Chapter 445 Forbidden Love


    Isabe’s tears streamed down her cheeks as she spoke, and her tears left stains on the beige sheets.


    As he watched this, Jasper became flustered. He regretted that he hade to check on Isabe. So,


    he stood up and attempted to get out of the room as soon as possible. However, he’d just taken a step


    when she grabbed his hand and dragged him to the edge of the bed.


    Her soft brown hair brushed against his shoulder the next second. Her warm, pink lips came up to his,


    along with the faint odor of alcohol.


    It felt familiar to him. What surprised him the most was that he did not feel ufortable as Isabe


    touched him. He felt an unusual emotion that he had never felt before surging in his heart at that time.


    “Stop, Isabe!” Jasper had to force himself to calm down and stop her. He ducked away, and her lips


    brushed against his ear.


    Unwilling to let him go, Isabe hugged him tightly and rested her head on his shoulder. She took off


    half of his robe, and she felt their hearts beat separately through the thin clothes.


    For a brief moment, Jasper’s seemingly imprable defenses were shaken. But, it was only for a brief


    moment.


    Suddenly, there was the sound of a ss breaking outside the door. Jasper and Isabe both looked


    up and saw Lisa standing in the room’s doorway with an empty tray looking at them in astonishment.


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    The sound of the broken ss saved Jasper from his impending mental breakdown. Isabe also


    appeared to havee back to her senses a bit unexpectedly. She squinted unhappily toward the


    doorway ;444 Forbidden Love and saw Lisa’s shocked expression. She muttered softly as her eyelids


    became heavy, “I’m thirsty. Give me some water.”


    Jasper then ced Isabe on the bed. He returned his gaze to Lisa, and he appeared to be upset.


    “Please have Sarah bring another ss of water.”


    Lisa shuddered nervously and then dashed away.


    Jasper eventually left the room as well. His phone rang a few times before he hung up. Later, his


    assistant had to text him to remind him: Sir, the Manhattan office wants to have a video conference with


    you about project financing. They’ve been waiting for you for quite some time.


    Exhausted, Jasper sat in his office chair in the study. He started the video conference after a few sips


    of coffee. However, he abruptly suspended and postponed the meeting halfway through.


    After that, he lit a cigarette in the dark. The strong odor of smoke permeated the air, and the smoke


    obscured his vision.


    Isabe was hungover the next day and slept until noon. Sarah brought her lunch at noon. And Isabe


    ate a few bites absent mindedly before falling asleep again.


    She had a hazy recollection of what happened the night before, and those disconnected memories


    continued to irritate her nerves. So, before Jasper returned to her room, she resolved to quietly sneak


    back to Anna’s house.


    Jasperter offered to take Isabe back to Manhattan several times, but she declined each time. And


    Anna dealt with him for her the whole time.


    During the same period of time, Andrew took care of Mona discreetly every day. Knowing how worried


    he was, Anna let her take early maternity 444 Forbidden Love leave. As a result, Anna had to take over


    Mona’s job when she left thepany.


    And Anna was taking her lunch break to negotiate an order when Andrew called to tell her that Mona


    had been in an ident.


    After rushing to the hospital, Anna approached Andrew, who was crouching on the floor along the long


    corridor and facing the hospital’s operating room doors with heavy steps. His hands were folded across


    his, brow, and his eyes were tightly shut. He clenched his teeth, and his curved spine made him look


    fatigued.


    “Andrew? Are you alright?” Anna asked with concern.


    Andrew raised his bloodshot eyes to her, appearing tired and worried. Ina hoarse voice, he murmured,


    “Mona told me she wanted a cake from a bakery near the hospital, and | promised to get it for her after


    the checkup was done. | was only gone only for a few minutes and now, she was in the operating


    room.”


    At this point, Andrew buried his head in his palm again. He couldn’t say anymore and began to


    whimper. Anna had never seen Andrew be like this before, so she felt worried.


    Then a doctor opened the door to the operating room and came out, asking, “Is Mona’s family here?”


    Andrew froze, stood up quickly, and said, “| am her husband.”


    “We need you to sign the paper. It’s an urgent situation.”


    “Okay.”


