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“Boss!”
Ashton strode in, taking in the sight of Marilyn sprawled on the floor in her revealing red dress. He didn’t need to guess twice to know what she had tried.
Seeing his boss’s expression darken and the air around him turn sharp with danger, Ashton yanked Marilyn up by the arm. “Are you out of your mind? Get out of here!”
This time, Marilyn was truly frightened. No matter how unwilling she was, she didn’t dare stay another second. She scrambled up and fled.
Ashton let out a heavy sigh.
Henry had once warned him not to hire male secretaries, worried about flirtations from “fox spirits” outside. So this round, Ashton had only hired women.
He hadn’t expected that the female secretaries could be just as much trouble.
“Boss…”
Marilyn had been his hire, and now that she’d dared make a move on their leader, Ashton felt a cold knot of guilt.
“Out!”
James had no interest in listening to him. After dismissing him with an icy command, he picked up the sheet of paper on his desk-the abortion record.
Lily had already told him she’d gotten rid of the baby.
Even so, he’d clung to a tiny, desperate hope.
He had wished she might change her mind and keep the child. Hoped he had misheard her. Even wished absurdly, that his ears were failing him.
But the words printed clearly on the paper left no room for hope. She had indeed undergone the procedure.
“Boss…”
Ashton hadn’t left immediately. Seeing James holding a sheet of paper, his face drained of color, he couldn’t hide his worry. “Are you feeling unwell? What is that in your hand-“
“I’m fine.”
James wasn’t about to tell him the truth. If Henry learned about the abortion, they might not be able to take it.
He kept his tone flat. “Have someone watch over Lily in secret. Report to me about anything that happens.”
“Lily!”
After crouching in silence for a while, letting her tears fall, Lily finally stood and began to walk toward the gates of the villa community like a sleepwalker.
She had barely stepped outside when a hand clamped around her wrist.
Hearing John’s voice, her face tightened with alarm. Instinctively, she tried to wrench herself free.
“John, what are you doing? Let me go!”
She struggled several times without breaking his grip.
Her eyes darted around, searching for a nearby security guard to call to.
But John was too fast.
Before she could shout for help, he had snatched her phone away, tossed it aside, and shoved her into his car.
“What are you doing? You have no right to treat me like this! I want to get out!”
His rough handling threw her hard onto the backseat. The jolt left her sore, and with her body still drained from the night before, she had no strength to push herself up.
By the time she managed to sit upright, the car was already speeding away.
Memories of the last time he had abducted her-when he’d tried to force her into ending her pregnancy- made her blood run cold. She shivered from the inside out.
“John, stop the car!”
Her panic brought tears to her eyes as she pounded on the seat in front of her. “I said stop! You Jumatic” stop right now!”
“Lily, James has divorced you. He doesn’t love you. He doesn’t want you, and he sure as hell doesn’t want the bastard in your belly!”
His voice was thick with obsession and madness, every word like a blade.
“You’re my girlfriend, my woman, and I will never let you give birth to another man’s bastard!”
“I… I already ended the pregnancy.”
Instinctively, Lily’s hands went to protect her abdomen. “James didn’t want the baby. It’s gone now. Just stop the car and let me out!”
“Heh.”
John’s lips curved in a cold, mocking smile, making it clear he didn’t believe a word she said.
The last time, in what had once been their marital home, she had rather died than let him harm that “bastard” child. How could she possibly have been willing to get rid of it?
He had heard about her being abducted, the hardships she’d suffered on the road, the helpless fear she must have felt. The thought had pained him.
He wanted to take care of her from now on, to cherish her. But he, John, would never raise another man’s child. That bastard in her belly had to go.
Lily could tell he didn’t believe her.
Her heart pounded so violently she thought it might burst from her chest. For a wild moment, she even considered going down with him in a final act of desperation.
But John deserved to die-her baby did not.
“John, I’ve saved your life more than once.”
Lily had never been one to hold favors over someone’s head.
But she wasn’t his match physically, and she was terrified that in one of his mad fits, he would force her to lose the baby. So she swallowed her fury and tried to reason with him.
“You know the saying-repay kindness tenfold. I don’t need you to do anything for me. I just want you to stop the car and never hurt my child again.”
“You and Elsa are in love. The two of you should stay together and live your lives. Why drag other people into your madness? Stop the car, John. Stop!”
“I don’t love Elsa.”
He hadn’t spent much time with Elsa lately.
Even when he sat at her bedside, his mind was full of Lily.
He wanted Elsa’s final days to be happy, but that didn’t mean he would ever let Lily go.
His thoughts drifted, and he found himself recalling the best moments of their love. Back then, Lily had been willing to sacrifice anything for him.
She had once valued him more than her own life. How could she have turned so cold in such a short time?
How could she have betrayed him and ended up pregnant with another mai ld?
They had shared four years of life and death together.
He refused to believe that the woman who had risked her life for him again and again could truly not love him anymore.
It was easier to believe she was just angry.
He didn’t like women’s unreasonable tantrums, but after so long apart, the house had felt empty and so had his heart. So he decided to bend, to say a few soft words to coax her back.
“I know you married James-and even got pregnant-just to spite me. You were angry that I lent the wedding dress you made with your own hands to Elsa, angry that I gave her a wedding behind your back. But Lily, I only took care of Elsa out of guilt. She’s sick, and I wanted to be with her at the end. There’s never been any romance between us. The one I’ve always wanted is you. From now on, I’ll avoid being alone with her. I’ll spend more time with you. Get rid of that bastard in your belly, and we can start over. Once we’re married, we’ll have our own child. The three of us will be happy together. You love the sea, don’t you? After the procedure, when you’re healed, I’ll take you there. I even bought an island. If you like it, we can live there for a while. We can-
“Who said I want to have your child? Who said I want to be with you?”
Lily’s voice dripped with disgust.
Yes, she loved the sea.
But she had heard how Elsa had longed to see it, and how John had bought an island for her, setting off fireworks, holding a music festival… spending three romantic days and nights there.
Why would she want to stay on the island he had bought for Elsa?
The thought sickened her.
Her fury made her chest heave, and she had to take several deep breaths before her voice returned. “I do love the sea-but only with the man I love.”
“John, do you really think a rotten cucumber like you is worthy?”
The insult turned his face an ugly shade of iron.
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