“I wouldn’t be able to send you to prison if I hadn’t murdered him in the first place, would I? The threat for you to break-up with Sean wasn’t satisfying enough, even with your father’s life at stake. I needed to make sure that you were damned to perdition. Shannon, the five years of prison must have been delightful for you!”Quinn put on a vile visage as she glared at her. There was no trace of beauty on her face, only hatred.“Shannon, I hate you! I’ve always hated you! You’re not any better than me, but you’re always standing in my way! Since they like to think that you’re better than me in every way, I had no choice but to destroy you!”“Shannon, you’re no longer a woman of quality. You’re just a prisoner and a murderer who’s killed your own father!”“I killed Joshua Gray, but I wouldn’t have hurt him if he wasn’t your father! You’re responsible for his death, after all. You’re at the bottom of all this trouble! No, not only your father, even John is dead because of you!” “I
He walked towards them in urgent haste and pulled Quinn aside. “What are you doing?” Clearly, Shannon had just been strangled; there were red marks all over her neck. Sean was distressed at the sight of her injury. Instinct told him to clasp her in his arms so that he could take a better look at her.However, as soon as their hands touched, Shannon shook him off to stop him from disturbing her. Quinn, on the other hand, went ahead and hugged him tightly from the back. She wept bitter tears as if she had just suffered an injustice. “Sean, I was too impulsive. I didn’t do it on purpose! It’s Shannon! She wanted to frame me! I panicked, so I did it without thinking! Sean, you have to trust me!”Sean pulled her hands off his body, with no particular sympathy. “What’s going on?”Quinn hurriedly explained, “Out of jealousy, she worked out a plan to frame me! Sean, you have to help me! Please don’t fall for her trap!”Shannon did not say a word to defend herself. Instead, she squatted
Shannon thought that he was going to identify the genuineness of the evidence, so she gave him the phone without a second thought.What happened next was completely unforeseen, which startled her. He did not play the recording. Instead, he deleted it right away.He even made the solicitous effort of checking her call list to make sure that she did not forward the recording to anyone before giving her back the phone.Shannon looked at him in utter disbelief. Her eyes became moist, but she refused to cry in front of him.Indeed, she was just lying to Quinn. She did not forward the recording to anyone else.She thought that Sean would finally stand unswervingly with her after finding out the truth, but she had never been so wrong. She had clearly underestimated his love for Quinn. Also, she did not think that he would do something so cruel and cold-hearted to her.Even if she really did send out the recording, Quinn would still be fine if Sean said so.He was undeniably a powerful
Sean panicked when he realized that her ward was empty.His heart thumped with fright as if he had just lost something very important in his life. He looked around, not realizing that what was already lost could never be found again.“Shannon!”He dashed into the washroom, but it was empty. There was no sign of Shannon anywhere.He went to every corner of the hospital but could not find her.In a desperate attempt to locate her, he even looked into every security footage in the hospital, but there was no sign of her anywhere. She was determined to stay out of sight when she left the hospital, so no matter how hard he tried, he could never find her through the cameras.“Find her! I don’t care how you do it, just find her!”Sean bellowed into his phone. Sam answered very gingerly and agreed to send out more men to expand their search area. That was when the news came in.They had found Shannon.To be exact, it was her body that they had found, covered in a mass of bruises.Sam
The north wind whistled through the window.Sean ran towards the garage in a great hurry. He could not even care less if he had a jacket on. He wanted to go to the beach where she was found and tell the media to stop reporting fake news of her death.Also, he needed doctors on stand-by.In a rush, he made a call to Sam and urged him to send an elite team of doctors to the scene as well.His beloved girl was severely injured, and only the best doctors could give her the treatment that she needed.He did not hesitate to step on the accelerator pedal as his car gathered speed. On his way, he had run more than a dozen red lights in order to get to the beach in the shortest time possible. The journey to the beach usually took more or less an hour, but with all the speeding, all he took was half an hour to get there.Although Shannon had a history of being imprisoned, her death was still a piece of breaking news to many. As a socialite, she used to be very well-known in the fashion i
“Shannon, please, I beg you. Please look at me, will you?”Her body was too horrible to look at. The many cuts and wounds were nauseating, but Sean did not think so. He pulled her body into a tight grasp without any revulsion. There was only love.He could not forget the look in her eyes when he carried Quinn away.There was no light, only hollowness. The doctors said that her depression was getting worse. Even if she woke up, she would not stop hurting herself. Sean waited for Quinn’s condition to become stable before going back to Shannon. He was ready to commit himself to her and keep her company until she became hopeful about life again.What he had not realized then was that deleting the voice recording was the final straw.“Shannon...”In anguish, he whimpered. He regretted his actions so terribly, but no amount of remorse could turn back time. She could never be alive once more.“Shannon, please, I beg you. Please wake up, will you? Please?”The reporters were ready to
Sean was out of his mind as he refused to drink and eat; he only held Shannon’s dead body in his embrace, tightly. This drove Sam to knock Sean unconscious and secretly transport the body away for cremation as he was worried that Shannon’s corpse would begin to decompose. In fact, Sam thought that Sean would go after him when he was awake because he made his own decision to send Shannon’s dead body away for cremation without his permission. Surprisingly, Sean did not mention the dead body at all.Sean worked extremely hard as if he was a robot since Ford Group had gotten a few big deals from its clients. However, Sean had become cold to the people around him and no one had the courage to be close to him. Sam often saw Sean in an idle state. He did not like to smile since a long time ago, but it was even worse now after Shannon’s departure.Certainly, Sam knew that Sean was still alive as his heart was still beating. However, Sean was like a zombie to Sam; a zombie without his so
Julio finally regained his senses and held Shannon’s hand tightly. “Silly girl, why would I not marry you!?”In fact, Julio was anxious about their return too. Half a year ago, he worked so hard to take Shannon away just to shape her into his weapon for revenge. He just wanted to use her.He used to have good feelings toward Shannon, however, those feelings were only to the extent of sibling love. To his surprise, he realized that his feelings toward Shannon have slowly evolved into feelings of romance within the last six months. He realized that he began to feel worried. He was fearful that Shannon would eventually find out the truth, and that she would then hate him and leave him.Unknowingly, Julio applied a larger force as he held Shannon’s hand. No, he would never let her go! He could hypnotize her once again since he tried it before and succeeded. He could continue to do the same again even if her memories recover one day.He would leave with her and never come back again o
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.