Meredith no longer wanted to explain herself on this matter. It was pointless in doing so too."If you insist on making me the enemy," Josiah grabbed her arm and coldly looked at her. "Then, I'll let you go. You can leave this mansion. I can promise that I'll never kidnap you back."If it was the past, Meredith would surely be happy when she heard him say that.However, at that moment, she was not one bit happy. She knew that it was on the condition that she would never see Nia again, but she missed Nia! "If this freedom comes at the price of giving up Nia, then no need," Meredith said calmly."Meredith, this is your choice.""Yes. It's my choice," Meredith said with tears in her eyes, "back then, I could sell my body for you to help cure Nia, let you lock me up whenever you wanted to, and even tried my best to get pregnant with your child, what more now? I'm going back to bed."Meredith broke free from his clutches, turned around, and returned to bed. Her aloofness displeased
The initially tasty soup instantly changed its taste. Josiah's heart constricted painfully. He said, "You will have the chance."Meredith sniffled her nose and forced a smile. She said, "Yes. I'll surely have the chance. Nia is so strong and such a good child. How could she abandon her mother?""Drink up, don’t cry." Josiah reached out and caressed her head out of habit.Meredith instinctively cowered back to avoid his hand.Josiah's hand was hanging stiffly in mid-air.This time, Meredith did not put her head forward so that he could pat it. She merely lowered her head and drank her soup.Josiah was forced to retract his hand back. Seeing how she was in a bad mood, he decided to let it go.…The next morning, Meredith was woken up by a message. She tapped into her chats to have a look. She saw a foreign profile picture from her pathetic list of friends. [Miss Witch, top of the morning to you.]Meredith was speechless. Then only she remembered that he was the young man whose
"Lost cause." Josiah and Mrs. Larson said in unison.Mrs. Larson was speechless and glared at her son. Then, she looked at Josiah and said, "Joe, your cousin is quite smart. He picks things up quickly too. He just doesn't want to learn.""It is exactly because he doesn't want to learn, which is why he is a lost cause." Josiah placed his utensils down and got up from the chair. "Aunt Mary, my flight to Feldenberg is at eleven soon. I'll make a move first."Mrs. Larson was just about to say that it was still early, and he did not need to rush but Charlie said first, "Goodbye, Josiah."When Josiah has decided to leave, no one can stop him.Mrs. Larson sent Josiah to the door. When she returned, she said to Charlie curtly, "How could you talk to your cousin that way? You're so impolite."Charlie pouted and said, "He's so excellent and cultured, but I don't see him being polite to me either.""You…" Mrs. Larson said, "He is older than you.""I don't need someone so exceptional in my
"I…" Meredith did not dare to tell Alfred what she was doing. She hid her identification documents behind her and said, "There is something urgent I have to handle. You can just ignore me, Alfred."Ever since she knew that Nia was alive and decided to stay with Josiah, he has stopped keeping an eye on her. Since she said that she has something urgent to handle, naturally, Alfred let her go without asking her too many questions.Josiah's mansion was quite a distance away from the main road. Meredith tried getting a taxi while running toward the main road, because the wealthy people mainly lived there, there were not many taxis she could order online. It was hard to get one.Meredith ran while calling Josiah, but no one picked up. Could Josiah have already boarded?Right when she was feeling helpless, a black car screeched to a halt by the side of the road.Meredith turned to look in the car. She saw a familiar handsome face.Him? Charlie?Charlie was beaming as usual. He said wit
After Meredith rushed into the airport, she continued using her phone to try to get in touch with Josiah. This time, the call was connected. Josiah said, "What's up?"If nothing had happened, Meredith would not have called him. When Meredith heard his voice, she urgently asked, "Josiah, where are you?"Josiah replied perfunctorily, "On a business trip.""I want to go with you.""Why do you want to do that?""I'm bored at home alone, so I want to go with you," Meredith looked for him among the crowd while saying urgently.The flight ticket to other countries costs a lot. She had been under Josiah's control all this while. She did not have any money on her at all."I'm going on a business trip. It's for work. You can't come along," Josiah said seriously, "if you're bored, you can get Yoseph to accompany you shopping.""No, I don't want that! I want to follow you! Josiah, I beg you to take me along!" She could not locate him. She guessed he must have been by the gate waiting to
At that moment, Wesley brought the newly printed tickets over. He handed them to Josiah. "Mister Josiah, we're just in time. Quickly take the tickets and go in."Meredith saw the ticket with her name printed on it. The destination was Feldenberg. She finally believed that Josiah was planning to take her to Feldenberg to celebrate Nia's birthday.Josiah was finally taking her to see Nia! She was instantly so excited that tears started to fall.Josiah looked at her teary face and furrowed his brows a little. "You cry if I don't bring you, you cry if I bring you too. Meredith, what on earth do you want?"Meredith was speechless. What did she want? Those were happy tears!"Quickly stop crying, in case the security people might think that I'm kidnapping you, they might arrest me in the interrogation room," Josiah intimidated her.Meredith immediately stopped crying.After all, Josiah being interrogated was one thing, but missing her flight was the more serious matter! Even when the
"No need!" Meredith shook her head.Meredith realized that she was too anxious, so she added, "I'm sorry. I'm only thinking that it's almost ten at night back home. Nia's birthday is almost over, so I want to save as much time as possible.""Nia can't eat cake now. She can't get close to pollen too," Josiah reminded Meredith. As a doctor, how could Meredith not know about these?However, when she heard what Josiah said, her eyes reddened disappointedly. She said painfully, "I know, but I still want to buy one for her. I could eat on her behalf. I could accept the bouquet on her behalf too."She would wait until the following year when Nia could eat cake and take bouquets. Then, she would properly make it up to her.Josiah looked at her reddened eyes and said, "Let's go. Get in the car."Meredith pulled him back. "Are you not going to take me to get them?""It's all prepared.""What? You already bought it?" Meredith said in surprise."Hmm," Josiah said, "I've already said befor
"Nia…" Meredith gently tapped on the glass and called out.Nia, inside, seemed to have sensed her mother's presence. Her usual weak heartbeat had signs of rising.Even Doctor Joshua was a little stunned. He said, "Mrs. Shelby, Nia seemed to have sensed you. Look at her heartbeat rising."Meredith immediately wiped away the tears on her face. Her eyes widened. She said anxiously, "Are you for real? Can Nia sense it? Can she really sense it?"Doctor Joshua nodded seriously. "It looks like it."Meredith grabbed Doctor Joshua by his shoulders. "Doctor, can you let me go in and see Nia? I want her to be able to sense me better. I want her to know that her daddy and mommy have never given her up. Please!"To get Doctor Joshua to agree to her, she was about to kneel, but Josiah pulled her up."Meredith, when will you change your habit of kneeling at others for whatever small reason?" Josiah furrowed his brows.It was one thing kneeling in front of him. How could she kneel in front of