“If I didn’t want Fiona to spend more time with me, why else would I send the emails to Bonnie? For Luna? What a joke. Don't you know? I hated her right from the beginning, for six years. Nothing has changed!”…Joshua’s words rang in her ears continuously. After leaving Jude’s office, she boarded the first bus she saw. The people coming and going on the bus seemed to have nothing to do with her. It was not until the bus reached the terminal that she got out of the bus in a daze.Getting off the bus, she gazed around at her surroundings, and unexpectedly discovered that she had arrived at Anne’s house by chance.It was a working day and during working hours, Anne should be at the hospital right now, right? But recently Anne has been busy with her recent engagement to John Young, she might have applied for leave and stayed at home. At this thought, she headed upstairs and pressed on Anne’s doorbell. Unexpectedly, Anne was home. Not only was she home, her boyfriend, John was there
John laughed at his girlfriend’s appearance. He walked inside and put the food on the table as he glanced at Anne helplessly. “You’re the first person I’ve seen to start crying herself when she’s comforting her friend.” Anne wiped at her tears and rolled her eyes at him. “I’m not being emotional; Joshua Lynch crossed the line! Do you know? Even though Luna won the competition yesterday, it was all a trick that he set up! He intentionally sent two emails to Luna’s friend, and asked her to take the stage at a critical moment and expose Fiona’s conspiracy, so she would lose and have more time to spend with him! This man deserves to be cursed at, don’t you think so!” John frowned slightly. He lowered his head and set the table for three as he spoke, “This reason won't stand under scrutiny.”Anne was startled. "What do you mean?"Sitting on the sofa, Luna also raised her eyebrows and looked at him silently.Jude sighed, "Don't you think Joshua’s words and his actions are actually f
At John’s retort, Anne was speechless. In the end, she slammed her fork on the table and shouted, “John Young, whose side are you on? Why do you keep speaking up for Joshua?”John sighed and said, “I only told you all these because I don’t want your friend to be tricked.” He glanced at Luna’s troubled expression and hesitated for a long time before he finally opened his mouth and said, “I’m so certain that Joshua did all these the day Fiona became chief designer because…because of that woman, Charmaine Ross. My colleague is her cousin, he’s her only family here in Banyan City. “Two weeks ago, when Charmaine was fired, she did receive a sum of money requesting her to leave the city. Back then, my colleague asked me to drive her out of the city.”Hearing John’s words, Luna raised her head unconsciously. She bit her lip. “Then what happened?”“Then…” John sighed, “I remember clearly, that day, after the news of you bullying Fiona was exposed online, someone contacted my colleague, wa
Luna could not reject Shannon at all. Besides…she should celebrate with her teammates. So, she yawned and said, “Send me the address, I’ll go over there right now.”“Great!” After obtaining Luna’s approval, Shannon hung up the phone excitedly. Soon, the address where the celebratory party was held was sent to Luna's phone."Are you going to celebrate with them?" Beside her, Anne who was also awakened by her ringing phone yawned and switched into a comfortable position before continuing her nap. She reminded her in a low voice. “You behave badly when you’re drunk, plus you were in a bad mood today, try not to drink so much when you’re there… Otherwise, I’m afraid you’ll tell everyone about your history with Joshua.”Luna tidied her hair and straightened her clothes as she smiled. “Alright.” She never planned to drink in the first place. Drinking messed things up for her, she had experienced that one too many times. Tonight, she just wanted to have fun with everyone else. But the ot
Hearing Joshua’s words, Luna, who had been pretending to be drunk, stiffened immediately. Why would he say such things to her…in such a sweet and loving tone? Why would he say that his words hurt her too much?So…John was right? He knew that she was right beside Jude, that’s why he would say such cruel things over the phone, right? At this thought, Luna narrowed her eyes and continued pretending to be drunk as she studied his sharp and defined jaw. She remembered the first time he held her in this position was the day he brought her to see his family. Back then, to reject the marriage that his family arranged for him, to not marry Hailey Walter, he agreed to marry her instead. He brought her to Banyan City, to the Lynch family home, and announced in front of his grandmother and his father, Adrian Lynch, that he was going to marry her.“Be it her looks, her capabilities or her family background, this woman is not worthy of you! We disagree!”“Exactly, Joshua, even if you do
“Just drive.” Lucas coughed lightly and hurriedly turned the rearview mirror to the side and started the engine.After the car spurred into motion, Joshua sucked in a deep breath and grabbed Luna's hand that was holding his tie, restrained her, and finally confined the twisting and moving woman in his arms.“Don’t move.” He frowned. “She never moved so much when she got drunk in the past.”Luna pouted silently and finally stopped her roaming hands. Lucas, who was busy driving, laughed lightly too, “Maybe Luna drank a different type of wine tonight.” “I remember she used to talk a lot when she got drunk, but unexpectedly, today she didn’t talk much, instead she moved around so much.” Joshua lowered his eyes and glanced indifferently at the woman in his arms.A long while later, he turned and looked out the car window, his voice sounding slightly hoarse as he said, “Maybe she didn’t want to talk to me.” Today, all he wanted was to make her give up on him, so that she could le
Listening to Joshua’s telephone conversation with Fiona as he held her in his arms, Luna closed her eyes helplessly. To tell the truth, at that moment, she wished she could push him coldly away, order Lucas to stop the car and leave, slamming the door behind her as she went. But she could not do so. After all, Joshua said a lot of things in front of her that he would not say when she was sober. If she got up now, he would know she had merely been pretending to be drunk…The relationship between them would only become more awkward than before. Joshua would not be able to keep up his ruthless, emotional act and she had no choice but to face his shallow feelings for her. That was why since she had decided to pretend to be drunk, she had to keep up the act all the way until the end. “Come home earlier if you can.” On the other end of the phone, Fiona’s voice was soft and gentle. “I made you some delicious food.” Joshua laughed lightly, “Why would you do that? I should be the o
“When Ms. Luna wakes up, should I tell her you were the one who sent her home?”Joshua lowered his eyes and looked at the red-faced woman lying on the sofa. “No. Just tell her that her colleagues sent her home.” He looked at Luna deeply again. “She’ll get a headache when she’s hungover, prepare some soup for her to help her sober up.” Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he sighed deeply and said, “It’s okay, I’ll do it.” With this, he took off his tie, unbuttoned the two topmost buttons of his shirt, then turned and entered the kitchen.He had never made her soup before. Back then when he made soup for Fiona, Fiona even secretly recorded him with his phone and sent the video to Luna to show off. He wondered how she felt when she watched the video. To tell the truth, that night he only cooked the soup because he remembered that she always suffered from hangovers the next day. Initially, he planned to ask Lucas to send the soup to Luna, but Fiona caught him when he
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