Alle Kapitel von You Saved Her and Let Our Son Die. Don’t Start Crying Now: Kapitel 51 – Kapitel 60

Hunter rarely used Gavin as a personal driver unless he was heading to a private occasion where a regular chauffeur would be out of place.On top of overtime pay, Hunter also paid him triple his usual rate to handle all kinds of tricky last-minute situations.“Happiness Apartments,” Hunter said evenly.The name caught Gavin off guard for a moment.Usually, they were headed to private clubs or other upscale places. He could not remember ever being sent to an ordinary apartment complex like this before.Still, the name sounded familiar.A few seconds later, it hit him.Wasn’t that where Stella was living now?*The old complex was poorly managed. From the outside, the buildings already looked run-down. From the inside, they looked even worse.After they got out of the car, Zac carried Stella all the way to the unit she was renting.The elevator was old, and the walls in the building were peeling.Stella hadn’t wanted Zac to bring her all the way home, but after the anesthetic

“Head back,” Hunter said coldly.Gavin had no choice but to swallow the rest of his words. “Back to the villa, Mr. Ford?”Hunter was just about to nod when the image of the villa flashed through his mind. The last time he had gone back, it had sat there alone in the dark, surrounded by black silence.Now that Stella had moved out, the place would probably feel even emptier than before.Hunter stayed silent for a long moment.From the rearview mirror, Gavin caught the hesitation on Hunter’s face and more or less understood.Hunter feared nothing, except the dark.People said it had something to do with something that happened in his childhood, some old psychological scar, but Gavin had never heard the full story.He was just about to say something when a ringtone suddenly cut through the silence in the car.Seeing that it was Riley, Hunter answered without hesitation.Before he could even speak, Riley’s tearful sobbing burst through the phone. “Hunter, I got my heart broken.”

But Zac had turned them down.According to the business manager Hunter had sent, even after the rejection, the manager had worried Zac might not understand the significance of the offer and had gone out of his way to explain that it was from a Ford family company.And Zac had replied without hesitation, “I know it’s the Fords. I’m still not interested.”“Arrogant,” Hunter thought. “So, it was this kid.”He studied the man’s face again. Riley had been a high achiever since childhood. She had a sharp memory, excelled in school, and was talented at everything from piano to painting to chess. There had never been a shortage of impressive men around her, and she had dismissed every one of them.Any man who managed to catch her eye wasn’t likely to be ordinary.As it happened, Hunter was looking forward to a meeting of his own.He gave a low, dry chuckle. After committing the face to memory, he said, “I’ll find a time to talk to him. I don’t care who he’s with. I’ll bring him to you

As she said that, Gwen lifted her hand and gently touched Hunter’s face, her eyes full of concern. “Anyone can see you’ve lost a lot of weight in just a few days. Being apart like this must have been hard on both of you.”Hunter paused.For no reason at all, the image of Stella with that other man flashed through his mind again. He remembered the bright, genuine smile on her face.Hard on her? She looked like she was having the time of her life.At that thought, Hunter lowered his eyes to his phone.It had been nearly three hours, and Stella still hadn’t replied. His mood immediately turned irritable. “No one’s hurting because of her. Don’t bring her up again. And she was the one who decided to leave. Whether she comes back or not is her business.”“But...” Gwen hesitated.“There is no but,” Hunter said flatly. “You didn’t do anything wrong. You don’t need to apologize.”Hearing the certainty in his voice as he defended her, Gwen felt a quiet rush of satisfaction.She had th

Gavin felt certain the other party would accept. Hunter shared his confidence.Hunter replied, “Set up a meeting. And let them know that if they have any conditions, as long as it’s within the Ford Corporation's power, we are prepared to say yes.”“Yes, sir,” Gavin replied at once.After sending the message, Hunter glanced at his phone again and saw that Stella still hadn’t replied to anything from the night before.“She’s certainly holding her nerve this time,” he thought.Without dwelling on it, he got up to wash and change. He had planned to take Gwen out to eat.Mrs. Wilson’s cooking tasted bizarrely off.Lately, just the thought of eating at the villa was enough to make Hunter’s stomach feel uneasy.But when he came downstairs, he saw Gwen smiling as she helped Mrs. Wilson.The hand she had injured the night before was still wrapped in a bandage. Since she could not expose it to anything too hot or too cold, she could only awkwardly steady the plates from underneath with