She Stole My Pain, So I Took Her to Antarctica Chapter 04

She Stole My Pain, So I Took Her to Antarctica Chapter 04

The wall monitor lit up.

Vivian appeared on the screen, smug and triumphant. Her gaze seemed to cut through the screen and land on me.

“Erin, how does your vacation feel?”

“I’m so jealous of you. I don’t get to hide away somewhere cool. I have to go out under the blazing sun and hand out water to people working in the heat.”

Every word dripped with malice.

I closed my eyes, refusing to give her the satisfaction of watching me react.

That only made her more excited.

“Erin, when I become a famous influencer, I’ll definitely invite you to dinner. After all, you helped me too.”

She could barely hide her pride.

I sneered.

“What you steal never truly belongs to you.”

Vivian laughed in a deliberately sweet voice, as if I had told the funniest joke in the world.

“Erin, you really won’t bow your head until the end, will you?”

“I stole from you? How funny. If you hadn’t stolen Logan from me, you disgusting woman, do you think I would’ve gone after you?”

My brows tightened.

So that was it.

In that instant, every strange moment from the past flashed through my mind.

The first time I went to the Reed family home, Vivian hid in her room and refused to come out. The Reeds could only explain awkwardly, “She just isn’t used to having a new person in the family.”

I had believed them.

After that, every time I went out, I bought gifts for Vivian, hoping to smooth things over. She cut every single one into pieces and threw them into the trash.

Whenever I went with Logan to gatherings with his inner circle, his friends looked at me with faint hostility.

I had never understood why.

Now I did.

“This is my last warning, Vivian,” I said. “End this sensation-swap game, or you will regret it.”

Vivian did not listen.

Instead, she took out her phone in front of me and dialed a number. When she spoke, her voice softened into that wounded sweetness she knew how to fake so well.

“Logan, I’m so upset.”

“I only told Erin I wanted to invite her to dinner, and she started threatening me… She said she would make me pay…”

The lie was painfully clumsy.

But Logan’s voice on the other end was softer than anything I had ever heard from him.

“Vivian, don’t be upset. Once that disgusting woman has no use left, I’ll send her somewhere remote so you can take your anger out on her. Okay?”

The last bit of hope in my heart disappeared.

I had known what kind of person Logan was. Still, hearing those vicious, absurd words with my own ears made my chest go cold.

My nails dug deep into my palms, but I felt no pain.

No physical pain could compare to the cold spreading through my chest.

Vivian’s lips curled.

“See? In Logan’s heart, you aren’t worth even a fraction of me.”

Then the screen went dark.

The room went painfully quiet.

I clenched my fists and forced down the humiliation burning in my chest. Then I spoke into the emergency locator disguised as my diamond bracelet.

“Come get me.”

Before long, my people arrived quietly and got me out.

Tomorrow was the day I would board the plane to Antarctica. I headed for the airport as fast as I could.

The next morning, Logan woke with his heart racing, as if something important were slipping out of his control.

He could not remember what.

He carried breakfast to the basement and opened the door.

One glance, and his expression changed.

Gone.

When his call came in, I had already finished checking in.

I had not blocked him. I simply watched the phone ring again and again, imagining how frantic he must be on the other end.

The moment I reached my destination, I did not waste a second.

I called Vivian on video.

“Hi, Vivian. Guess where I’m calling from.”

Vivian looked as if the ground had opened beneath her and dropped her into ice.