Things always looked a little blurrier when you were staring at them using one eye instead of two.

John stepped into the room and brushed past the nurse, who couldn’t help but gaze admiringly at him. A man with his handsome looks was bound to attract female attention wherever he went.

He was probably used to it as well. He walked into the room and gazed down at me, his eyes full of worry. After glancing up and down my body, his eyes settled on the pinpricks of blood on the back of my hand.

“How did you manage to do that to yourself?”

I replied blithely, “My skin is too fair, I suppose. It was very difficult to find the veins.”

John frowned a little but didn’t say anything more. As he continued to gaze at me, he asked, “Well, how do you feel?”

I evaded his question expertly. “Have you found Summer?”

John nodded and replied, “Yes, we’ve already found him. Ashton suspected Kristina all along, but it wasn’t until he found Summer that he realized something was terribly off. That was when he went to look for you in the factory.”

I pursed my lips. Ashton was a very clever man indeed. Also, that taxi driver had disappointed me greatly! I thought he would at least be kind enough to help me call the police.

I couldn’t help but sigh. Strangers weren’t to be trusted, after all.

John looked at me with a strange expression on his face. “Why aren’t you asking me how Ashton is?”

That was a difficult question. How was I supposed to answer that?

the sulfuric acid, so his injuries were probably far worse

morosely, “John, don’t you think I’m pretty

to blame for this incident, because you couldn’t have predicted his actions. It’s well within your rights to be mad at Ashton, but Scarlett, you must know that he has put in his best effort for

effort. He was a human being and not a god, after all. He couldn’t have known that Jared was hiding a deep grudge and that after so many years, Jared had finally laid a

that grudge in the first place! That was an undeniable

my eyes, John sighed a little, looking very helpless. “Scarlett, if you don’t let go of your grudge now, you’ll have an even harder time in

retorted, “What about you, then? Can you disregard Hannah’s family background and live happily with her for the rest

perturbed, he muttered, “We’re talking

other party when

probably thinking that I was a lost cause.

anaesthesia began to wear off, a burning feeling gripped my face. I lay in bed, thinking miserably about how

immediately. The moment she saw me, tears fell from

chose to remain silent as well. Knowing that Ashton

out that Ashton had taken the splash of sulfuric acid for

had been injured anyway. They wanted

If he employed his usual methods of chasing down people, the Crest family would be defenceless regardless of how much influence

causing intentional hurt before long. Everyone had expected this outcome. The man

badly injured by the sulfuric acid, and a large part of his skin had been corroded by the chemical. He had to be kept under strict observation

a few days in the intensive

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