“I took a guess.”Luna leaned back in the backseat, looking at the night scenery outside of the window.Bonnie’s defiant eyes appeared in her mind inexplicably.“My brother loves me! He loves me the most in his entire life! If he did not love me, why would he sacrifice so much for me, giving me everything?”Luna sneered.Sure enough. Relationships were the most useless things.At that moment, Bonnie was like Luna Gibson back then, so silly it was heartbreaking.Soon, the van arrived. Zach and Yuri accompanied Luna upstairs. Once she reached upstairs, Luna opened the main door of her rented apartment.The lights were not switched on inside. Under the moonlight, Luna noticed a skinny and feeble figure sitting on the sofa.Luna furrowed her brows and switched on the lights.Natasha curled up on the sofa, sleeping soundly.When the light was turned on, she furrowed her brows and woke up from her dreams.When she woke up, she looked at Luna and smiled distantly. “Ms. Luna, you
Natasha looked at Luna in a daze.After a while, she wiped her tears away and nodded. “Yes. If I was her, I would do the same thing too…”A mother should know and trust her daughter the best, yet…Seeing how badly Natasha was sobbing, even if Luna was cruel, she could only sigh.She passed a tissue to Natasha. “Wipe your tears.”Inside, mother and daughter were confessing their heartfelt feelings to each other. Outside, Zach and Yuri were looking at each other.“I’m a little sleepy.” Yuri yawned. Zach rolled his eyes at him. He wanted to say something when he saw a person flash by at the staircase.He furrowed his brows alertly. “Who is there?”After a while, a woman in a black trench coat and black-framed glasses walked up. She was hidden in the dark, so no one could see her face clearly.“Hello.” She chuckled lightly and walked over. She shook her phone which had been turned off. “I’m here to visit someone, but my phone died. Could you lend me your phone? Let me make a phone
After a few slaps, Neil’s face was swollen and puffed up.Only then did Aura feel a little relieved of her anger.She stood up and looked at Neil condescendingly. “Aren’t you smart? Didn’t you guess what I was trying to do? Why did you still blindly come over?”Neil looked at her. “If I did not come, you will try to lay your hands on Nellie or my Mommy. They are women, I am a man.”He should be the one to bear the suffering.His words made Aura sneered, “How courageous, but what use is there even if you’re smart? You’re still here getting a beating from me.”Neil winked at her. “Take a guess as to why I would be receiving a beating from you here?”Aura furrowed her brows but said nothing.Neil smiled a little. “Look downstairs.”Aura pursed her lips. She walked over to the window, pried the curtains apart, and glanced down below.“You called the cops?”“If I’m not wrong, Nellie was the one who called the cops.”Neil smiled flatly. He crossed his arms around his chest. Altho
“Not only for kidnapping me this time, but also trying to get Nellie killed the last time, also…”Neil narrowed his eyes. “Also the accident six years ago. You should pay for all the crimes you committed.”Aura’s body stiffened. She could not move.She lowered her eyes in a daze and looked fixedly at Neil’s small, palm-sized face. “You… even know about the incident six years ago?”Six years ago, this kid was still in Luna’s womb! “People won’t know what you did if you didn’t do them.” Neil smiled. “I know you colluded with Joshua and did bad things.”Aura furrowed her brows and looked at Neil closely.After a while, she smiled.He said that he knew she colluded with Joshua to do bad things, but, from the start, Joshua and she were from two different worlds.He has been trying very hard to draw a line between them, how could he possibly have colluded with her?Thus… Luna Gibson and her children thought that she did those things together with Joshua?Aura squinted her eyes.
Luna shuddered at Neil’s words.She pursed her lips and hugged Neil tightly. She wanted to say something but could not find her words.“But, Mommy…” Neil sniffled. He whispered feebly in Luna’s ears. “I’m a little tired. I’m going to sleep.”Then, Neil fell to the ground without any warning! When Luna came to her senses and tried to catch Neil, he was almost to the ground.A pair of large hands firmly caught Neil. Joshua immediately carried the unconscious Neil in his arms.When Luna came to her senses. She immediately stood up. “Thank you.” She reached out and wanted to take over Neil from him.Joshua slightly furrowed his brows. He lowered his gaze and looked at her, then he turned around and strode away. “Follow me.”Luna paused for a while before following him.“Aura! Aura!”The moment Luna got out, she bumped into Natasha running into the house like a maniac. The moment they passed by each other, Natasha slammed into Luna’s shoulder hard, but Natasha had no eyes for any
Later on, when she grew up, she understood that she could never take away her parent’s bias toward Aura.Thus, she learned from her parents to pamper and love Aura, so that they would be closer to each other.The few years that she was in a good relationship with Aura were also the years when she had the best relationship with her parents.At that time, she married a man that she loved, plus she also got the care of her parents.She thought that she was the happiest person on earth.In the end, she knew that the so-called happiness was short-lived.It was all because of Aura. Also, the man next to her.If he did not get sick of Aura, she might still be the one being pampered and loved.Soon, the car reached the hospital.Once the car stopped, Joshua immediately opened the car door and carried Neil down.He rushed into the hospital. “Doctor!”At that moment, it was early evening, the lights in the hospital were rather dim.The doctor on call immediately rushed out and led th
“Doctor, didn’t you say I have to take a drip?”Luna turned and glanced at the doctor. “Do you want to take it now?”The doctor frowned, then realized he might have misspoken, and left after leaving behind the words. “I’ll go prepare it now.”After the doctor left, Joshua lowered his eyes and looked at Neil who was still unconscious.Then, he turned his head and looked at his reflection in the glass windows.Somehow, they did… look alike.He studied his reflection in the mirror, a smile at the corners of his lips. “I wouldn’t have realized it if he didn’t say anything.”On the surface, Luna looked calm and collected, but deep down, she was panicking!Joshua was a very perceptive man; she was worried he would notice something.Previously, even though she successfully tricked him by using the excuse that she was Luna Gibson’s good friend, but the children…that would be hard to explain.Taking in a deep breath, she smiled, her eyes narrowing into thin crescent moons and glanced
But she was wrong.Neil’s room looked… richly decorated and luxurious too, almost the same as Nellie’s room.In the opulent and spacious room, Neil sat on his chair playing with a Rubik’s cube, looking cool wearing a mask and a hat.Seeing the two girls, one younger and the other older, enter the room, he smiled faintly, raising his eyes, and looked at his mother, “Did you get a good night’s sleep?”“Perfect.”Luna looked at Neil and her tears could not help but fall.He was always a prideful boy, he loved dressing up, and acting cool.But now, to successfully capture Aura, he purposely hurt himself like this.“Alright, don’t cry.” Neil laughed softly, “Men aren’t afraid of pain and getting hurt.”He raised his head and looked at Luna seriously. “But the police called this morning, they want you, as my guardian, to bring me along to the police station to make an official report.”He lowered his eyes to check the time, “It’s 9 a.m., if we leave now, we’ll be back in time for l
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