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?

so his injuries were probably far worse than mine. However,

up at John and asked morosely, “John, don’t you think I’m

not to blame for this incident, because you couldn’t have predicted his

after all. He couldn’t have known that Jared was

that grudge in the first place!

looking very helpless. “Scarlett, if

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

at my question. Looking rather perturbed, he muttered, “We’re

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 shoes. You might even think I’m making a big

pursed his lips, probably thinking that I was a lost cause. The

burning feeling gripped my face. I lay in

and Cameron rushed over to the hospital immediately. The moment she saw

of them chose to remain silent as well. Knowing that Ashton had caused my injury indirectly, their

taken the splash of sulfuric acid for me, their

I had been injured anyway. They wanted an explanation for

was a very powerful man. If he employed his usual methods of chasing down people, the Crest family would be

before long.

large part of his skin had been corroded by the

spending a few days in the intensive care unit, his condition finally

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