    Andrew paused for a moment before picking up the pen. Anna noticed that his hand was trembling as


    he signed. As the doctor went back into the


    operating room, Andrew nearly copsed on the floor. He had never felt that time could pass so slowly.


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    About two hourster, when the door to the operating room was reopened, he didn’t even dare to stand


    up. He only dared to raise his. bloodshot eye to see the crowd of doctors and nurses exiting the


    operating room.


    As he approached them, the doctor said to Andrew with a serious expression, “Your wife gave birth to a


    daughter. But she is too weak and must be admitted to the hospital. Because the baby is also in poor


    health, we will admit her to the intensive care unit for three days of observation.”


    Andrew appeared to have lost all strength after hearing the doctor’s words. Then he sobbed loudly.


    Three dayster, Andrew’s daughter was moved from the intensive care unit to the general ward.


    Andrew, a first-time father, no longer had to see his daughter through a ss enclosure.


    “Uncle Andrew, rx. Even though she has two children, my mother does not get as agitated as you


    do,” Tammy said, trying tofort Andrew.


    Anna was sitting beside Mona’s bed, serving chicken soup, when she said, “Tammy, when you were


    born, you were roughly her size. How do you know | wasn’t agitated?”


    “Did you?”


    “Not really,” Anna replied, raising her brows in thought.


    Mona couldn’t stop coughing after a sip of soup. When she coughed, she felt all of her muscles hurt, as


    did the surgical incision. She couldn’t drink the soup anymore because she was sweating from the


    pain.


    Seeing that, Andrew was extremely nervous. He hadn’t slept in days, lost a lot of weight, and the dark


    circles under his eyes were noticeable. He couldn’t bear the pain for Mona, no matter how worried he


    was. In his 444 Forbidden Love panic, he was at a loss for words.


    Meanwhile, Mona smiled and said to him, “The doctor has given mea new prescription. Why don’t you


    go get it for me, darling?”


    Andrew was relieved to learn that there was something for him to do, so he immediately exited the


    ward.


    As she watched his figure vanish through the ward’s door, Mona stopped smiling and then said to Anna


    seriously, “Someone pushed me downstairs.” She gripped the sheet so tightly that her nails irritated her


    palms. And she couldn’t stop trembling with fear.


    Mona remembered seeing a woman in a hat and a ck coat in the narrow stairwell. As she was


    pushed down, the woman whispered, “Go to hell!”


    In thest few days, Mona had frequently awoken from that recurring image in her dreams. As she


    awoke and looked out of the window, she felt a chill running down her spine.


    “Anna, she did it on purpose! She pushed me on purpose.” Mona forced herself to remember the


    scene, which was incredibly painful. After a brief while, she continued, “I was on my way upstairs to the


    dector fora medical exam when I ran into her at the stairwell. She and | moved way for each other


    several times, but she still got in my way. Then, she gave me a hard stare and pushed me down.”


    Mona’s words sent shivers down Anna’s spine, and she frowned tightly. She then pulled out her phone


    and asked, “Why didn’t you call the police?”


    Mona snatched her phone away as Anna had just dialed two numbers. She said, “No! Andrew is


    nervous right now, and | can’t tell him about this. I’m afraid he’ll make an impulsive decision after


    knowing it.”


    Anna thought about Mona’s words and realized she had a point. After 444 Forbidden Love


    that, she left the room, found the hospital’s security guard, and copied the surveince video that day.


    Late at night, while Anna was reviewing surveince video on herputer, Wayne hugged her tightly


    from behind her.


    Anna was briefly distracted by the smell of his fresh body wash, but she quickly recovered. She


    removed his hand from her dress.


    “Let’s go to bed, honey,” Saying that, Wayne continued to rub his head against Anna’s thigh. Anna felt


    tingling all over, but as she struggled, she identally kicked his crouch.


    In pain, Wayne fell off the other end of the couch. After a while of struggling, he got up from the floor,


    clearly upset.


    Anna held back augh and asked, “Does it hurt? Does it still function properly?”


    “I don’t know. You’ll know itter.” He then pounced on the bed and pressed up against Anna.


    “Ouch! My hair! Take it slow!”