All Chapters of The Choices We Made: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

And so, Samantha quickly backed away.Once she did, the bodyguard said, "Mr. McQueen said to castrate him."The man's face twisted in horror. Before he could beg for mercy, sharp pain tore through his lower body. He screamed and passed out. After that, someone dragged the unconscious man away and cleaned the blood from the floor.Samantha asked the lead bodyguard, "He lost so much blood... He won't die, will he?"The bodyguard said, "Don't worry. We're professionals. We know how far to go. Please rest, Ms. Manning. Mr. McQueen asked me to tell you to not be afraid."With that, he left the apartment with the others.Samantha's legs went weak, and she sat onto the couch.She couldn't help thinking of the unfinished words her grandmother had spoken before she died. Her grandmother had said there was more to Samantha's origins than meets the eye.But in the end, she hadn't told Samantha who her parents really were.What exactly was her connection to this man called Mr. McQueen?

"Then why are you refusing to let me go?" Samantha asked Channing. "The company will keep running without me. You insist on keeping me there because I'm the cheapest option. I'm free. All these years, you kept me around because I was a free nanny, a free laborer, and a free springboard. Sorry, but I'm done."Samantha's voice was cold and full of pain. Bitterness seeped through every part of her. It wasn't that she did not know Channing had built his career by stepping on her. She had loved him, so she had been willing to support him from behind the scenes.But Channing had trampled on her dignity, erased everything she had done, and cared only about propping up that vicious lover of his.The public recognition she had wanted had never come. Yet on the very first day Sydney returned, Channing had given her both his favoritism and the title of girlfriend.Her words left Channing so smothered that he couldn't answer. His brows drew together before he said, "Samantha, I'm sorry."

Samantha suddenly remembered that over the past few years, Channing had often used business as an excuse to travel overseas. Although she was only an engineer, she still knew enough to know Lane Group had no business ties in the country he kept visiting.However, there were several women's colleges there. Sydney had said she had spent the past few years studying abroad. Only then did Samantha finally understand what Channing had been doing there.Channing frowned. Samantha's answer was beyond his expectations, and he couldn't stop himself from asking her about it. "Then what do you want? Don't think you're really that important. I was kind enough to offer you a trip. Didn't you used to make a fuss about wanting to go? You even made a travel plan more than thirty pages long, but now you don't want to go anymore? I can't be bothered to take you anyway, so don't regret it."Samantha's expression was calm. "I won't regret it. What I want is on the desk at home. Channing, can you pro

Samantha picked up Channing's call.Channing asked, "Have you seen what's going around online?"His tone was icy, carrying some dark, unreadable emotion. Samantha didn't know what he meant and said nothingChanning continued, "It isn't what they wrote. I can explain."Samantha's heart sank. Wasn't it too late to think of explaining now?She smiled bitterly. "Explain what?""Sydney and I aren't in the kind of relationship you think," Channing suddenly said."Right," she answered calmly without thinking. "I believe you."Channing had always known Samantha was someone meek, but this time, his heart sank for no reason.He had imagined Samantha becoming hysterical, like when she first learned the truth about Harold. He had also imagined her becoming accusatory, like after he failed to see her grandmother one last time.But this time, Samantha was unmoved. No matter how patient a woman was, she couldn't possibly tolerate her husband kissing another woman in a bar. Yet Samantha

After Samantha agreed to accompany Tina to visit Elizabeth's grave, they set a time and headed out.Elizabeth was buried in a cemetery in Suthill, to the south of the city. By afternoon, both of them had already arrived at the entrance.Tina held a bouquet of pink Cosmos, Elizabeth's favorite flowers when she was alive, and gently placed them in front of Elizabeth's tombstone.Then they both noticed something.It seemed someone had just come to pay their respects. They had missed the person by less than half an hour, because the flowers laid in front of the tombstone were still very fresh.Samantha realized something and immediately turned to chase after the person. She had never told Tina about Elizabeth's last words before she died. Elizabeth had said there was something unusual about Samantha's origin.Now that Elizabeth had passed away, the person who would come here was definitely not Channing who was spending his time dating Sydney. Apart from Samantha, Elizabeth had no oth