Luna was completely in a daze upon Aura’s words. Then, she angrily glared at Aura. Her voice was rather croaky due to anger.“I hit your child? You were the one that hit my child! Aura, you will be punished for targeting such a young child!”Aura wiped her tears and stood up. She reprimanded Luna angrily too, “I should be the one saying this!”Aura took a deep breath, wiped her tears, and picked up the microphone. Her voice was filled with grief. “A few days ago, I handed Jake over to you in perfect shape, yet you returned him to me in such a state!”Aura bit her lips. Her tears fell. “Luna, only you would know what you have done! How dare you say I beat your children? You were the one that beat my child up! Your children are being protected properly in Blue Bay Villa every day. How could I beat them? My Jake, on the other hand…”Aura cried while displaying the photos in detail.“Jake only went to your place for a few days, yet he was beaten up so badly! Luna, you’re a mother you
Luna gritted her teeth and glared at the tear-stricken Aura.“What the hell do you want?”“Nothing much.”Aura held onto the microphone. She looked at the reporters below the stage. Her tone was rather aggrieved and sad. “I don’t hate Luna for beating my child up, but I hate Joshua for not protecting our child! I only want to do three things right now.”Aura took a deep breath.“First, Joshua has to find the best medical team to treat my son.“Second, to protect the safety of my son’s life, I want to be like Luna, I want to stay in Blue Bay Villa, to make sure that I can protect him at any time.“Third.”Aura narrowed her eyes and looked at Luna, who was sitting on the floor on the verge of breaking down.“Luna has to turn herself into the police, admitting that she tortured my child!”Joshua was hugging Luna. He swept Aura a cold gaze and said, “Are you sure?”Aura’s heart skipped a beat at that man’s deep gaze.If she remembered correctly, this was the first time Joshua
The reporters captured how arrogant and proud Aura looked.Luna was in Joshua’s arms. She had tried to rush over angrily a few times, but Joshua held her back. Luna tried to struggle, but she was wary of his injuries. She did not dare to struggle too hard.When Aura was done with being smug and arrogant, Joshua narrowed his eyes and looked at Aura coldly.“So, where is Jake? I can get the best doctors to treat him, but provided you hand him over to me.”Aura smiled. “I’ve already sent him back to Blue Bay Villa.” She smugly said to Joshua, “Look at your phone. You should have already received the news.” Joshua narrowed his eyes and looked at his phone. Lily did send him a message.[Neil is back, but he is badly hurt! Sir, I’ll go ahead and get the family doctor over! Please find a specialist too, I’m afraid the family doctor won’t be able to handle it!]Joshua’s gaze instantly turned cold. If the family doctor could not even handle it…That meant that Neil’s situation was mu
Joshua feebly leaned back in the back seat. His voice was so weak it was almost inaudible.He bit his lips and sighed heavily and said, “Call Dr. Rowena Shaw. Get her to send two of the best trauma physicians and an orthopedic doctor over to the house. Head home.”Jude furrowed his brows while driving. “Joshua, I think you should still go to the hospital. Your wound is so serious, getting the doctor to go to your house might…”“Go home.”Joshua shut his eyes and leaned back on the leather seats. His voice was low. “Neil has been tortured by Aura. He is currently in Blue Bay Villa already. I want to go home. I don’t want to go to the hospital. If I don’t see Neil, I’ll worry…”Luna, who had been pressing on his wounds, was stunned upon Joshua’s words. She lifted her head and looked at Joshua in shock. Her voice was hoarse. “You… care that much for Neil?”All this while, Luna never felt Joshua’s love for the children. It was only recently when Nigel and Nellie got closer to him, th
Neil was lying on the sofa, he was covered in bruises.His face was still red and swollen with a handprint on it. His left eye had a black eye, clearly punched by someone.There was not an inch on Neil’s body that was not covered in bruises. Every inch of his skin was either red or purple.A bunch of his hair was pulled off, exposing the white and red scalp.His right leg was limply hanging off the ground. It seemed that the bone of his calf had been fractured.Jude might be almost thirty years old, but this was the first time he has encountered someone in such a terrible state.Even though he was in a bad state, Neil, who was lying on the sofa, still smiled at the doctor who was disinfecting his wounds. “Thank you. You have been disinfecting my wounds for a long time. Do you want to rest for a while? It’s fine, I don’t feel that much pain anymore.”Looking at how strong Neil was being, the doctor wiped away tears while cleaning his wounds. “You’re a good kid. You will get bet
“You are my child! You are mine!”Neil pursed his lips. He reached out his bruised hand and hugged Luna. “Hmm. Mommy, I will be good and listen to you in the future. I’ll get along with Nigel and Nellie. I believe I can find back my memories.”Luna bit her lips and nodded. She wanted to say something when…Bang! Suddenly, the sound of a heavy object landing on the ground rang out.“Daddy!” What followed next was Nellie and Nigel’s agitated yells. Luna was stunned. She turned around.Joshua had already passed out on the ground. His face was a miserable place.Jude and Bonnie immediately helped him up. The doctors immediately tushed in. Some checked up on Neil and treated him, the others stitching Joshua’s wounds up.Luna rushed around helping them out.After a busy day, the Blue Bay Villa finally resumed its calmness during the evening.Neil’s fractured leg has been put in a cast. The doctor said that he is still young. If treated correctly, there should not be any big proble
Luna did not expect that Joshua would wake up at that particular moment. She paused, raised her eyes, and met his tired gaze. She bit her lip. “When did you wake up?” “Just a few moments ago.” He lifted himself up and Luna hurriedly helped him lean back on the headboard, then handed him the glass of warm water from the bedside table. “So you plan to ask Aura to move in with us, then make her believe that we’ve had a falling out so she has a chance?” At her words, Joshua laughed softly as he sipped from the glass. He lowered the glass, gently grazing his thumb over her lower lip as he said, “So you agree that we’re now as close as we used to be?”The rough pad of his thumb grazed lightly over her soft, sensitive lips, leaving her feeling slightly numb and itchy. She blushed immediately, then pulled his hand away. “When did I grow close to you again?” He laughed lightly as he looked at her, his gaze deep and bottomless. “If we aren’t close, how can we have a falling out?” Sh
Luna blushed at his words. She placed the bowl on the table, took the marriage certificates out of her pocket and stuffed them back into his hands. “The person named in the marriage certificate is Luna Gibson, and I’m Luna.” With that, she left, carrying the empty bowl in her hands.The room door was closed again. Joshua clutched the two marriage certificates, the smile hanging from the corners of his lips widening by the second.…The next day. 7 a.m., the doorbell to the Blue Bay Villa rang. Luna frowned as she stood in the kitchen preparing breakfast for Nigel and Nellie, and a lighter version for Joshua and Neil. She knew Aura was moving in today. But…this early?! She had not even prepared breakfast yet. Lily, who was cleaning, rushed to open the door. To Luna’s surprise, the door revealed to open not Aura, but…Granny Lynch. At that moment, Granny Lynch hobbled in slowly with the help of Adrian Lynch and Celia Giles. Luna could not help but bite her lip as she wa
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