It was impossible for Ashlynn to leave her dog to die, and because of that, she was given no choice."I...I will go with you, but can you promise me something?""Go on.""Don't kill people again," she requested. That was the best she could ask for. Salvatore knew nothing but blood and he would have to change if he wanted to keep her in his life.Corentin stared at her quietly with a terrifying manner."There are other solutions to things apart from killing people," she pleaded."Alright."Shocked, she exclaimed, "Really?" Back when the man before her was still Salvatore Yeager, he was violent and anyone who crossed him would die."Of course. When have I ever lied to you?" He lowered his head and focused on devouring her lips.Ashlynn did not resist, but grabbed onto the bedsheets tightly to suppress the fear coursing through her veins.In the past, she had been consumed by fear that she would die at the hands of Salvatore and now, she simply could not imagine what a monster h
"Thank you for taking care of me, Ms. Vallois. I will never forget it. I need to go now.""Sure. Let me know if you need anything," Anne said."I will." Ashlynn hung up and turned to look at the man staring at her by the bed. "I'll go with you. I've already told Ms. Vallois about it."Anne knew that Ashlynn could not speak her mind because Corentin was watching her, because they could not risk alerting Corentin in any way.Anne remembered that Ashlynn still had her keys, but dismissed the thought shortly after since she had spare keys at home.However, when she returned to her apartment and opened the drawer inside her room, she noticed that her spare keys were gone."I remember putting it here...no?" She mumbled to herself.'Did someone steal it?' She thought to herself. 'No way. No one would break into an apartment just to steal keys."She looked everywhere, but there was no sign of her keys, so she was left to change the lock in her new apartment. She contacted a professiona
In Dorothy's perspective, all would be settled once Bianca had Anthony's child."Can you stop bringing that up?!" Bianca screamed as she stood abruptly."Bianca, you can't run from this. Just look at Anne. Without the kids, she wouldn't be able to get close to Anthony.""He's never touched me. How am I supposed to get pregnant?!" Bianca shouted.Dorothy's jaw dropped. "What? He's never touched you? How is that possible? You are always together and you stay in the Royal Mansion."Bianca's head sank in her hands as she felt like passing out."Why won't he touch you? Are you stopping him? You can't be saving yourself, right? That's foolish!" Dorothy questioned frantically when she realized that Bianca had given up the chance to someone else. It was no wonder that Anthony kept going back to Anne, he was just a man, after all.Bianca listened to Dorothy and could not summon the strength to argue. She felt both exhausted and frustrated.'I'm saving myself? As if!' She thought.She h
"Tell me the truth. What's going on?" Bianca confronted Dorothy. "Are you and Dad hiding something from me?"Dorothy continued to deny it. "No. You can't fall for Anne's trick...""Fine. I'll run a paternity test myself." Bianca headed for the door.Dorothy knew that she would not be able to argue with the results and that everyone would find out about it if she let Bianca run another test. She panicked and shouted, "Fine! You are not Nigel's daughter!"Bianca turned around to stare at her in disbelief. "Who's my father, then?""I...I was raped. Shortly after I married your dad, I was out drinking and on my way home, someone..."Bianca could not stand to think that she could be the daughter of some beggar."Bianca, I'm a victim, too. I didn't want this to happen. When you were admitted to the hospital, your blood type didn't match up and your dad went to look into that. I was too careless, or this wouldn't have come into light.""Who else knows?" Bianca questioned."No one. I
Anne walked over, shaking her head with resignation at how sweet-tongued her children were."Grandma will never get tired of cooking for your mom and you guys. I have endless energy for that!" Sarah patted their heads endearingly.Even if it was exhausting, all her hard work was worth it.The five took their seats for breakfast."Mama, Grandma, can we go see Grandpa today?" Chloe asked."It's been a few days!" Charlie said."We can go on our own as well!" Chris suggested."Sure thing. Why don't you three come with us later?" Anne asked.Anne took the triplets with her to the hospital and checked with the nurse on the latest update regarding Nigel's condition.She was informed that there was no change, but the nurse added, "That pianist came by last night.""Alone?" Anne asked."Yes. She left with her eyes all red. I guess she cried in there," the nurse said.Both Sarah and Anne remained quiet as they did not see any issue with Bianca's visit. After all, Bianca was still Nig
Anne went to wrap her arms around Sarah dazedly."Anne, your dad is going to be fine. It's not possible..." Sarah was at the brinks of collapsing.With tears in her eyes, Anne turned to look at Kathryn. "Go back inside. Keep trying. He will survive! I don't accept this! He was fine, so how could this happen out of the blue? I thought you are all working to bring him back? What are those experts doing?!"The sound of footsteps approached from behind them and Anthony appeared with an intimidating look on his face. "Explain yourself!"Kathryn lowered her face and said, "Mr. Faye's heart failed and he's just passed away. When a person lays in bed for too long, sometimes their hearts just give out."It was a cruel truth for the family. They had all thought that there was still hope, only for yet another accident to take that away from them.They all went inside to see Nigel and he laid on the bed, no longer breathing.Anne could not believe that her father was gone just like that. Sh
Dorothy darted inside and shoved Sarah aside roughly.Sarah fell onto the ground and Anne roared, "What are you doing?! Mom, are you alright?""She should just die!" Dorothy pointed at Sarah viciously. "You just have to stay by Nigel's side, do you? How could this happen? Tell the truth. What did you do to him while we were not around?!"Bianca stilled behind Dorothy."What can my mom do? Dad is important to her!" Anne pulled Sarah up from the ground and argued."Who knows if she is pretending to care?" Dorothy questioned. "Nigel was fine when we were around, and something happened to him on your watch. What did you do?""Mom, stop it. Do you really want to cause a scene in front of Dad?" Bianca stopped her. "I don't think they did this to Dad.""Bianca, you are just too naive and that's why they bully you all the time. Think about it. They have the motive to do this. They are scared that your Dad would wake up and expose them to what they did. That's why they killed him!" Dorot
Every word Bianca said was a false accusation directed at Anne.Anne turned to frown at Bianca and thought to herself, 'When exactly have I mentioned anything about marrying Anthony?'She turned to study Anthony's expressionless face and wondered if he was going to believe Bianca.Whether he believed Bianca or not, all Anne wanted was the truth to her father's death.They continued to play the surveillance footage and found no abnormality at night until the next day.Sarah and Anne appeared with the triplets, and naturally, everyone heard whatever they said as well.They did not say anything important or bad about Bianca, so Anne did not feel uncomfortable at all.However, a part of their conversation still changed the atmosphere in the room."As if. I can go after anything, but not others' men. Whatever. I don't want to be bothered by that.""That's true. My daughter doesn't need to steal someone else's man. We have so many eligible bachelors after us that we need to take tim