Neil was speechless.“Hmph! Nigel still treats me the best!” Nellie placed her hands on her hips and looked proud. “When Nigel gets better, I’ll only bring him shopping and we’ll have good food together alone!”Neil was aggrieved. “Mommy, look at your daughter!”Luna smiled helplessly. She hugged Nellie and continued chatting with Neil on the video call while talking to Nigel via the necklace.In Nellie’s brightly lit room, it was a lovely scene with Luna hugging Nellie.In the garden in the backyard, Joshua looked at the figure inside the French window. He furrowed his brows a little.Leaning by the pillar of the gazebo, he put out the cigarette in his hand.This was his fifth cigarette.He did not know why, but at the thought that Luna was leaving Blue Bay Villa the next day, he was inexplicably annoyed.He has been standing there looking at Luna and Nellie for a long time.She was at first in a bad mood, then she started laughing in tears, yet at that moment, she was fille
Joshua has been waiting for Luna in his study for almost two hours.After two hours, he could no longer take it. He closed his file and covered his face with his hands in irritation.She did not come. She truly did not want to continue staying. He was just overthinking this all this while.Joshua chuckled self-deprecatingly and walked out of the study.He wanted to walk around the villa. Unknowingly, he arrived at the door of Luna’s room.The lights in her room have been switched off. She must be asleep by then.Joshua gently sighed and walked to Nellie’s room. She was also sleeping soundly.It seemed like he was the only person who could not sleep in the entire villa. He was the only one who was reluctant to say goodbye the next day.Joshua returned to his room. He took Luna Gibson’s photo from under his pillow. He gently caressed it over and over again.After a while, he laughed bitterly. “Come back quickly.”“If you’re not still not back yet…”He would really fall for ano
“If not, I would have had a guilty conscience working for you.”Aura immediately frowned at Luna’s words. She immediately opened the car door and got down from the car.She strode over Luna. “I dare you to say another word!”Luna looked at her coldly. “It will still be the same no matter how much I say.”Aura gritted her teeth.Luna was in a cheap servant’s uniform with no make-up on her face. She looked poor and miserable. How dare she look at her with those eyes! Her aloofness in her eyes made Aura feel like she was in a different rank compared to Luna. Those condescending, cold eyes were the same as Luna Gibson back then! Looking at Luna at that moment, Aura even felt that she was once more back under the shadows of Luna Gibson. At that thought, Aura was infuriated.She could not find Luna Gibson nor handle her. Could she not even deal with a lowly servant? Aura bit her lips. She walked over quickly to Luna in her seven-centimeters-tall high heels.She raised her hands
Noticing Nellie stopped moving, Luna furrowed her brows and looked at where Nellie was looking.Standing by the door, Joshua was looking travel-worn.He seemed to have come back from somewhere far. His smart-looking suit was somewhat wrinkled. His hair was also in a mess.However, he gave off a charming, mature, manliness.Luna noticed that he had a small box in his hands. The box was familiar to her, but she could not remember when she had seen them.“Daddy, where have you been?”Nellie obediently put down her utensils and ran to the kitchen. She clumsily took a plate of rice out. “You’re back just in time. Let’s have a last lunch together.”Then, Nellie felt that she said something wrong. “Not the last lunch, the last lunch before Aunty leaves us.”“Hmm.”Joshua looked at Luna and put the box down. He roughly let loose of his tie and threw his coat on the rack.He rolled his sleeves up, carried the box, and walked over.At that moment, Luna noticed that not only his jacket
After hesitating for a long time, she decided to leave the dress in her small house of 10 square meters.It has been such a long time. Luna has forgotten that she has once made such a dress. She recalled back to the time when she was making the dress.The Luna Gibson back then was filled with the hope of having a happy life with Joshua. After she married him, she would be the world’s luckiest woman.However, reality gave her one hard slap, which almost killed her too.“Aunty.” Nellie’s voice pulled her back to the present.Nellie was wearing the little dress, standing in front of her. She happily lifted the dress and waved, smiling happily. “Do I look good?”The scene of Nellie standing in front of her overlapped with the image she once imagined in her memory.It was as if something heavy had crushed Luna’s heart. She forcefully held back her tears and her urge to hug Nellie.Luna sniffled and smiled. “You look good!”“Then it is decided!” Nellie excitedly spun around the li
“Daddy, Aunty, what are you guys talking about?”Nellie noticed that Luna and Joshua had been looking at her. She ran over, smiling brighter than the sun.Joshua glanced at Luna. He raised his hands and patted Nellie’s head. “Nothing much. Do you like the dress?”“I do!” Nellie’s voice was bright as a bell. “Mommy made this herself for me. I love it!”While moving about, a little ornament on the back of her dress fell off.Luna furrowed her brows. “Don’t simply move about.”Nellie obediently stopped moving. Luna picked up the fallen ornament. “Bring me the box.”“Hmm!” Nellie ran to get the box over.“Do I have to take the dress off?” Nellie asked innocently with a cocked head.“No need.” Luna took out the needle and thread from the bottom compartment of the box with ease.“Turn around.” Nellie obediently did so. Luna skillfully threaded the needle, placed the ornament back to its original position, and sewed it up.After that, she let out a long breath. She checked up o
