Gwen was unaware of the time even when she woke up. She lay on the bed in a humiliating state, and an indescribable smell filled the air because her body was still covered in semen and blood. She almost thought she was a corpse. When Gwen recalled everything that happened before she passed out, she closed her eyes powerlessly. Tears rolled down the corner of her eyes as she felt like her heart had just been cut by a knife. Not knowing how long she had been lying in bed, the sky turned dark then bright again out the window. When Gwen finally gathered her strength, she got off her bed and staggered into the bathroom to clean the traces left by Jared on her body. As soon as she came out of the bathroom, Gwen saw an uninvited guest sitting on the small couch. It was Janice Sanders! Janice smirked. “Gwen, I only haven’t seen you for a few days, why have you become like this? You look terrible.” Gwen felt as calm as dead water when she saw her. She did not even want to ask wh
Janice Sanders, who had fallen butt first to the ground, did not know why Jared was in the room. When Jared suddenly appeared, she was so shocked that she blurted, “J-Jared, why are you here?” Jared did not care about her. He kept searching the room but could not find the woman whom he was looking for. He turned his hand to grab Janice up from the ground. “Where’s Gwen? Where’s Gwen?!” Janice was frightened by the madman, hence she stammered, “Jared, Gwen… She couldn’t take it after hearing the news of her mom’s passing last night, so she jumped out the window after losing her mind. I couldn’t pull her back…” ‘The splash that I heard when I came in was her jumping into the sea!’ Jared thought. He let go of Janice and staggered toward the window, where he looked down at the sea with a pale face. “Gwen, Gwen, how dare you! How dare you die without my permission!” ‘No! ‘She mustn’t die! ‘She has so much to explain, and she owes me a child, so how can she die?! She can’t!’
Jared withdrew his hand right away, and he stared with bloodshot eyes at the lifeless corpse for some time before he uttered while gritting her teeth, “No, this isn’t Gwen! Don’t try to fool me with someone else’s corpse, I won’t believe it!” ‘How could Gwen become like this? This must be fake, it’s fake!’ He pushed the bodyguards back into the water and roared like a trapped beast, “Go look for her again, go! If you can’t find Gwen, don’t come and see me!” Janice stopped him. “Jared, Jared, don’t do this. This is Gwen, she couldn’t have survived after being out at sea for three days and three nights; the waves were huge! God has already blessed you by letting you find her dead body, so please stop being so stubborn, okay?” Who knew, Jared turned his hand and pushed her away. “You’re lying to me!! How could Gwen die? She still owes me many things, and she hasn’t explained anything to me, so how does she deserve to leave? I’m going to find her, I’ll go find her myself!” Follow
Jared Crawford was still indifferent as though he was an emotionless robot. “Yes, get the butler to arrange it. Let’s have it in one week’s time.” Janice was overwhelmed by immense joy. She had waited for many years, and he finally agreed to marry her! She could not describe how elated she was at that moment, so she cried tears of joy while she held Jared’s hands. “Thank you, Jared, thank you for willing to take me as your wife. I’ve been waiting for this day for a very, very long time…” Nonetheless, Jared still stared with hollow eyes at the ceiling. Nobody knew what he was thinking. …… The news of Jared marrying Janice was soon spread to Grandpa Crawford. The old man was so furious that he pounded his walking stick on the ground. “B*stard! B*stard! Gwen had just passed away, her funeral hasn’t been held, and it hasn’t even been seven days. How could he marry another woman? Is he crazy?!” In order to prevent the Crawford family from losing another backbone, the butler quic
The butler simply smiled politely and ignored Janice’s bark. He left the study after putting down the cup of coffee, leaving Janice to rage on her own. He followed Jared to the courtyard, but the wind was strong due to the heavy rain outside. “Mr. Crawford, the wind is too strong outside. You haven’t fully recovered after being discharged from the hospital a while ago, so you should go back inside.” “She said something similar in the past,” Jared suddenly uttered. The butler was startled. However, Jared kept staring at the falling rain as he took a trip down the memory lane. “When we were still studying at university, she would always run to my class when it rains to give me an umbrella. She never cared if she was caught in the rain — she was always so silly.” He suddenly smiled, and his pale face glowed as though he was yearning for something. “She always brought me a towel and a bottle of mineral water whenever I played basketball; she spectated every single tournament I pl
Jared Crawford was dispirited. He neither cared about his company nor left his room nor ate. Nobody could get him to leave his room — it did not matter who tried to persuade him. Jared found a diary among Gwen’s belongings, and he had been crying and laughing at it for a few days. He sat on the ground below the windowsill and held the wooden figures that were carved by Gwen. Once again, he flipped through her diary, which felt extremely heavy to him. …… [23 September 201X. [Happy!!! [Today is the day Jared and I are getting married. He’s on his way to pick me up, and I’m so happy yet nervous that I don’t know what to do. Mom suggested that I keep a post-marriage diary. She has kept one in the past, and she only stopped writing when Dad passed away. [I’ve decided to keep this diary, and I’ll write until either me or Jared dies one day! [It never occurred to me that I’ll actually become Jared’s wife one day, so I thought I was dreaming when Mom told me! [Mom and Grand
