Loving You In Secret

Chapter 17

Sheila was rushed to the hospital shortly after. Just as she was taken to the ward, she spotted a group of doctors wheeling someone on the bed out of the emergency room. With the doctors standing in the way, she could not see the patient’s face and only heard the doctors whispering to one another as she went past them.

“Have you managed to reach the patient’s family?”

“Not yet. She didn’t have that many contacts on her phone to begin with… We tried calling the person she called most recently, but no one has picked up so far.”

“Oh, dear. I pity her. She almost drowned to death, and she doesn’t even have a friend or a family member

with her…”

Sheila looked away carelessly.

Inside the ward, the doctor was treating Sheila’s wound when Tyler walked inside.

“How is she?” he asked.

“It’s just a scratch, so she’s alright. She should recover in a few days,” replied the doctor.

Tyler nodded.

Sheila looked at him longingly. “I’ve caused you trouble today, Tyler,” she muttered, her voice gentle and pleasant. “If it wasn’t for you, Miss Sparks wouldn’t have let me go that easily.”

Tyler remained expressionless. “It’s not your fault. Someone just decided to take it out on you.”

She was stunned for a moment but immediately realized what he meant by that. He had given his word and no one out there would dare to bully Sheila…or so it was supposed to be. It was clear that Maria was

determined to make Sheila suffer.

you

known Tyler for years and knew that despite playing around, he did not have many female friends, so she had not expected Tyler to act as though he had

said, “Rest. This type of thing won’t happen again.”

stared at her darkly as he warned her in

you won’t ever

determination in her eyes as they met his own. “You listen here, Tyler Hart. We’ll never

and scattered memories crowded

day of their wedding, she waited at home until midnight, but he never returned home and was seen with another woman that same night.

married, she would cook every night and wait for

returned, they never shared a

nor did he bother to spare her a single look in the eye, but she held on stubbornly and refused to

her surroundings changed, and the man was strangling her with bloodshot eyes.

tightened his grip around her neck. Slowly running out of

her was

finally awake, Vicky.” Someone approached her and asked, “Vicky, are

on

was a young, elegant–looking man whom Vicky did not recognize.

recognize me?” He seemed to have concluded that Vicky

car accident some time ago and

involved in a car accident?”

feeling light–headed at the simple movement.

himself, “Vicky, my

of Vicky’s pale face filled Sebastian’s heart with regret and pain. “I’m sorry, Vicky. I shouldn’t have left you

did not respond. Her head was spinning, and she

before her.

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that he was practically a stranger to her at the moment, Sebastian decided not to mention the past again and asked hesitantly, “Vicky, why