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
This was the first time Helios punched Nolan in front of Maisie, and this was also the first time Maisie saw Helios lose his cool in front of everyone.Helios looked at Nolan expressionlessly and said, “I've long wanted to do this since three years ago when you said you're giving her to me in front of her.”Nolan froze.Helios stepped forward and grabbed Nolan’s collar. “We have grown up together since we were kids, so you should know me very well. If I really wanted to get her from you, do you think you’d stand a chance against me?”Nolan did not say anything. Maisie loosened her fists and took a deep breath. “Mr. Boucher, let him go. I have something to talk to him about.”Helios let Nolan go. He bent down to pick the mask up from the ground, dusted the soil from his shirt, turned around, and left.Maisie looked at Nolan calmly and said, “I have Helios' contact number because when he was filming a movie, he was the guarantor when his crew rented the jewelry from Soul Jewelry.
Morgan fell silent for a while before saying, “Alright, then. Suit yourself. Do what you want to do.”After he hung up the call, Helios handed the phone back to Nina.Nina looked at him and asked, “Mr. Wallace has a huge reputation in the entertainment industry. Even the most top-tier celebrities wouldn’t dare to say no to him. If you reject him, wouldn’t he—”“Don’t worry. I’ll explain to him afterward. Besides, the time limit the Bouchers gave me is almost up. I can’t rely on my achievements in the entertainment industry to convince my family.”If Helios wanted to part ways with his family, he first had to get recognition from his grandfather. In other words, he had to get the investment project in Winston Island. Meanwhile, Maisie threw a pillow and blanket on the floor. She turned to Nolan and said, “You’re going to sleep here tonight.”After that, she turned around and closed the door. Nolan was a tad slower. He tried to turn the doorknob, but Maisie had locked the door f
Nina, who was sitting next to Maisie, deliberately changed the subject in order to ease the atmosphere in the private room. “I wasn’t able to go to the hot springs yesterday, so why don’t we go there tonight?”Helios calmly picked up his chopsticks and placed a piece of sushi on the plate in front of him, while Nolan grabbed a cup of tea and took a sip from it.Nina stared at Maisie, who looked calm and composed, with a pitiful and innocent gaze as if she was seeking her help.Maisie lifted her gaze and glanced at them, then turned her head to face Nolan. “Nolan, do you still remember what you promised me last night?”Nolan froze while drinking his tea, placed the teacup down heavily, and stared at Helios.Helios narrowed his eyes.Nolan forced two words through his lips after a long while. “I’m sorry.”He sounded like he said that very reluctantly.Helios did not even lift his head. “I didn’t hear you.”Nolan clenched his hand that was holding the teacup and gnashed his teeth
Seeing that she was acting a little vigilant and hostile against herself, Xyla laughed and explained elegantly and politely, “There’s no need for you to be so wary of me, Ms. Hill. I won’t do anything to harm you. I’m here just to talk to you.”It was still raining outside, and the atmosphere in the room was stagnant for a moment as Ryleigh’s eyelids drooped. “You want me to leave Louis, don’t you? Don’t worry, I won’t snatch him from you as soon as my engagement with him is canceled.”‘Rather than waiting for somebody else to come up to me and make irresponsible remarks in the future, I might as well give it to her straight now.’Xyla looked at her for a long time, lowered her head, and chuckled. “I really thought so before I came back to Zlokova.”She looked out of the window, and a hint of loneliness flashed across her eyes. “I had been with him for six years, and I thought that even though he had broken up with me, I’d still have the opportunity to stay by his side after return
Ryleigh hesitated for three seconds, then quickly opened the door and looked up at him. “Yes.”On Winston Island…Four people sat in the car and enjoyed the island's scenery along the way. The roadside was full of cherry blossoms, and they looked as if they were parallel to the horizon, which had almost been blurred by the color of the sky and ocean as both blended into one.The scene changed and became different when the car entered the underwater tunnel and passed through the underwater platform.Many cars and buses filled with tourists were parked in the parking slots of the observation deck, and many tourists were standing in front of the observation deck to look at the vivid scene of the seabed.The car was parked in the parking lane, and Maisie and Nina got out of the car and walked toward the observation platform.Winston Island’s underwater tunnel was worthy of being the largest and most expensive project Zlokova had ever undergone. It was the only tunnel that allowed its