Zayn knew that in terms of loving Aino, nobody loved her more than Sebastian. The reason Sebastian let Holden go was because he had thought it through from all aspects and wanted to give Aino the best chance to survive.Speaking of that, Sebastian cleared his throat and his voice sounded even more miserable than before. “At the very least, Holden cares for Aino. I only bank on this love he has for Aino and try my best not to anger him.” There was a pause before Sebastian raised his hands and covered his face. “I hope…I hope that my Aino…could come back alive.” There was a lump in his throat as he said that.He was a man, the person with the highest authority in the Ford Group, and a man who had reigned South City for almost eight years. He had never cried growing up, but at this moment, Sebastian's voice was choked up. Sabrina was heartbroken when she saw her man like that. She leaned on Sebastian’s shoulders and cried inconsolably. To a family, if their child was abducted that the f
Holden’s satisfied voice could be heard coming from the other end of the call. “Sabrina. My route is now unobstructed. When are you coming over?”“Where’s Aino?” Sabrina asked.Holden immediately called out cheerfully. “Aino, come over quick. Your mom’s on the phone.”Sabrina then heard the sound of Aino running over to the phone. After Aino answered the call, Sabrina could hear the little girl panting.“Mom, what are you doing?” Aino’s voice was extremely cheerful. It sounded like she was very happy.Sabrina suppressed her overwhelming emotions and desire to cry. She asked Aino calmly, “Tell me, are you having fun being with your uncle?”“Uncle Holden is even nicer to me than Dad is. He bought me a fighting robot that is twice as tall as me, Mom. I can’t even climb on it. I like this robot too much,” Aino immediately said.Sabrina felt slightly relieved. “That’s good.”“Mom, you don’t have to worry about me. I want to stay with my Uncle Holden and play for a few more days. Whe
Holden suddenly smiled. He understood why the little girl said she wanted to see her father when he said he would grant her a wish just now. That was because she had not seen her father for a very long time. She missed her father but she was also annoyed at him. She even hated her father. Holden felt very happy. It was great that Aino hated her father. As long as Aino was willing to hate her father, then Holden would be able to walk into Aino’s heart easily. That was the best opportunity for him at that moment. The more her father was distant from Aino, the nicer Holden had to treat her. Besides, being nice to Aino was originally the most important thing to Holden.“Don’t cry, Aino. Don’t cry, baby. Alright? Your father and I are twins, so I can make it up to you for all his mistakes, alright? Don’t hold it against your father as well, alright? Your father can’t accompany you, so let me accompany you in his place. Alright?”Aino instantly stopped crying and smiled. “Uncle Holden, is
In the middle of the night, Aino’s little figure curled under the covers and was sobbing continuously. She kept trembling as well. She was very afraid. However, she also felt that she was brave for having succeeded in tricking her Uncle Holden. Just for a few seconds, she felt pity for Uncle Holden as well. However, the six-year-old Aino could not care so much anymore. She had to escape from the clutches of her uncle as soon as possible. She must escape. No, she could not let her Uncle Holden see that her eyes were swollen from crying when she woke up the following day. She could not cry any longer!‘Aino, don’t cry! You can’t be a coward. You have to be brave! Your mom is going to give birth soon. You still have to take care of your mom. Be brave!’Aino wiped her tears away and forced herself to not cry. Finally, she stopped crying. She tiptoed and went barefoot to the bathroom and washed her eyes and face with ice-cold water. After that, she returned to her bedroom and slept. She h
He was extremely close to being united with Sabrina, Aino, as well as the child in Sabrina’s belly. They could then live a carefree and idyllic life. How great was that? While Holden was in a daze, his phone rang. He took his phone up and answered it. “Hello?”“Master Holden, we’ve already done a thorough investigation. There are no men keeping watch all over South City. The route is also unobstructed. We can definitely return to the island.” There was a pause. “Master Holden, it’s just that…”“If you have something to say, could you please be direct?” asked Holden.“Master Holden, are you truly going to give that piece of island freely to Malvolio Yeatman?”Holden was silent for a moment. “I don’t care for that island and money. When I struck a deal with Malvolio back then, we already had an agreement. I can’t go back on my words. I just want to live my life together with Sabrina and Aino. That’s all.”“But…” The person wanted to continue but stopped himself.Holden then said im
Holdent tried to turn around to see where else she could’ve gone. He was completely stunned at that moment. The cotton candies he held in his hand fell on the floor.“Sir, sir? You still haven’t paid,” shouted the lady.“Get lost!” Holden raised his foot and kicked the lady violently. She vomited blood as she landed on the ground. She was shocked as she looked at the decently dressed man in front of her, who had a handsome appearance and seemed wise and virtuous. She could not believe that he was actually a devil.The lady suddenly was reminded of a crime movie that she saw a very long time ago. There was a line in the movie. “Can you guarantee that his melon is ripe?” It was just one line. The customer who wanted to buy the melon in the movie asked the seller who sold the melons if he could guarantee that the melon was ripened and weighed enough. The melon seller then arrogantly pulled some tricks and fooled that customer. In the end, the customer killed the melon seller. In that s
