A Lifetime With You

Chapter 118
“Tell me, why can’t I remember you?” Ava asked him continually. “You had an accident and fell into the sea. You were saved by Selden, but he lied to you. You should remember what happened after that.” She knew what happened after that better than anyone else. She was rescued by Enrico after the car accident and almost lost her life while on the verge of delivering due to excessive bleeding. But her memories were blank before the incident. At the beginning of her amnesia, Selden would deceive her and won over her trust completely, but it wasn’t easy to fool her now. “If Damien is my ex-husband, could the fragments of memories about him true?” Damien saw her face paled. As he stood up and wanted to put a blanket on her, she instinctively avoided it.
He paused and said in a low pitch, “You don’t have to be afraid of me, I mean no harm.”
“Let me ask you a question, and you have to answer me truthfully.”
“Sure, go ahead.”
“Since you’ve never liked me, why did you marry me? Why do you come to me now?” Damien was stunned, “Who told you about this?” “No one told me, I remembered it by myself.”
Four years ago, she remembered when she fell into the sea and she wanted to escape desperately. Thus, she supposed that the marriage must be awful and torturous. The vague figure in her memories has the coldest tone she had ever heard and condemned her with humiliation, “A woman like you would never deserve to be my wife.”
It was the only remaining image in her memory.
She couldn’t help but feel disgruntled as soon as she thought of this.
She looked at Damien distantly and frostily. “I should have hated you in the past, please leave now.” She told him. “There must have been some misunderstanding.” “No, there isn’t!I don’t believe even a single word from you.” Ava said frigidly. She asked Damien to leave, but as she saw that he was unwilling to do so, she reached out and was about to pull out the IV on her hand. She wanted to get out of bed and leave the hospital with her
son.

Damien stopped her by telling her, “The doctor said you’re fine, but you should at least finish this bottle of IV before you leave. I know you don’t want to see me, I’ll leave.”
Ava turned her head away as she refused to look at him. Damien sighed silently as he walked out of the ward.
“Mommy……”
Jean didn’t know what had happened, and he stood aside timidly. He looked at his mommy and the
back of the man, who might be his father, and didn’t know which side to choose. Ava was relieved and sighed as she leaned back on the pillow. Her mind was a mess, and she had a terrible headache. “Mommy, he might be my daddy. Why did you drove him away?” Jean asked. “Jean, do you want a father so much?” As he sensed that his mother was sad, he quickly shook his head. “Having you is more than enough.” Ava smiled bitterly and caressed her son on his head. Jean frowned as he looked at daddy disappearing in the corridor. In fact, he had never thought about having a daddy, but it didn’t seem bad to have a daddy out of the blue.
But if his mommy didn’t like him, he didn’t want him as well.
After Damien left the hospital, he immediately called his assistant, “Find out where Selden is and what he is doing recently.” He thought, even if Ava could not remember anything about him, her attitude towards him shouldn’t be the same as before. Unless someone told her something or had done something to her.
However, Damien was wrong this time.
Although Selden had deceived him before and got close to Ava while she had amnesia, Selden thought that she was dead ever since she fell into the sea four years ago. Since then, he was depressed and he was drunk every day.
In the past one or two years, he went abroad and he might not even know that Ava came back.
Karen called him to go back to their parents’ house immediately as something urgent came up. Damien didn’t want to leave as Enrico stayed in the house since he was back. They would have to meet each other if he went back and he didn’t want to have any conflicts with Enrico. However, Karen was anxious on the phone that she was about to cry. “Your father complained to have shortness of breath and he feels that his chest was stuffy this afternoon. The family doctor came but it didn’t help even after he took the medicine. You should come back quickly to visit him!” “If he’s not feeling well, why don’t you send him to the hospital?”
“I… I’m just a woman, how could I decide on behalf of him? You better come back as soon as possible!” Karen’s tone was so uneasy to a point that Damien was affected and felt worried. He had no choice but to go back. The old house was as quiet as before.
Just as he was about to went into the house, he heard few women laughed and chatting in the house. Damien understood the situation right away and he was about to turn around to leave. At the moment, Karen heard the sound of car engine in the yard. She quickly came out to welcome him.
“Hey, you’ve just arrived, why are you leaving so soon? Come in, Aunt Mariah is here.” Damien was being dragged into the house unwillingly by Karen. Sure enough, Aunt Mariah and her daughter, Florence Burton, was the living room. “Let me introduce you, she’s the wife of the CEO of Gringots Financial Holdings and Florence is the apple of their eye. Florence is highly educated, and she had graduated from Harlard University in Batovia. She’s well-educated as well as beautiful.” Karen introduced them enthusiastically, while Damien’s face had already turned dark in an instant. In the past four years, his mother had arranged blind dates for him repeatedly. She was afraid that he would refuse to come back and even lied about his father’s health. Florence stood up and held out her hand out, “Long time no see.” He curled his lips and sneered, “It has been a long time indeed.” “Do you know each other?” Mariah asked. “Yes.” Florence embarrassedly withdrew her hand and politely sat back. “Well, since you’ve known each other, there must be things you two can talk about. It seems that we, as elders are worried for nothing.”
Damien said coldly, “There’s nothing to worry about. If my mum and you didn’t deliberately set this up, Miss Burton and I most probably would not see each other again for the rest of our lives. Wouldn’t that be a pity?”
The situation was awkward, and Florence let out a dry cough as she was flustered.
After all, the two of them had an unpleasant past. Of course, the one-sided admiring relationship had ended long ago.
Damien had never expected that Florence had not given up and even came for this arranged blind date.