His slender fingers met the scar.There was a sensation of an uneven surface coming from his fingertip.The moment his fingertip touched the scar, Sean Stewart felt as though his fingertip was scalded.“Honestly, Sean Stewart, how do you even have the heart to torment an incomplete body like that?” The call had not ended yet. Elior White said in a half-serious and half-mocking manner.On this side of the call, it looked as though the man did not hear Elior White talking. His thumb was stroki
He was even more convinced of what he felt after studying the HD image of the scar over and over again.“Are you done looking? Did you see it clearly?” Suddenly, Sean Stewart asked grumpily on the phone. Elior White coughed twice and said quickly, “I’m done looking. I see it clearly now.”“What did you see?”“I’m certain that she was cut up by someone from the black market. That person stitched her up poorly three times and it was even stitched out of line. They didn’t even want to hire a lic
Sitting by the sickbed, Sean Stewart’s gaze fell on the lying woman on the bed. Elior White had just performed a checkup on her.“Nothing major.” Elior White reiterated, “However, you should stop tormenting her. She has suffered enough today, drowning, fever, losing consciousness—worst of all? She woke up and you made her pass out again.”Elior White “tsk, tsk” twice. “Sean Stewart, you’re getting more skilled at tormenting people, aren’t you?”There was obviously a hint of sarcasm in his voi
As soon as he left, silence engulfed the ward immediately. With the absence of Elior White’s voice, the hospital at night carried an odd kind of silence, actually.This was a completely different silence than when he spent his time alone at home late at night.Sean Stewart grabbed a high-back chair and sat by the sickbed.His vision fell on her forehead.The wound which she covered with a band-aid and her bangs earlier was eventually exposed to him.Elior White told him that this wound was
Jane Dunn woke up in the afternoon. Maybe she was too tired and maybe her fever was too high, that was why her body was very weak.The white ceiling was the first thing she saw when she woke up and opened her eyes. At this moment, she was still stuck in a haze not knowing where she was.“You’re awake?”A magnetic voice sounded all of a sudden.Jane Dunn’s heart jolted as she turned her head subconsciously. Beside her bed, the man was sitting elegantly on a high-back chair. There was a file i
“What’s wrong? You can’t stand the torment in your heart?”Jane Dunn lowered her eyes. Her eyebrows concealed the indifference in the depths of her eyes as well as everything in the outside world.If Sean Stewart had told her these words three years ago, she would definitely explain herself. She would lay down her life to explain it for sure.Today, three years later, she would not. Jane Dunn was gone. She had lost her lofty and unyielding character, hence losing her soul with it. Was Jane
Sean Stewart could hear his heart drop. “I don’t care whether you believe it or not, but this is a misunderstanding, Jane Dunn.”Misunderstanding?Jane Dunn stared at Sean Stewart. Did he actually say that this was a misunderstanding?“Mr. Stewart, are you trying to tell me that this has nothing to do with you and that you don’t know anything about this?” She did not know if she should laugh or cry. She could only feel that her heart was stuffy, and it was aching so badly that she was struggl
“Take a seat first, Jane.” She went and poured Jane Dunn a glass of water. Half a sleeping pill sank to the bottom of the glass secretly. She first poured half a glass of hot water, then swirled the glass until the sleeping pill was nearly dissolved before adding some cold water to blend it all together.“Here, drink some water first.”“Mm. Thanks, Alora.” She had been thirsty from the moment she woke up in the hospital. The glass of water came at the perfect timing. “I’m really thirsty. You’r
"Your grandfather loved your grandmother like a man possessed."By the time I finished hearing out my grandparents' story, I fell silent. I no longer blamed my grandfather for not knowing his heart, and I no longer blamed Grandma for being uncertain. It was just as Grandma Alora said. It was only because one of the two of them stopped obsessing and took a step back that they ended up living happily ever after. I could not help but wonder. What if Grandma simply refused to turn back at the e
Even then, I found it unbelievable. I ran to my dad's room and immediately asked, "Is Grandpa a pervert? I saw him hugging Grandma's foot just now. Does he have a foot fetish?""Your grandfather is warming your grandmother's feet. Your grandmother's body isn't in its best shape, and her hands and feet are always ice-cold. Your grandfather can't bear to see her like that. Just pretend you didn't see anything, and never mention it to him.""But why?""Because your grandfather will make you writ
My name was Luka Stewart. It was a weird name, right? Like ‘look! A stew.’My grandfather gave me my name. All my many years of experience as a kid told me that my grandfather was not a good guy.All else aside, just look at the name he gave me. He had a perfectly nice name himself, but he had to give me such a weird one.However, every time I protested about it to him, he always said that it was my dad's fault. If Dad had been a girl, that would have been his name instead. See, Grandpa was
On the twentieth day after the surgeryHe saw the person he had his heart set on.“Elior said you were at your wedding on the day I woke up.” He fell quiet again after his initial excitement. It felt as though there was a thorn in his heart. He wanted to pull the thorn out, but it hurt just to touch it.“Is Michael Luther… good to you?”“Yeah, pretty much.”There was pain in his eyes and he hurriedly lowered them, putting on a gracious act.“Congratulations. From now on, you’ll finally be
“Not too long ago, I woke up one morning and realized that I was trapped behind bars again. He had installed metal grilles over all the windows in the room.“In my eyes, those bars were no different from the ones in prison six years ago.“He tried everything to imprison me. He only finally let go when he’s sick and dying.“He said something about getting tired of this game and getting bored of me. I believed him.“He’s dying, so he lets go.“Is that supposed to show how generous and loving
“See? Master White agrees. Move aside and don’t stop me, the boss is in a lot of danger right now!” Dos’ expression was vicious. “I need to stop…”Halfway through his sentence, the three people outside heard some mortifying noises coming from inside the room.They were all experienced in the ways of life, so no matter how slow they might be, they still understood what those noises meant.Dos’ face instantly turned completely red.“Go on, kick the door down. Your boss is in danger,” Alora tea
After the second apple, there was the third... By the time he reached the fifth, he looked at the apple in his hand with a troubled expression. No matter how much he liked fruit, he still could not eat so many at once. Besides, he never liked apples to begin with.“Eat some more, or you won’t have the strength,” she said calmly. He was completely stumped. The strength? The strength for what?The wheels in his brain were still turning as he tried to process her words when the woman by his bed
At the hospital, the ward door opened without a sound. This time, Dos did not report the arrival in advance.When Elior arrived in a hurry, he immediately saw that woman.Before he said anything, Alora pulled him back out into the corridor. The door opened and closed again.The man on the bed lay on his side, fast asleep.No one knew what he was dreaming about, but the deep frown on his face showed that he did not have pleasant dreams.His hand rested on the covers, his wedding ring still a
"Don't worry, this time Sean Stewart won't disturb you again. He never will anymore. "Go and do what you do best, Jane Dunn. Run away!"With those words, Alora turned and left.She did not know what she was mad about. Perhaps she was not mad at all, just a little sorry about the whole state of affairs.It was almost as though she was the one who was not getting her happy ending. In her eyes, one of them had done wrong in the past and was now filled with regret, determined to turn over a n