The look of guilt on Zya's face only confirmed Meredith's assumption that Zya had lied to her."What are you doing here?" Zya hurriedly regained her composure then stared coldly at Meredith. "I thought I made it clear that I don't want to be friends with you anymore? Why are you showing up here?"Meredith walked up to her and then stared right back at her. "Why Zya? Can you tell me why?""What do you mean why?" Zya acted as if she was clueless."Why would you lie and say that Zade's surgery failed?" Meredith was confused. Coming up with her own assumptions, she asked, "Did someone force you to do it? Was it Zade? Or was it someone else?""The state that Zade is in right now is as if his surgery had failed, no?" Zya went on, "Meredith, you're enjoying what you see, aren't you? Leave if you're done."Out of guilt, Zya walked past Meredith, heading back into the room.Meredith grabbed Zya by her arms to stop her from leaving.With a confused and disappointed look on her face, Mere
"So? Do you want to blame me too?"Of course, Zade heard her. But compared to his resentment toward Josiah, Meredith's hatred for Josiah was nothing.Zade would not stop until Josiah was dead.If he still had the chance, he would do it all over again. Until Josiah was completely destroyed.But, he did not have the chance anymore.Meredith would not fall for his trick anymore.Looking at the sinister look on Zade's face, Zya could not help but feel frightened."Zade, how did you end up like this?" Zya was looking at him as if she did not know him anymore. "Edith was right that you don't have any feelings for her anymore. All you have now is resentment toward her and Josiah. And resentment and hatred blind you from seeing things as they should. So why aren't you willing to let it go?""That is because you don't know how I was humiliated by Josiah and how Meredith joined hands with him," Zade replied flatly."I know. But Edith only did it to save you.""No, she didn't. There wer
It was a known fact. A fact that Josiah knew all too well.But Josiah refused to accept the truth. He then said, "At the end of the day, you just want to help Zade, no?"Meredith did not know what to say anymore.Every time Josiah got jealous, his rationality would be thrown out the window."I am only speaking the truth. I am not taking his side," Meredith tried her best to soften her tone and went on, "Sir, you're being unreasonable. Let me go down and get you a bowl of soup.""Meredith Leighton." He called out to her. "Do you still want to see Nia?"With just one sentence from him, Meredith stopped in her tracks. He managed to tear down the wall that she had built around him."Of course!" She ran back to him and said, "Sir, I swear that aside from dropping by to meet Zade's surgeon and talking to Zya, I didn't do anything else. As for Zade, I didn't even see him today. Please believe me."It was only when he brought up the mention of Nia that she would soften her tone when ta
Looking at the scars, Meredith suddenly found the situation that she was in rather ridiculous. She had clearly resented him to the point that she tried to kill him numerous times, but here she was, acting as if nothing had happened, and they were about to take a shower together.Meredith wondered if the day for Josiah and her to be completely out of each other's life would ever come."What's wrong? Are you captivated by it?" Grabbing her hand, Josiah moved her hand across his chest then traced her fingers across the scars."Meredith Leighton, I got all of these from you," Staring at her pale face, he scoffed, "don't you feel slightly terrified?"Meredith had to admit that she was indeed a bit terrified.When she aimed at his chest and pushed the knife into him, Meredith did not even blink. But she was suddenly frightened at the sight of those scars.She instinctively pulled back her hand as she wanted to move away from the scars but Josiah held her even tighter.The more afraid
She turned to look at the man that was sleeping next to her. She was dumbfounded at the fact that he still had so much strength left in him when he had clearly been admitted to the hospital three times in a row. Meredith thought that Josiah was more frightening than a robot.Since he was clearly fine, why did he have to pretend as if he was still weak and used this as an excuse to reject her request to visit Nia?Meredith concluded that perhaps Josiah never thought of letting her see Nia at all.Josiah woke up to find Meredith sitting up, looking dazed. He pulled her into his arms and whispered into her ears, "Come sleep with me a little longer."Meredith tensed up in his arms. "Sir, it's already ten.""It's a weekend today.""You've never been the type to sleep in," Meredith responded.Meredith could not care less about what time he was going to wake up. She simply wanted to get away from him.Even though they had several intimate sessions last night, Meredith still felt disgu
In the evening, as usual, Meredith had made soup for Josiah.Josiah was working in his study when Meredith entered the room with a bowl of soup in her hand. She put down the tray and sat down in a chair.Josiah took a glance at her. "Seems like you have a lot of time on your hands.""Yeah. I've got no job, no kids. There's only so much that I can do," Meredith replied flatly, "since there's nothing for me to do, let me keep you company then."Josiah studied the expression on her face and pulled into a smirk. "Meredith, Doctor Joshua will not call at this time. So you can save your time from waiting around here."Josiah refused to believe that Meredith would want to keep him company while he was working.He immediately thought that Meredith was waiting for Doctor Joshua to call.Meredith was exposed immediately. Not denying anything, she simply asked, "When would he usually call then?""Not sure. Depends on his mood.""Can you make a call to him?" Meredith walked over to him as
Meredith was slightly out of breath because it was hard to breathe while feeding Josiah."I didn't ask you to sit on my lap and you're sitting too close," Josiah responded.Meredith instantly understood what he was implying and inched further away from him.She then continued feeding him by mouth.Meredith had to admit that the soup tasted horrible.After a few rounds, Meredith felt disgusted and almost wanted to throw up.Looking at how she was frowning, Josiah teased, "And I thought only I thought the soup tasted weird."Meredith glared at him. Josiah did it on purpose.He purposely made her share the horrible-tasting soup with him."You bastard, Josiah Shelby!" Meredith cursed softly.Josiah found her ridiculous. "You're the one who made the soup, shouldn't you be the one who's the bastard?"He leaned in closer to him and kissed her on the lips but she avoided him."Let me neutralize that horrible taste in your mouth." He then forcefully pressed his lips against her as h
"Josiah already knew about it. And like you said before, only you know that I am the one who poisoned the soup, no one else knows about this.""So you think that I was the one who told Josiah?""Is it not?""Let me make this clear, I did not." Meredith took a sip of her tea before looking at Quinley. "Quinley Allison, there's no reason for me to lie to you because it's been a long time since I saw you as my friend."You…" Quinley was wordless with rage.Meredith, whose face was scarred and who was tormented by Josiah over and over again, was able to still present herself in an elegant and classy way.Quinley was gritting her teeth tightly together but she could only hold back her resentment.With her eyes reddened, Quinley walked over to Meredith, got onto her knees, and grabbed Meredith's hands. "Edith, I must have been mistaken. But how would Josiah know about it? He had even threatened to destroy the Allison Group."Edith, I'm sorry for how I reacted earlier, but you've clea