Chapter 77 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

“Anthony, let me go!” I yelled.

“Let you go? You agitated me on purpose so that I’d do this, right? Why are you complaining now?” He said in agitation.

“Anthony, you should just tell me if you don’t want the child. There’s no need for you to harm the baby this way.” At that point, I knew that it was pointless for me to struggle anymore, so I tried to calm myself down.

He stopped at that. With his gaze darkened, he sighed, “Sienna, what do you want me to do?”

I remained silent as my heart was clenching in pain. Just when would this torture end?

“For starters, you can get off me!”

Issues like these couldn’t possibly be explained or solved in just a few days.

“I’m afraid I can’t!” He insisted.

Then, he inched closer to my lips, causing my face to flush. “Anthony, we’re at the hospital! Have some self-control, will you?” I exclaimed.

“I know that, but are you up for it?” He smirked.

“No!” I rejected his advancement as I wanted to keep my boundaries.

He then planted a kiss on my forehead and pulled me into an embrace. At that moment, I wanted to escape so badly.

After some time, he was still holding me in his embrace, so I was starting to get restless. “Are you done?” I exclaimed.

“Just a while more,” he said softly.

I…

Finally, he let go of me and rolled over to lie on his back.

I did not wish to stay any longer, so I got up, straightened my clothes and left the ward.

Coincidentally, I bumped into Rylee in the corridor. Just my luck – my flushed face had not subsided yet.

From her riled-up expression, I could tell that she had witnessed that interaction I had with Anthony earlier.

“Sienna, you b*tch!”

“Mmm-hmm, but you’re not any better, either. You were shamelessly peeking at us!” I clenched my jaw and continued, “You can head in now. Maybe he’ll pull you onto his bed too. After all, he’s full of stamina.”

I stepped aside to make way for her, but she left.

Since Anthony’s sweat was still on my hands, I went to the restroom and washed them thoroughly.

By the time I left, the sun had set, and the sky was already dark.

John had been pestering me a lot recently. The moment I saw his car parked in the basement of my villa, I immediately turned my car towards Glenwood Apartments.

He stopped his car in front of mine, intentionally blocking my way. “There’s no need to hide, Sienna. I’ll always find you.”

After that, he got off his car, walked over leisurely, and leaned against my car window.

That’s right – there was nowhere for me to hide.

“What do you want?” I asked him while I got off my car and glared at him.

“Let’s leave this place, Letty! I’ve missed you so much!”

“I bet you were thinking of ways to torture me and to get me depressed,” I sneered.

Right then, he shut his eyes for a few minutes and pondered for a while before saying, “You are unhappy with Anthony, aren’t you?” He was right.

“No, we’re so happy together!” I shook my head and clarified.

“And how long do you think this will last? After all, you snatched him away from Zachary’s daughter,” he smirked.

I do not wish to answer his meaningless questions, so I exclaimed, “You came all the way here just to ask me such silly questions?”

To that, he cut the chase and went straight to his motive. “Follow me back to R Province. I’ve bought our family home and renovated it to be exactly how it was – the way you liked it.”

“Back to living in depression with you?”

Upon hearing that, his face turned dark, and he frowned. “Letty, I never intended to hurt you.”

“So… did you mean that I was the one who hurt myself?” I sneered.

“Letty, stop being so stubborn.” He was starting to get annoyed. “Do you think Zachary and Cameron are so generous to let you go after that dispute? Even if you are not afraid, have you thought about your baby?”

I froze in disbelief. “You stalked me?”

He pulled his eyebrows together and exclaimed, “No, I was just protecting you!”

“Ha! Thank you for that!” I said sarcastically.

Since he did not want to move his car, I had no choice but to move.

He grabbed my arm and warned, “Don’t say that I didn’t warn you, but your stubbornness will ruin you!”

I was already in a bad mood, and there he was, making it worse. “You know what? I’d rather have it that way! Why can’t you just let me be? Why do you have to take my life away from me?” I let out.

Those bad memories had already been buried deep within me, but with John’s appearance, they surfaced once again.

I felt weak and vulnerable.

Twenty-five years ago, in an alley within R Province, a lonely middle-aged lady picked up a baby. The two-month-old baby was crying desperately in hunger.

She was a kind lady who decided to bring the baby back, fed her, and provided her with a comfortable place to sleep. She wanted to hand her over to the police, but they said that there was no orphanage within the province. They could not keep the baby at the police station as well.

Thus, the old lady had no choice but to bring the baby back home and raised her. She was a farmer with a meager salary that could not even afford to provide for herself – it was even worse with a kid.

However, right at that time, an investor built a large factory in R Province and was opened to recruiting people of all ages.

The sixty-year-old lady took the chance and applied for the job. Fifteen years later, she was still working at the factory. Meanwhile, the little girl had grown up old enough to work as well.

However, the lady was already seventy-five years old, and her body’s condition was deteriorating.

To support the girl’s school fees for high school, the old lady volunteered to help raise the investor’s illegitimate son.

The investor gave a large sum to the old lady and paid for the little girl’s school fees in exchange for it.

That little girl was me, and John was that illegitimate son.

I did not know his actual name. I knew him as John after I overheard grandma calling him that when he followed her back home.

John’s arrival ruined my peaceful life. He was rebellious and often caused trouble. He used to lock me up in a cage and throw me into the pond.

Those pranks were still bearable as he would always look for Grandma if I got hurt. Hence, Grandma would just let him be.

The year of my college entrance exam, the factory was under investigation for emitting harmful pollutants. The investor wanted to plan for an incident to ruin the factory as he did not want to take responsibility for the offense.

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