Chapter 164 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

I ran aimlessly, just wanting to get away from him.

“Sienna!” Anthony was faster than me. He got hold of me and held me tightly in his arms. He was incredibly strong, and I had no room to struggle.

I was shaking all over, and every cell in my body screamed at me to push him away.

Marcus was not here. There was no one I could turn to for help. My body went stubbornly numb as I let him hold me.

The longer we stayed there, the heavier the rain poured. I was losing strength by the minute, getting increasingly lightheaded.

The next time I woke up, I was in the hospital.

I looked sideways and saw Anthony’s pale, haggard face. Even so, he was still as handsome as ever.

Perhaps he was physically drained, too, for he had fallen asleep on the edge of the bed. I had not seen stubble on his chin in a long while, and he looked even more sloppy with that.

Was he the one who brought me here?

That thought gave me a headache. I fumbled to get out of bed. I might have moved too much, for he was soon roused awake.

When he saw me attempting to get off the bed, he got up and forced me back down. Eyes darkened, he said, “Take a good rest. The doctor will come over for an infusion shortly!”

I knitted my brows and frowned, my heart surging with irritability and restlessness. I shoved aside the arm he had placed on my shoulder and barked at him, my emotions unstable, “Anthony, I want you to stay away from me. As far as possible. Do you hear me?”

When I was with Marcus, I could keep my mood swings in check, but that was not the case with Anthony. I would take his association with Rylee to the extremes, revealing the misery and hatred that I had buried so deeply within me.

When Anthony saw how furious I suddenly was, he seemed lost for a moment, but only for a moment. He soon composed himself and tried to calm me down. “Alright. Take it easy. I’ll be leaving now. But you have to get your infusion and take your medicine later.”

“Anthony! I’m done with my checkup!” Rylee’s voice rang from outside the ward.

In just a second, she entered my ward with her medical records in hand. When she saw me, her lips curled upwards, and very gently, she said, “Oh, Sienna, you’re awake. Are you feeling better?”

I did not want to see her, especially her bulging belly, the image of which cut into me like a sharp knife. I felt a stabbing pain every time I see it.

The agony of that night drifted into my mind, filling my heart with hatred. I gritted my teeth. The depression was killing me. I picked up a random object from the bedside cabinet and, without checking what it was, I threw it at Rylee.

The scare made Rylee’s face turn pale, but Anthony reacted quickly and took the blow in her stead. The object struck him on the back.

I gritted my teeth, still boiling with resentment. The despair in my heart took over like water bursting out of the riverbank. I wanted them dead. That was all I thought about. Anyone who had hurt me must die. I wanted them to be buried along with my baby.

Glaring at Rylee’s pregnant belly, my face turned stone-cold. “Rylee, my baby is dead! Don’t think you’ll get away with it! You, and your mother, will get what’s coming!”

“Sienna, you mad woman! What nonsense is that?” Rylee dropped her façade entirely following my threat.

My anger contained, I clenched both my fists tight. “Mad? When your mother did what she did, she should have considered how a madwoman such as I would retaliate against you!”

I took note of the chair next to me. Without warning, I lifted it and aimed it at Rylee. She let out a scream.

“That’s enough!” Anthony, being the strong man that he was, snatched the chair from me and glared at me in disbelief. “Sienna, what’s the matter with you? How did you become like this? We might have lost one baby, but we could always have another one.”

“Ho!” I scoffed. I lifted my chin and gave him an icy stare before flashing my palm in his face. Very slowly, I said, “Anthony, you’re one to talk. It’s easy for you, isn’t it? Giving birth. All you need to do is fire several shots. You don’t have to go through ten months of hard labor!”

His eyes fell on the scar on my palm, and frowned, “How did this happen?”

I laughed, but it was much more painful than crying. Glancing at Rylee, I resisted my tears. “How did this happen? You should ask your most precious Rylee over there how I got this scar.”

I looked back at Anthony, a lot calmer this time, and continued, “Anthony, do you know how our baby died? That night, he tried so desperately to get out of me, but he was not able to.”

Seeing the tormented expression on his face, I suddenly realized, why do I have to suffer alone? Why is it only my burden to bear? ”Anthony, do you know? When I was abducted, I tried calling you over and over again, hoping that you would come and save us. But no matter how many times I called, your phone was always turned off. Anthony, do you know how desperate I was?”

He wanted to say something, but I interrupted him with a snort. “You don’t know. I believe, at that time, you should be admiring your dear princess, celebrating her birthday. At that time, you must have prepared a wonderful gift for her.”

“Sienna!” He yelled, his voice hoarse. “I left my phone in the company. I really didn’t know.”

“Exactly. You didn’t know!” I sneered. “You have no idea that I was locked up in a warehouse, with my arms and legs tied up. You don’t know how I felt when my baby tried so hard to come out, but I couldn’t help him. You don’t know how I felt when he slowly stopped breathing inside of me…”

I began to choke. I could not go on. But as Anthony’s face got paler and more frightful, all of a sudden, I felt better because I was not the only one in pain anymore.

I cracked a smile. “Anthony, do you know what it feels like to have a baby die inside you? Do you know what the baby looked like when it was taken out? Do you know how it felt like to be suffocated to death?”

“That’s enough!” On the verge of breaking down, he covered his face with his hands as his tall body gradually crouched down to the floor. In front of me now kneeled a helpless and fragile man, visibly in pain.

I felt better seeing him like this. Then, I turned to Rylee, whose face had gone pale, and sneered, “How is it, Rylee? Do you feel more at ease after listening to my story? The money you and your mother spent had been worth it!”

“Sienna, what are you babbling about?” Rylee raised her voice, fuming. “What makes you think my mother and I were behind it?”

I cackled. “Why are you so eager to deny it? You have caused such a huge uproar. Do you really think I won’t be able to find anything about the culprit? Does the Moore family really think they are so invincible that they can bury the truth?”

Rylee was so terrified that she backed away, her mouth hanging open as though in a trance. “I didn’t do it!”

Anthony turned to look at her with an extremely icy glare, “So your family’s behind it?”

Rylee shook her head, her body trembling non-stop, “No! That’s not what I meant!”

I did not want to see how she would put on airs, so I exited the ward. Anthony wanted to run after me, but Rylee stopped him. In tears, she pleaded, “Anthony, you have to believe me. I have absolutely nothing to do with this. I don’t know anything…”

I was not familiar with K City, so after I got out of the hospital, I did not know how to get home.

Looking at the crowds, I had no clue where I should go from here. I had neither phone nor cash on me, and I was afraid that Anthony would catch up.

Along the way, I kept asking the passers-by for directions. By the time I reached Central Park residence, my feet were worn out.

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