Joshua’s expression darkened almost immediately. He stared at Luna with a complicated expression and asked, “Do you think…I don’t deserve your trust?”“Yes.” Luna met his gaze fearlessly; coldness and determination were etched into her clear eyes. “I won’t trust anyone who refuses to listen to me and instead chooses to send me into a mental asylum.”Joshua felt as though his blood had run cold. Finally, after a long moment, he let out a bitter smile and replied, “Alright. I’ll do as you wish.”He tucked the sheets around her before saying, “I’ll get a doctor right now and see if they’ll discharge you… Then, we’ll go back to Banyan City.”With that, he turned and left.Luna laid down on her bed, watching him leave, and bit down on her lip. She knew that she should be hating and detesting him, but when she saw the disappointed look in his eyes when she said she did not trust him, as well as the loneliness in his footsteps as he walked away…She could not help feeling a little uncer
“I can look after Luna. I think you should ride in the other car…”This time, however, Joshua did not reply.Lucas’ offer was met with deathly silence.Despite her eyes being closed, Luna could still feel Joshua’s gaze on her. She could help but feel a little flustered at being stared at like this. With her eyes still closed, she tried to convince herself not to believe what Joshua had said.How could Joshua be worried about her? If he was genuinely concerned, he would not have sent her into the mental asylum in the first place…Luna’s head grew heavier and heavier as she thought of this until she finally fell into a deep slumber.While she was asleep, she could still vaguely feel someone picking up her injured left hand.Joshua stared at Luna’s broken little finger with a penetrating yet somehow complicated stare. To some people, a broken little finger would not affect their daily lives much, but Luna was a designer. Joshua had witnessed countless times how Luna had used
Luna curled her lips into a smirk as she stared at Joshua. “Alright.”She no longer had the energy to argue with him, so she decided to relent and instead smiled at him. “I believe you, but just this once. As soon as everything is settled, you’ll bring Nellie and Nigel back and allow me to take them away from Banyan City, right?”Joshua’s heart leaped into his chest. After a moment, however, he curled his lips into a smile and replied, “I will.”He had never wanted to convince Luna to stay. After all, he was the one who had caused the death of both Neil and the unborn baby in Luna’s womb. He had no right to ask her and the children to stay by his side.Therefore, even though he knew Luna did not truly trust him and was instead just saying it for his sake, Joshua was still willing to tell her the truth.Luna, on the other hand, was surprised by his answer. She thought that he would find an excuse to change the topic, but this was good, too.Luna’s expression darkened as she said,
“I know about everything that happened to Violet and Shaun…”Janice closed her eyes and slowly stood up. “Even though Violet’s fall was an accident, her death wasn’t. “Robert is a highly skilled doctor. When Violet was sent to the hospital, her condition was still treatable, but…“When Violet died, I thought that Robert had just made a mistake. On top of that, he was a teacher of mine that I admired, so I didn’t expose him at all. However, when my ex-husband Shaun got into an accident, Robert was the doctor in charge of his operation, but he still didn’t manage to save Shaun.“At that time, I had an inkling of what Robert was doing. He had betrayed his moral values and let Violet and Shaun die just so he could be together with me again. However, I didn’t want to face this truth until…“Until one day, I discovered that he and Fiona had devised this together, and they even destroyed the evidence of his manslaughter… That was when I finally saw Robert for the person he is, but at th
As soon as they heard this, both Joshua and Mr. Chase lifted their heads and shifted their gaze to Luna.Mr. Chase clenched his teeth and glowered at her. “What kind of evidence do you have? Did you forget that you’re a mentally insane patient right now? None of the things you say can be taken as evidence!“If anything you say can be taken as proof, then everything that my staff here at the hospital say can be taken as evidence as well, but what makes you think anyone will help you? Who would stand on your side and say that you didn’t break your finger?”Mr. Chase was highly confident about his power and influence in this hospital, so he did not think Luna would be able to prove him guilty at all. Luna curled her lips into a slight smile, then strode over to Joshua’s side and glanced around the room. Then, finally, she caught sight of the speaker that the hospital staff usually used for alerting the patients of lunch and dinner.She took out the recording device from her ear and
With that, Luna turned and left.Joshua walked out of the mental asylum with Luna following behind. While on their way to Fiona’s hotel, Luna called Dr. Robert to tell him that Janice was in the mental asylum. “It must’ve been you!” Dr. Robert was very agitated as soon as he heard this. “It must’ve been your fault! If it weren’t for you, why would Janice want to take your place in the mental asylum and refuse to come out? I diagnosed you as mentally insane, and you forced my wife to take your place as a patient instead! You’re a cold, heartless b*tch!”Luna could not help but feel amused by how distressed Dr. Robert sounded. “Me? Heartless? If you think I’m heartless, then what do you call someone who intentionally murdered Ms. Janice’s ex-husband and daughter just to get back together with her?”Dr. Robert was so astounded by this that he did not know what to reply. Finally, after a long while, he snarled through gritted teeth, “Just you wait! As soon as I get Janice out of the
Fiona’s expression darkened upon hearing this. Since Joshua had brought this up, this meant that he had seen the interviews she did, but…She had already downloaded the application that Jake had given her into both Joshua and Lucas’ phones…so how could he have found out about the interviews?“You told the media that even though Nigel and Nellie are just children, they’re already wise beyond their age. Doesn’t that imply that they had indeed kidnapped Janice?”Fiona pursed her lips slightly. “That wasn’t what I meant. All I wanted to say was that they were intelligent kids…”“Is that so?” Joshua curled his lips into a cold sneer and opened the passenger side door. “Come on in. I have something to tell you.”Fiona contemplated for a moment before finally getting into the car.As soon as he saw her entering, the bodyguard that had been keeping an eye on Fiona followed suit. However, before he could even open the door to the backseat, Joshua stopped him and said, “I want to thank y
Fiona then said, her throat tight and her lips trembling, “Joshua… I…don’t think that’s necessary, isn’t it? Didn’t Dr. Robert already give me a diagnosis for my illness? He’s the most reputable doctor in the world who’s never made a mistake.”Joshua glanced at Fiona’s pale face through the rearview mirror and sneered contemptuously. “He’s never made a mistake? Fiona, from the moment you bribed Dr. Jenson to make a false diagnosis for Luna, he’s no longer the reputable Dr. Jenson that we know of anymore.“I’ve been wondering this for a while now: Why is there no medicine nor any treatment for your illness? Does this mean there’s nothing we can do apart from waiting for you to die in a year? “Because of this, I’ve asked many other doctors apart from Dr. Jenson for help, but none of them could give a definite answer to my question. I even wondered how you acquired such a strange and rare illness, but now I know the answer.”Joshua gave Fiona a cold, penetrating stare and continued,