The day before the wedding, Jared Crawford’s butler was ordered to make a trip to the Sanders residence. The Sanders family was bustling about at that moment for the wedding. When the butler arrived with a team of people, Janice’s parents welcomed them with joy because they thought the people had dropped by to send some gifts. In the end, the butler informed Janice’s parents that the wedding was canceled. Janice had stayed in her room because she wanted to be reserved, but she was perturbed after hearing the news, hence she dashed out. “The wedding’s canceled? Why?” The butler replied to her word by word, “It’s Mr. Crawford’s idea.” “I don’t believe it! Jared told me that he wants to marry me! How can he change his mind the day before the marriage?” Janice shouted because it was too absurd and too unbelievable, “I want to meet Jared! Now!” “Mr. Crawford doesn’t want to see you.” The butler shook his head. Janice yelled furiously, “You dirty dog! Get lost!!” The butler w
Once Jared Crawford’s butler was done settling the matter, he returned to the villa to report to Jared on the completion of his task. “Mr. Crawford, Miss Sanders has been taken away by the police, but she doesn’t admit that she killed Mrs. Crawford — she insists that it was a suicide.” “Get to the bottom of it.” Jared seemed to have changed into another person overnight. He was initially only harsh and indifferent, but he had suddenly become sharp and grim like a sword from a scabbard, which was incredibly sharp. The butler could not help but lower his head. “I will.” However, there was no proof that Janice killed Gwen and no trace could be found at the scene. Due to the lack of witnesses and material evidence, Janice was released after being in jail for three days. The first thing she did after she was released was to find Jared at the Crawford villa! Janice used to have full access to the place in the past, but just as she wanted to enter this time, she was stopped by t
The doctors had briefly cleaned and wrapped Shannon’s wound on the way to the hospital. She was sent into the operating theater the second they arrived at the hospital. After eight hours of trying to run from the god of death, Shannon was pushed out from the operating theater.According to the doctor, the bullet was less than a centimeter away from Shannon’s heart. No one would be able to save her life if it had penetrated her heart.Fortunately, it seemed that Shannon had a chance to survive, but she was still at the edge of danger. If she does not wake up in 48 hours, the doctors will give up on her.Although the probability for Shannon to wake up was very low, according to the doctor, Sean strongly believed that she would wake up.He could not be bothered by his own injuries but held Shannon’s hand as he sat beside her bed. He held her hand so tightly as though he was going to squeeze it into his palm.Gently, he stared at Shannon’s face and spoke in a loving voice, “Shannon,
Sean’s gaze was ever gentle, and it made Shannon tear up even more.His eyes were full of pampering and love for Shannon, just like when they had first met each other. “I’m so sorry, Shannon. I truly regret that I’ve done so many evil things to you and even broke your heart.”“Shannon, I don’t deserve your forgiveness. So, don’t forgive me, but take good care.”“No matter what happens, you must take good care of yourself, Shannon.”I love you, but I don’t want you to feel sad for me, so I guess I’ll skip this phrase. After saying everything that he needed to tell Shannon, Sean calmly said, “Julio, just take my life; don’t hurt Shannon!”Sean took a step forward and stood in front of Julio. He did not try to defend himself or hide but waited for a shot from Julio.As Julio witnessed Sean’s bravery, he knew that he had been defeated.He was finally aware that he could never compete with Sean for Shannon’s heart. Julio was suffering from that awareness. However, the grudge he had
“Julio, are you crazy?!”Startled by what he said, Shannon accidentally hit her head on the edge of the bed. Surprisingly, the pain helped her regain some energy.She saw a mug as she turned her head to the side, and she quickly grabbed the mug and crashed it onto the bedside table. The next thing she did was cut her wrist with one of the broken pieces of the cup.“Julio, I don’t love you. I don’t want a baby with you! I would rather die than have a baby with you!”Shannon’s quick action left Julio in shock! There was a deep and bleeding wound on her wrist when he managed to regain his attention. He was too stunned as he looked at the blood on her wrist.He could not be bothered to remove Shannon’s clothes anymore when he saw her hurting herself. He tightly hugged her in his embrace and uttered, “Shannon, why did you hurt yourself?! Am I so bad to the extent that you would rather die than become my wife?”Julio seemed hurt by her actions as he chuckled with grief. “Shannon, you w
