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His voice was hoarse and aching. “I don’t like Elsa. Lily, I only want you… I love you so much, I can’t live without you. I was outside all night, in the rain… Lily, I feel awful. Please, just look at me, just once more.”
“John, do you think spending a night in the rain makes you look deep and devoted, that I should be moved?”
Lily’s lips curled in scorn. “I’m not touched-I’m disgusted. You claim you love me, that you can’t live without me… but when I loved you, you cheated. You betrayed me. And when I didn’t love you anymore, you tried to ruin my life. You even tried to kill my baby.”
Mandy had helped her, so Lily left that part out and said instead, “Last time, you forced abortion pills on me. If I hadn’t rushed to the hospital in time, my child would already be dead at your hands. Do the math-between us, you’re not some lost love, you’re a mortal enemy. Why would I ever torture myself by clinging to my enemy?”
The thought of Lily carrying James’s child cut John to the bone.
The idea of that bastard being born made him sick.
But worse was the fear of losing Lily completely.
He froze in place for a long time, struggling with himself, then finally tried to compromise.
“Lily, I won’t hurt the baby again. I… I can treat him like my own. Just come back to me, please?”
His words only deepened her revulsion.
Her eyes sharpened with loathing. “John, if you enjoy raising another man’s kid, that’s your hobby. But my child doesn’t need to call anyone else ‘Dad.'”
“Get lost!”
“Lily…”
He reached a hand through the window, but she slapped it away in disgust. James started the car and drove on.
“Lily!”
John stumbled after the car, pale as a ghost.
But a man’s legs could never match a car’s speed.
In the blink of an eye, James’s car was gone around the corner.
“I won’t let go…”
Bloodshot eyes burning with madness, he looked more deranged than ever.
“Lily, you’re my girlfriend. You’re mine. You can only be with me, John! No matter whether you give birth to that bastard or not, you can only be my woman. Yes… if James dies, then you’ll come back to me.”
That thought brought the first flicker of light back to his crazed eyes.
He had reliable news: the man behind Midnight wanted revenge for his dead brothers, hated James with a vengeance.
That man would make his move soon.
And with his methods, if he and James clashed head-on, they’d both suffer.
John prayed Midnight’s man would win.
If James died miserably, Lily would lose her support. She’d have no choice but to crawl back to him.
She’d beg to please him, beg to get rid of James’s bastard.
If she was obedient enough, he might even forgive her and give her a wedding.
After dropping Lily off at the recording studio, James went to visit the Ginger family.
Lily had already gone through too much in her life, and he worried someone might try to hurt her again when they least expected it.
So he arranged for two bodyguards to shadow her at a discreet distance, keeping her safe.
Luna was still in the hospital, awaiting a skin graft.
But today, Taylor was finally discharged.
By coincidence, just as James arrived outside the Ginger family’s villa, the cars of the three Ginger brothers also pulled up.
During the weeks after Taylor’s car accident, Mathilda had been restless with unease.
She feared Taylor would resent her forever, that he might say something to Bodger and Ivan, turning them against her as well.
Her guilt ran so deep that she hadn’t dared visit him in the hospital.
But today he was being discharged. Since they would all be living under the same roof again, there was no avoiding it. She braced herself, determined to fight for her place.
She knew she had disappointed Taylor that day.
But she also knew he cared about her. As long as she explained herself properly, she was sure he would give her another chance.
“Taylor…”
She had been waiting outside the villa long before their car arrived.
When Bodger’s car pulled up, she hurried forward-only to see James step out as well.
Their eyes met, and her watery gaze immediately lit with joy.
Ever since James had woken from his coma, he had treated her coldly.
After Lily’s abduction by traffickers, things had only worsened-Lily had turned him against her completely.
Mathilda thought James had fallen too far under Lily’s spell, that he would never step into the Ginger home again. She hadn’t dared imagine he might come seeking her on his own.
It felt like a dazzling surprise.
He must have finally seen Lily’s disgusting true face, realized that she was the one who was pure and good, wasn’t it?
Looking at his flawless, noble features, Mathilda’s heart fluttered madly.
She quickly checked her reflection in the car window to make sure her light makeup was perfect, then stepped forward shyly, her voice soft as silk. “James… brother…”
For James to come to the Ginger family for her-she was overjoyed. But Taylor’s face darkened instantly.
He shoved the car door open and stormed over, his voice sharp. “James, what the hell do you mean by this?”
“You said you loved Lily, that you’d take care of her. So why are you here looking for Mathilda?”
Ever since Mathilda returned, Taylor had always defended her unconditionally.
He thought they had failed her, that her disappearance. and suffering were because they hadn’t protected her.
So he had spoiled her, trying to make up for her pain.
But last week’s accident had shattered all of that.
The foster sister who shared no blood with him had risked her life to carry him off the wreck.
The biological sister he had treasured had abandoned him without a second thought when his life was on the line.
Lying in the hospital with a concussion, memories of his childhood with Lily kept returning to him, tormenting him.
The guilt of how he had treated her gnawed at him like a curse.
The more he thought about it, the clearer it became: he had been blind, betraying the sister who had truly loved him.
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