However, Zachary, a man as noble as a king, never cared about how other people viewed him. He just gazed intently at Naomi’s tiny face without looking at other people.“Your mummy promised to marry me, and she can’t marry anyone else without my permission, you understand?”Blinking her big dazzling eyes, the little girl looked at Zachary and Sotiria.Although she could not fathom much of the adults’ world yet since she was still young, she knew that she had to carry out her promises to others.As if she knew what her daughter was thinking, Sotiria rubbed her head and said, “Naomi, this bad uncle is just joking with you. Mummy did not promise to marry him.” The little girl nodded profusely. “Yes! Mummy promised to marry daddy, so mummy is only allowed to marry daddy and no one else.”Sotiria smiled dazedly. “That’s right.”She raised her hand to wipe the tears in her eyes. Then, her gaze suddenly turned cold when she turned to look at Zachary. “Mr. Connor, you need a reality
At that moment, Sotiria, who had been startled to the core by Zachary’s statement, did not have time to care about other people. She stared at Zachary in panic, and it took her roughly three seconds before she finally found her voice back.“So, what are you gonna do to me?”The man in front of her was as cold as an iceberg. He was staring intently at Sotiria, his gaze gloomy and terrifying as if he was the king of the underworld coming to reap her life.“Garrison can save your daughter once, but he can’t save her for the second time. If you don’t get the marriage license with me today, I will make both of them disappear from the surface of the earth!”“Oh my!”Sotiria was so frightened that her legs went weak, and she nearly knelt in front of Zachary. Her face was as white as milk. It became so pale that there was no trace of blood. “No! I’ve heard that although you never show mercy to your enemies, you follow your principles and never bully people for no reason. Both Naomi and
Garrison unlocked his phone, opened up a video, and handed it to Zachary.Zachary took over the phone half-heartedly, and his handsome face turned dark when he saw the content of the video.“After all these years, you still want to humiliate me with this!?”“I’m not a crooked-minded person,” Garrison said as he stifled a glance at Sotiria.“Four years ago, on the eve of your divorce with Carlie, she went to look for me at the Rainbow Bridges and asked me to do her a favor. After that, she dragged me to the hotel and spent almost an hour with me in the hotel.”At this moment, Sotiria clearly felt that Zachary’s left hand that was gripping her wrist trembled.Time seemed to go back four years ago.Zachary could never forget that Charlotte had “gotten a room” with Garrison.He could never forget that after she had “gotten a room” with Garrison, she had come up to him and straight confessed that the person she had been in love with was always Garrison and that it was not the first
“Why would she do that if she really loved me?” Nobody was able to accept something like this, not even a tough and strong-minded person like Zachary. His voice was shaking, and tears began to well in his eyes.Garrison shook his head, and his bright eyes were filled with confusion.“I’ve also been wondering why she was acting so abnormally at that time, including why she was so hellbent on seeking revenge against Lory… But I still could not think it through even though so many years have passed. Anyway, I think she must have her own reason for leaving you in that way.”There was no expression on Zachary’s handsome face. He maintained his regal, unreserved demeanor, but the tumultuous emotion in his eyes belied his true feelings.A hint of panic crossed Lorraine’s alluring eyes as she watched this scene from afar.Those past events in which she had poisoned Zachary and used Walter and Coraline to threaten Charlotte to divorce Zachary flooded her mind.Luckily, Charlotte was dead!
“Zachary! You... You’re too overbearing!” The burst of shock and wrath made Garrison roar like a wild beast. He could no longer care about his image and grasped Zachary firmly by the hem of his collar, his eyes looking like they were about to shoot laser beams.“I’ll give you two seconds to let her go. Otherwise, don’t blame me for making a move on you!”“Oh?” Zachary responded with a disdainful smirk. “Speaking of making a move, you reminded me that since we want to marry the same woman, we should just turn to the most barbarous and primitive courtship method. We shall just fight to the death for her, just like animals do.”“Aaah—” Someone in the background screamed.A lady whispered immediately, “Oh! Mr. Connor has disappointed me. I’d always regarded him as my prince charming in the past. I didn’t expect that he would act as savagely and ruthlessly as an animal. He has lost my love!”Another woman rolled her eyes. “What do you know? This is called being domineering and mighty.
“You told me that if I don’t marry you today, you’ll make sure to wipe Garrison and Naomi off the surface of this world. Seriously, I was scared before, but when you said that you wanted to fight Garrison to the death, I suddenly understood that Naomi and I are just items to you. So, if I were to marry you, even if you treated Naomi and me very well on the surface, we’d always be two pieces of decoration in your eyes... We’d always be two empty shells that represent your attachment to another woman... We’d live like puppets for the rest of our lives! Hence, instead of living without dignity, I’d rather die.“Zachary sneered. “Do you think that I’ll let you go so easily just because you said so?”“I don’t expect you to let me go.” Sotiria raised her face arrogantly and looked straight at Zachary’s cold eyes courageously.“From now on, you can continue to threaten me, you can retaliate against me with any means, you can defile my body, you can even wipe me off the surface of this worl
“Of course I didn’t feel...” Sotiria, who wanted to deny the fact subconsciously, swallowed the word “moved” back into her stomach before she could finish the sentence. Instead, she shrugged and said calmly. “I promised to answer you truthfully, so I won’t lie. Yes, I was indeed moved by you.”Garrison’s hand, which was holding her little hand tightly, trembled a tiny bit.Lorraine, who was standing not far away, quivered a little too.Even Zachary, who had always been as cold as an iceberg, trembled faintly from head to toe.Sotiria then pursed her lips indifferently, and her eyes were free and nonchalant. “Mr. Connor is the most attractive man in Rothesay and the prince charming that thousands of girls could only dream of. I think, if some other women were to be placed in my position, as long as they are not a dead person, they’d always be tempted when they get seduced by Mr. Connor. So I’m just telling the truth here. I don’t feel embarrassed at all.”“Yes! Yes! What she said i
‘Yes! I’ve been hating the wrong person for the past four years!‘And this encounter between Sotiria and me was nothing but a farce.‘No matter how uncanny the resemblance is, it’s impossible for Sotiria to fill up the void that Charlotte left behind within me after her departure. I’m a person that’s destined to die in grief, so I shouldn’t ruin the happiness that belongs to Sotiria and Garrison in order to alleviate my grief.’“Tiria, do you still want to get the certificate?“Tiria...“Tiria!”Garrison’s voice sounded right beside Sotiria’s ears for a long time before she recovered from the trance as if she had just woken up from a dream. Her gaze shifted slowly from the direction where Zachary left toward Garrison’s face, and the corners of her lips rolled up rigidly.“Let’s go, let’s get our hand on that certificate.”“Okay.” Garrison held her hand again.Zachary had already walked out of the city hall’s lobby a few minutes ago. Before Sotiria took another step, she looked