Chapter 16

The cold breeze from the river blew directly at her, penetrating to her bones like a knife’s edge, but Aveline managed to get up and continue her pursuit.

However, she had underestimated the current state of her body. She hadn’t run more than a few meters before she fell to the ground hard. The car door opened again, and a pair of shiny handmade leather shoes came to a halt in front of her.

She followed the crisp pant leg of the man as it slowly moved up, and her gaze met Alexander’s icy eyes.

“Alexander…” Aveline weakly began.

A pair of knuckle–defined hands came down above her, and for a moment, Aveline seemed to see the white–clad youth who had once fascinated her in her youth. She instinctively reached her hand toward

him.

The moment their hands touched, Alexander withdrew his hand abruptly, giving her a glimpse of hope and then mercilessly taking it away, causing her body to fall hard again.

She hadn’t been injured before, but this time, her palms landed right on broken glass shards, and the glaring bloodstains dripped down from her palm.

His black pupils hesitated, but he didn’t make a move.

Aveline felt a bit dazed for a moment. She thought of how, in the past, he had taken her to the hospital in the middle of the night just for a small cut on her finger.

The duty doctor had even jokingly said, “This gentleman arrived early; if he had come any later, the

wound would have healed.”

The man in her memory and the one before her now seemed to overlap. His eyes, though ruthless as ever, were no different from the past, except now, they were filled with frost.

Alexander’s voice was cold and indifferent. “Aveline, others might not understand me, but now I don’t know you either. Someone who can somersault a thousand times at the gym can’t walk a few steps?”

His gaze at her was filled with contempt, cutting through her like a knife.

Aveline bit her pale lips and tried to explain, “No, I didn’t lie to you. I’m just ill, and 1-”

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the tall man bent down, picked up her chin, and his rough fingers brushed over her dry lips. “Indeed, it seems that like

the chilling wind,

honorable man, and I’m sure he’d never do anything

if he didn’t want to argue with her on this topic, and he took out a check from his wallet. He casually wrote a number on it, and with two fingers, he

want this?”

she didn’t have to

that generous, and Aveline

“Under one condition.”

is a wretched scoundrel who’s not worth

changed dramatically after hearing this. She raised her hand to slap him but was swiftly caught by his wrist. In the struggle, her injured

tightened his grip and spoke sternly, “Don’t want to say it? Then let him die in

like this?” Aveline

lifetime and keep her from crying seemed like a dream now. Her tears were

yellow glow of the streetlamp that fell on his face lacked warmth; it was all just filled with disdain. “You refuse to

go of Aveline and tore up the

her away. He looked down with indifference, as if he

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paper shattered her hopes, finally turning into a flurry of

her.

Aveline frantically tried to pick up the shattered pieces, and her tears fell onto the ground one

by one.

lost child, in a panic, and feeling helpless after losing

to get into his car,

on

Sterling, it seems that Madam has fainted. Should we take her to the

Lucas. “You seem to

when Mr. Sterling used to care deeply about Madam. However, since he returned from

matter, and Lucas didn’t dare to ask more. He drove the car away as

at the woman who never got up through the rearview mirror, a disdainful expression deepening on

for many days, she seemed to have become better at

Aveline had grown up in a pampered environment, Anthony had made her practice various physical activities from a young age so

with a black

Aveline was just

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