Jason was on the ground, being stepped on. He tried to struggle and break free. His eyes were filled with reluctance and loathing.Luna furrowed her brows.If Joshua and Jason were putting on an act the day before, what about at that moment? Instantaneous reactions could not lie.Luna hugged Nellie. She was suddenly a little swayed.Could it be that…Jason and Joshua really did not have anything to do with each other? A person like Jason, someone who climbed up from the bottom of the social ladder to his current position, the thing he could not accept the most was being stepped on.Joshua should know about this too, yet he still did it.If Joshua and Jason were working together, was he not afraid that Jason might be angry and turn his back against him? “Mr. Lynch.”Suddenly, Bonnie’s voice came from the staircase behind them.Bonnie, who was in Luna’s pajamas, furrowed her brows and came down. “Let him go, please.” Bonnie walked down and stood in front of Joshua. “Trea
Luna sneered and looked at Joshua. “Aren’t I playing with fire every day? Jason might be a dangerous man, but are you not as well, Mr. Lynch?”Joshua’s expressions instantly darkened upon Luna’s words.He narrowed his eyes and looked at Luna. His voice was cold. “Must you compare me with a person like Jason?”“That’s because you both are the same type of person.”Luna chuckled a little. Her eyes were cool. “Not only are you both the same type of person, but you guys are still a team too.”Joshua furrowed his brows hard. He looked at Luna and enunciated, “Luna, I have already told you. I have nothing to do with Jason.”Luna smiled. “Who would believe you?”“I can’t help you if you don’t believe me.” Joshua looked at her deeply and went upstairs.Upstairs, the door of the study was opened.Luna stood in the same spot, looking at Joshua heading upstairs. She bit her lips.Actually, from the moment Joshua rescued Nellie from Jason, based on their reactions, Luna had started to be
Joshua, with the vegetables still in his hands, hesitated for a while, before gently placing them on Luna’s plate.Luna furrowed her brows. Looking at how Joshua was so reluctant to do so, she was inexplicably depressed.Clunk! Luna placed her utensils down. “I’m full.”Then, she got up, instructed Lily to look after the two children, turned, and headed upstairs.Sitting by the dining table, Joshua looked at Luna leaving. He could not help but sigh.“Did you see that? It’s not that I don’t try. I don’t have any chances.”Nigel noticed all of Joshua’s actions. He furrowed his brows and looked at Joshua. His tone was so mature it did not sound like a six-year-old.“If you don’t have any chances, you create them. If you want to get the things you want, you cannot rely only on Nellie’s hard work.”Joshua paused for a while before raising his head and looking at Nigel. “Got it.”Nellie, on the other hand, widened her eyes. She had an expression filled with shock.Nigel…Was Nig
Luna stiffened instantly upon Lily’s screams.She did not even reply to Bonnie. She threw her phone aside and immediately went down.Nigel’s body was still not in a good condition. He could get sick easily if his emotions were not in check! Luna rushed downstairs barefooted. What she saw was not Nigel being sick, but…Nigel was holding onto a little knife that was placed on the dining table previously, pointing it at Joshua’s neck.The blade of the knife had already cut through Joshua’s neck a little. Some blood was flowing.Lily, with a pale face, was hugging Nellie by the side. She did not want Nellie to see such a bloody scene.Although Nigel was not sick, Luna was still shocked at the scene in front of her that she was rendered speechless.She furrowed her brows and walked over. “What is going on?”Nigel calmly swept Luna a glance. He said in his child’s voice yet mixed with an adult maturity, “Mommy, don’t step in. This is a battle between men.”Luna was speechless. S
Joshua had two phones. One was for business, the other was personal.The phone that was ringing at that moment was his personal one.Looking at this Blake, Luna furrowed her brows in confusion.Among the people that Joshua knew, was there someone with the surname Blake?How did she not know? Initially, Luna was waiting for Joshua to pick up the phone then deduce who the person was from their conversation.However, she did not expect that the moment Joshua looked at the caller ID on his phone, he hesitated.Joshua raised his hand which was holding onto the ringing phone. He stood up.“I still have matters to attend to. I’ll make a move.”Luna was still holding onto the iodine.Looking at the blood seeping out from the wound on Joshua’s neck. “You still need to deal with the wound, right?”A moment ago, he was still brazenly getting her to admit that she wanted to dress his wound. Why, at that moment, because of a phone call, he did not even bother to deal with his wound?“I
Luna narrowed her eyes. “What are you trying to do?”Jason laughed arrogantly, “What does it have to do with you? I’m calling you to inform you. Luna, from now onward, don’t meddle in our affairs! If you don’t want your two other children to end up like your dead child, you take your kids and live your life! Mind your own business!”After spitting those last four words, Jason directly hung up.Luna gripped the phone, listening to the disconnecting tone. Her heart sank violently.She took a deep breath and immediately switched on her computer by the side.Although the tracking app on Jason’s phone, installed by Bonnie, must have been removed, Nigel had specially installed a secret tracking device on Bonnie’s phone.Jason called her from Bonnie’s phone a moment ago. That proved that Bonnie’s phone was still with them! Luna immediately opened the tracking software on her computer.Bonnie’s phone was a red dot on the map, slowly moving toward the outskirts at the eastern side of t
Luna looked at the scenery going past her quickly outside the window.“No need. I’m already in a cab. If your men are coming, come quick.”Jude was silent upon Luna’s words.After a while, he laughed. “This is the first time I saw such a brave woman like you.”The situation was dire. She clearly knew that the other party wanted her life, yet she still went forward alone.”Luna paused a little. She laughed. “A woman who has no one to comfort her or love her has to be a little bit more courageous.”Upon saying that, Luna directly hung up the call.Jude, on the other end, listened to the disconnecting tone. What Luna said a moment ago kept ringing in his ears.A woman who has no one to comfort or love her? How humble was she?To be able to get Nathan Allen’s son and Joshua to fight over her was considered a woman who had no one to comfort or love her?How comical.At that thought, Jude changed into a more comfortable position. He instructed the driver. “Bring some men to the
Smells of blood?Luna furrowed her brows and tried to sniff hard.The air truly had a thick scent of blood.Luna was instantly alarmed! Would Jason have….Jude, next to Luna, also could not help but worry. Although Bonnie was just a distant relative, the Craig family had gone through such an ordeal previously. At that moment, Bonnie was the only heir left in the entire Craig family.If Bonnie were to also die…The Craig family line would have died.At that moment, one of Jude’s men bent down. He skillfully tossed a dash of powder on the ground.Soon, the powder turned pink.“Reaction to blood.”The man furrowed his brows, lifted his head, and looked at Jude. “Sir, don’t worry, the person that we are looking for is still fine.”He pointed at the powder that changed color on the ground. “When I smelt blood just now, I thought that something was off. It did not smell like fresh blood, more like the blood that has been there for a long time. Pouring the powder on the ground,
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