Chapter 159


    Nichs paused and asked, “Who do you want gone?”


    There was an eerie silence before Yale uttered heavily, “The third heir of Hamertons, Zephyr


    Hamerton!”


    There was an icy glint in Nichs’ eyes.


    “Come to Centrolis if you’re free. We’ll talk in detail when we meet!”


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    Cordelia looked at Linda, who was curled up on the bed, and could not help feeling the pinch in her


    nose as she patted her back softly.


    Since they came back, Linda had not said a word. She holed herself in the bedroom once she


    entered the house, and her eyes seemed to have lost their focus. She looked like a husk where her


    soul was sucked away.


    “Linda, you must be hungry?” Cordelia tried everything she could to strike up a conversation. “Seth


    and Marcus are outside. I’ll get them to make you something, okay?”


    Linda blinked, and a teardrop rolled off her eye.


    Cordelia felt her heart clench.


    The Linda she knew was feisty and carefree, like a seagull cruising through wind and riding on


    waves. It was as if there was nothing in this world that she could not ovee. Now, though…


    After a while, Linda took a deep breath and slowly sat up in bed. She wiped her tears dry and forced


    a smile.


    She said softly, “Cordelia, I’m sorry for today—”


    “Why are you apologizing!?” Cordelia interrupted her anxiously. “Nichs’ the one who came to pick


    a fight. It’s not like you asked him toe!”


    “But it still has something to do with me!”


    Cordelia widened her eyes. “Linda, you mean he came for you?


    “But it doesn’t look like it to me. He’s here for Marcus! They… had grudges when they were in


    prisonst time.”


    “Hah, right.” Linda chuckled self-deprecatingly. “Cordelia, look at me. I used to look down on


    Marcus, thinking he didn’t deserve you!


    “But what’s my ex-boyfriend like? He’s no different from Marcus! He’s gone in there too!”


    “Linda…”


    “He got locked up because of me!” Linda could no longer hold herself back and cried.


    Cordelia was stunned, and her mind nked out. It was after a long time that she heard Linda’s soft


    voice.


    Linda had only told half of her and Nichs’ story to Cordelia thest time. This other half was


    devastating. It was also a memory that she did not want to look back on.


    “Actually… my parents were already divorced when I was very young,” Linda recounted. “The court


    gave me to my mom, but she was only a regr doctor back then. She was busy and had to take


    care of a child. She could barely make ends meet with her monthly ie. In order to give me a


    better life, she found me a stepfather.”


    Cordelia had met Linda’s stepfather before. He was a kind and friendly man who ran his own small


    business. The man was not rich, but everyday life was not an issue for them.


    “Stepdad has a son whom I’ve always treated as my older brother.” Linda wiped her tears with


    quivering lips. “I see him as a brother, but he thinks of me with ulterior motives! He made me go to


    the construction site at the back of the school in senior year and forced me to…”


    Cordelia held Linda’s icy hand, feeling his heart tighten.


    “But he didn’t expect that Nichs was following me. When he pinned me on the ground, Nichs


    stabbed him with a knife…


    “I panicked so much that I went nk. I only remember blood everywhere. Nichs kept stabbing


    him, and he had blood on his face. My brother twitched in his pool of blood… until someone passed


    by and called the police.”


    Cordelia sucked in a cold breath. “So, he was sentenced because of this?”


    Linda looked at her quietly, her pale face wearing a grieving expression.