Sober Rebirth

To test Connor Gordon’s loyalty, Wendy Lidell had drugged him and then shoved me into his room.“Willow…” Connor was panting slightly as he looked at me in a daze.I knew that he had always loved Wendy. However, since they were unmarried, he could not bear to touch her yet.To survive, he would pick the lesser evil; he would sacrifice me.In the previous timeline, I could not control the feelings I had had for him since I was younger. Thus, I spent the night with him.The next morning, Wendy spotted the hickies on my neck and started throwing a tantrum about becoming a nun.After we stopped her from doing that, she married a mafia don in Hurac in a fit of pique. Soon after that, she had passed away in an accident, becoming that mafia don’s fourth dead wife. After I got pregnant, Connor married me out of a sense of responsibility. However, he treated me and our son as though we were strangers. I knew that he resented me for letting Wendy discover what happened between us that

When I next woke up, my eyes had been covered. I could not see even the smallest pinprick of light. My hands and legs were bound. Pain radiated from my back. The rope that bound me was lifted. Then, my feet were submerged in icy water. The water rose, slowly enveloping my chest and head…I could not breathe. I could not even scream for help. Eventually, I was raised up again as I thrashed violently. I gulped in huge lungfuls of air and coughed so hard until I could not make any more noise. The person at the edge of the pool finally spoke up.“You’ve offended somebody you shouldn’t have. That person has sent me to torment you.”Before I could say anything, I was tossed back into the water. It happened many times. Every time I felt like I was about to drown, I was lifted out of the water. Finally, I was left on the ground as my tormentor made a phone call. “It’s done, boss.”I could hear Connor on the other end of the line. “Leave immediately. I’ll deal with the rest of

“Mr. Gordon, you only got us to pretend to kidnap Miss Willow and scare her a little. But we were blinded by our greed. Miss Wendy found us and offered us a whole lot of money to…”“To do what?!” Connor was furious as he yelled. “Miss Wendy said that Miss Willow nearly drowned as a child, so she’s afraid of deep water. She told us to kidnap Miss Willow and then throw her in the water. She said it will be fine as long as Miss Willow doesn’t die.”Connor’s gaze was frigid. Kieran patted the trembling man down and found a recording on him. The recording was a video of the night Willow was kidnapped. It was what they had used to get their payment from Wendy. Connor felt heartbroken after he saw the video. “How much did she give you?”“Five million dollars.”Connor should have realized this long ago. The way Horace treated Willow and Wendy was starkly different. When Willow had moved out, she could only afford a small apartment unit in the city. However, Wendy could spend five

“Because you’ve done nothing to hurt me.”For the past few days, I had been asking myself the same question. Why did I save a fiance I had barely known for a month?Perhaps it was because he had let me sleep and rest well while I was wounded and in pain. Perhaps it was because his every smile warmed my heart up.During the next few days, Aaron’s underlings all became shocked. The formerly ruthless mafia don had rejected all his social obligations to stay in the ward with me. He would read poetry to me and clumsily peel apples for me. He even gave me a brooch with an iris on it, symbolizing that I was family. On the day I was discharged, Aaron brought me to the beach. The sunset painted the surface of the water a crimson gold. He suddenly dropped to one knee and held out an heirloom ring to me. “Willow, I married previously out of a sense of duty to my family, but now I want to marry you from the bottom of my heart. I know you were forced to come here to marry me, but I