Perhaps her parents could pick her up at the quickest possible time if Aino were to borrow a phone and call them. However, it was also possible for the bad people to notify her Uncle Holden during that time. Aino could not take that risk. She could only trust herself. She was a child who was very good at remembering routes. She was very clever. The reason she asked her Uncle Holden to stop here to buy cotton candy was not because the cotton candy was that delicious, but it was because she recognized this route. This was because lately, her Uncle Kingston had often driven her to the hospital right after he picked her up from kindergarten. This was the route to the hospital from the kindergarten. She could walk back to her kindergarten if she followed her memory and walked along this route. After that, she could walk back to her house from the kindergarten based on what she remembered. The six-year-old child planned to use the dumbest, which was also the safest, way to walk back home.T
After she hung up the call, Sabrina looked calmly at Sebastian. “Sebastian, take care of yourself, alright?”Sebastian’s eyebrows were tightly knitted. He actually had some white hairs on both of his sideburns.“Believe in me, Sebastian. I will certainly be fine. I will bring Aino, as well as the child in my belly, back safely. All three of us will be fine. Believe in me. The six years I spent in exile is the best proof that I certainly will not let myself die. I definitely will not let any mishaps happen to our children. I am an incredibly strong mother.”Sebastian hugged Sabrina in his arms. He hugged her so tightly. He had never felt so disheartened like this moment before. He was so disheartened that he wanted to turn the whole city upside down. However, his daughter was still in the hands of the other party. He could not do anything. Even if Holden appeared in front of him at this moment and asked him, Sebastian Ford, to kneel and bark like a dog, Sebastian would do as he was t
In a blink of an eye, Aino was already 18.She was already going to college.Her husband, Mister Ford, already had gray hairs on his sideburns and was already a man who was pushing 50.Both Sebastian and her had gone through thick and thin together for almost twenty years.That was so fast."Old man," Sabrina called out.Sebastian turned her head to the side and looked at Sabrina. "What did you just call me?"Sabrina smiled. "Isn't that right? You're going to be fifty next year, and I'm only in my early forties. I'm not an old lady, but you are a proper old man! Let me ask you something. Your sideburns have turned gray, are you going to dye your hair on our wedding day?""I'm not going to! I simply want others to say that an old man like me is marrying a young wife! Listen to me. You'd better stop dressing up and putting on makeup in the future!" Sebastian said to his wife, who looked ten years younger than him.How unreasonable!This old lady simply has not aged a day since
Yvonne hugged her children and lifted her head to look at her mother. At that moment, she was incredibly excited. She was both excited and aggrieved, which made her cry inconsolably. She rushed into her mother's arms. Immediately after, her father also hugged both her and her mother. The family of three was finally reunited. No, it should be a family of five at that moment. It would be a family of six with Marcus included. The family of six hugged each other and cried so much that the people at the side could not help but cry as well. Even the nurse also teared up.It was after a long while that Yvonne's parents let go of her."Alright, my child, let's go home. Let's go home."Helena raised her head and looked at Yvonne. Her child did not have her original face anymore, but she was truly her child. After her child went missing for five years, she finally got her child back. During that time, Yvonne got a rare condition that was hard to cure in any part of the world, but she was cure
After everything, all of it, was handled, Marcus suddenly burst out in tears."What's the matter, my son?" Missus Shaw has lost three sons and he was the only son left by her side. When she saw her son crying like that, it was only natural that she felt very saddened."Mom…I just feel that karma really is a funny thing. It's really making a fool of all of us! It turned out that everything was already destined. Everything was destined!" Marcus was covered in tears.Missus Shaw was confused. "What's the matter, my child?"Marcus cried and then he smiled. "Mom, I've finally understood why God let Yvonne go through this disaster that lasted for five years. It turned out that God had given her the biggest hardship which seemed so inhumane, but God had given her the best reward. Otherwise, the person who truly died would've been my Yvonne, wouldn't it? I would've been my Yvonne."Hearing him saying that, Missus Shaw said extremely emotionally as well, "That's right. At the end of it all
