He had never seen such a perverse side to her before. He stared at her for a while, then suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her neck, disregarding the thick lipstick on her lips and simply lowering his head to kiss her. However, she seemed to have been prepared for this. She struggled backward and gently lifted her leg, raising her skinny, tall stiletto. “Don’t kiss me. You disgust me,” she said deliberately.Edward’s expression sank when he heard these words. He stared at her. “E
She used a hundred different tricks with gentle methods and force simply to throw a wrench into his marriage to Renne. However, she simply didn’t care about him at all. This was all because Renne was her good friend, so she was off-limits. Edward smirked as both love and hatred intermingled in his heart. For a moment, he couldn’t figure out which felt stronger. She could see right through him. She pressed herself close to him when she saw the look on his face, wrapping her arms around his neck
“Don’t. I can’t afford that.” She, however, refused to fall for it. She giggled teasingly and said, “As long as you don’t plant your flag on my friends, do whatever you like to everyone else. Just make sure to take…precautions. That way, everyone wins.”She pushed him away and rose to her feet. She turned around and headed into the bathroom. Before she could take two steps, he seized her from behind. She was fully aware that by taking two steps, she had to take one step back. She also knew that
She stared at him as if there was an instant when she actually felt moved. However, she quickly displayed an even more satirical smile as she hooked her arms around his neck and pressed her lips against his ear. “The words of a man in bed are even more untrustworthy than his drunken babbling in a bar,” she stated as a matter-of-factly.He both loved and hated her intelligence and cunningness. He gently pushed her away and smiled serenely. “You don’t have to incite me, Vee. Just watch and see if
Edward nodded slowly as he listened to her, then asked in an affected manner, “So, is the number still engaged?”Indeed, it was still engaged. Ever since Vivian used that number to call some strange phone, that number remained engaged. On top of that, even the foreign number that Vivian had once used to call her was discovered to be a dead number after she tried dialing it again. Aside from shock, Renne was in disbelief as well. If it weren’t for the call records on her phone, she would’ve begu
At this point, it seemed like this was the most logical solution. Renne was nothing like Vivian. She had unwittingly fallen into Edward’s trap. After a bout of hesitation, she replied, “Okay.”Talking about it was easy, but the engagement party was tomorrow, and both parties came from famous and prestigious families. Even though they never planned on making it an extravagant affair, all of their good friends and relatives had already been informed. Therefore, canceling the engagement was easier
Master Levin shot him a cold glare. “What woman do you want? That Carraway girl?”“Yes,” Edward replied calmly. He was neither forceful nor acquiescent about it.“What an infatuated seed you are!” Master Levin scoffed icily. He rose to his feet with his walking stick, then went on his way out. Unexpectedly, Edward stopped him just as he had taken two steps forward. “Don’t touch her, Gramps,” he said in an even tone, “It wasn’t easy for me to get her back. I’m cherishing her now. Besides, you k
Estelle Konstantin’s mind had been preoccupied the entire day. She couldn’t continue her night-time studying either, so she packed her bags and went back home very early. She had just arrived at the alley in front of her house when she noticed Edward’s car. She was taken aback, then her heart leaped with joy. She was about to run up to him when she remembered everything that had happened yesterday, so she pretended to ignore the car and puffed out her chest as she raised her head and walked past
Did you know, Vee?I’ve thought of this more than once. If only our beginning from that night wasn’t so unbearable, how wonderful would it be?… The light from the setting sun spilled towards her from the side, casting a glow on the piece of paper, illuminating the words on it, and giving them a slight shimmer. Just like last year, when she emerged from the ultrasound room in the maternity hospital, weak after a mere two steps, she had to lean against the corridor. She covered her mouth with
Vivian arrived home a little late. She parked the car at the side of the road first, then collected her subscribed newspapers and magazines from the mailbox at her gate. She flipped through the mail as she walked in. To her surprise, she found a letter. It was an envelope made from kraft paper with her name on it.It was a rare handwritten letter with the faint print of a bamboo tree, drawn with Chinese calligraphy ink. The bamboo was tall, straight, and fierce just like the script on the lette
“It’s been three months now, why isn’t the little one moving? When will the baby quicken?” he asked her, “Can it hear me? Will it remember my voice?”He even asked, “Who do you think it’ll look like, Vee? Will it be a girl or a boy?”She knew very well that he was harboring evil intentions, but she gave into him and crumbled anyway. She sobbed and screamed, “Kill me, Sean Jackson. Kill me. I will never give birth to this child even if I die! Never!”He soothed her, “Alright. Don’t give birth
His lower jaw tightened. The lines on his face stiffened icily like the cold edges of a knife. In reality, he had given up long ago. His heart was as dead as ash. However, refusing to accept this, he grasped at everything, hoping to find a straw that could save a life, not to save himself but to save his child’s life. That was how well he knew her. He knew that once she escaped, she would never spare his child. Did he hate her? Yes. He hated how he couldn’t shoot her dead. Love triumphed over ha
“Then, what should we do?” his aide asked.A hero’s end was, inevitably, death. He wasn’t afraid of death, but he was simply plagued with remaining grievances. After a bout of silence, Edward calmly said, “Do something for me. Once that’s done, just slip away. There are no lives in your hands and you aren’t in the cops’ database. No one will notice you.”This aide had received a great debt of gratitude from Edward once, so he was solely loyal to him. He became distressed when he heard this, so
“You deserve it for all of the crimes you’ve committed!” Vivian screamed, losing control. Her emotions felt strangely steady after that scream. She threw the gun away as her sparkling, dark eyes were filled with renewed determination. She stared at him and spoke, enunciating every word, “Sean Jackson and those brothers of yours, you’ve all got your justice. Beaten to death, right? Arrested, was it? But when you willfully hurt others and view their lives as nothing more than weeds, you should hav
She hadn’t slept the entire night, and she was extremely high-strung. However, she was feeling slightly fatigued. Perhaps because of the comforting glow from the brightening day outside, she lay down on the bed with her clothes on after a bout of hesitation. She had only intended on taking a nap but unexpectedly fell into a deep sleep.Vivian suddenly woke up, startled. She had lost track of how long she had been asleep. She found a figure standing in front of her bed when she awoke and was gre
Vivian was taken aback by his question. “You haven’t caught him?” she exclaimed in astonishment. She thought that they had already apprehended Edward based on the expression on Jake’s face.“Our men have surrounded the condominium,” he answered simply, “He and Wade seized a hostage and hid inside the study. Both sides were caught in a deadlock for a while, but when they burst the study door open, they only found Wade and that hostage inside.”Vivian trembled uncontrollably as she listened to h
The wedding day was drawing to a close. Vivian stayed at the condominium until the day before the wedding. Then, she moved to Edward’s villa by the lake to wait for the wedding ceremony. Edward drove her there himself, feeling reluctant before he left. He turned around and looked at her, then softly said, “Wait for me. I’ll come for you tomorrow, first thing in the morning.”Vivian didn’t respond and simply stood at the doorway, quietly watching him.For some reason, the sight of her like this