Love Is Fair by Kerri

Chapter 202

Owen suddenly recalled that three years ago on the highway, when he learned of the Brown family’s accident, he hurriedly rushed from the branch office to North City. However, halfway there, he received a breakup call from Eliza. She said in tears, “Owie, I’m sorry, I love you very much, but in order to save the Brown family, there is no way for me to be with you anymore. You can ask Auntie Polly to cut us some slack Let’s break up.” Without waiting for him to say anything, Eliza hung up the phone and when he called back again, it was switched off. In fact, he wanted to tell her that even if they were to break up, he wanted it to be done face-to-face to show respect to each other. At that moment, his girlfriend’s abandonment, and thinking of his domineering mom, both made Owen feel like he reached the lowest point in his life. When he reached the fork in the road, he didn’t slow down, and a lorry, also without slowing down, crashed straight into him –

Bang! Dazed and confused, he saw himself as a child. His parents arguing endlessly, his father slamming the door, his mother shaking with anger, breaking everything in the house that she

could, and the loud crackling outside like firecrackers on New Year’s Eve……. If this was New Year’s Eve, then his family, every day, was New Year’s Eve. When it came to home education, his father had no say in the matter. His mother was very strict with him, and he didn’t know if she was

to take it out on him, but after every fight with his lather, she would come to check his homework. If he got a word wrong, or a question, he would be severely chastised. After a beating, his mother would throw the cane aside, hold him by the shoulders and order him in an extremely stern tone that he must excel. “You must do whatever it takes to become the best in the Moore family and get back all the face I lost with your father! Do you hear me? My son, Owen Moore, must be a dragon among men!” As a child, Owen longed for his father’s love and feared his mother’s. As he grew up, he had no idea what love was, no one loved him and he could not love anyone. The only woman who loved him had also abandoned him for the sake of her family. In the end, he was still the one who can be abandoned at will. To die, in fact, was not such a difficult thing to do. He was badly injured, resuscitated three times and given more

life, but his heart did not. He was lying in bed, unconscious and unable to care for himself like a living dead man, thinking that it would be better to die than to live with such a broken body. But his family refused, and so did his care worker. After he once suffered from urinary incontinence, he pleaded with his care worker, almost red-eyed. “Please let me be euthanised, so that I can be relieved and so can you.” The carer, whose name was Hailey Byrne, replied to him like this, “Do you think death is a relief? No, death is just an escape, because everyone knows that it is the living that is the hardest.” She not only reasoned with him

if the experiences of the characters from the book gave him some strength, but he saw a glimpse of the dawn in those dark years. Those difficult days passed unnoticed. When his mother had forced him to marry, he had married her out of kindness and gratitude; he thought she had married him out of pity and money He did not know that the woman he had left out of his life for three years had taken a lot of effort to bring him up from the bottom of the cliff, inch by inch. The scene before hini was so déjà vu that it was as if yesterday had come

Hailey dragging her tired feet to be the

point, but just stayed where he was, silently gazing at her back. That man was her fourth brother, and also a doctor. With him looking after her, she would naturally be in the best of hands. It was true, as she said, “I, Hailey Newman, have had a smooth ride for over twenty years, my parents spoiled me, my brother protected me, and I have never been made to suffer half a bit …… the biggest storm in my life was brought to me by you.” Owen’s heart suddenly sank, like being clutched hard by a large hand, hurting so much that he sucked in cold air, barely able to stand up and sit down again. His head felt like he had been hit in the boxing ring and his soul

pale and came forward to ask, “What’s wrong with you, sir? Are you all right? Would you like a doctor to take a look?” “No, thank you very much.” Owen politely declined, slowly stood up and left the place Two nurses stared at his departing figure, and one nurse said, “This man looks lost in thought, his face is so pale, he can’t be suffering from some terminal illness, can he?”. “So young, how could it be? He looked more like a lost love to me, could he have been dumped by some female doctor?” “Huh?