Abigail Bernstein was a quiet and obedient girl who seldom say NO to her father’s decisions. Even when it’s about her marriage.
To save their family’s company out of bankruptcy, her father arranged her to marry Diarmuid Althoff, the grandson of a billionaire. But on their wedding day, the groom did not appear. Abigail was disappointed but could do nothing about it.
Alone and boring on wedding night, Abigail accepted to replace her colleague’s shift. At her workplace, the hospital, she saved a wounded man being hunted down by gangsters, and made out with this stranger to blow off steam.
The stranger, however, turned out to be her husband that did not show up at the altar.
The gang came out of hiding, strutting as they headed straight to a bar. All that hiding had left them with a terrible case of cabin fever, and now that they felt safe, they were naturally overjoyed and eager to let loose. It was time for chicks, alcohol, and debauchery. … Meanwhile, James had been…
“Why don’t we try to lure them out too?” James suggested. Since the mastermind’s target was Abigail, they just had to let Abigail appear isolated while Eagle kept an eye on her from the shadows. That just might lure the mastermind out of hiding and they could set up an ambush to grab them in…
None of her acquaintances looked like they would marry soon. Erin Gooding and James Cross, perhaps? But they would not be making up so soon, would they? While she was left confused, more text arrived. [I thought about it for a while, but eventually decided to tell you because you’re my only connection.] Abigail had…
Turning and seeing him, she asked, “What’s Zachary doing here?” “He’s buying us lunch, so it’s natural that he’s there,” Diarmuid replied, gathering him in his arms. “It’s almost one. Aren’t you hungry?” “I don’t want to see him,” Abigail said. What? “Weren’t you good friends?” Diarmuid said, actually feeling a little weird as he…
“Oh… I shall go to them, then? Will you be coming too?” Professor Lowe asked. “Actually, I’ll pass,” she replied—if she went, it would be no different from telling New Sun Pharma that she had a hand in this. Still, worried that Professor Lowe would get hurt if he went alone, she said, “My bodyguard…
“You’re heavy…” she murmured as she pushed at him again. Diarmuid kissed her neck and started to undress her, without forgetting to answer, “Nope.” His breathing was soon short and rushed, and Abigail forgot herself amid the sounds of his breathing. There was no telling they had been at it, but she was left so…
She was at once guilty and miserable that she snapped at James, but when he tried to hug her, she remembered the time when that gang raped her. She did not mean it, but her emotions burst out right then. She could not face James, let alone stay with him and act like nothing ever…
Erin’s fingers clenched, and she looked him in the eye. “I don’t like you.” “You actually liked me?” James asked. “I thought you loved me all along.” Erin was speechless—James was never like this before, since he was always serious. She did not know how to respond as he suddenly gave up on his old…
Still, she did not let it show. “I’ll come by when I’m free,” James told her. She smiled. “Okay.” Even so, her eyes turned red as she watched his plane take flight. … At Hotmesh Research, Abigail was reading records of the conditions of the animal that had been transplanted with the artificial heart they…
“Not good,” Abigail replied. “What?” everyone exclaimed at once. Abigail stayed silent, but Ray explained, “If you’re his family too, I’ll make it clear—you need to prepare yourself.” “What?!” “Was it really that serious?!” Finn realized right then that was why Abigail had him get the artificial heart—she knew about Dennis’s condition already. “Our doctors…