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?

were probably far worse than mine. However, I was still a little hesitant about asking John

morosely, “John, don’t

you couldn’t have predicted his

effort. He was a human being and not a god, after all. He couldn’t have known that Jared was hiding

cause of that grudge in the first

eyes, John sighed a little, looking very helpless. “Scarlett, if you don’t let go of your grudge now,

him and retorted, “What about you, then? Can you disregard Hannah’s

my question. Looking rather perturbed, he muttered,

party when you aren’t in their shoes. You might even think I’m making a big

I was a

feeling gripped my face. I lay in bed, thinking miserably about how

hospital immediately. The moment she saw me,

talking mood, so both of them chose to remain silent as well. Knowing that Ashton had caused my injury indirectly,

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

however, didn’t change the fact that I had been injured anyway.

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

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

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

in the intensive care unit,

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