“You divorced me this morning, in the afternoon you’ve already found a girlfriend, and now at night you bring your new girlfriend to your old home. Ben Zeller. You’re not worth the time that I spent crushing on you.”With that, she sucked in a deep breath, turned and looked at Luke who was holding his lighter, getting ready to light himself a cigarette and watch the show. “Can I borrow a light please?”Luke shrugged, walked over and bent down, held his lighter, and ripped out Gwen’s prettiest solo portrait, then lit the rest of the photos on fire.Finally, he handed the photo he ripped out to Gwen. “For commemorative purposes.”Gwen shook her head. “Just burn it.”She did not need to commemorate something like this.Luke raised his lips in a faint smile, looked at Gwen with a mild interest in his eyes and slipped the photo into his pocket.The photos were lit aflame. Amidst the roaring fire, Ben laughed coldly, “Even if you didn’t burn them, I would.”Gwen closed her eyes tig
Joshua’s hands that were holding his fork and spoon paused slightly. Finally, he laughed lightly, “Because you’re a divorcee and your ex-husband is a jerk, that’s why you secretly kidnapped Neil and Nellie and raised them as your own?”Luna raised her glass and harshly gulped down a mouthful of warm water, then shifted her eyes to Joshua. “You can say that.”Joshua raised his glass as well. “Why didn’t you have any children when you were with your ex-husband?”“He doesn’t deserve to have children.” Placing her glass down, Luna lifted her cutlery and continued eating. “He had an affair when I needed him the most, and even wanted to kill me to please his side piece. What do you think, does he deserve to have children?”If she was not already pregnant back then, she really did not want to have his children.He did not deserve them.Even after she gave birth to them, Luna staunchly believed the three children belonged to her and her alone. They had nothing to do with Joshua.When
The radio kept replaying the news surrounding the Walter family that happened in the past few days. “Before the accusations against the Mr. Dennis Walter were raised, the only heir to the Walter Group, Ms. Hailey Walter committed suicide by jumping off a building. The Walter Group is now an empire that has lost its king and is about to overrun…”Luna closed her eyes. She wondered whether Gwen had heard about this piece of news. If she did, at least she would feel slightly comforted, right?At this thought, she took out her phone, intending to check Gwen had sent her any new messages, but instead saw the new status update posted by Ben.‘Inspecting my injuries at the police station, the Larson family, you better watch out! I will be requesting compensation!’ The accompanying pictures were of his injured arm and swollen cheeks as a result of their scuffle the other day. Luna knew his injuries must have been Zach and Yuri’s handiwork. She stared at her phone for a long while, then
The air in the car turned silent. Luna’s whole body stiffened. She had not seen both Neil and Nellie for days. This was the longest time she had spent apart from them since she gave birth to them six years ago.She missed them dearly. From the calls they shared this morning and yesterday in the afternoon, she knew the children missed her dearly too. The fire in her heart that was burning with excitement at the thought of meeting her children was cruelly extinguished by Alice’s cold words, instead turning cold and frosty.Alice was doing this on purpose. She did not have any feelings for Neil and Nellie. She was just trying to get to her, to get to the children.“Joshua?” Noticing Joshua’s continued silence, Alice even called out to him softly. Only then did he blink and recover his wits. He coughed slightly, raised his eyes and looked at Luna from the back as she sat in the passenger seat. “We’ll do as Alice says.”No matter what, Alice was still their mother. Even though
“Mommy! I miss you so much!” Nellie said.She took her keys, and the moment she opened the door to the apartment, the two children rushed out like two little tornadoes. Neil and Nellie each hugged one of her legs, chattering away in excitement.“Mommy, I knew you would come back at this hour, but Neil insisted you would come back later!”“Mommy, in the past few days that you weren’t home, I asked Lily to teach me how to make coffee! I made your favorite Arabica coffee!”“Mommy, I have it all planned out, you can’t go anywhere this afternoon. Just stay at home, read me stories and build Legos with Neil!” “Mommy…”Luna lowered her eyes, looked at the two black little heads in front of her, the words were at the tip of her tongue, but she just could not spit them out.Behind her, Lily stood in the living room, looking at her with a smile on her face. “Ms. Luna, they purposely took a day off from school to wait for you. Since this morning, they were particularly excited, decorati
Joshua raised his eyebrows.He never expected this would be the first question his son would ask him after spending days apart from each other. He glanced at his son out of the corners of his eyes. “You seem reluctant to see your Mommy and I reconcile with each other?”Neil paused. He turned his head, looked at Joshua solemnly, then lifted two fingers. “Firstly, I never accepted Ms. Alice Gibson. To me, she was never my Mommy. My Mommy is Luna. Secondly, my likes or dislikes, are they important to you, Mr. Lynch? If you really considered our thoughts and feelings, then you would not force my sister and I to do the things we do not want to do, for example, taking us back to Blue Bay Villa now. Finally, I don’t care about you and Alice, I just wanted to find out why your attitude toward her took a 180 degree turn after returning from Sea City.”Before they left, they were already separated, and had even announced they would set a date and sign the divorce papers. But not long afte
At the same time, he did miss them a lot, it had been a long time since he last saw them. That’s why he suggested bringing everyone to Blue Bay Villa so they could all reunite. But it seemed like…He only succeeded in making both the children and Luna mad at him? The cars drove on. A short while later, the line of cars stopped in front of Blue Bay Villa. When Luna stepped out of the car where Yuri and Zach kept the luggage, Alice had already stepped out too. Standing outside Joshua’s car, she hung a fake smile on her face. “Nellie, come here, Mommy will carry you into the house!”Nellie rolled her eyes, walked past her, and headed to the door with her short, stubby legs. Neil, on the other hand, rushed into her arms with a smile on his face. “If Nellie doesn’t want you to carry her, then carry me instead! I’m not very heavy either, just slightly heavier than Nellie.”Alice heaved him up into her arms, her expression ugly, taking a step forward with incredible effort. Ne
“Slap ——!” Before everyone could react, the sound of a loud slap echoed throughout the living room. Luna’s head was knocked to the side from the impact, the sweet, iron-like taste of blood filled her mouth, and blood dripped down the corners of her lips.“Mommy!” “Mommy ——!”Sitting on both sides of the old lady, the two children instinctively jumped up from the couch and flew to Luna’s side. One of them held her hand carefully, stepping in front of her, trying to protect her, while the other calmly took some tissues from the table beside them and handed them to Luna.The sight of the two children protecting her made Joshua frown. Beside him, Alice snorted deep down in her chest, but on the surface, worry filled her expression, “Neil, quick, bring your sister here.” Then, she glanced at the little gentleman who was handing Luna tissues. “This is between your Grandpa and Aunty Luna. It’s a matter for adults, don’t poke your nose where it doesn’t belong.”Neil glared at her