Meanwhile, on the 18th floor, Brian covered Melissa with a sheet after putting her into bed. He exited the ward and saw Sean, who just finished a phone call. "Thank you so much, Shane!" "Don't mention it, Mr. Lane. It is my duty," Sean replied. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't worried that Melissa might not accept the truth and force you to be her child's father, she wouldn't have insisted on keeping the child!" Brian wiped his tears with a handkerchief. "Shane, when Melissa has aborted the child and healed up, could you consider your childhood bond with her and—""Mr. Lane, Melissa is just like a little sister to me." "I know, I know!" Brian nodded repeatedly. "But Melissa's health doesn't allow her to have children. We could use some scientific methods to have someone bear you and Melissa's child! Consider it as a remembrance for Melissa…"Brian looked into Sean's eyes. Without finishing his sentence, he knew Sean would disagree and slumped forward. "Truthfully,
"Oh, it's Ms. Lawson. She sprained her ankle last night.""Ms. Lawson is in Keman?" Sean was surprised. "Yes. Ms. Lawson is here to inspect a collaborative project." Jamie didn't reveal the details to Sean. "What a coincidence that we meet here…" Sean turned toward Wilfred, signaling him to buy flowers and a fruit basket. "I should pay Ms. Lawson a visit." Angeline was on her phone when Jamie and Sean entered her ward. "Please wait a moment." Jamie smiled while asking Sean to wait by the door before entering the ward. Jamie didn't close the door, and Angeline's faint smile could be seen from the slightly ajar door. Sean's heart thumped, trying to restrain his longing for Angeline. "Yeah, there's no need to trouble you to come visit me. But you caught the news about my hospitalization quickly, Mr. Dexter…" Sean knew Angeline was talking to Dexter. After listening to Dexter over the phone, the corners of Angeline's lips curled even higher. "Don't worry, Mr. D
Sean wasn't even in Angeline's ward for five minutes when he was chased away. His smile faded as he entered the elevator, and then he ordered Wilfred, "Check when Ms. Lawson arrived in Showal last night and the time she was admitted into the hospital." "Yes, Mr. Kingston!" Sean's driver drove the car to the hospital entrance. Wilfred quickly opened the back seat door for Sean. However, Sean walked toward the driver's side and knocked on the window, signaling the driver to step out of the vehicle. "You didn't sleep well last night, Mr. Kingston. You should let the driver send you home while you rest!" Wilfred advised. "Get out," Sean said with furrowed brows. The driver unbuckled his seat belt and exited the car, allowing Sean to enter the driver's seat. He stepped on the pedal and drove off until he reached a section where he could stop. Then, he called Angeline's phone. However, Angeline's phone was busy for the entire time. When it finally got through, Angeline answer
"The doctor said you can't get pregnant with your current health, Mrs. Kingston. Yet, you're insisting on giving birth to this baby?" Angeline laughed. "I'm sure you and Mr. Kingston will still have children in the future, Mrs. Kingston. Why are you so insistent on keeping this one?"Melissa tightened her grip on her stomach. "I'm afraid he's lying to me! He refused to let me get pregnant before this because he was afraid my body wouldn't be able to handle it. This baby… I had to pull some tricks to conceive it. I'm not afraid of dying—I just want to leave him with our child!"Melissa gave a determined look. Melissa once told Sean she didn't mind him keeping Monica in his heart. She only wanted to have Sean's child, yet he never even touched her. So, she drugged both her and Sean. Lo and behold, she indeed fell pregnant. She didn't know if Sean might consider staying for the child's sake after he had completed his revenge plan once Melissa gave birth.Melissa was ecstati
It would be difficult for Thomas to investigate the matter from the bottom up, but Dexter could change that. Things would be much easier if he could provide an avenue for Thomas to look into the matter from the very top.Angeline discussed the battery plant's location with the government department in charge. Then, she met with the senior executives of the partnering company. When it got too late, she postponed the site visit to the following day.It was already nighttime when she returned to the hotel. She knew Dexter's people had been following her since she'd left the hotel—he was deathly afraid of her secretly having anything to do with Sean.Angeline's phone vibrated. She answered it when she saw it was Danny calling. "Hello?""Did you manage to see Tom?""Not yet. Word about me being in Keman is already out. He should approach me soon after hearing about it." She felt a little tired."You sound exhausted, boss. Maybe I should head there, too.""No, don't." Angeline s
"I'm not a god, Sean, nor can I read your mind. I told you that I'm open to listening to your explanation." Angeline's expression was calm, but her fingers were cold to the touch. "If you're lying to me because you're worried I'll expose your identity after our breakup, I can assure you that you don't need to."I still need to protect the Lawson family and Lawson Global. More importantly, I don't want your freak of a wife to know that we used to be involved. I wouldn't want to end up in an accident like Monica did.""What?" Sean looked nonplussed."Your ex-fiancée, Monica Scott, got into an accident yesterday. I suspect Melissa has something to do with it." Angeline didn't hide her suspicions."That's impossible. Melissa is willful and a little ruthless, but she's only like that to her enemies." Sean didn't sound too confident. He thought about how Melissa had probed him and how the psycho hadn't been by her side recently.Angeline clenched her fist around the recorder.
"Two days," Sean said."Is that enough? I'll give you three. I hope the so-called evidence you show me then will be enough to convince me," Angeline said.His grip tightened on her shoulders. He could see the mistrust in her eyes behind the smile. There were even traces of mockery.They stared into each other's eyes for a while before Angeline looked away. She removed Sean's hands from her shoulders and headed to the couch. "I asked Dexter to hand someone over to me to take the fall for your 'death', so I could avenge you."He called me today to say he's giving that person some time to settle matters with his family. He'll hand the guy to me at the beginning of next month. You can take him away then.""I'll show you proof in three days!"Angeline clenched her fist tightly around the recorder as she watched Sean slam the door behind him. At the moment, she genuinely had no idea who else she could trust besides her blood relatives.Sean had comforted Melissa and told her they wo
Sean was put in a lousy mood by Angeline's indifference. He held her face and kissed her, pushing his way into the hotel room and kicking the door shut behind him.His tongue slipped past her defenses, and he pushed her back until she was pinned to the wall. One of her shoes fell off, and her ankle throbbed from their movements.Angeline frowned deeply while holding herself steady against the wall behind her. She stood there, stiff and tense, as Sean pulled her tongue into a dance with his. She slowly clenched her fists.Sensing her resistance, he bit her lip. Yet she remained silent as if she didn't even feel the pain.He released her and looked into her eyes, which were devoid of desire. He traced the corner of her lips with his finger and pressed a feather-light kiss there.Angeline didn't dodge him, but she didn't respond, either. It wasn't like how they typically were. She would usually show some sort of response no matter how shy she felt.Sean said, "I'll show you proof."