Nolan walked in, pulled out a chair, and sat down, “Are you still not feeling well?”Maisie shook her head and asked, “Why did you come with Uncle Erwin?” Nolan’s eyes twitched. “I asked him to come over. I was worried that something might happen to you, so I told Erwin. I had to be ready.”“Nolan, be honest, were you in Stoslo because of your mother’s incident?” Maisie asked. Nolan paused and didn’t answer, but she guessed as much. She looked down, pressed her lips together, and slowly said, “I’m sorry I got you into this.”Nolan held her slightly cold hand. “I knew that it was a trap. They deliberately used my mother’s incident to lure me over because they wanted to eliminate the Goldmanns. I asked Erwin here because if anything happened to me, no one would dare touch you with him around.”Maisie’s heart hurt a little.He had known that it was a trap but still took the risk?Her eyes twitched. “Why do you want to look into your mother’s incident? Is it because…”Nolan lo
Maisie got up and slowly walked to him. “Can you tell me about them?”…“Ah!” Rowena collapsed on the floor covered in blood after being whipped. Her skin split open, each wound deep and shaking. She raised her head with dried lips to stare at the man vaping on the chair. “Mr. Kent— I-I really didn’t lie to you, I didn’t know how Maisie was related to the Metropolis.”Daniel let out a puff of smoke, his eyes piercing. “I tried so hard to get Nolan into my trap. I was so close to catching him.”Rowena’s lips and teeth were trembling. Daniel put down his leg, got up, and walked toward her with his long legs. He looked down at the woman who was lying on the floor in bad shape. “It’s all because of you. You messed up my plan because you didn’t check on that woman?”Rowena raised her hand to tug at his pants. “Mr. Kent, I’m sorry, give me another chance! I-I can fix this. I’ll do anything.”“Haha.” Daniel squatted down and grabbed her hair, tugging at her scalp. It hurt, but she d
The princess of Stoslo was respected by the people in Stoslo and was once known as the princess who was the most down-to-earth. She had a lot of influence and was great with business. King Miller had said that her ability to rule would not be lesser than his sons’.Unfortunately, this princess who loved her country and people had ‘fallen from grace’ because she fell in love with Patrick Goldmann, who didn’t have the same social standing. This ‘fall from grace’ had been the start of the internal conflict among the royals. The royal family was split into two groups. One group of nobles, including the current Kents, supported Prince Roger, the younger half-brother of the princess. They were known as the left-wing. The other group supported the princess. ‘The princess incident’ had been an internal conflict, and the relationship between Patrick and the princess had given the lefties a reason to oppose her ruling. After that, an epidemic had broken out, and the people’s love for th
Erwin looked at Maisie. “Hernandez probably thought the same. If he knew that Ms. Marina had a daughter, he would have taken you back. Hernandez isn’t dumb. He knows that the lefties may use you because of this relationship.”Maisie looked surprised, but she remembered what Hernandez had told her.“You're Marina's daughter, so I won't lay a hand on you even if I'm going to get revenge on the Goldmanns. However, I'm not sure about the others.”The others that he meant were the lefties.Something flashed across her mind after she was quiet for a while, and she looked straight at Erwin. “There’s one more thing.”Erwin looked curious, but he saw her calmly ask, “Was my mother’s infection related to the virus?”The air in the room froze.After a long time, Erwin lowered his face and quietly said, “Yes.”He looked out the window. “Her infection was due to a rare sleeper virus that was related to the epidemic from 30 years ago. Your mother was one of the infected.”“The epidemic 30 y
"Unfortunately, it was too late. Your mother was in the final stages and didn’t have much longer to live, so she chose to leave.“However, when she left, Strix gave her the antibody. There were only two in the world, and he gave one to your mother and kept the other. I think your mother injected the serum before she decided to get pregnant. Otherwise, your father would have been infected too, and you…”Erwin looked at her but didn’t continue. Maisie’s heart shuddered. “So that’s why my blood is special?”Marina had decided to inject herself with the serum when she was pregnant, even though the serum wouldn’t have worked for her. Thus, Marina had done it because she didn’t want to infect Stephen and wanted to ensure that Maisie wouldn’t inherit the virus.Had she made her decision long ago to try and leave without regrets? But why hadn’t she chosen her first love, Strix, and instead married Stephen, who she had just met?“Maisie, remember I told you not to let anyone know about y
Maisie gasped and hissed. “You really have done it, Nolan!”After a long while, Maisie started to tidy herself up. Nolan chuckled. He then helped Maisie to put on her clothes and said, “You’re getting better and better, Zee. It seems like I've taught you well.”“Yeah. Do you feel proud?” Maisie said, and her cheek puffed like a pufferfish. This man was getting more and more shameless. He even started to do that thing to her!Seeing that Maisie was starting to put on a show of bad temper, a flicker of affection crossed Nolan's eyes.People said that a woman would only start to become clingy and behave in a spoiled manner when she fell in love with a man, and he did see those criteria in her.He held her in his arms contentedly and said in a low voice, “Alright. I found something today. Rowena knew that my mother was abducted.”Maisie was stunned. “So she didn’t tell your grandfather?”Nolan’s eyes turned cold as he replied, “She didn’t tell anyone, including my grandfather and
Nolan lowered his head, placed his hand on the back of her head, and deepened the kiss. Although this was just a symbol, a myth about the Ferris wheel, he was willing to go along with her.In the end, Maisie's face was flushed from oxygen deprivation after they had finished their long kiss.Nolan rubbed her head and laughed. "It's been so long, and you still don't know how to breathe when you’re kissing?" Maisie blinked her eyes but did not say anything.“It seems like I need to teach you again.” Nolan clasped his fingers on her chin and planted another kiss on her lips.After a while that seemed like an eternity, Maisie pulled herself away from his lips. Her face was red, and she was huffing heavily. When she saw that he was going to kiss her again, she pushed him away and said, “Alright, alright. I already know how.”She was certain that her lips were going to swell up if they continued the kiss. When both of them came down from the Ferris wheel, a six-year-old little boy
Nolan hurriedly came to her side.Maisie was covering the little girl’s wound with her hand. Her countenance was pale as she said, “Nolan, she got separated from her family and is injured. We can’t leave her here.”“I know. Go find a place and hide.”“What about you?” Maisie tugged at him when he stood up. “There are too many of them, and they’re coming for you. You can’t go out just like that. They will kill you!”When she had been in the crowd just now, she had heard that those people were coming to take Nolan’s life.Nolan kissed her and stroked the corner of her eyes with his fingertip. “Don’t worry. I’ll be fine. Now, go hide and wait for me.”Nolan got up to his feet and went away.Maisie tried to stop him by grabbing his hand but to no avail. The little girl in her arms was crying loudly because of her injuries.Soon, Maisie turned her eyes back to the girl and comforted her. “Don’t worry. Nothing will happen. I’ll get you out of here, okay?”The little girl stopped cry