Chapter 70
As they drove on, Aspen’s gentle voice sounded in the car. “The Withams, the Jeffersons, and the
Murrays are aristocratic families. Did you know that?”
Gisele nodded. However, as the Withams had changed their key areas of operation, they gradually
became less known in Hearthfield. Most people only knew the Murrays and the Jeffersons as
aristocratic
families of Hearthfield,
“Great, that makes things easier. So I’ll keep the story short.” Aspen chuckled with feigned
lightheartedness, but the mncholy in his voice was clear.
“Maybe timing is crucial in love. Perhaps as the one who cameter, I’d been too greedy to wish to
fight
for
my chance. Maybe I’d gone against fate, and that’s why I ended up in such a sorry state.”
Though he didn’t make himself too clear, Gisele managed to catch the gist of it.
But if who came first mattered in love, then why was that not the case for her? She was the one
who
knew Dorian first.
Seeing how down she looked, Aspen felt guilty and said with a slight chuckle, “I’m sorry for bringing
up such unhappy things. Honestly speaking, Don does hold a ce for you in his heart. Your
marriage would
not havested three years if he did not love you.”
Gisele only smiled and said nothing. It was true that they shared three years of marriage, but they
only met during family gatherings whenever there was an asion. How hard could it be to
maintain a
marriage like that?
Silence hung in the air as the both of them kept quiet in the car.
Gisele got out of the car just before they reached Witham Manor. Before she left, she told Aspen,
“Mr. Witham, please send someone to collect the herbs from Jett tomorrow, and send them to me at
this address. I’ll process them beforeing back again tomorrow.”
The address that Gisele gave him was the apartment that she bought with Angie. Besides the
apartment, the Jefferson Manor had a herb processing machine too. But she didn’t wish to return to
that ce which
had no warmth in it.
“Sure. Here’s my number. I’ll be in town for quite some time to apany Grandmother. If there’s
anything I can help with, just give me a call,” Aspen said as he passed her his name card after
taking the
note with Gisele’s address on it.
Gisele took his name card with slight hesitation before smiling at him with a nod.
As Aspen sat in the car and watched her leave, the smile on his l*ps faded away. It wasn’t until she
disappeared down the road that he finally said, “Let’s go.”
The chauffeur started the car and continued driving back to Witham Manor.
Chaptecie
203
Over at St. Anne Hospital, Dorian’s expression was dark as he sat in the empty and silent corridor.
He held his phone in his hand and stared at the screen. He was watching the surveince footage
from Hearty
Herbs.
Sierra, who already had her wound treated, waited for quite some time for Dorian, but he never
came.
She walked out of the emergency room uneasily. She found him in the corridor, watching something
on his phone with a stem look on his face. He gave off a cold and detached demeanor.
All of a sudden, a thought struck her and she shuddered involuntarily.
“Don,” Sierra called out with a slight tremble in her voice.
Dorian immediately put his phone into his pocket and smiled at her. “Has your wound been
dressed? I’ll send you back.”
Sierra went up to him and tried to link her arm around his, but Dorian inconspicuously moved away
and walked over to the hospital exit.
Siema stood there and looked at her outstretched hand. The fear within her intensified.
In the past, he would definitely have made her stay back for a day for further observations. But now,
he didn’t even bother to show her any concern and only offered to send her back.
He even shied away from her touch.
Sierra trudged along behind Dorian worriedly, but he did not even realize that she’d fallen behind.
When they got into the car, Sierra attempted to speak up several times, but Dorian’s attention was
on his phone.
Then, when they finally reached her apartment, she held his hand and whined coquettishly when
she noticed how he seemed to have no intention ofing out the car with her.
“Don, won’t you apany me? I still feel a little woozy, and I’m afraid to be all alone at home.”
“I’ve got things to deal with at work. I’ll get someone to watch over you,” Dorian said impassively as
he pulled his arm away from her.
Sierra looked at him longingly. Just as he was about to close the car door behind him, she hurriedly
asked, “Don, are you angry at me for ndering Gisele?”
In the end, she was the one who confessed.
“You’re thinking too much about it,” Dorian denied without the slightest change in his expression.
Sierra smiled bitterly. How could she be the one overthinking things? He was so different now, from
his expression to his actions,pared to the past few days. If he wasn’t ming her for what she
did, then why was he so cold toward her?
“I’m sorry, Don. I just wanted your attention. I have no one else but you now…
Sierra’s eyes welled up with tears as she looked at him pitifully. Then, in a choked voice, she said.
“Will
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you be leaving me too, Don?”
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When Dorian saw how gentle and vulnerable she was, he suddenly thought of how she was like as
a chi However, she had never been so weak back then.
In fact, Sierra’s character as a child was like Gisele’s character now. She never gave in to bullies
and would always rely on herself to seek out justice.
Dorian lifted his gaze to look at her and sighed. “Don’t think too much about it. You must be worn
out today. Go back and have a good rest.”
“Alright. Don, I only did what I did to see if you really love me. You know how insecure I am”
Sierra suddenly leaned close to him with pouty l*ps. She wanted him to k*ss her.
As Dorian stared at the perfect shape of her l*ps, an image of Gisele’s l*ps suddenly shed in his
mind. They were soft and carried the slight fragrance of herbs. It waspletely different from the
scent perfume that Sierra had on her.
“Yeah, I know.”
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