Semua Bab I Want Her Signature, Not Her Love: Bab 1 - Bab 10

With the statement of forgiveness in hand, I sprinted all the way to Kingstone Detention Center. Once all the paperwork was settled, I headed into the visitation room at the very back and finally got to see Ava, my poor wife.She was wearing the standard jumpsuit everyone in the detention center wore. She'd been ambushed before she got arrested and made to take the fall. The bruises on her skin were still visible, and so was the cut on her busted lip.Ava was tall and fit, but as she sat on the steel chair now, she was slumped over in a defeated manner.When she heard the door open, she lifted her head with some difficulty. Her disheveled hair shrouded her vision a little, but when she saw me, her cracked lips parted."Darling? What are you doing here?"With a pang in my heart, I rushed up to cup her face and give her a proper once-over. Thankfully, she hadn't been disfigured—she looked as gorgeous as ever to me."Let's not waste time on chit-chat. I've come to take you home."I

I stood frozen, staring at Conrad as he convulsed on the floor. It wasn't long before the door to the guest room we were in flew open.Simone stormed in with the family doctor and several security guards. She shoved me aside, dropped to the floor, and pulled Conrad into her arms, her voice shaking as she cried out, "Conrad! What's wrong, Conrad?"Leaning weakly against her, Conrad raised a trembling finger toward me. "Simone… He said… as long as I die… he'll get to be your husband… I… I can't breathe…"His head lolled to one side, and he passed out.The doctor hurried forward and injected him with an anti-allergy medication.Simone spun toward me, her eyes burning. It looked like she wanted to skin me alive."Jason Sawyer!" she shrieked. "I've been putting up with your crap time and time again out of consideration for the fact that you saved my life. I even let you move into this house and enjoy a life of luxury! How could you be so heinous as to poison Conrad?"She strode over

The slightly salty sea breeze swept through Faircove, and the cobblestone streets grew pretty hot under the sun.Ava and I opened a seafood barbecue restaurant in the busiest part of town. Using the savings we'd accumulated from working all these years, we bought a two-story storefront. It seemed like life couldn't get any better.By now, she'd fully recovered from her injuries. She had worked in security, so it went without saying that she was pretty strong physically. In fact, she handled most of the supplies that went through our restaurant. And when she wasn't busy keeping the restaurant running, she spent all her time coming up with new recipes to make for me."Take a break, darling. Come try the banana pudding I just made," Ava called out as she emerged from the kitchen with a bowl.She was wearing a simple white T-shirt today, but she didn't look any less breathtaking. The faint scar that remained at the corner of her mouth somehow made her look even more gallant, like a p

Sighing, I remarked, "You really know nothing about me, Ms. Parker. Six months ago, one of your company's senior executives framed my wife for embezzling company funds. She was thrown into a detention center and was about to be put on trial. If convicted, she would've been slapped with a severe sentence."I was just an ordinary man with no money or power. It was practically impossible for me to get the authorities to overturn her case. But when I was at the end of my wits, I happened to rescue you in the hurricane, and you'd lost your memory."I paused for a moment, watching the way Simone's expression slowly stiffened before I continued, "So I worked three jobs, pretending to devote myself to taking care of you. I spent a lot of my time in Faircove. I knew what the people here were like. "Those thugs were never actually going to hit you with that bottle. But if I threw myself in front of it and took the blow for you, then in your eyes, I became the person who saved your life."Si

Later on, I heard stories about what was happening back in Kingstone from the tourists who came to Faircove.They said that Simone fell severely ill after heading back to the city. When she got better, her personality seemed to have changed completely. She became a cold and ruthless workaholic, and she never got involved with another man.Meanwhile, after getting locked up in the psychiatric facility, Conrad was driven to madness. He spent his days screaming to the air, cursing my name.In the end, Simone also reported the senior executive who'd set Ava up to the police and had him imprisoned.Ava's name was finally cleared at last, but she refused the offers from headhunters inviting her to join various major companies. Instead, she chose to continue operating a small business right by the sea.…The sea breeze had stopped, and the sun had all but disappeared beneath the horizon. Ava pulled the shutters halfway down before flipping over the sign to indicate that we were closed f