Chapter 7
After the incident with Rebecca last time, I decided to move. My original intention was to make sure Xander could never find me again, but every move I made seemed to be right under his nose.
Owen relied on me for everything, but at that moment, there were no suitable housing options available.
“How about going to my house first?“”
This address had already been known by Xander, and Owen was afraid that Xander would come to find me during his absence,
“Your home?” I asked in response.
Owen still loved blushing, but he had made some progress. At least now he dared to meet my In such situations. “Um… don’t overthink it, I have two bedrooms in my house, it’s enough to accommodate us.”
“However, we couldn’t keep living in a two–bedroom apartment forever.”
It is like this in my house, and it is also like this in his house. When will Rebecca’s cohabitation be confirmed?
Owen’s eyes slightly widened, as if I had said something extraordinary. My face didn’t blush, and my heart didn’t skip a beat, Teasing him about this matter was something I had easily mastered.
“Catherine..
I took out the bank card that my parents left me and said to Owen very seriously, “Owen, as you know, I am the adopted daughter of the Lennox family, a plaything that the Lennox family can discard at any time. But I also have genuine feelings, although mostly tainted, but I still have a little bit that is pure I don’t know if you are willing to accept this little bit of genuine feelings or not.
Owen’s eyes t
turned red, and he spoke cautiously, “Catherine, your sincerity was always pure, even if it was just a little bit, I couldn’t ask for more.”
I embraced him with deep emotion, and it was only after a while that I remembered to put the bank card into his hand.
“Dowry
Owen was taken aback for a moment, although it was a dowry, it felt like I was giving him an engagement gift.
He laughed out loud and said, “Well, well, take it back. The dowry should be kept in one’s own hands.”
Oh, it turns out that the dowry had to be held in one’s own hands.
Ime back into his arms and whispered in my ear, “The dowry belongs to the dowry, but the money in the house will also be yours in the
Owen pulled m future.”
Hume, I liked this word.
Luckily, there wasn’t much stuff, so Owen packed all day and we moved.
His house was as clean and didy as I had imagined. I lay on Owen’s bedroom floor, observing. The scent of citrus wafted in through the half–opened window, pleasing and fragilint.
“Why are you standing there? Come in,” Owen patted my head from behind, and 1 happily jumped onto his bed, which was soft and comfortable. Owen lay down beside me, having been busy all day, and unknowingly became a little tired.
“Go to sleep”
I buried my head in the pillow, bolding Owen’s slightly rough hand, and entered the dreamland.
When I woke up again, it was already dark outside. In the bedroom, the bedside lamp was turned on, and in the dim light, Owen was still working laptop.
working on his
When I woke up, he quickly closed the computer, unplugged the USB drive, and then brought tomato soup from the bedside table.
Alter drinking the soup, I fell asleep apain. The next day, Owen was nowhere to be seen by the bed.
Chaper?
Chapter 8
at the pre–made three meals a day from the fridge, and ate them
For three consecutive days, I followed Owen’s recipe on the refrigerator and tools out tastelessly,
I really liked Owen, but I didn’t know what he did.
On my phone, there was not a single missed call, Instead, all of them were pressed off by me, the familiar numbers that I used to know by heart.
I intended to go out and look for him, even considered going to the police station to report the case, but the police couldn’t even find those criminals who kidnapped me. Can I trust them?
I walked out of the door in confusion, and when I reached the corner of the alley in a daze, I was suddenly pulled into a car by someone. When I woke up again, I was on my bed in my room.
To be precise, it was the room of the Lennox’s villa.
The room was dark, and the moonlight shone through the window, revealing a figure sitting in the darkness, staring at me.
“Ah!” I was very scared and hid under the blanket. The person quickly turned on the light and came over to comfort me
“Catherine, I just wanted you to have a good sleep. I’m sorry if I scared you.”
The sound was like a spell, and Thesitated to pull the blanket down, feeling a chill all over my body. “Mr. Lennox…”
Xander pulled down the covers, looking somewhat hurt. “Catherine, didn’t you used to like calling me Xander?
I shook my head, hoping that he would stay away from the My chest was being squeezed so tightly that I couldn’t breathe on the bed. “I dare not, I will never pester Mr. Lennox again.”
Day and night, 1 only remembered this one sentence, a sentence that could spare me from getting beaten.
Kander seemed to be a bit agitated, his eyes red, restraining himself: “Catherine, I’m sorry, I didn’t know, I didn’t know that delaying the ransom for a few days would bring you… they had promised me it wouldn’t”
Don’t know? What don’t you know? Don’t you know how to hit me? He could have saved me.
I didn’t want to remember those things, but there were always people making me recall them over and over again. Xander seemed to already know what I bad been through, but I just wanted to know where Owen went.