The morgue? Shannon almost tripped and fell to the ground.She could not be bothered by her injury to her ankle and continued to rush to the direction of the morgue with the help of the wall as a support.Unknowingly, Shannon’s eyes were covered with tears, and all of a sudden, she felt a sharp pain on her neck and lost consciousness just when she was pushing the morgue’s door open.It was already in the evening when Shannon woke up, and she realized that she was in a strange room. She was dressed in a white wedding gown, and there was a mirror nearby. Looking into the mirror, she saw herself wearing very nice makeup.Suddenly, Shannon felt a sharp pain in her head as she tried to recall how she ended up here. She remembered that she was on the way to the morgue to see Sean. How did she wake up in a strange room with this odd outfit?Whatever the reason was, Shannon had no time to think it through thoroughly. What she had to do now was to find Sean.Desperately trying to get up,
Shannon was eager to see Sean.She heard two nurses whispering at a corner when she rushed out of her ward.“What a waste; he was so handsome but died so young!”“True, such a misfortune. He is only about 27 or 28 years old. It was a horrible accident. He passed away even before he could make it to the operation theater.”“I heard that his family is quite rich; I guess he was fated not to be able to spend the money.”“Sigh. It’s sad for such a handsome man to die in such a pitiful way! His wife was at the scene of the accident and passed out while crying. She was sent to our hospital, but she is yet to awake!”“Sigh, what can she do even if she is awake!? She might as well not wake up since the first news she will get is the news of her husband’s death! It would be really pitiful for her!”…As Shannon listened to the conversation between the two nurses, her heart sank bit by bit.The man was very handsome, at the age of 27 to 28, his family was rich, his wife fainted at the s
“I mean what I said!”Ian’s handsome face turned cold as he added with an evil gaze, “Quinn, I won’t keep this baby!”“No! You can’t hurt the child! This is your baby!”Ian chuckled even more nastilly after listening to what Quinn had said. “My baby? Quinn, I’m sure you just want to use the baby to keep Sean! Sadly, Sean has known that the baby is mine since a long time ago. Do you think Sean will spare your life if he was not planning to protect my baby!?”Sean already knew that the baby was not his own! With that thought in mind, Quinn fell on the ground disappointedly; how it could be…Then, Ian turned around and walked toward his Lamborghini. He locked his door and drove toward Quinn at a fast pace!Quinn lifted her head and her eyes were widely opened with fear. It would seem that Ian definitely wanted to kill her today!But, she could not die! She was only 26 years old! She had such a bright future! How could she let herself die so young?With that in mind, Quinn did not bother a
To Quinn’s surprise, Sean rushed out to save Shannon’s life at the critical moment without a second thought.Unknowingly, Quinn’s eyes were flooded with tears, for she could not understand how Sean loved Shannon so much!She reversed the car and slowly accelerated as she attempted to hit Shannon again. She would not be satisfied as long as Shannon was alive.However, Sam managed to arrive just in time with a group of people before Quinn succeeded. She was worried that Sam would catch her, so she quickly changed her direction and drove toward the southern outskirts.Sam did not go after Quinn by himself as he was worried about Sean’s injuries. Instead, he summoned his subordinates to tail Quinn’s car.Anxiously, Quinn accelerated and drove away recklessly. She was in an extreme panic as she did not want to be caught by Sean’s men. She heaved a sigh of relief when she noticed that she managed to escape from their clasp. However, when she was driving toward a junction, all of a sudden,
She was told about Eli and Seth’s failure last night.Her men came back with news, saying that Shannon was taken away by Sean, who showed up out of the blue.From her view in the car, she could see love bites on Shannon’s neck, which confirmed her speculation. The thought of them having sex last night drove her crazy. Without a doubt, anger and bitterness had preyed on her. She clenched her fists so hard that she cut her skin with her own nails, causing blood to drip.Shannon! Shannon!You should be long dead! I should’ve killed you right away last night!But it is not too late. Shannon, go to hell!Quinn stepped on the accelerator pedal and drove the car out at full speed. It was Shannon that she was aiming for.When Shannon finally noticed the danger, it was already too late. The van seemed to be coming at lightning speed; she knew that she was unable to escape.“Shannon!”It seemed hopeless for her to think that she could survive the crash. She anticipated the accident, but
Sean took Shannon all the way back to his mansion.She had been fed with the most powerful pill of its kind. When they finally got home, her body temperature was abnormally high.Eagerly, she tried to break away. Instinct told her not to get entangled with her brother-in-law.Repeatedly, she told herself that Julio was the man she loved and that they would be getting married very soon. However, there was only one name that kept coming to her mind.Sean. Sean...Why? Why did his name keep coming back to haunt her?Is it because of the immense hatred?Or could it be…She did not want to go there.What she desperately needed was a cold shower to calm herself down. Falteringly, she tried to walk to the bathroom, but he clasped her in his arms to stop her from leaving.His sweet lips were attached to hers, and soon, their tongues were intertwined. Lost in the kiss, she could feel her mind drift. With one last effort, she regained her strength and gave him a hard slap in the face.