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With this feeling, I participated in the animal charity event in the morning, only to see someone unexpected on the stage. The person on stage also noticed me, and his fluent speech suddenly paused.
Holding the microphone tightly, he stared at me. He wanted to rush down the stage but was stopped by someone behind him.
“Mr. Gideon, the speech isn’t over. Where are you going?”
Pushing away the person blocking him, Gideon jumped off the stage and hurriedly came towards me. Seeing him approach, I instinctively
turned and ran away from the place.
I hid in the villa for several days without leaving. A week later, thinking Gideon would have returned home, I tried to visit the animal charity
again.
But unexpectedly, as soon as I reached the entrance, I saw him there. I wanted to escape again, but this time Gideon stopped me.
Grabbing my arms emotionally, he exclaimed, “Adeline, I finally found you!”
“Ever since you left, I’ve been searching for you every day. I’m going crazy missing you all the time!”
Gideon’s voice turned choked up as he held my hands, “Adeline, please come back with me. I know I was wrong. I swear you’ll be the only one in my life from now on.”
His eyes were full of deep emotion, but it didn’t affect my feelings at all. I coldly shook off his hands, “Gideon, I’ve already decided to divorce
you.”
“You should have received the divorce papers by now. Please sign them quickly and don’t waste our time.”
Gideon firmly refused, “Adeline, I won’t divorce you.”
“I know you resent the harm I’ve caused over the past ten years. Whatever compensation you want, I’ll do it!”
“If you want all my property, that’s fine too. I just want you to stay with me.”
Hearing this, I lost patience to continue the argument and forcefully pushed him away, sternly saying, “Gideon, please stop bothering me.”
“I won’t go back with you, and I don’t want to see you again. Disappear from my sight.”
I glared at him warningly and coldly got into the car. At night, Ethan noticed my unusual mood when he returned to the villa.
He sat across the dining table, silently observing my face. He stopped me as I was about to return to my room and asked, “Adeline, what happened?”
Seeing the worry on his face, I hesitated for a long time before telling him about my encounter with Gideon.
I looked firmly into Ethan’s eyes, “I will never go back to him.”
“Don’t worry, Adeline, I will support all your decisions.”
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“Don’t worry, Adeline, I will support all your decisions.”
To help me relax, Ethan canceled his meetings the next day and decided to spend the day with me.
But as I opened the door, ready to go, I was surprised to see Gideon at the villa’s entrance.
“Adeline, I asked the charity staff for your address to beg for your forgiveness. I didn’t expect you to actually live here!”
He held out a carefully prepared bouquet to me, “Adeline, these flowers match your outfit today. Please accept them.”
Looking at the vibrant flowers, I replied indifferently, “Don’t you know I’m allergic to pollen?”
“Adeline, trust me, I’ll stand by all your decisions.”
To help lift my spirits, Ethan cleared his schedule for the next day to spend time with me.
But before I could leave, I opened the door and unexpectedly found Gideon at the entrance of the villa.
“Adeline, I got your address from the Animal Society to ask for your forgiveness. I didn’t expect you to actually live here!”
He held out a bouquet, saying, “Adeline, this matches your outfit perfectly today. Please accept it.”
I glanced at the vibrant flowers and replied coolly, “Did you not know I’m allergic to pollen?”
Gideon’s face fell, and he awkwardly tossed the flowers into the trash.
He then forced a smile and asked, “Adeline, where are you headed today? I’m free and can join you.”
I looked at him sharply and declined, “No need, I already have someone with me.”
I drew Ethan, who had just stepped out, to my side, ignoring the pained look on Gideon’s face, and prepared to leave.
Gideon blocked our path, angrily pointing at Ethan, “Adeline, are you leaving me because of him?”
At this, I slapped him and retorted angrily, “Don’t compare me to yourself!”
“Then why do you want a divorce?”
“Because I never loved you. I married you only for the heart beating in your chest!”
“That heart originally belonged to my father, the man you called unworthy!”
I stared at Gideon coldly, “I ask you to agree to the divorce soon. Let’s consider those ten years a dream and forget them.”
Gideon was shocked by the revelation and looked at me for a long time.
His eyes turned red as he shouted in despair, “No! I don’t believe anything you’re saying. You’re lying just to get a divorce, aren’t you?”
“Adeline, I know you hate Cora.”
“Right after you left, I kicked her out.”
“No one will disturb us again!” He suddenly reached out to pull me to his side.
