Luna paused, then let out a sigh and glanced at the doctor. “I’m not sure yet. It’s just a suspicion.”“Are you planning to abort the fetus if you’re pregnant?”Luna shook her head. “I want to…give birth to it without him knowing.”The doctor nodded, then scribbled something else on her notes, her brows furrowed. “So I take it that you want to do a blood test and test your hormone levels? If you don’t want him to find out, I suggest we do some other checkups just to throw him off the scent.”Luna nodded and smiled at the doctor before her. “Thank you.”The doctor beamed at her. “It’s no big deal.” Then, she glanced at Luna and asked, “Are you friends with Gwen Larson?”Luna froze, then nodded. “Yes, I am.”“You two are an interesting pair. One can’t afford to have an abortion but still insists on it, and the other can but chooses to keep the baby instead. It’d be perfect if you two could switch.” The doctor tore the prescription note out and could not help adding, “She’s a lucky
Seeing that Luna had come out of the room, Lucas immediately stood up and asked, “Are you okay?”“I’m fine,” said Luna impassively as she put on her jacket. “The results are coming out in a while more.”Luna had already discussed with the doctor and knew her blood test results would not be coming out with the rest of the checkups she had done. She glanced at Lucas and asked, “Where’s Joshua?”Lucas gave her a faint smile in response. “Mrs. Lynch called just now, saying that she needed him, so Sir went back to check on her.”Luna paused. This explained everything.Joshua was so worried when he brought her to the hospital and even insisted on listening in while she told the doctor her symptoms. However, when she came out, he was nowhere to be found. The only possible explanation to this was that Alice had summoned him.After finding out that she was pregnant, Luna no longer felt bothered by things like this. She smiled and glanced at Lucas. “Alright then. It’s good that Mr. Lyn
“Things are getting interesting now.” Luke crossed his legs on top of each other and glanced at Joshua. “You asked me to keep your divorce papers safe just for her, and now she’s pregnant with another man’s child. On top of that, she seems to be delighted by this baby. This is interesting.”Joshua shot him a cold glance and said, “My decision to divorce Alice has nothing to do with Luna.”Luke curled his lips into a smirk. “Do you even believe yourself when you say this?”Joshua did not answer.Seeing how Joshua still refused to believe that his divorce had everything to do with Luna, Luke sneered and said, “There’s no point lying to yourself anymore.”All of a sudden, Joshua’s phone rang. “You’re a little talkative today,” he snapped as he glared at Luke before taking out his phone, eyeing the screen.It was Alice.Joshua furrowed his brows and cast Luke a murderous glare, signaling for him to shut up before he picked up the call. “What’s wrong?”Alice’s sugary voice rang ou
If that happened, then even if Luna managed to give birth to her new baby and save Nigel, she and her child would still be forever indebted to Gwen.As soon as she thought of this, Luna let out a sigh and lowered her voice. “Have you forgotten that Luke’s men are protecting me? You don’t have to worry about Jason. As for Alice, I haven’t seen her in a long time now. Besides, she’s after Joshua, not me. I just have to keep my distance from him for the time being.“I’ll try to convince Luke to let you do the surgery as soon as possible… I’ll leave this country as soon as you’ve undergone the abortion.”Gwen paused for a moment, then nodded in agreement. She sighed and grabbed hold of Luna’s hand. “You and your child will be fine.”…As soon as Joshua got back to the hotel, Alice immediately went up to him. First, she took his jacket and hung it on the coat rack, then retrieved his slippers for him like an obedient wife. She led him to the dining table and offered him a bowl of the c
Alice immediately stiffened when she heard Joshua’s voice suddenly echoing through the silent room.She must have misheard it; Joshua had eaten the crème brûlée that she spiked with sedatives. How could he possibly have awoken?This was impossible…Alice shook her head and continued rifling through Joshua’s clothes.“You don’t need any help?” the same voice rang out from behind her just as she was about to reach for his shirt.Alice could no longer convince herself she was mishearing things.She slowly turned around, feeling as though the joints in her entire body were stiff and rigid. She finally took in the scene behind her. Joshua, dressed in a pair of gray pajamas, was leaning gracefully against the doorframe. He fixated his gaze on her, a smirk playing on his lips. Alice felt as though her blood had run cold and her entire body had stiffened.She opened her mouth but did not manage to say a single word. After a long while, she finally stammered, “Josh…Joshua.”“Yes.” J
Joshua spoke impassively, face devoid of emotions. He crossed his legs and leaned back against the sofa gracefully. “I’ll give you one last chance to tell me what you’re looking for. Are you really looking for other women’s hair?”Alice slumped onto the floor as soon as she heard this. She lifted her head and shot Joshua a somewhat helpless look. “Joshua…” she trembled. “Can you pretend you didn’t see any of that?”She did not dare tell him the truth.“If you don’t want to be honest with me, then I’ll make my guess.” Joshua looked down at Alice from his seat on the sofa and continued, “You’ve been very quiet and obedient for a while now. I naturally thought you had changed, but you didn’t at all. You were just afraid that I’d divorce you, so you didn’t dare do anything bad to Luna.”Joshua propped his chin up with one hand and glanced at Alice, whose face was as white as the wall behind her. “While I was here in Sea City, you searched my study and my office at Lynch Group Tower,
The atmosphere in the room fell silent.Alice’s face turned an even paler shade of white. She…had inadvertently revealed something she should not have…Joshua fixated his cold gaze on Alice. “The reason you didn’t do anything bad to Luna lately isn’t that you had changed. It’s because Luna and I had maintained a distance and didn’t see each other all this while, right?“Alice, you never once thought you were wrong, did you? You didn’t even try to reflect on your mistakes, and instead, you sent some men to follow me around, didn’t you?”Alice could not say a single word in response to Joshua’s interrogation.She could tell that Joshua was furious.Alice closed her eyes in hopelessness.No matter what kind of outrageous stuff she did in the past, Joshua had never once gotten angry at her at all. Even though he found out that she had spiked his food with sedatives, Joshua did not even yell at her.However...Alice sat on the carpet and clenched her fists in anger. She lifted her
Joshua came out of the hotel, got into his car, and drove around the outskirts of Sea City in frustration.After circling a few times, he finally stopped next to the beach and got out of the car.The sea breeze blew against his face and somehow made him a little more balanced.It was already nighttime, so there were not many people around. Joshua caught sight of a food truck a short distance away, along with two or three customers gathered around it, drinking and having their meal.Although the customers seemed to be having a great time, the beach was so quiet apart from them that even the food truck owner started to doze off.Joshua could see the silhouette of a slim woman in the distance, her long hair billowing about her in the sea breeze. She seemed to be talking on the phone.Joshua thought this woman looked familiar. She reminded him a lot of Luna Gibson.When he first met Luna Gibson, she, too, liked to talk on the phone with him at night. She would always layer a jacket
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