"Miss, please leave yourself some respect."Jim was right; she had placed him above herself and poured so much into the relationship that she had ended up getting hurt.Not only had she gotten hurt emotionally, but she even had to go through this excruciating physical pain.The wound on her abdomen was starting to hurt more and more, so much so that she was starting to grow dazed.Christopher was talking to her as he cleaned her wound, but she could not hear any of it at all.The only thing she could hear was, "If it hurts, remember that Jim was the one who inflicted this on you."Bonnie closed her eyes and repeated these words in her mind as tears slid down her cheeks.Christopher was right.Jim was the one who inflicted this pain on her.She would remember this for the rest of her life!…By the time Christopher stitched Bonnie up, she had already passed out from the pain.He let out a sigh, gently picked her up, and brought her upstairs into her room.He gently tucked t
Luna was so shocked to hear this that she could not say a single word.Never had she thought that…Christopher would like Bonnie in that way.Luna had always thought that Christopher was a man in his forties residing in a 20-year-old man's body, a sensible, mature person with no wants or worldly desires.Not only that but at one point, she and Bonnie had even wondered whether Christopher had dated anyone before and tried to imagine the kind of woman he liked.To her surprise, it turned out the woman that Christopher liked…was Bonnie.Seeing the shocked look on Luna's face, Christopher curled his lips into a bitter smile. "What's wrong? You don't think I deserve to be with someone like Bonnie?"With that, he turned to glance at Bonnie, who was lying on the bed with her eyes shut.Even though the expression on her pale face was calm, her brows were knitted in a frown.It seemed that even in her dreams, she was not happy.Christopher let out a bitter chuckle and lifted his head to
No local anesthesia, no painkillers…Even using alcohol to clean a person's wounds would be excruciating without local anesthesia, not to mention stitching Bonnie up with a needle and suture.Initially, Luna had thought Bonnie had passed out from the blood loss, but it seemed that…It seemed that Bonnie had passed out due to the immense pain.Luna bit her lip and said worriedly, "You could've sent her to the nearest clinic as soon as she stops bleeding…"Even though it was pouring outside, a clinic had all the necessary equipment Christopher needed, including anesthesia.Even though Tea Cottage was located in a secluded area, Christopher would only need an hour to get Bonnie to the nearest clinic.According to what she knew of Christopher, Luna refused to believe that he would not be able to help Bonnie tide over one hour before arriving at the clinic.Christopher's expression darkened when he heard this. "I don't know how to drive."Before Luna could say anything, Joshua curl
In the upstairs bedroom…Luna flung open the door and plopped down on the bed."Christopher claims to like Bonnie, but I don't think he truly does!"Joshua followed her into the room and closed the door after him. "But he looks quite sincere, and he seems to treat Bonnie very gently too."Luna chewed on her lip, grabbed hold of a blanket, and snapped, "Well, if he really likes her, he wouldn't have put her through this pain!"Bonnie could've been spared from this suffering, but he was the one who chose to do this to her. I know he wanted to make Bonnie remember the pain she had gone through so that she'd stay away from my brother in the future, and then Christopher would have a greater chance of winning her heart."But this sort of act is selfish right to its core!"Joshua glanced meaningfully at Luna, then narrowed his eyes. "Well, I don't think it's entirely wrong to use methods like this to get what you want."He strode over to the bay window and stared out at the yard that
"Have children together, you say?"Don't we already have four? How many more do you want?"Joshua narrowed his eyes and turned to stare at her sternly. "Isn't it just three?"For a split second, Luna did not understand what he was talking about. "It's four; our youngest daughter didn't die…"However, as soon as she said this, she froze in her tracks.The next second, she quickly removed herself from Joshua's grasp and turned away so as not to face his stern gaze. "I was just talking nonsense. Our daughter—""Our daughter is still alive," Joshua interrupted her.He grabbed hold of Luna's shoulder and turned her around so that she was forced to face him. "When did you find out?"Joshua's dark, penetrating stare seemed to have seen through all of Luna's lies and right into the darkest depths of her soul.Luna bit her lip and fell silent for a while.After all, she did not want to argue with Joshua over the child at a time like this, but seeing the earnest expression in his eyes,
Joshua furrowed his brows when he heard this. "What does our child have to do with Charlotte?"Luna felt as though he had poured a bucket of ice-cold water all over her.She chewed on her lip and asked insistently, "I'm asking…does our child's disappearance have anything to do with Charlotte?"If it turned out that Charlotte was involved in her child's kidnapping, even if it were just a little, it would make her feel better about helping Charlotte obtain the drugs.Luna stared at Joshua hopefully, her eyes etched with longingness.Joshua furrowed his brows when he saw the pleading look on Luna's face. "What did she tell you?"Luna was behaving so obviously that he would be an idiot not to notice.She bit her lip as despair crept through her eyes. "I just want you to tell me…if our child's disappearance has anything to do with Charlotte, that's all."Is she…also looking for our child?"Joshua fell silent for a moment, then nodded. "Yes."My men had been trailing Charlotte for
"Did you know beforehand that your mother kept such drugs in the warehouse?"Luna shook her head with vigor. "I had no idea…"That day, before she brought Charlotte to the drug warehouse, Luna had ordered the butler to ask Mickey if there were any lethal drugs or poison in the warehouse.At that time, the butler's reply was clear; Mickey had told them that the most dangerous drug inside the warehouse was the one that Rosalyn had developed for Charles.As for the rest, they would not pose any threat to anyone at all, at least not according to Mickey's records.Luna was still a little worried despite hearing this, and she had even asked the butler to bring her to Mickey's room, where she had snuck in to take a peek at his drug records book.Finally, after ensuring that the most dangerous drug in the warehouse was only capable of sedating someone or causing hives on their bodies and not taking their lives, Luna finally gave in and brought Charlotte into the warehouse.At that time,
The rain gradually stopped.Inside the living room of Landry Mansion, Jim was perched on the sofa as he stared at the laptop placed in his lap.All of a sudden, the front door swung open.A furious Charlotte stomped in from outside, drenched from head to toe.When he heard the sound of the door opening and Charlotte's footsteps, Jim lifted his head to glance at her impassively.The rain had ruined Charlotte's delicate makeup. Her false eyelashes had fallen off, and her eyeliner was smudged, staining her face with black streaks that made her look horrifyingly ghastly.Her white dress was also drenched by the rain, sticking onto her body and making her look even more unkempt.Jim raised his brows questioningly. "What happened?"Charlotte removed her jacket angrily and wiped her face with a towel that one of the servants had handed her. "For some reason, there were many cars on the road in this dreadful weather, and all of them were on the road I was traveling on!"Someone crashe