Bella's heart pounded wildly.

Hugh never liked the sea either. He said that the vast and mysterious ocean always filled him with an inexplicable melancholy. He preferred towering mountains, relishing in the feeling of standing at the peak and surveying the world below. In the end, he was lost to the vast ocean.

Hugh did not like eating fish either. He found it tedious to pick out the bones, but whenever Bella ate fish, he would painstakingly remove every single bone for her.

Bella was sure that he was Hugh. He had to be!

"Hugh! It's me, Bella! Don't you recognize me?! Hugh!" Bella cried out, her eyes brimming with tears as she repeatedly called his name, desperately trying to awaken his memories.

"Ms. Thompson, you've mistaken me for someone else." Jace looked at her with indifference, becoming slightly annoyed. "I have no parents, no family, and no siblings. Mr. Iverson, staring at the sea for too long can cause hallucinations. You should have Ms. Thompson's brain checked."

...

Bella was forcibly sent back to her room by Christopher's bodyguards.

In the dining room, the air between the two men was tense.

While Christopher brooded, Jace was eating heartily, ignoring the seething man.

"How long are you planning to stay here?" Christopher asked coldly.

"Until you successfully marry her," Jace replied as he picked up a napkin to wipe his lips. At that moment, there was a fleeting trace of aristocratic elegance in his demeanor, but it quickly vanished. "If you can successfully marry Ms. Thompson, I will leave."

Christopher's eyes darkened. "And if we don't?"

a sip of

fiancée away from me and bring her to the Boss,

rising from his seat. "If you do manage to marry her, then the Boss will

of the heroic spirit he had once possessed

stunned, but then

and his understanding of

stabilize Bella's emotions. With "Hugh" by her side, would she still want to run? Would she

*

five days, Justin and

turned

every island, every sea, and every city, leaving no stone

also arrived with reinforcements, joining Justin and Asher in combing through

nights were

obscuring the landscape and

nearly impossible to

anyone, Additionally, wild animals

lands. Despite

showed no intention of retreating,

any sign of Bella.

Time was running out.

captive by that beast Christopher made Justin's heart ache. He could not allow himself to stop or slack off, not even for a

were both on the verge of collapse, but Justin kept

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