and said, "So, consider yourself lucky, and let this serve as a warning."

Nancy instructed the servants to hold Michelle in place. Once Michelle was secured, she slowly lifted the pot.

Michelle began to struggle frantically, but it was all for naught.

"Why are you scared?" Crystal asked. "You did this to a child, so you must not think it is that bad..."

"You will go to Hell for this!" Michelle hissed. "Both of you!"

By now, the pot was above Michelle's head, but as Nancy began to tip it, her consciousness spoke up in the back of her mind. It said, "You can't do this. It is wrong, and if you do it, you will be as much of a monster as she is."

Crystal frowned as she watched her friend straighten the pot. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"I'm sorry," Nancy replied. "I can't do it." 

"Do you need my help?" Crystal asked.

"It's better to let the bodyguards do it," Nancy replied. "That way, our consciences will remain clean."

Crystal nodded and helped Nancy pass the pot to a bodyguard.

"That is some pretty fucked up reasoning," Michelle grumbled.

"Shut up!" Nancy hissed. "Nobody asked you!"

Nancy opened her mouth to object, but her screams cut off the words as the bodyguard poured the boiling water over her head. She squeezed her eyes shut, but she could not manage to keep her mouth closed, and some of the water rushed into her mouth. It burnt the inside of her mouth, her tongue, and her throat as it made its way into her stomach.

Michelle was in so much pain that she wished that she were dead. Finally, mercifully, she lost consciousness.

Crystal  turned to Nancy, smiled, and said, "Let's go."