The fake Yvonne was still conscious the second before she died. She watched herself fall over with her eyes widened. She never would have expected it. After she had plotted everything, she was only one step away from the wedding, and then she could have replaced the real Yvonne and truly be a part of the high society of South City and be the wife of a rich man. However, she was fatally shot. Who was it?There was no time for her to look into it in detail before she fell to the ground. All of her regrets were forever sealed in her body. Without even a cry or shouting, she fell to the ground. She was feeling so reluctant to accept defeat that her heart had already stopped beating but her eyes were still wide open.Marcus was also stunned. He did intend to have Bonnie's entire gang arrested in one go, and he had already done it. The police were simply there that day to have this group of people surrounded. However, never in a million years would Marcus expect that someone would kill Bon
Two female attendants wheeled out a completely sealed glass cart. The ring that was carefully kept inside the glass cart was truly colorful and dazzling. Every side of the gem was radiating in different colors as the light shone upon it through the glass chart. The fake Yvonne was stunned silly when she saw it. Another person who was also stunned silly was the tan and fat man holding a pair of binoculars while sitting in a car across from the jewelry store.The tan and fat man muttered, "Gosh! This man must love her so much. He actually is willing to spend so much on her! This woman really deserves to die! She deserves to die too much!"Inside the jewelry store, Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne gently. "Do you like the ring I'm giving you?"The fake Yvonne was so excited that tears streamed down her face. "I like it. I love it too much! I truly love it so much!""I should've given you this ring four years ago. It was such a pity that at that time…""It's fine, hubby, it's fine. Is
All thirty people in the banquet hall were stunned. At that moment, they still have not made sense of what the hell has happened. How come a group of police came in once Yvonne left? Did they arrest the wrong people?"No, officer, we're…friends of Master Marcus of the Shaw family in South City. We've saved his wife. Master Marcus even said he is going to give me two apartments as gifts. Did you…have the wrong place?" Bella boldly asked the police at that moment.Nobody answered Bella. A few police officers came up and confiscated all of their phones. Not a single one was left behind.Bella could not hold herself back anymore and said while trembling, "We're Marcus' friends. He is not an ordinary person in South City. If Marcus knew that you've arrested us, when the time comes…"A police officer sneered. "The people we're arresting are all of you, the group of Marcus' friends!""Huh? Why?" Bella did not understand. Actually, she was not too familiar with the law. She just knew tha
"A billion dollars! Isn't he just insulting us, the three Shaw brothers? Marcus loves this bitch so much! When I see her looking so happy, I just want to kill her immediately! I have to have her killed!"At this end of the call, the tan and fat man asked Marcus' eldest brother very respectfully, "Sir, as long as you give an order. Just tell me, how do you want to get this woman killed? Why don't I kill her now?""No!" Marcus' brother stopped him and said. "It's not the best time now. There are too many people in there, so it's not going to be easy for you to escape. I only have a loyal servant like you. I can't let you die. You have to find a place outside that you can easily run away after getting the deed done. Now is not the right time!"The tan and fat man instantly said, "Alright, Sir, whatever you say. I'll find an even messier place and have this woman killed! I'll be hanging up now, sir!"After he hung up the call, the tan and fat man continued watching everything inside th
When Bella heard Marcus saying that, she immediately said shyly, "Gosh, how can I trouble Master Marcus in everything? No…there's nothing else.""Come on, Bella, whatever difficulties you have, just say it. My husband is the second most powerful person in South City anyway. There's really nothing he can't do." The fake Yvonne lifted her head and looked at Marcus coquettishly. "Am I right, hubby?"Marcus looked at the fake Yvonne very dotingly. "Baby, what do you think? I'm a husband that you've picked, so could you have been mistaken?""That's right!" The fake Yvonne happily leaned her head on Marcus' shoulder. Marcus hugged the fake Yvonne and was feeling so disgusted that he almost threw up. This Yvonne and his Yvonne indeed look very alike. They looked extremely alike! If this Yvonne did not speak and remained quiet, Marcus would feel that this is his Yvonne and his wife whom he had been thinking of all day and all night. However, the real Yvonne would never make such a request o
Of course, the fake Yvonne agreed. Three days later, they held a banquet for the fake Yvonne's benefactors at the most luxurious hotel in South City. Some of them were out-of-towners. There were also some from South City. Marcus roughly scanned them and surely, the middle-aged woman was there. She was the woman who was staying in the same area with Mila back then and the one who suggested letting Mile do a DNA test.Marcus held the fake Yvonne's hand and came to the middle-aged woman. "Miss, do you still recognize me?"The fake Yvonne immediately introduced her to him. "Darling, let me tell you, this is the lady who had helped me the most. Her name is Bella Hughes. She has always been taking great care of me, including the time I had a miscarriage. She was the one who took care of me. I feel we should give her two apartments!"The middle-aged woman named Bella immediately waved. "No need, no need. There's really no need for that. To be able to escort you back to your husband's side