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But Ethan stepped in, keeping me behind him, and warned, “Gideon, watch your behavior, or you’ll regret it.”
Gideon sneered, about to retort, when a pregnant woman suddenly appeared.
“Gideon, you got rid of me because you can’t forget her!”
“Luckily, I was smart and bribed your assistant to find out where you were, or I wouldn’t even know how I was abandoned!”
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Cora, visibly pregnant, pointed at her belly, shouting, “Is this fair to me and the child?”
“Child?” Gideon looked at Cora’s belly, bewildered.
Cora declared, “The afternoon you kicked me out, I found out I was pregnant.”
Her eyes gleamed with calculation, “Gideon, now you have two choices.”
“Announce to the media that you’ll marry me, or transfer all your assets to my name, and I’ll terminate the pregnancy. That money will be my compensation!”
“In your dreams!”
Gideon shouted furiously, “I won’t let the child in your belly be born, nor will I give you a penny!”
He turned to me, “In my heart, there’s only Adeline!”
Hearing this, Cora turned swiftly, glaring at me with hatred.
“Adeline, you despicable woman haunting Gideon! Since you chose to leave, why not just vanish from this world!”
She cursed me and quickly pulled a knife from her bag, advancing toward me.
“Today, I’ll make you disappear!” With that, she lunged at me with the knife.
Just as the blade was about to reach me, Ethan grabbed her wrist, twisting it firmly.
Cora’s hand released from the pain, and the knife fell to the ground.
Seizing the moment, Ethan swiftly grabbed the knife and tossed it into the neighbor’s pool.
Seeing this, Gideon also stood in front of me, “Cora, I won’t let you harm Adeline!”
Infuriated, Cora attacked Gideon.
“Gideon, how dare you treat me like this? I won’t let you off easily today!”
She scratched his face with her long nails, leaving deep, bloody marks.
Feeling the pain, Gideon pushed Cora forcefully.
The push sent the already unstable Cora tumbling to the ground, her heavy body rolling quickly down the slope to the road below.
By the time Gideon realized the danger and tried to help her, it was too late.
A truck, unable to stop in time, sped by, crushing Cora’s body instantly.
In a flash, blood was everywhere.
When Ethan, Gideon, and I rushed over, we only saw Cora, barely alive, glaring at Gideon with a look of unwillingness.
Seeing this, bystanders immediately called the police.
Gideon was arrested by the arriving officers.
With cameras recording the entire incident, the local court quickly held a trial.
Gideon was sentenced to fifteen years for negligent injury, to be held in a local prison, followed by deportation.
The day before his formal imprisonment, he desperately pleaded with the guards to see me one last time.
When I visited him in prison. I saw a man in prison clothes, significantly thinner in just half a month.
With cameras recording the entire incident, the local court quickly held a trial.
Gideon was sentenced to fifteen years for negligent injury, to be held in a local prison, followed by deportation.
The day before his formal imprisonment, he desperately pleaded with the guards to see me one last time.
When I visited him in prison, I saw a man in prison clothes, significantly thinner in just half a month.
His eyes were filled with deep emotion as he looked at me silently.
As the visiting time was about to end, he spoke in a low, remorseful voice, “Adeline, I’m sorry. I’ve been hurting you all these years.”
Seeing my indifferent gaze, he suppressed a sob in his throat and hoarsely said, “I know how much you value your father’s heart.”
“Rest assured, I’ll protect this body with all my heart.”
Just as he finished, the visiting time ended, and he was taken away by two guards.
As I was about to leave, a tearful voice suddenly called out from behind.
“Adeline, I love you.”
Hearing this, I paused briefly, then walked out as if it were all a distant memory.
At the prison gate, Ethan was waiting in the car.
He didn’t ask what Gideon said to me but silently opened the car door and drove away.
Watching the scenery quickly retreat outside the window, 1 mused, “Life is really fragile.”
When the car stopped at a red light, I looked at the person beside me and softly asked, “Mr. Ethan, would you spend this fragile yet long life with me?”
Hearing this, Ethan looked at me with joy and surprise.
When the car returned to the villa, he quickly got out, opened the passenger door, knelt on one knee, and placed the diamond ring from his pocket on my finger.
“Adeline, I do!”
With that, he pulled me into his arms, planting a gentle kiss on my cheek.
Feeling his sincere emotions, I revealed the happiest smile of my life.
[The End]
