Chapter 42


    Chapter 42


    By the time Audrey was done cleaning the kitchen, Harper had fallen asleep at the dining table. Her face was bathed in tears.


    She patted Harper’s head and covered her with a nket. She noticed bruises on her skin under the cuff. Audrey furrowed her


    brow. She nced at Harper before carefully pushing up the cuff a little


    more.


    Before she could take a better look, Harper twitched. Audrey stopped in her tracks. She made a note to ask her about it when


    she woke up.


    Audrey went downstairs and hung a “For Sale” sign in the shop window. Her phone rangContent provided by N?velDrama.Org.


    “Louis asked for 1.3 million dors inpensation. He said if it''s 1.3 million dors, he would need half a year to settle the


    payment. But if we can ept the amount of 1.1 million dors, he can settle it immediately.”


    Julian continued, “Louis’s personal suggestion is that if you can ept thepensation amount of 1.1 million dors, it''s better


    to settle it now to prevent any future troubles, After all, it''s more secure when you take the money into your own hands.”


    “Okay. Thank you and Louis for your help.”


    Audrey hung up.


    Nathan was hospitalized. His ward bustled with people visiting him all day.


    “Nathan has been in constant disasters ever since that Audrey woke up.”


    “That’s right. You’re always in the hospital.”


    “Now that Audrey is so popr, don’t you want to do something about what they’re saying online? What if Amelia gets


    implicated?”


    “| remember when Audreyst badgered Nathan, the paparazzi almost exposed his rtionship withAmelia. No one knows how


    thoseizens found out about Nathan and Audrey''s past, but everyone said Amelia was a mistress and that Nathan was a


    scumbag.”


    “We''re already suppressing it,” Lucas replied, “However, the showrunners of ‘Looking For Family‘ want some attention, and we''re


    facing some difficulties.”


    “It''s okay if they found out. Isn’t the woman who pushed Amelia at the airport Audrey''s foster mother? If Amelia gets implicated,


    we''ll reveal Audrey’s rtionship to that woman. Let’s say that woman pushed Amelia for Audrey’s sake. We''ll see who can


    throw more mud at the other.”


    Lucas frowned and disagreed.


    Nathan was looking at the trending topics on his phone. He looked up and asked coldly, “And give the


    Chapter 42


    media workers a chance to make spections? They''ll say that | pushed Audrey’s foster mother and caused her death. They''ll


    send me to jail,”


    Silence fell in the ward at once


    “That’s not what | meant.” The person who spoke awkwardly rubbed his nose. “I was just talking nonsense.”


    “Alright. Nathan is tired, and | have to go back to work. Let’s leave!” Locas looked at his watch told Nathan, “We''ll leave now. You


    have to take good care of yourself.”


    As the crowd in the ward left, Nathan looked at the photo of Audrey shielding her body with a quilt on


    his phone screen.


    The photo Anne had forced him to look at that night came to mind. He had caught a quick nce at it.


    It was a summer evening. Audrey was wearing a white shirt, a pair of jeans, and white sneakers. She was sitting on one of the


    stone railings by the river, smiling at the camera. Her long hair fell over her shoulders but fluttered in the evening breeze.


    He had an arm around Audrey’s shoulders, and the fingers of his other hand was running through her hair. The expression on his


    face was serious yet gentle.


    He frowned and swiped at the phone screen with annoyance.


    Thoseizens were digging up information about Audrey. Nathan had already asked someone to suppress her poprity.


    Even Amelia''s manager, Ynda Jones, was working on keeping the news to a minimum. She was afraid the entanglement


    between Amelia, Nathan, and Audrey woulde to light again.


    After all, when Amelia entered her rtionship with Nathan, he hadn''t divorced Audrey yet.


    However, the showrunners of “Looking for Family” continued boosting the poprity of the show. Moreover, that episode was


    extremely popr. Especially the recording mentioned at the end of thetest episode made the show even more popr.


    And yet, no one had linked Audrey to the incident when Amelia had gotten berated online byizens four years before.


    Even if she had been, it would have been drowned out by otherments too quickly. Nathan thought Ryan might have asked


    someone to keep the matter out of the spotlight.