Joshua lowered his eyes. Looking at his daughter’s sparkling eyes, his heart softened.He hugged Nellie in his arms. “You are too innocent.”How could Luna be unhappy because she was leaving? She was the one that insisted on leaving. It was not as if he did not give her a chance. He waited for her the entire night the night before, yet she did not even appear.Why pretend that she was reluctant and in a bad mood at that moment? At that thought, Joshua sighed. “Let’s eat. After lunch, I’ll bring Lucas to let you pick out a new servant, okay?”Nellie bit her lips and nodded. “Okay.”After Mommy leaves, she did need a person who could take good care of her. Although Nellie felt that she could be independent, her brothers and Mommy insisted that she has someone take care of her. After lunch, Lucas took Nellie downstairs to a meeting room in the Blue Bay Villa.A row of women was standing respectfully in a line.“Little princess, these are the women that applied to be your serv
When Nellie took Lily back to her room, Luna went to the garden in the backyard to give Malcolm a call.Once the call went through, Malcolm at the other end of the call chuckled. “You saw Lily?”Nellie sighed helplessly, “I never would have thought that you would send them here yourself.”“I happened to have a business meeting in the country, so I just took them along. I did not send them here on purpose.”“It just happened to be such a coincidence?”Malcolm was silent for a while. Then, he laughed. “No, not really. I missed Neil and Nellie. I miss you a little too.”Luna’s heart skipped a beat.After being silent for a long time, she sighed, “Are you going to Granny Lynch’s birthday banquet tonight too?”“Hmm.” Malcolm smiled faintly. “I want to see who are the people who used to bully you.”Luna closed her eyes. She had so many things she wanted to say to him, but when he picked up the call, she could not form her words.After a while, she smiled helplessly. “Then, see you
At that, he looked at Gwen. "Actually…"Steven found himself unable to finish his sentence. After a long while, he shook his head and smiled. "Forget about it.""Steven…" Gwen looked at him, and her tears fell.Her heart was not made of stone. How could she not know Steven's feelings toward her?She was silent for a long while. In the end, she stood up and slowly walked over to Steven with arms opened wide. "Give me a hug."Steven hesitated for a while, but he still stood up.They hugged."Gwen." Steven hugged her thin figure. "I have to meet you earlier in the next life so I can compete fairly with my brother."Gwen nodded with tears streaming down her face. "Okay."They thus hugged once more. Minutes later…"He's gone," said Stefan.Tears kept falling.They hugged for a while longer before pulling apart. Gwen looked at Stefan with her tear-stricken face. He had tears on his face as well.She bit her lips and reached out to wipe his tears. "A—Are these tears…yours or his?
The next day, Rachel flew from Merchant City to Sharnwick City to diagnose Anne's condition. Theo tagged along as well because he had another identity, Rachel's boyfriend."According to the report, Anne's condition is slowly recuperating." Rachel was relieved after assessing the report. "Although she is very weak, she is going to get better with lots of rest."There is nothing wrong with her vocal cords too. It could be a psychological thing that makes her lose her voice. A knot in her heart that causes it." She looked at Luna, then at John. "Considering all factors, I think that knot is Luna."Rachel continued, "John, I know Luna is the root cause of all these bad things. Being away from Luna, Joshua, and other people is going to guarantee a safer life for you and your family. But have you thought about it from Anne's point of view? Other than you and Sammie, she has her own life and her circle of friends. Never has she blamed Luna for what happened, yet you forced her to leave Lun
It was almost a miracle for Anne to willingly leave the house just to visit him!Robyn, meanwhile, sobbed at the sight.The nurse who accompanied Anne to the ward was puzzled. What was going on with these people?She snuck her phone out of her pocket and took a photo of this surreptitiously. Then, she sent it into the nurse's group chat with the caption, [What a strange family I met today.]The nurses in the group chat began gossiping about this. One of them tagged a fellow nurse named Daisy and said, [Hey, isn't this the guy who saved the old man you're looking after? What a hero!]Daisy was, at this moment, walking into Andy's room to help him change his wound dressing. She saw the message but was not able to type on her keyboard to respond, so she recorded a voice message instead. "Yes, that's the man. What's wrong with his family? What are you guys talking about?"As soon as she finished her sentence, she lifted her head and finally realized that Andy was not there.Instead,
