Chapter 657 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

Chapter 657 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

Anthony seemed to want to ask more questions, but I said, “We’ll talk later. I need to go out for a while.” Without listening to his reply, I immediately went to the corner where Danny was standing just now and walked along the corridor to find him.

I searched around again, but he was still out of sight. However, when I passed by the restroom, I saw Tessa standing at the door. She seemed unsurprised to see me here. She smiled mirthlessly and said, “What a coincidence. We’ve met again.”

At that time, I had no intention to chat with her, so I told her calmly, “I don’t think it’s a coincidence.”

Glancing around, I did not see Danny, so I turned around to leave. But Tessa stopped me and said, “Oh, why? You seem to be looking for someone.”

“Get out of my way!” I had no time or patience for people like her.

However, she continued to use her chubby body to block my way and taunted, “Why are you so aggressive? Are we not good friends? Don’t you remember all the dangerous situations that we had been through in Venria? Do you treat Nora and the others like this, too?”

I glared at her and scoffed. “Friends, huh? What kind of friend would put me into a mortuary cabinet? And what kind of friend would plot my death every day? Tessa, you’ve insulted the term ‘friends.’ Don’t compare yourself with Nora and the others. You’re downright disgusting!”

Suddenly, she burst into laughter. “I’m disgusting? Sienna, did you forget that you were the one who caused me to be sexually assaulted in Venria? Did you seriously think that I could act like nothing had happened after we left there? Do you know the feeling of being gang-raped in front of everyone else? No, you don’t. You were the one who saw me being violated by those men. You knew that they raped me because of you, and yet, you did not do anything to help me. And now you even have the audacity to think that it’s not your fault. Maybe everyone else had forgotten about it, but I can’t. It will forever be engraved in my memory. From the moment I left Venria, I vowed to make all of you suffer as much as I did!”

She looked at me sinisterly as her eyes blazed with hate and wrath. I was rendered speechless as I thought that she had let go of the past. After all, I knew that there was nothing I could do to undo the hurt that I had inflicted on her. That was why I did everything I could to make a deal with Armond to let him send us back to our country and even begged him to find the best doctors to remove the kyanine in their wombs. I naively thought that she would forgive us and move on.

But she’s right. Why does she have to forgive us, especially me? She would not have been hurt if it weren’t for my little mistake. Hence, it was understandable why she hated me and wanted to seek revenge against me.

Completely absorbed in my thought, I did not know when she had left. When Anthony found me looking devastated at the corridor, he frowned. “Anything happened?”

I shook my head, lay my head against his chest, and took a deep breath. “I’m sorry. It was my fault. I know that it happened because of me, but I don’t know what I can do about it now!”

“What happened, Sienna?” Anthony hugged me as he patted my back.

I did not know how to tell him about the incident in Venria, so I just shook my head and remained silent.

After that, Anthony brought me back to the villa. I lay on the bed and felt dejected, but I did not want to continue to wallow in misery. Whenever people were accused, they would always defend themselves and find numerous reasons to convince themselves that it was not their fault. But, wrong is wrong.

I also kept trying to comfort myself, reminding myself of what I had done for her – I was the one who helped her escape from Venria, I harbored no grudge against her after she purposely threw away my documents at the airport, and I could even forgive her for harming me several times. However, all of these could not deny the fact that she was hurt because of me.

After laying on the bed for a long time, I realized that Anthony had not come back from the study. So, I went there and saw him staring at the monitor. When he heard me enter, he looked up and asked, “Are you feeling better?”

I nodded in reply and went over to sit beside him. As I landed my gaze on the computer screen, I was shocked to see that he was looking at some surveillance footage. “I thought the footage from the hospital was destroyed. How did you get this?”

He looked at me and replied, “I hired someone to fix it, so the footage at the elevator and the morgue had been recovered. Even though Abe and Tessa were wearing masks, we could still identify them from this footage.”

I hesitated for a moment and looked at him. “What are you going to do next?” The reason why he put so much effort into recovering the footage was to put Tessa into prison. This footage would be enough to charge her for cooperating with Abe in attempted murder. Although she could not be sentenced to life imprisonment, she would definitely be imprisoned for several years.”

Anthony watched the footage with a solemn look. After a while, he said, “It’s too dangerous to let her stay in the society. She should be thrown into prison for a few years.”

I fell silent. After a long pause, I asked, “Can you not pass this to the police?”

“Why?” He frowned, baffled.

“I owe her for that. When we were in Venria, she was hurt because of me. And that was the reason why she has been targeting me.” I was not sure if it was right to do so, but if I sent her into prison now, I would feel guilty for the rest of my life. After all, it was my fault that she was violated, even though I was not the one who harmed her.

Anthony looked at me for a long time before saying, “Okay. Since you want to stop here, I won’t do anything for now. I’ll let you keep this footage, in case one day you would need it.”

Then, he copied the file into a USB drive and handed it to me.

I took it and leaned on his shoulder, feeling touched. “Anthony, I feel like I always cause you trouble.”

He smiled and lifted my chin with his finger. With a solemn look on him, he said, “Don’t always deny yourself, Sienna. You’re very outstanding. No one on earth would risk their lives to go into such a cold place for my stomach. And no one would reject those exceptional men to be with me. In fact, I should be the one to say thank you. You’re the one who makes my life whole.”

