9
I don’t know if it was the red wine’s fault, or because of those gossips I heard earlier.
I inexplicably pulled him close, smelling the faint scent of his cologne.
Before he could react, I gently kissed his lips.
“Emily!” A heart–wrenching roar broke through the night.
I sighed. Of course Lucas had found me.
“What, not going to accompany your true love Rachel? Coming here in the middle of the night to pretend to be deep and affectionate?”
Lucas’s eyes were bloodshot: “Please come home with me. Let’s pretend none of this ever happened.”
His hand hadn’t even touched me when Alexander kicked him down.
“She’s not a toy you can pick up and discard at will. Dare to come near her again, and I’ll have the Carter family collect your corpse!”
I supported the drunk Alexander: “Lucas, we’re long over!”
“Don’t let your mom come play the emotional card either. She insisted on having a child at an advanced age, using me as a tool. You all know that clearly in your hearts!”
“No, Emily, I didn’t scheme against you! I really love you!”
“I used to think you couldn’t leave me, but now I realize I’m the one who can’t leave you!”
I sneered: “You can’t leave me? Then what about Rachel?”
In his past life, he had children with Rachel, and now he dares to say he can’t leave me!
“So you’re punishing me? When I heard about your accident, I wanted to die with you!”
“Punish you? You’re not worthy. I just don’t want to waste time on scum!”
He clutched his chest: “Is it because of him? How could you possibly not love me!”
I laughed at his narcissism: “Your ego is that big? Well, let me show you enough!”
I hugged Alexander and kissed him deeply, ignoring the roars behind me as I pulled him into the house.
The next morning when I woke up, Alexander was glaring at me with puffed cheeks.
“I have principles, you know!”
I was groggy and wanted to continue sleeping, when suddenly remembering last night’s events, I jolted awake and fell off the sofa.
Oh no, I didn’t even ask for his consent!
“I’m sorry, I was drunk last night,”
His eyes reddened even more: “You think a simple sorry can make up for this?”
Seeing his hurt expression, I suddenly felt no better than a scumbag!
“I’m so sorry. I thought you wanted to kiss me too. I promise it won’t happen again!”
But Alexander looked frustrated: “Forget it, for you, I’m willing to do anything.”
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“You kissed
me just
to
anger him, right? You almost married him,
are you still not over him?”
“And you’ve forgotten your dream! At Cambridge, you said you wanted to be the most powerful businesswoman, making the whole world use your products!”
In my past life, although I fought hard in the business world, it was all for the Carter family. I had long forgotten my initial dream.
“How could I forget? Look, I’m back now! Thanks to you for remembering it for me!”
I was touched. He had remembered those casual words I said so many years ago.
It turns out that while I was working myself to death for Carter Group, someone had always been guarding my dream.
“Alexander, the person I like now is you, only you!”
He hugged me tightly: “You have to keep liking me in the future too. Don’t abandon me like you abandoned him.”
People in the company gossiped: “Our male god has been snatched away!”
Alexander turned back with a mischievous smile: “Who said Miss Shaw agreed to be my girlfriend?”
A year later, when Lucas learned of our engagement, he came to confront us.
Over this year, he had collected all the things I had left behind, sending white roses every day.
When we met again, he had lost a lot of weight, with streaks of white in his hair at the temples.
“Emily, you clearly married me, why did you…”
“You remember the past life?”
“So that’s why you left early. You had regained your memories too.”
“I thought you were just angry. I didn’t expect you to erase me completely.”
He opened his phone: “Rachel not only slandered you, but also hired someone to harm you.”
In the video, the kidnapped person had become Rachel.
Rachel’s face was unrecognizable from before, only identifiable by the mole on her chin.
She was covered in wounds, barely clothed, kneeling in the corner and kowtowing non–stop. The ground was covered in blood.
“She has paid the price,” Alexander said coldly.
“My mother also passed away on the operating table, without even saving the child.”
Those old foxes from Carter Group went to visit her with fake concern, actually intending to force her to give up her shares.
She had a massive hemorrhage in anger and was sent to the emergency room, leaving forever with the child in her womb.
He tried to touch my hand, but I dodged.
“Emily, I’ll give you all of Carter Group. Please don’t leave me!”
I sneered: “You think I was born loving to work hard? Back then you always said you wanted freedom, didn’t want to be tied down by the family.”
“That’s why I worked so hard, wanting to let you live the life you wanted.“”
“I went to Carter Group for you, and for you, I waited for fifteen whole years!”
His face turned pale, unable to speak.
ced my youth and freedom and in the end waited for your will wanting to give the shares to someone else!”
“I sacrificed my youth and freedom, and in the end, waited for your will, wanting to give the shares to someone else!”
I looked down at him:
“Do you think you’re worthy of me now?”
“You use your parents‘ life’s work as a bargaining chip, thinking this is deep love, but you’re still the same irresponsible person!”
His eyes dimmed: “You’re right. How could someone as terrible as me still have the face to pester you.”
That night, he jumped from the cruise ship at the same spot.
When I got home, Alexander was looking at documents, the desk lamp illuminating his focused profile.
“Alexander, do you think I’m good?”
He looked at me tenderly: “You don’t know how excellent you are.”
“Remember that time when the project failed? You hid in the stairwell crying, but still smiled to comfort everyone.”
“And that day of negotiations, you insisted on closing the deal even with a high fever.”
It turns out he had kept every detail in his heart.”
My brother said he went to Cambridge for his master’s degree because of me.
After graduating, he joined Shaw Industries waiting for me, never seeing me again until I died.
In this life, when he learned I was going to get married, he was still persistently waiting.
His eyes were full of doting: “How could I bear to miss out on someone as gentle and strong as you?”
This aloof young master was actually willing to lower his head for me.
“Alexander, let’s get married!”
He was stunned for a moment, then broke into a brilliant smile: “Then thank you, Miss Shaw, for taking me in!”
He still had that tsundere attitude, but his ears had turned red, his eyes constantly glancing at me.
I couldn’t help but laugh, leaning in to kiss him.
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