Susie choked on the water too, her tears and snot flowing as she coughed. For a second there, she thought she would drown!“Help... Cough cough cough…” she cried, her voice tender in her pain, but everyone ignored her.The water threw the room door open, surging into the corridor.Jane’s body floated like a reed on the water, going wherever the water took her. A large hand scooped her out of the calf-high water, the man pulling the motionless woman into his embrace.The water flowed out of t
Her chin hurt suddenly, and a handsome face suddenly approached hers. “Look closely. Who am I?”The cold voice and that familiar scent in her face immediately cleared Jane’s mind a lot more. “Why are you…”“Why am I here?” Sean did not give Jane a chance to complete that sentence at all, his lips curving into a cold smile. “Do you have to ask? Don’t you know that one of my hobbies is seeing you tormented?”Next to him, Uno gave a jolt, his gaze sweeping across his master’s right hand.Drip d
She was furious, so furious that she nearly forgot about her lowliness. Nevertheless, she… She was still the same Jane Dunn with nothing left to her name but this battered and broken body. She was as lowly and powerless as ever!"What right do I have, you ask?" He smiled, but his smile did not reach his eyes. He had every right, because he was the one who saved the life she had put at risk! … His heart burned with fury, but his eyes were bone-chillingly cold. "I have every right, because I'm
The elevator doors opened with a ding, and Sean carried Jane horizontally as he raced out of the elevator. He ran straight into his room and placed her on the large bed, immediately reaching out to take off her wet clothes. He undid her buttons one at a time. Did this woman always wear so much clothing, even on such a hot day?By the time his index finger landed on the third long-sleeved innerwear, he was utterly perplexed. Who would wear a long-sleeved cotton undergarment meant for the autum
It was the same day, less than half an hour apart, and she— Jane Dunn! How dare she mistake him for someone else, not once, but twice!When Jane was awakened by the pain of suffocation, she saw that the person she wanted to see the least was strangling her by the throat like a man possessed!The force around her neck grew tighter and tighter. Her eyes widened abruptly, and she realized that he— Sean Stewart was actually trying to strangle her to death!It was getting harder and harder for her
She rejected him, but he only used more force on her.Smack!There was the sound of a loud slap, and all of a sudden, the world went quiet. Sean looked at the woman pinned under him in disbelief. Her hand was shaking violently as she looked at him in utter terror. Sean stared hard at the woman lying amidst the sheets. She had not slapped him too hard, and it did not really hurt. Nevertheless, this was the first time in Master Stewart's privileged life that the leader of S City's esteemed S
Elior was stunned!Although he had seen her kneel to Sean without a shred of dignity, the feeling was even stronger when this woman was addressing him directly!Her lowliness and low self-esteem practically oozed out of her every word."You lost a kidney, and all you can say is 'it's all in the past'?" Elior remembered that cocky and confident face from back then. Back then, Jane Dunn had many suitors from esteemed families, but this woman as she was now… He had thought that the three years h
"Are you playing hard to get, then? To protect your virtue as a woman?" Sean semi-raised a brow, looking down on Jane who was beneath him. Jane chuckled softly, her eyes filled with self-deprecation. Virtue? Her? What virtue?"You misunderstand, Mr. Stewart. I'm just an ex-convict with no past and certainly no future. I don't have any family or friends… Virtue? Who gives a damn about my virtue?""In that case, stay here tonight."Jane raised her head slowly and looked into Sean's eyes with f
"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