I blushed at his words. Is this his love declaration for me?

A sense of warmth swept through me that instant.

We would probably still argue with one another, get angry at each other, or quarrel because of some trivial matters, but we knew in the depths of our hearts that we belonged only to each other, and no one could separate us.

In a nutshell, the tender in A City was won by Derek, and Rachel would be fully in charge of the project. Winter came, and Anthony and I went back to K City.

Nora called me one day, saying that she and Armond had come back from overseas. Even though Armond was left unhurt, the Murphy Corporation had suffered a great loss from the previous incident. Thus, he did not have the ability to retaliate against the Featherstone Corporation for the time being.

Time flew by, and it was now the end of November.

Two days after arriving in K City, I settled down and phoned Sasha’s mother. Previously, I had transferred about a million into her bank card, so she told me not to give them any more money. She also said that they had given up on the medical treatment, so they had left the hospital and brought Renee to see the outside world.

After a few rings, the call went through. I could hear the sound of wind blowing from the other side of the line, and Sasha’s mother greeted, “Mrs. Featherstone, it’s been a long time since we’ve contacted each other. How are you?”

I greeted back and asked, “Mrs. Brooks, where are you guys now? Is Renee feeling better? I really think that you should come back and bring her to the hospital again. I believe it can still be cured.”

Upon that, she sighed, “Mrs. Featherstone, thank you for all that you’ve done for Sasha and us. Actually, my husband and I have brought Renee to Turlen. We’ve never traveled overseas, so this time we brought Renee here to fulfill Sasha’s wish. As for Renee, we won’t continue the treatment anymore. Thank God she has been well these few days. Maybe when we’re done traveling around here, her health condition would have improved by then.”

I was taken aback for a second, but when I was about to reply to her, the call was disconnected. It was probably because of a bad signal.

Everyone perceived the meaning of life differently. Thus, I respected their decision to bring Renee to Turlen. Maybe she could be cured by the vast blue sky and the towering mountain peaks there. After all, who would know?

After putting down the phone, I headed straight to the Moore Residence. Cameron said that Summer was having a fever again. When I reached there, she was sleeping soundly on her bed.

“She took her breakfast today, and she’s been sleeping since then,” Cameron said as she looked at Summer worriedly.

I placed my hand on her warm forehead and sighed, “Summer was born prematurely and did not get much breast milk when she was a toddler, so I guess that’s why she is a sickly child. That time when she was at R Province, her health was not as bad as now. Perhaps the poor air quality in K City causes her immune system to become weaker.”

When I said that, Cameron sighed as well, “These few days I’ve been preparing a lot of nutritious food for her, but she doesn’t seem to eat much and gets thinner and thinner. Indeed, R province is a place of nature, so it would be a better place for her. Perhaps both of you should bring her there and let her convalesce at R province. The most important thing for a child like her is to have a healthy body.”

I nodded in agreement. Recently, I had been thinking about this matter. Now that I did not need to work at the Murphy Corporation anymore, I was actually quite free. But if I brought Summer to R Province alone, Anthony might want to follow along, and that would interfere with his job. Besides, Armond was still a threat to the Featherstone Corporation. If Anthony were to make a slip or two, I’m sure Armond would pounce on the Featherstone Corporation immediately.

“After Anthony takes care of everything here, we will move to R Province for some time,” I replied, looking at Summer’s sunken cheeks. Sasha’s daughter is about her age, too.

Cameron nodded and said, “You should advise Anthony not to spend too much time on work. The two of you are not young anymore. I had consulted a doctor about your condition, Sienna. You’re not infertile. It’s just that you needed time to recover from your previous injury. After so many years have passed, I believe your body can conceive again. Therefore, I do hope that both of you would go to the hospital someday. After all, you two need to have a baby of your own. By the way, a few days ago, I bumped into Sally at the hospital. She was with a man about her age, and I saw them going to the obstetrics and gynaecology department. I was curious, so I asked around and was told that she was planning to conceive.”

That was unexpected. After everything that had happened to Sally, she moved to the suburbs of K City for a change of environment. I assumed she would be living out the rest of her life peacefully herself. Never did I expect her to find a new partner, much less a kid.

I replied, “That’s good to know. After all, she spent half her life embroiled with the White family. Now that she’s found someone she wants to start a family with, she won’t be lonely anymore.”

Cameron nodded. “Indeed. As we age, we fear loneliness. That’s why you and Anthony should hurry up and have kids to liven up the house. Look at Emery, her child’s almost six months old now. Don’t worry, I’ll pass my work responsibilities to Nick and help you with child-rearing.”

“I’ll just let nature take its course. Besides, Summer is practically under your care now. You’ll have a hard time handling two kids.”

“No biggie. I mean, isn’t your dad very free nowadays? Get him a child to curb that bad temper of his.” She laughed at her own words.

Afraid that Summer might wake up, we tiptoed our way out of her room.

After my chat with Cameron, I drove over to Featherstone Corporation to meet Anthony for dinner. In the lobby, I saw Stella coming out of the lift, holding a pink lunchbox. Her rosy cheeks radiating with happiness. Is she dating?

“Ms. Collins!” My sudden greeting almost caused her to drop her lunchbox.

“M-Mrs…” Her face turned pale from shock. I felt a pang of guilt for frightening her.

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