True Love Waits

Chapter 357 The Car Accident Three Years Ago

Just as Debbie was having quite a hard time fighting it out with the bodyguards, a flash of blinding light obscured her vision for a moment. Within seconds after that, she saw the car and realized that it was actually James' limo trying to run her over. As she was staring straight into the headlights, she made out the sound of the car's screeching tires. She turned rigid. In that instant, she suddenly recalled something that happened three years ago-the car accident. At that point, a terrible idea spontaneously popped up in her mind, regarding the possible cause of that accident. 'Could it be possible...'

It sent shivers down her spine, but she couldn't afford to think about it given the position that she had been in. Acting on instinct as a response to the imminent danger, Debbie quickly pressed her hand hard against the hood of the car just as it was about to hit her, and hastily sprung up, landing on top of the hood. James stepped hard on the gas after seeing her dodge. The car then began to accelerate, leaving her without a choice but to hold on for dear life over to the edges of the car. She gripped it as hard as she could, struggling to make sure she wouldn't roll off of it.

The vehicle was about to arrive at a bend, so James was forced to slow down before the turn. Not wanting to waste this window of opportunity, Debbie speedily leaped off the car, darted toward her car and hopped in it.

Starting the engine, she immediately shifted to reverse gear, stepping on the gas while promptly turning the steering wheel in order to make a sharp turn. Probably due to the adrenaline kicking in, she managed to pull all of these steps under just one breath. Before James or any of his men could do anything to stop her, she had already put the pedal to the metal and drove her car away at breakneck speed, successfully getting away from their watchful eyes.

Keeping the car's speed between 110km/h to 120km/h, she had no intention of slowing down until she was completely sure that James was already out of sight. Once she was certain that she had already gotten far enough, she eased up the tension that had built up in her calf muscles. She gradually let go of the accelerator and slowed down little by little.

After stumbling upon such a busy street, Debbie pulled over, switched on the light inside the car, and started checking up on all the injuries she might've accumulated in her arms and legs.

Her leg had gotten scraped when she tried to dodge James' limo. Apart from that, she also got a couple of bruises in her arms which she might have received after having a scuffle with the bodyguards. Fortunately, all she got were just minor injuries and it wasn't anything severe. Heaving a heavy sigh of relief, she immediately headed over to the hospital.

After she was done receiving some first aid treatment at the hospital, it was already late in the evening. So, Debbie immediately sent Colleen a text message, telling her that something suddenly came up and that she would just have to postpone her visit to the kids some other time.

At the ZL Group's New York branch

Inside the general manager's office

A secretary was knocking on the door. After getting the go signal to let her in, she entered the room and said, "Ms. Shu, there's a lady outside who would like to see you."

With her head buried deep within the countless piles of papers, Miranda didn't even have the time to raise her head and glance at her secretary. "Do you know who she is? Is it something urgent?" she hastily asked.

"She told me that her last name is Nian and that there was some important matter she had to discuss with you."

Miranda visibly raised her head upon hearing this

it possibly be

out her mobile phone and searched for an image of a poster. Showing it to the secretary, she told her, "Go ahead

as well to take a photo of the said poster. After that, she sent

later, the secretary got a reply and informed Miranda right away, "Ms. Shu.

what to do next. "Alright. Please show

"Understood, Ms. Shu."

At the reception room

was a woman sporting a light-purple dress, leaning into the window,

of high heels approaching, she turned around to check who it was. At that

creamy white office suit, there she was, standing by the doorway. Soon enough, their eyes met. The businesswoman looked as composed just as she would always be while Debbie, on the other hand, became a bit more mature than she was in the past, with a tinge of a forbidding look

her gaze away

went straight to the point right away. "Aunt Miranda, I came here to talk

the room carrying a cup of coffee. Upon placing it on the table in front of Miranda, she

a sip from the cup of coffee, Miranda asked casually,

on this, Aunt Miranda. Carlos is suffering from memory loss and James is doing everything in

at her, she replied, "I thought I already told you to stop calling me Aunt Miranda. Let me remind you that we're not that close. When you left Y City three years ago, you left without even saying a word. And now that you've found out that Carlos has gotten better, you're telling me that you want to be

a knife. She had thought long and hard about how Miranda might treat her before she headed for New York. But she never would've imagined that she would receive such a cold and unpleasant response from

explain myself for the actions I had taken from three years back. You just got to give me some time. But first and foremost, what I really want to do at this moment is to apologize to you, Aunt Miranda. I'm so sorry. I didn't listen to your advice that year and ended up being fooled by

and replied, "I'm a busy woman. Miss Nian, if you don't have anything important to say

all the way to New York just to meet her. So, she couldn't just turn back and return empty-handed. "Are you still mad at me for all of the disgraceful events that supposedly happened that year? All of those were merely false allegations which James came up with. He had every intention to ruin me and take everything away. If I can bring you some sort of proof to show that I didn't have anything to do with it, will you lend me a hand in getting back at him?" Debbie

at such a loss for words, Miranda stopped dead in her tracks. It was as though Debbie had perfectly read her mind. In fact, that was precisely the reason why she had been treating her so cold All throughout these past three years, she would get upset every single time

have such a good impression of Debbie, believing that she was the one who had been destined for Carlos. Be that as it may, from what she had been told, Debbie left Carlos after the unfortunate car accident and filed for a divorce, had an abortion, and in the end, eloped with another man. Getting so saddened by that, she felt so utterly

didn't bother looking at her, and she didn't give her any sort