Summer took a sip of water. It tasted bitter, and her tongue felt numb.“Sum don’t scare me anymore. Please?” Samson put down the glass and hugged Summer tightly as he took a deep breath.“Samson, can you just pretend that I’m dead?” Summer pleaded in a pressing tone.Just pretend that she had died one year ago.Just pretend that the pure woman who only loved Samson and had no one other than Samson in her heart had died.“No!” There was a rage in Samson’s voice, and he hugged Summer even more tightly. “After you recover, let’s go home.”“I can’t. Things will never be like how they used to be again…” Summer gave up struggling, and her body was limp as she lay against Samson’s chest.Both of them knew very well that things would never be like how they used to be again.Too much had changed within a year.“It’s okay if you can’t go home. I’ll stay here with you.” Samson said affectionately as he kissed Summer’s forehead.“You’ll stay with me… But where have you been for the past
Victoria closed the door and glanced at the alcohol bottles in the living room with furrowed eyebrows. A strong stench of ethanol lingered in the air. How much had Jasper drunk?“Jasper, why did you drink so much?” Victoria pretended to be concerned as she hurried over to him.Jasper furrowed his eyebrows and dodged Victoria’s hand without being aware of it. “Are you angry that I didn’t go to the hospital to get you?”“No…” Victoria’s expression darkened a little, and she forced a smile as she shook her head.“You’ve just recovered. Go upstairs and rest early.” Jasper massaged the space between his eyebrows. He had been running a slight fever.He was a very healthy person, and he went to the gym all the time.Only when he had fallen sick did he understand how bad Summer must have been feeling.What had he been doing all this while?“How about you, then?” Victoria was a little indignant.“I have some company matters to attend to. I’ll be leaving soon.” Jasper straightened his n
“Mr. Ardly, Miss Plath is very traumatized by what she has gone through.”The psychologist shook his head. He felt quite bad for Summer as well.Samson lowered his gaze and nodded.“Is this still the Plath family’s little imp I knew?” Samson walked over to the window and ruffled Summer’s hair. “Sum, can you pretend that the Summer who was missing for a year is dead?”......There was a long silence left hanging in the air, and there was a pleading tone to Samson’s voice as he spoke.“You’ve already killed that little idiot who lost her memory with your own hands, so can you become the Summer I knew again?”Summer blinked, and she slowly teared up.“Please, Summer… Please talk to me.”The doctor had said that Summer was in an extremely bad shape. Not only could she not go through the surgery, the trauma might also drive her crazy.Summer felt a little dizzy, and she forcefully shook her head.“Sum, do you remember the first time we met? You saved me and brought me home…”Sam
“Ask someone to investigate Victoria Dawn.”Samson spent a lot of effort coaxing Summer to sleep. He then went downstairs in his sleepwear.He glanced coldly at his cell phone before he headed to the balcony and lit a cigarette.“Young master, it’s cold out here.” His subordinate went over to the balcony with a coat and wrapped it around Samson.After Samson was done smoking the cigarette, he remained standing on the balcony for a very long time.After he was certain that the smell of cigarette smoke no longer lingered on his body, he turned and returned to the living room.Summer hated it when he smoked.Once upon a time, he stopped smoking because of Summer. But after Summer disappeared, he began smoking more and more.“Young master, are you going to continue smoking?” His subordinate asked in a hushed tone when he saw that Samson had tossed the cigarette box, from which he had only taken one cigarette, and his lighter into the trash can.“I’m going to stop. From now onward,
“So, you’re heading to the Ardly family’s mansion tonight, right? I’ll give you your birthday gift tomorrow.” Jasper had actually forgotten that Victoria was the Plath family’s official goddaughter.“I don’t need a present. But the thing is that my parents had been eyeing this project in West City lately. I don’t know what’s going through my dad’s mind. He doesn’t have the financial capability, but he wants that plot of land no matter what. As his daughter, I don’t know what to do. There’s just a pang in my heart now whenever I think about it.” There was a hidden layer of meaning to Victoria’s words. She was actually gently reminding Jasper to help the Dawn family out again.Jasper furrowed his brows. He lowered his gaze to glance at Victoria.If this had happened in the past, he would definitely give his personal assistant a call and ask the latter to help the Dawn family out privately. But now… He was starting to feel that Victoria was merely treating him as a tool.And the stron
“We’re not sure yet. Our men are still investigating who the person who saved Miss Plath was!”“Keep going! Find Summer as soon as possible!” Jasper said hurriedly. He was clenching his fists so tightly that his knuckles had turned white.“Mr. Adrian Seawind is here.”Before the assistant could reply to Jasper, Adrian barged into the door, and his expression was rather dark.“Jasper Miller!”Adrian tossed the medical record from Summer’s accident a year ago on the table, and his eyes were a little red. “You asked someone to delete the record of Summer’s stay in the hospital a year ago, didn’t you? If it were not for the fact that I found the hard copy, how long did you plan to hide this from me? No wonder Summer could not find her family even after being in Sea City for so long! You never wanted to help her find her family, right!?”Jasper furrowed his eyebrows. He did not defend himself.When he first brought Summer back home, he had indeed thought about keeping her forever.B
“My daughter is the recognized goddaughter of the Plath family. The Plath family doesn’t have any children anymore, and they don’t have an heir. In the future, everything that they own will become my daughter’s.” Victoria’s mother was a little drunk, and she had started boasting.All the wives of rich and powerful men were extremely envious, and they were trying their best to suck up to Victoria’s mother.After all, all the businessmen in Sea City were doing foreign business.And all businessmen who were doing foreign business had to try their best to suck up to the Plath family.“Ah, you guys really lucked out. If the young mistress of the Plath family wasn’t kidnapped and dismembered, your daughter wouldn’t have had such an opportunity.” Some people who were not in good terms with the Dawn family started mocking them, and their words were laced with jealousy.“Why are you being so jealous? If you have the ability, you can let your precious son luck out too!” Victoria’s mother st
“Vic, you’re the recognized goddaughter of the Plath’s family. It’s such a great thing, isn’t it?”“Vic, aren’t you going to put in a good word or two for us when you’re in Country M?”Everyone was sucking up to Victoria, and this made her feel really good.Back when she hired people to kidnap and eradicate Summer, Victoria had thought about how this day would come.These people would suck up to you when they needed you, but they would treat you worse than their enemies when they did not need you.Fortunately, she had won this battle.The moment Summer died, all the recognition and attention that should have been hers to begin with finally belonged to her. She was the center of attention everywhere she went.“Don’t worry. I’ll definitely help you out if I can. My godmother and godfather are really nice to me. I’ll mention you guys when I talk to them.”Victoria flashed a pure and innocent smile as she socialized patiently with these people.As the top socialite in Sea City, sh