Luna gripped the phone somewhat tighter. “Y—You’re…Joshua’s nephew?”She knew that the person who called her must be the man she had seen a moment ago.She did not expect that the donor was a relative of Joshua.On a second thought, though, it made sense, too. Nigel was Joshua’s son. The possibility of Joshua’s relatives having a compatible bone marrow with Nigel was larger.“Hello?” asked Christian when he did not get a response from Luna.“I’m here.” Luna took a deep breath, and she gripped her phone tightly. “We’re just in time for lunch. Why don’t we have a meal together? I’m near the hospital.”Christian, on the other end of the call, was rather surprised. “What a coincidence. I’m at the hospital. I’m not from Banyan City, so I’m not familiar with this place. Why don’t you decide on a place to meet?”Luna nodded. “I’ll wait for you at Raindrop Paradise opposite the hospital.”Then, Luna immediately hung up. She let out a long breath, turned, and entered Raindrop Paradi
After all, everyone knew how much Joshua cared for his wife, Luna Gibson.If he could get Luna on his side, everything next would go smoothly.At that thought, Christian sighed. He pretended to shake his head helplessly.“There are two things I want to do recently, but I don’t need to finish them all. As long as I achieve one of them, I’ll be thrilled.“The first one is,” he said, looking at Luna as he did, “I want to have a relationship with a beautiful woman like you, Ms. Luna.“The second is to get my uncle, Joshua, to invest in my new company.”He smiled and looked at Luna. “Which one will you be willing to help me fulfill?”Christian chose his words purposely. He thought that Luna, a mother of two children and one of them about to undergo an operation, would never choose to have a relationship with a 19-year-old guy like him.While it looked like he gave Luna a choice, he was, in fact, making her pick the second option to help him get Joshua to invest in him.Little did C
“Fish, vegetables, chicken, pork…”In the seafood market, Luna was searching up on her phone food that helped increase blood circulation, which Anne had sent to her, while pushing her cart of food, picking suitable ingredients.She had a guest coming over that night, and she also had not cooked a good meal for Nellie and Nigel in many days.Christian and Nigel, both of whom were undergoing an operation, rarely could eat together. She had to do something nice for them.She had to get rid of the ingredients that Christian did not eat that afternoon while also having a variety of tastes that suited the appetite of a 19-year-old man and two six-year-old children.Just when she was looking at her phone with her head lowered, her cart bumped into someone in front.Thud! A woman wailed in pain in front of Luna. “Ouch! Look where you’re going!”Luna came to her senses and immediately apologized.“Sorry, sorry.”The moment she lifted her head, she realized she knew the vixen in a che
“Tell me—what’ll happen if I make a police report right now?”Yvonne’s face instantly turned miserably pale upon Luna’s words.The man holding Yvonne looked at her in his arms. He could not help but narrow his eyes as he glared at Luna fiercely.“You heartless b*tch! No wonder your son died!”He reached his hands out to comfort Yvonne in his arms while pointing at Luna, barking, “This matter has happened so long ago, yet you still want to put the blame on my wife? Why did your son die but not other people’s? It’s all because you’re evil and have done so many bad things all the time! “I hear you have more than one child. Maybe because of how evil you are usually, your other children would also—”His words utterly aggravated Luna.Before he could finish her sentence, Luna angrily picked up the things beside her and threw them brutally at that man. “I dare you to say that one more time!”The man was in pain, but shrugging off everything else, he let go of Yvonne and rushed at L
Joshua was a famous public figure in Banyan City.Upon Yvonne’s words, the surrounding crowd started looking for Joshua and had dispersed by quite a bit.Luna was pinned on the ground. The moment she lifted her head, she saw Fiona clutching at her chest where her heart was while tugging on Joshua’s arm outside the crowd.Her body was pressed onto the cold, hard floor. She saw how Joshua initially wanted to come over but stopped because of what Fiona said.Luna closed her eyes. Her heart sank to the bottom.Joshua must have seen what was happening, and that was why he came over. However, just because of something Fiona said, he turned around.Was this the man who loved her deeply for so many years? He knew she was about to be beaten up. He also knew she could not go up against Yvonne and her husband.Alas, he abandoned all of his worries for her and turned around again, just because of something Fiona said.Yvonne’s fat husband’s slap was about to land on her.Luna shut her e
It was plain to see Luna was the one that needed Joshua’s care and protection.What happened instead was…Christian did not know where the urge came from, but he took a deep breath and determinedly carried Luna.Finding herself mid-air, Luna yelped and looked at Christian, who was carrying her. She started to struggle. “What are you doing? Let me down!”“Let you down? Can you even walk on your own?” Christian rolled his eyes at her and walked past the crowd with her in his arms. “You can’t even stand on your own. What’s the point of you pretending to be strong?”Luna bit her lip, not saying anything. It was true; she could not stand on her own. She did not know whether it was because she was too angry a moment ago, or she exerted too much strength when she was hitting Yvonne, or she felt extremely terrible seeing Joshua hugging Fiona.Regardless, Christian was right. She could no longer stand on her own. She was not sure how long it would take for her to regain her strength.
Christian carried Luna to a nearby hospital.Luna had worn thin clothes due to the summer weather, and although her injuries were not serious, she sustained some bruises when she was pinned to the ground.Also, the floor of the seafood market was dirty. If dirt were to enter her wound and it was not dealt with, the consequences would be dire.When they got to the hospital, the doctor started to treat Luna’s injuries.The disinfectant created white bubbles on Luna’s wound.Christian frowned deeply. He could feel the burning pain on the skin just by looking at it.On the other hand, Luna, whose wounds were being cleaned, made not a single noise.The sight stunned him. He secretly took a short clip of a video and sent it to Joshua.When Joshua received Christian’s video, Joshua was already on the way home with Fiona.He was leaning back in the backseat, and Fiona was lying on his lap, already asleep.Joshua played the video, and it showed a woman whose wounds were being cleaned
Joshua sneered.“No matter how young she looks, she’s still a mother of a six-year-old. How is she a good match with a nineteen-year-old man?”Fiona bit her lip. She suddenly did not know what to say.After a long while, she took a deep breath. “Joshua, just treat it as if I'm not good with words. You’re right—they’re not a good match. Even if they are, we shouldn’t help them. Even if they get together, we have to split them up. Otherwise, I’m sure you’ll be uncomfortable looking at them being together.”Fiona then looked at Joshua with her huge watery eyes. “Am I right?”Joshua tensed up a little.He shifted his gaze to look at the scenery that flew past outside the window instead.“I won’t be uncomfortable. This topic ends here.”Fiona bit her lip. She wanted to say something else, but she stopped when she saw how darkened Joshua’s expression was.She lowered her head. A hint of maliciousness flashed across her eyes.Joshua kept saying that he did not care, but was that tru
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