Saydie dragged her by her hair to Nolan—she was still kneeling on the floor. After seeing what happened to the men, her face was white as a sheet. Maisie picked up the phone that was not far from her and saw the paused video, threw it to the ground, and crushed the screen with her heel. “Please… Please let me go. I won’t do it again.” Channey held back tears and looked extremely sincere while she begged. Maisie didn’t show any expressions when she pulled at her collar. “Let you go? Not a chance.”Chenney’s expression slowly turned to horror.Maisie scoffed. “You made Ryleigh a scapegoat for a decade and even tried to attack her. Would you let Ryleigh go if she begged you?”She couldn’t answer. Maisie coldly said, “Whatever a woman like you achieved by framing someone else doesn’t belong to you because you don’t deserve it.”She let go, and Chenney fell back onto the ground. The police rushed to the scene, and Nolan said something to a police officer. They then took the pe
Maisie said, “Aunt Larissa, don’t be angry. They’ve been taken away by the police. Louis and Ryleigh are fine too.”“Thank goodness. I was worried to death. I’ll go see how Louis is.” Larissa walked toward Louis’ room.Nolan came to pick Maisie up, and Maisie kept her eyes on the view outside on the way back. Nolan held her hand. “Are you still worried?”Maisie looked back at him. “They're fine, so I have nothing to worry about anymore.”“Zee, do you know what Ryleigh and Louis’ encounter reminds me of?”Maisie quietly looked at him and didn’t say a thing. He focused on driving and kept his eyes on the road, “I seem to remember. Did we go through something like this? It feels familiar.”Maisie looked down and smiled, “Yes, we did.”When they stopped at the traffic light, Nolan pulled her hand and kissed its back. “I’ll slowly remember, so we’ll start our honeymoon tomorrow and spend some time alone.”The next day, at Bassburgh Airport…Nolan was sitting at the business boa
The blinds slowly opened, and one could see the blue sea from the room. Maisie walked into the bedroom, which had a private garden. There were folding chairs with cushioning under the sun umbrella and even a swing.Nolan unbuttoned his sleeves and leaned on the door. “Do you like it?”Maisie walked to the swing and sat down. “You’re good at picking places.”Nolan walked behind her and bent down to hug her by the shoulders while saying in her ear, “It’s our time alone. It should be romantic.”In the afternoon, they both went to the restaurant. Maisie had changed into a bubble-sleeved dress in silk with a vest on top, her skirt covering her calf. It was a huge coincidence, but they bumped into Helios dining there as well. Helios raised his glass and smiled at them. “If you don’t mind, let’s dine together?”Maisie was fine with it because they knew each other. “Sure.”She took a seat. Nolan sat down unwillingly and raised his brows. “You’re not following us, I hope?”Heli
The hot spring tourism industry wasn’t as good in Coralia as on Winston Island. That was mainly because the sea and hills surrounded the island, and it was toward the south, so it wouldn’t snow even in winter. Coralia’s weather was different. It would snow there in winter, and the roads would freeze at its coldest, making it difficult for people and cars to move. Most people would travel there just to see snow, but no one would want to revisit after being bullied by the snow on the way there.Nolan put down the seafood cracker, wiped his fingers with a napkin, and looked at Helios. “Why don’t I remember you being interested in this industry?”Heliod looked down, tapping his fingers on the glass. “My family is pressuring me. I haven’t reached their standard to start my own family other than for my career in the entertainment industry.”“You want to leave the family?” Maisie was shocked.Wouldn’t that mean they were splitting up?A big family like the Bouchers had never split up.
Maisie buried her face in his shoulder. It was too embarrassing.Nolan put her down on a bench, put his hand on the backrest behind her, and seemed to want more. “Do you want to continue?”Maisie had been scared so badly in the haunted house that her tears were still in her eyes, looking very delicate.She said, “No more.”Nolan laughed and gently wiped the tear off the corner of her eyes. “My Zee can be afraid sometimes.”She hummed and turned away, looking at the Ferris wheel far away.He noticed that. “Do you want to ride that?”Maisie nodded.Nolan brought her to the bottom of the Ferris wheel, paid, and walked into a cabin.The cabin slowly moved upward while Maisie looked out and smiled with joy. “My first Ferris wheel ride was in Stoslo.”Nolan looked at her, and something flashed across his mind while they rose higher.Maisie kept her eyes on the view outside. Riding on a Ferris wheel during daytime and slowly moving upward, she could see far away, even the sea that
Barbara looked at her and said, “You’re jealous.”Ryleigh froze. It took her quite a while before she finally came around to her senses. She picked up a pillow and threw it at Barbara. “Are you here to laugh at me?”Barbara picked the pillow up and put it back on the bed. “Aright, alright. After all, Louis saved you. Besides, you aren’t as seriously injured as he is, so I think you should check him out.”Ryleigh did not reply.In the evening, Ryleigh walked toward Louis’s ward. She hesitated for a long while in front of the door before she finally turned the doorknob.Louis was reading a magazine on the bed. There was a gauze on his cheek and a bruise on the corner of his lips.He was stunned for a moment when he lifted his head and saw Ryleigh. After that, he put the magazine on the side and asked, “What brought you here?”Ryleigh stopped in front of his bed. She was so nervous that she did not know where to put her hands. In the end, she clasped them in front of her and said,
Ryleigh’s face sank, and she harrumphed. “Who… Who the hell would peek at you when you’re using the toilet? You must be delusional. Besides, you have nothing to look at!”Louis replied half-heartedly, “Who knows if you want to take advantage of me or not?”Ryleigh pointed at herself. “Me? Want to take advantage of you?”She sneered as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world and said, “If I really want to take advantage of you, I would have—”He lifted his brows and interrupted her, “You would have what?”Clearing her throat, Ryleigh replied, “Why should I tell you?”Louis did not say anything in return. When he saw that the IV drip in the bottle was almost finished, he pushed the service bell.The nurse came in. She pulled the needle out of the back of his hand and said to him gently, “Sir, you have to get an anti-inflammatory injection tomorrow and the day after.”He nodded.The nurse then left with the bottle.Ryleigh clicked her tongue and said, “This nurse is so g
A surge of worry and fear rose from Nolan’s stomach pit and filled his heart whole. He seemed to have experienced this kind of feeling before as well.Something bad happened, and Maisie suddenly disappeared before his eyes. Nolan moved his hand over his pocket, only to realize they had not brought their phones with them.Helios handed his phone to him and said, “Maybe you should use mine.”Nolan did not reject it. The first thing he should do was to look for Maisie, so he couldn’t care about other things right now. However, he could not remember Maisie's phone number at a crucial moment like this. He gripped the phone tightly, and his veins were bulging from the back of his hand.Phone number… ‘What is going on? It's somewhere in my head, but what's her number again?’When Helios saw that Nolan’s fingers were hovering over the dialing button and he did not enter the phone number after a long while, he opened up the contact list for him and said, "You can find her number by e