The man burst into tears as he pulled me into his arms. We were so close to each other that I couldn’t catch my breath. “You mean the world to me. Without you, nothing matters to me, be it the Hall family or the Featherstone Corporation. I can give them all up as long as it makes you happy.”
Pausing for a while, he sniffled before continuing, “It seems forgetting everything in the past can give me the life I wanted. I just want to be with you and our kids and to pick a fight with you sometimes, these are all I ever wanted. Sienna, it seems I’ve become a burden to you.”
He hugged me as his voice slowly returned to normal. However, sorrow was still written all over his face.
As calm as one tried to be when their emotions were stirring, they were deeply hurt inside.
I didn’t say anything in reply and hugged him back while listening to him talking about the six years that felt like forever.
Six years ago, the Hall family’s search team found Anthony stranded on a shore full of rocks and took him back for treatment.
When he regained consciousness, they gave him new memories- He was the long-lost heir of the Hall family, and he had just acknowledged his paternal roots and reunited with them. Sienna was his wife and was a heartless woman who betrayed him, while Audrey wasn’t one of the Halls, and Gregory was his only child.
The Halls sent Tom away, so Anthony could only accept the subordinates Nicolas arranged for him.
Anthony was having doubts about Sienna betraying him and eloping with another man, so he ordered his men to look into it secretly. However, the information he received was all prepared and fabricated by Nicolas.
Later on, he was caught up in a lot of matters, such as fighting for custody over Gregory and merging the assets of the Featherstone Corporation and the Hall family. He had no choice but to put his suspicion aside as his memories of me were sealed.
On the day we had our reunion, