Sharon cast a sidelong glance at Howard. She could not believe that he had the gall to give her such an absurd reason!“I’ve been begging you to get back together with me. When you rejected me, I was still willing to let the matter go. But you even went as far as to agree to marry my uncle! Of course, I’d disallow it!”“Do… Do you truly think that it makes sense for you to do all this?” She found that it was getting ridiculous now, and she honestly could not comprehend what he was thinking.Howard suddenly held her hand, a gesture that was seemingly affectionate yet mixed with a little bit of insanity. He said, “Shar, sometimes, one doesn’t need a reason to love someone else. I don’t care whether or not I’m making sense; the only thing I know is that I can’t lose you again!”His current appearance was frightening Sharon a little, and she immediately retracted her hand while backing away. It was apparent that she was trying to avoid him.“Don’t touch me! This is not love. It’s ridi
“The antidote? Did you really develop the antidote?” Howard was naturally in disbelief.He had been pressing Darren for so long, yet he kept saying that he could not think of the formula. Today, Darren suddenly made the antidote almost in a blink of an eye. Howard had every reason to doubt him.“You didn’t just casually whip up something random and are calling it an antidote because you’re afraid of me killing you, right?”Darren was immediately upset when he heard this and said, “You’re right, I am afraid of you killing me. But I wouldn’t lie to you. Let’s just say that the woman is very lucky that I happened to come up with it.”Seeing that Howard still doubted him, Darren snorted coldly and said, “It’s fine if you don’t believe me. This is the only antidote available, and if you ask me to make another one, there’s a high probability that I won’t be able to do it again.”Howard snatched the vial over. “I believe you. But if this isn’t the antidote and it can’t fully detoxify her
“Shar!” Howard yelled out, trying to stop her. However, it was too late. He could only watch as her head hit against the wall.Blood started flowing down from her forehead, and she could feel all of her strength escaping her body.“Shar!” Howard ran over and held her. He was horrified to see the blood flowing down from her head. “Why are you so stupid?! Why couldn’t you just take my word for it? I truly wasn’t planning on hurting you. I merely want to be with you!”Before Sharon completely lost consciousness, she witnessed the moment Howard shed tears for her!Was he feeling sorry for her? Heh… She would not believe those crocodile tears!“It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe me, Shar. But I still have to inject the antidote into you,” said Howard as he lifted the syringe in his hand.Sharon’s pupils contracted for a moment before her vision faded into a blur...Was he not planning to let go of her even if she died?Once she was completely unconscious, Howard injected her wit
Howard walked out of the room impatiently and asked with a cold expression, “What’s the matter? Why are you yelling?”“It’s the men outside… Your uncle asked someone to send a message to tell you to hand her over, or they’ll break in,” said the subordinate.When Howard heard this, there was a cold flash in his eyes. “How many men are outside surrounding us?”He knew very well that the people with him now would not stand a chance against his uncle’s bodyguards.If his uncle actually broke in, he would not be able to stop him.However, he did not plan on stopping him either. Since he could not go head-to-head with his uncle, the only other method was avoidance…“Well… we can’t tell you the exact figure, but it’s quite a big number,” said the subordinate.Howard did not expect them to have counted all of his uncle’s men anyway, so he merely sneered and said, “Tell him that I won’t hand her over. I’ll applaud him if he can come in here and get her.”“But…” The subordinate hesitated
Explosives. He had planted explosives inside the villa, and Simon was inside… Was it because he wanted to rescue her?Howard led Simon into the villa and escaped with her. Was he waiting around now to see Simon get blown up?Was the nephew going to blow up his own uncle? How could he have the heart to do such a thing? He was atrociously cruel!Sharon did not have the time to reprimand Howard for his cruelty. She had to save Simon first.She moved a bit more, and her strength was slowly recovering now. However, she wondered if she could run to the villa and find a way to avoid Howard at the same time.“It should be about time now, right?” Darren said suddenly.Howard did not reply to him, but his silence frightened Sharon even more.She abruptly understood what Darren was implying. He was asking when the place would explode!There was not much time to think about this anymore. If she dilly-dallied any longer, Simon would be dead!She held her breath, pushed the car door open fi
Due to Xena’s intervention, Howard could no longer catch up to Sharon.At this moment, Sharon had already run up to the villa’s entrance. She was panting severely.Her hunch was correct yet again. Simon’s men were indeed at the villa’s entrance, and they were his bodyguards.“Quick! Go in and tell President Zachary that there are explosives inside… Tell him to get out of there…” She could not run anymore and merely grabbed a bodyguard while saying in a hurry.“What? Explosives?” The bodyguard was shocked. Without saying another word, he immediately turned and ran toward the villa.Just as the bodyguard ran in, Howard managed to catch up to her.“F*ck! Come back here!” Howard snarled at the bodyguard.He glanced at the time and was no longer in a hurry. Instead, he sneered and said, “Hah! It’s useless. Even if he goes in now to pass the message, it’s too late… The time is almost up.”When Sharon heard this, there was a sharp twist in her heart. Her breathing became more frenetic
While Howard was still arguing with Sharon, she took out a knife that she had been carrying with her and approached Howard from behind.Without so much as another blink, Xena stabbed her knife into him from behind!“You! You killed Simon! Since you took his life, I’m taking yours!” Xena’s eyes were scarlet at the moment, filled with murderous intent.Sharon was so petrified that she stopped moving and looked at the pool of blood on the ground. It was Howard’s blood.Everything happened too quickly. She had not recovered from the grief of Simon’s murder yet she had to witness Xena killing Howard right before her very eyes…Howard’s hands that were grabbing onto her ultimately loosened. She glanced at his face that was losing its colors just for a second before turning around and running toward the villa again!She was only thinking of Simon at the moment. As for Howard, she could not care less about whatever was going to happen to him.“Shar…” Howard reached out and tried to pull
Sharon was extremely unhappy at Eugene’s words. Her face turned cold as she pushed him away.“Forget it. If you’re not planning on helping me, I’ll do it myself!” She continued to pick up the rubble with her blood-stained hands.Eugene felt his heart aching for her and he grabbed her hands again. He angrily reprimanded, “Enough! Why are you doing this? Truthfully, Simon would be better off dead! Have you forgotten the way he hurt you?!”He had no clue that whatever Simon had done was all due to Howard’s little schemes. He genuinely believed that Simon married another woman to humiliate Sharon as it was part of his plans to take revenge on her.“No… He didn’t try to hurt me on purpose…” Sharon wanted to explain it to him but found that she had completely lost her strength.She tried flinging his hands away once again. “Forget it. Leave me alone. I can do it myself.” She did not have much time to explain things to him at the moment.She got up and wanted to search for Simon in anot