My husband locked me in the freezer for his assistant

chapter 3

Just then, a girl tugged nervously at Rex's sleeve.

"Rex, pouring water over ice will make it stick to skin like glue," she said timidly. "If she moves even a little, her flesh will tear. She's due any day nowsomething terrible could happen..."

His hand, mid-gesture, paused in the air.

He hesitated.

But before the moment could shift, a soft, pitiful voice came from behind him.

"Rex... let it go. My time in the ICU wasn't as unbearable as you imagine..."

Julie's words instantly turned his hesitation to stone. His gaze darkened.

The hand he had paused slowly lowered as his voice turned cold again.

"Do exactly as I said."

The young girl opened her mouth to protest again, but Rex waved her off.

"What she's going through is nothing compared to what Julie suffered. I already have an ambulance waiting outsidewhat could possibly go wrong?"

With that, she fell silent.

Now emboldened by Rex's command, the men returned to the freezerthis time, carrying even more blocks of ice.

One of them grabbed a fistful of my hair, yanking me upright. They surrounded me with slabs of ice, building a wall around my body.

Then, a basin of icy water was dumped over my head.

The next second, my skin adhered to the ice like gluebonded by freezing water. Each breath burned my throat. Each pore pulled tight with searing pain as the cold seeped into my bones.

I glanced at the clock.

I'd been trapped in the freezer for over five hours.

My limbs had turned dark purple from the cold.

To shield my unborn child, I tried to shift my body slightlyto find a posture where my stomach might retain some warmth.

But every tiny movement ripped more of my flesh from the ice.

The baby's movements inside me had grown faint. Alarmingly faint.

I gritted my teeth, ignoring the raw pain as chunks of skin tore away. Slowly, I maneuvered my body to shield my belly as best I could.

Bright red blood began to smear across the crystal-clear ice.

By the time I managed to reposition myself, the once-clear ice around me was stained a ghastly crimson.

The laughter outside died.

Even the jeering men, who had earlier mocked me, fell silent at the sight.

Through the blur of blood and frost, I glared at Rex and screamed hoarsely, "Rex! If anythinganythinghappens to this baby, then you, his biological father, are his murderers! I swear I'll pray day and night to his spiritso that you never know peace!"

His expression wavered.

The steel in his eyes faltered as he stepped closer, peering through the blood-fogged glass.

Then a shout rang out behind him.

"Rex! My dad just saidthere's a plane on the Newton family's private air route!"

Rex's face drained of color. His expression twisted with panic and fury.

He pounded his fist against the glass, roaring at me. "Janice! What the hell is this?! You think you can scare me with your Newton family name forever?!"

Before I could answer, Julie rushed to his side, gently rubbing his back and shooting me a look that combined hurt with quiet blame.

"Janice, if you won't admit your mistake, that's fine. But why must you torture Rex like this?" she said, tears glimmering in her eyes. "You know how much suffering he endured back when Mr. Newton was alive. Now he's gone, and the Newton family's wealth has long been sold off. What's the point of staging this farce?"

Then she gently tugged Rex's hand, her voice like a breeze as she added, "Let it go, Rex. Let her out. If something really happens to the baby, we'll be the ones blamed. It's not like she ever cared about us lowly nobodies anyway."

Her words didn't soothe himthey only fanned the flames.

His eyes lit with renewed rage. He spat out a curse, then snapped toward his men with a roar. "Turn the freezer down to negative 100 degrees! Do itnow! "

Seeing Rex explode with rage, the people behind him didn't dare utter another word.

They silently turned the freezer's temperature down to negative 100 degrees.

In an instant, a wave of bone-chilling wind blasted through the air vents, hitting me like knives made of frost.

The cold robbed me of speechmy teeth chattered uncontrollably, and I couldn't form a complete sentence.

Then, through the haze of numbness, a sharp, tearing pain erupted from my lower abdomen.

I forced my heavy head downwardand froze.

A stream of bright red blood was flowing from between my legs, winding like a small creek across the icy ground.

