Loving You In Secret

“Do you really…hate me this much?”

Vicky jolted awake and was drenched in sweat. She grabbed her phone to check the time and noticed that she had only slept for an hour.

After reading the last message she received from the mysterious man, she wiped her sweat away and made a call to Harvey.

“Vicky?” Harvey answered the call.

Vicky cut to the chase and said, “Gloria didn’t leave on her own. She’s been kidnapped.”

“Did Tyler do this?”

“Yeah.”

Harvey did not seem surprised. “Do you know where she is?”

Vicky provided him with the address, and Harvey blurted out asking, “How do you know this, Vicky?”

Vicky hesitated for a moment before informing Harvey about the mysterious man.

He chuckled bitterly and said, “Even after all these years, you still trust him with everything.”

quiet for a while before saying,

and I—” He paused in realization and

known what

“Yeah,” Vicky muttered.

“Do you remember everything?”

of it, but…” Vicky frowned. “There’s still a part

“Which part is that?”

don’t remember why

that part of memories important to

“Yes.”

silence, Harvey said, “If you insist, I’ll do my

regained her memories, she remembered everything that happened

for what happened. I’ve never blamed you. I had an ulterior motive when I was engaged to you… I chose you

“Why me?”

look like a player, but you haven’t acted out of line once. You’ve protected and cared for Gloria simply because she saved your life once, which indicates that you were a grateful and decent person. The Shaws were looking for a family to marry me off to…and you were the best candidate

thought I’d

“No.”

He froze.

you’d set me free if a day should come that I no longer wish to continue the marriage,”