“Do you know where Owen was
Xander gripped my wrist, his tone firm yet pleading, “Catherine, forget about him, can we start over?”
Upon hearing this sentence, I could no longer control myself. I stood up and pushed him away, my waist colliding with the corner of the table in the dirnly lit room.
“Catherine!”
! knelt down, just like that day when Xander came to pick me up and I got in his car
“Mr. Lenox, please give Owen back to me. He’s all I have left, I beg you.. I beg you…”
Xander wanted to come over and hug me: “Catherine, you had a wound on your lonee, get up and tell me, get up and tell me, okay?”
I dodged his hand and resisted crazily, “I only have him! Xander! You just want me to die, don’t you! Don’t touch him! I will die! I will die!”
Xander collapsed and shook his head sorrowfully, “Catherine, I never how could I let you die?
“Bang!”
I broke the vase on the table and picked up the pieces with my throat.
“Where was Owen, after all?
Xander looked dejectedly and said, “Catherine, I really didn’t know, don’t move, don’t hurt yourself.”
paused for a moment and understood what was going on: “So that’s it, you don’t believe that I would die…” “Doctor”
Xander shouted.
The doctor and the bodyguard rushed in at the same time, and I was restrained. Xander took advantage of the situation and snatched the sharp plass shard
from my hand.
A sedative was injected into me, and I instantly lost all strength and emotions.
The doctors were busy bandaging Xander’s cat hand.
“I was fine, I went to check on Catherine,”
“Mr. Lennox, don’t worry, Ms. Stewart just scraped a layer of skin.”
The doctor simply wrapped a few layers of gauze around the insignificant wound.
“However, Ms. Stewart’s emotional trama was severe and required proper treatment.”
“I knew it, thank you.”
After a while of busying ourselves, there were only Xander and me left in the room.
I lay in bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, as if my consciousness was floating outside my body.
Xander se me in this state and almost choked up, “Catherine. please give me a chance to redeem myself, I will make it up to you.”
That sedative seems to be very useful, a calm heart can recall even the most terrifying memories.
“Compensate…”
“Yes, compensation”
“How to compensate? Let me think..”
Xander, excitedly, grabbed my hand as if he had seen hope
“I was kidnapped for three months. At first, they thought I was valuable and treated me well, except for scaring me every day and threatening to leave my body in the wilderness if they didn’t receive money. Oh, and during that time, they would give me half a loaf of bread to eat every day. I couldn’t eat it, but little did I know, soon I wouldn’t even have that kind of bread to eat.‘
Later, they called you and asked me to cry more miserably. How did you respond? You said something offensive, telling them to contact your secretary if they had any issues. Shortly after hanging up the phone, one of them kicked me in the stomach, causing me to fall to the ground along with the chair.
Gradually, they started to become reckless, realizing that it didn’t matter what they did to a lady like me, as no one would care. So, every day they would physically abuse me, kicking and punching me whenever they felt even slightly displeased, using me as an outlet for their frustrations
I saw Xander’s body start to tremble, couldn’t he bear it anymore? What should we do next?
“Later on, they couldn’t get the money and gradually lost patience. Whips, steel needles, clubs, and even the curling iron I had in my bag that day, when electrified, burned the skin and emitted a smell of burning.”
With each sentence spoken, Xander became more and more devastated. He hardly dared to look at me, yet he was afraid that I would disappear in the blink of an eye. It was a conflicting and painful situation.
But I didn’t care, why bother with such pretense?
“Catherine, why didn’t you wait for me to pick you up? You tell me, I would have definitely lalled them!”
1 tälted my head and said with a wry smile, “The ransom hasn’t been received yet, they said they would kill me, you know? At that moment, I was actually thinking, finally I can be free, I can even see my parents faces, they are waiting for me over there.”
“But they told me to live well. I didn’t know where I got the strength from, but I managed to escape, It was a forest, then farmland, and then a highway.”
“I used to sleep in the o canopy, up in the trees, eating leaves and drinking rainwater. If I was lucky, I would come across a garbage dump and eat some of the things that people most often gave me spoiled food.”
And so, after traveling for several days and nights, covering dozens of kilometers, I returned to you. You said to me, “You’re really dirty.” “Haha,”
Xander couldn’t hold on any longer and knelt down on the ground. His eyes were bloodshot and terrifying as he looked at me, already filled with despair.
Catherine, I’m sorry, I didn’t know, I didn’t know about the ransom… I didn’t know you came back like this..
“Xander, can you go through everything that I went through with Rebecca? You can’t make up for what I went through, but I forgive you.
“Really? Xander exclaimed in disbelief, trembling as he grabbed my hand.