Anne stared at John for a long time before forcibly smiling and told him in sign language, "Robyn didn't return after so long, so I got worried and came by to check on her.""Daddy, Aunt Robyn, are you two hugging?" Sammie asked, blinking innocently as she raised her head in curiosity.John and Robyn turned pale at this.It was understandable for such a young child like Sammie to misinterpret them as hugging, but what would Anne think of this?John leaped off the bed and staggered toward Anne. "Anne, it's just a misunderstanding…"However, he was still so weak that his legs could not hold up the full weight of his body at all, and he almost crumpled to the ground.Quick-witted Robyn managed to catch him before he could fall, but this gesture appeared once again rather intimate to both Anne and Sammie. Sammie furrowed her brow and asked rather indignantly, "Are you hugging again? Daddy, how can you hug Aunt Robyn like this when you've never even hugged Mommy and me like this befor
When the nurse pushed Anne to John's ward, she overheard John and Robyn fighting from the door. The fight was about how John was anxious to return home because he was worried about Anne and Sammie.However, as someone who used to work as a nurse, Robyn knew John should not leave the hospital after being shot by a gun. At least, he needed to stay in the hospital and be observed for 24 hours to make sure that he was fine before leaving the hospital. If an infection happened, John's body would crash easily and he would become weak just like Anne.In the ward, John frowned and talked with a serious tone, "I'm really fine. Get me my clothes so I can go upstairs to thank Miss Andie and go back home immediately. If Anne knows that I'm hurt, she is going to worry. She will easily be suspicious since you haven't gone back home for a long time. What if she worries about me and brings Sammie to the hospital to look for me? Can you bear yourself even just thinking about it? She's weak and Sammie
Sammie's soft and cute babyish voice melted Stefan's heart immediately. It had been quite some time since he actually put a smile on his face. "Hi, there. What's your name and how old are you?"Sammie tilted her head to look at Stefan's handsome face and smiled sweetly, "I'm Samantha but everyone calls me Sammie."Then she did not forget to introduce Anne to Stefan too. "This is my Mommy. Her name is Anne."At this point, Stefan had given all of his attention to Sammie and did not notice Sammie mentioned that her mother's name was Anne. He pinched Sammie's cheek and said, "Your Mommy is not feeling well. You have to be a good girl and take care of her, do you understand?"Sammie nodded seriously and said, "I will.""Alright, sir. I will bring them to where they want to go," the nurse saw Anne signing to her anxiously. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. I will take good care of them."The promise from the nurse gave an assurance to Stefan that they would be well taken off. He smil
This was the first time Anne brought Sammie out. Ever since she escaped from death, she became a different person—a recluse and was afraid of the sun. This situation became even worse after she became mute.The last time she left the house was two weeks ago when she had to go for surgery.However, she worried about John. In the morning, Robyn told her John was hurt and needed to stay in the hospital to rest. However, she had a hard time believing what Robyn said.After spending so many years together with John, Anne reckoned she was the one who knew John the most. If it was a minor injury, John would never want to stay in the hospital. He cared too much about her and Sammie, so he never dared to let her worry about him. Therefore, it just did not sound reasonable if John would stay in the hospital because of a small injury.Furthermore, Robyn had not returned home since the morning, which was nearly three hours since she left the house. After much consideration, she decided to call
Tara fell silent upon hearing this. She bit her lip nervously and shot Gwen a tentative glance. "I didn't mean to offend you, Gwen…" "I know." Gwen let out an exhale and interrupted Tara before she could finish, "I know you meant no harm, but I can't deny that this is something I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around. In the future, neither of you—even you, Luna—should bring this up again." Her love life was such a mess that not even she could unravel the ties, much less expect other people to understand. Tara pursed her lips and did not reply. Luna stared at Gwen in silence for a while before finally saying, "But you have to face this eventually, Gwennie. After all that you've been through with Luke, all of us hope for nothing but the best for the two of you. Even if you avoid it now, you'll have to face the truth eventually. Otherwise, are you planning on spending the rest of your life in this complicated relationship with Luke? Can you bear the thought of not being
Stefan was mildly amused by the look on her face. He extended his arms out in a gesture of defeat and said, "I never intended on ratting you out to Joshua. You three spoke about these secrets in my presence." With that, he shot Andy a rather helpless look. "Don't you agree, sir?" Andy was surprised to be called out all of a sudden. "Of course!" Although Gwen and Luke had been together for a long time, Luke had never much cared for maintaining good relations with his future father-in-law. He always thought his relationship with Gwen did not concern anyone else outside of the two of them. Combined with the fact that Andy had done some hurtful things to Gwen in the past, Luke grew even more disdainful of his future father-in-law. Because of this, he had never given Andy as much as a second glance throughout their relationship and rarely ever addressed him directly like this. The truth was, Stefan had already called out to Andy once before, during their rescue mission the day befor