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?

far worse than mine. However, I was still a little

asked morosely, “John, don’t you

brows together. In a low voice, he replied, “Jared has been planning this for a long time. You’re not 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

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

cause of that grudge in the first

eyes, John sighed a little, looking very helpless. “Scarlett, if you don’t

you, then? Can you disregard Hannah’s family background and live happily with her for the rest of

fell silent at my question. Looking rather perturbed, he

right now. I’m just making you see things from my perspective. Sometimes, it’s hard to understand the viewpoint of the other party when you aren’t in their

his lips, probably thinking that I was a lost cause. The room descended into an awkward

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

my incident, Zachary and Cameron rushed over to the hospital immediately. The moment she saw me, tears fell from

silent as well. Knowing

taken the splash of sulfuric acid for me, their expressions lightened up

change the fact that I had

down people, the Crest family would be defenceless regardless of how much influence they commanded in society. After all, they had injured

apprehended for charges of causing intentional hurt before long. Everyone had expected this outcome.

a large part of his skin had been corroded by the chemical. He had to be

days in the intensive

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