In the deathly cold, it steamed against the frost, creating a crimson mist.

The blood melted the ice around me, seeping through the cracks in the floor.

That's when it hit me.

I knew what was happening.

Clutching my belly, I screamed hoarsely toward the glass. "Rex! Let me out! The baby.... Save our baby!"

He was still fuming with fury, but the moment he saw the bloodthe same blood now melting ice and flowing to his feethis face drained of all colors.

Panic replaced the cruelty in his eyes.

He grabbed the man beside him, shouting frantically, "Hurry! Get the freezer key! Didn't we check with the doctor before locking her in? How the hell did this happen?!"

The man handed him the key.

But Rex's hands were trembling so hard that he couldn't even hold on to it.

The key fellright at Julie's feet.

He immediately turned and gripped her arm tightly.

"Julie! Quick, unlock the door! Let Janice out nowhurry!"

Startled by his outburst, Julie fumbled to her feet, not even bothering to put her shoes on.

She rushed toward the freezer door, casting a glance back at Rex. Then, with her back to him, she slid the key into the lock.

In that instant, I caught a flash of something sinister in her eyesa look of triumph, malice, and cruelty.

And thencrack!

A sharp sound echoed through the air.

Julie turned back around and suddenly dropped to her knees in front of Rex, crying out, "Rexthe key.. it snapped!"

His face turned ghostly pale.

He stumbled forward, grabbed the broken key and demanded, "What do you mean it snapped?! How could it break? Call someoneget a locksmith now!"

By now, the blood had spread across nearly the entire freezer floor, glistening warmly against the icy white.

I was groaning in agony, unable to contain the pain.

But Julie knelt there with crocodile tears in her eyes, voice trembling with false concern. "Rex, she hasn't admitted her mistake yet... You said it yourself, this was a chance to humble hereveryone here is watching..."

"And what about what I went through in the ICU? Are you really just going to let that go? You promised me you'd give me justice."

Rex hesitated. He waved off the man who had gone to fetch another key.

Then he turned back toward the glass, slapping the freezer door repeatedly as he called to methis time, his voice filled with desperation and pleading.

"Janice, please. Just admit you were wrong. For the baby, alright?"

"Just say it. Say you're sorry, and I'll open the door. You don't want anything to happen to our child either, do you? I'm begging you, Janicejust be a little softer, okay?"

The blood loss was making my vision blur.

My body collapsed into the pool of blood, and with a trembling voice I whispered toward the figure outside, "Rex... let me out... If you don't, my father will kill you..."

Julie's eyes glinted with a savage smilebut her voice remained drenched in that same fake innocence. "Janice... are you really that confused? Mr. Newton died half a year ago. The Newton family collapsed months ago! Just admit you were wrong alreadyno one can save you now!"

Laughter and jeers erupted outside the freezer.

"Still dreaming, huh? Gonna have your dad kill Rex? Miss Newton, your old man's probably rotting in hellif anything, he's the one getting killed all over again!"

They laughed mockingly while tugging at Rex's sleeve.

"Rex, this woman clearly hasn't learned her lesson! She's just faking it. The kid is probably finelet her rot in there a while longer!"

"Exactly, Rex! She bullied Julie so badlyyou can't let her off easily!"

The cold storage was already slick with blood.

They couldn't see it, but I could feel itthe faint fluttering inside my belly was growing weaker and weaker.

I started to wail uncontrollably, screaming in agony.

Rex paced restlessly outside the door. When he glanced back at me again, there was a trace of helplessness in his eyes.

"Janice, stop hoping your father is going to come rescue you again. He's really dead. Just admit you were wrong, okay? Just say the wordsI was wrongand I'll let you out!"

"My dear wife, give it up. Your father won't be coming to save you this time!"

The moment his words fell, the door to the room was kicked open with a loud bang.

A squad of fully armed mercenaries stormed in.

A deep, commanding voice rang out from beyond the door

"Who said her father wouldn't come save her?"