“I’m sorry to do this to you, Luna.” Lucas, along with Zach and a few other bodyguards, tied Luna and Nigel up. Blue Bay Villa was in utter chaos. Lily, still clutching Nellie, snapped at them, “How dare you treat Young Master Nigel like this?” Nellie bit on her lip. She was not crying, but tears were brimming in her eyes. “Does Daddy know this is how you’re treating Mommy and Nigel?” Lucas let out a sigh and answered, “This is what Sir wanted. He told us that if you’re not willing to follow us to the hospital, we’d have to resort to extreme measures.” Luna narrowed her eyes and said, a sneer playing on her lips, “This is considered breaking and entering. I can sue both you and Joshua on the grounds of kidnapping, you know.” Lucas gave her a bitter smile. “Luna, you should know better than anyone how hard it is to put Joshua behind bars in Banyan City.” With that, he turned around, unwilling to look at Luna for a second longer. “Besides, before we arrived here, Sir specif
Christian was also a part of this. Lucas was afraid that if he accidentally offended him, Christian would tell Luna the truth about everything.As soon as the car started, Christian let out an exhale and whispered in Luna’s ear, “Don’t worry, I’m here to help you. When we get out of the car later…”Before he could finish explaining his plan to Luna, however, his phone chimed.It was a message from Fiona.There was no text, just a photo attached to the message. It was a photo of Violet laying on her bed, her face a deep shade of purplish-blue, looking stiff and lifeless.Christian’s hand jerked so powerfully when he saw this that he almost flung his phone away.When he finally regained his composure and was about to delete the photo, Fiona’s text appeared on the screen. [If you don’t want to go to jail, sit tight and don’t cause me any trouble.]Christian’s hand gripped his phone so hard that his knuckles turned white. Fiona constantly used Violet to threaten him! One day,
Luna snorted in indignation, then turned around, intending to leave.Seeing that she was about to leave, Joshua furrowed his brows and grabbed her wrist. “Where are you going?”“I don’t have anything to talk to Ms. Blake about,” replied Luna as she flung Joshua’s hand away. “At first, I didn’t understand why you, the most powerful man in Banyan City, couldn’t seem to find anyone else to donate blood to your precious Ms. Blake, apart from Nigel.“But I understand now. The reason you wanted no one else apart from Nigel is simply that he’s my son, right?”Luna’s icy tone felt like a sharp blade against Joshua’s heart. “The reason Fiona got into the accident was that you had a fight. That’s why you’re trying to get on her good side now. You forced my son to donate blood to her because you want her to think you don’t care about anyone else except her, don’t you?“Joshua Lynch, you have no right to be a man, much less a father!”As soon as he heard this, Joshua’s expression darkened. D
Fiona let out a sigh and shot Luna a sympathetic look. “When I called you this morning, I told you to pack your bags and leave Banyan City, but you didn’t listen to me at all. This is what you get for that defiance. Is this what you want?”Luna gazed at Fiona and narrowed her eyes in hostility. “You did this on purpose.”“It doesn’t matter whether I did this on purpose or not. In the end, Joshua will always love and spoil me.” Fiona cackled in triumph. “Luna, let me give you another piece of advice: If there’s a chance for you to leave, take it. What makes you think you’ll be able to change the outcome by staying here a few days longer? Besides…”She narrowed her eyes and continued, “The longer you stay in Banyan City, the longer I’ll be sick and lose blood. If that happens, I might need Nigel to transfuse his blood into me every day… Do you want that to happen?”Luna closed her eyes.She finally understood everything.The phone call from Fiona this morning was a warning to her.
Inside the ward, the two women locked eyes with each other.After a long silence, Fiona curled her lips into a disdainful smirk and stared at Luna. “Just admit it, Luna. You can’t compete against me. If you leave Banyan City along with your children immediately, I might even consider letting you go.“However, when I eventually lose my patience, even if you leave and try to hide, I’ll let Joshua find you and bring you back here. When that happens, I want you to watch your son transfuse blood to me every day, until one day, his entire body runs dry!”Luna glowered at her with narrowed eyes. “How dare you!”“Why wouldn’t I dare?” Fiona sneered. “Don’t pretend that you don’t know how much I mean to Joshua and how far he’s willing to go for me.”Then, she turned around and glanced at Luna as though she had suddenly recalled something. “By the way, I remember you used to have two more children, right? One of them died because you and another woman were fighting over Joshua, and another
“Nigel is my son. He has nothing to do with you at all! You want to see him? In your dreams!”“Lu…Luna…” Fiona whimpered as she laid limply against the bed. Her face had turned an unpleasant shade of purple due to her obstructed breathing.She caught sight of someone opening the door and called out feebly, “Joshua… Joshua… Save me…”Before Joshua even opened the door, he had already overheard Fiona and Luna’s argument from outside the room. He knew that they were arguing about Nigel and whether Fiona could meet him.When he heard this, Joshua initially thought they were simply arguing and frowned, but when he pushed the door open—He was utterly stunned by the scene before him.Joshua immediately stormed into the room and pulled Luna away from Fiona. “What the hell are you doing? Fiona has just been in an accident! She’s lost a lot of blood and needs a transfusion!”Luna turned and glared at Joshua with fury boiling in her eyes. “So you still want to protect her, do you? She thr
Everyone in the room widened their eyes in shock upon hearing this. Luna took a step back and stared incredulously at the little boy holding onto Joshua’s leg.He looked much paler than when Lucas brought them over, and his voice sounded much hoarser, too. There was even a wound on his wrist where the transfusion needle had pierced his skin.The little boy clung onto Joshua’s leg, his head lowered, and said tearfully, “Daddy, Mommy has gone crazy. She’d always say that I’m not her child and tell Nellie not to call me Nigel. She’d always physically abuse me while the servants aren’t looking.”With that, Nigel pulled up his sleeve, displaying the green and purple bruises on his arm. “Look at this, Daddy. These are the injuries that Mommy left.”Tears started to stream down his face, and he continued, “Daddy, can you take Nellie and me away from her? I don’t want to do this anymore. Can you consider sending Mommy into a mental asylum so the doctors can cure her? I want my old Mommy
“Nigel has a twin brother named Neil. He—”“Neil is dead,” Joshua interrupted coldly. Then, he lowered his head to glance at the young boy standing by his feet.Neil was dead.The only possible explanation was that this boy was Nigel himself. Alarmingly, Luna accused this boy of impersonating Nigel, right in front of so many people…Had she really gone insane?As soon as he thought of this, Joshua let out a sigh, lowered himself to the boy’s eye level, and carefully inspected the bruises on his arms. They looked like pinch marks.Joshua closed his eyes and suddenly felt his breathing become unsteady.Although he had not been to Blue Bay Villa in a long time, the servants would still update him on the situation within the house. Therefore, Joshua knew everything about Nigel’s whereabouts, including the people he had regular contact with. Joshua knew that the servants would never dare to hurt him, and Nigel himself had barely left Blue Bay Villa. Therefore, there was only on