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