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Staring in the direction Garrett’s car had gone, she sneered
without turning around, “Things between him and Adrienne
have become so nasty. There’s no going back between them. I’m
sure he’s into me now. It’s just… he doesn’t dare to admit his
feelings because of his promise to her back then.”
“Beth, I just don’t want to see you get hurt. I’ll always love you
and wait for you!”
In the car, Garrett leaned back while keeping his eyes closed.
Blood continued to drip from his palm, which was horrifying.
Jared was driving. After some thought, he took the liberty of
calling Adrienne.
“Mrs. Melendez, Mr. Melendez is hurt. It’s serious.”
Groggy, Adrienne instinctively wanted to get up as she heard
this.
Over the past three years, she’d always rush over whenever
something happened to Garrett. But someone would always
beat her to it, and everyone would laugh at her, calling her
pathetic.
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Similar things had happened so many times that she had grown
used to it, and she no longer felt a thing.
She lay back down slowly. Her tone was as flat as ever, and not
a trace of worry could be detected.
“Then take him to a doctor. What’s the point of calling me?”
Jared wanted to say something, but Adrienne had already hung
- up.
A bit uneasy, he glanced at the rearview mirror, met Garrett’s
gaze, and put down the phone awkwardly.
Garrett let out a cold laugh, his eyes filled with mockery. “Why
bother calling her? She wants me to die as soon as possible so
that she can be with the love of her life.”
Jared clutched the steering wheel, not daring to say a word.
He was struggling inside–should he drive back to Cloudhaven
Mansion or to the hospital?
In the back seat, Garrett stared at the ceiling. The car’s interior
was dimly lit, and the passing streetlamps outside the car
illuminated his reflection in the window, leaving the self-
loathing in his eyes nowhere to hide.
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After what felt like an eternity, he finally spoke, “Go back to
Cloudhaven Mansion.”
“But your hand…” Jared was hesitant.
“I’m fine,” he said.
Jared could only nod.
Less than ten minutes after arriving home, Garrett received a
call from the Melendez’s mansion. Corinne had taken a fall
while out for a walk earlier tonight and was now at the hospital.
They wanted him there right away.
He rushed to the hospital at once.
The Melendez family ran a few upscale hospitals, and this was
where they went whenever someone was injured.
Adrienne changed her clothes and rushed over after hanging up
the phone. As soon as she stepped out of the car, she spotted
Garrett.
She paused for a second before running inside the hospital, as if
she hadn’t seen him at all.
She ran away so quickly–he almost wondered if he was some
kind of plague.
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Staring at her back, he couldn’t help but feel inexplicably
annoyed.
Soon, Adrienne went to the door of Corinne’s ward. Pale–faced,
Corinne said to the members of the Melendez family, “I missed a
step on the stairs–that’s all. I’m fine. You can go back now!‘
Tabitha Webber, Garrett’s mother and Corinne’s daughter–in-
law, was holding her hand.
“Corinne, perhaps you shouldn’t take a walk at night anymore.
We were all worried sick.“”
Corinne waved her hand and looked out. As she saw Adrienne,
her eyes immediately lit up. “Adri? You’re here, too. You just
recovered. Who called you?”
Adrienne wasn’t used to being around the Melendez family, let
alone a few of them.
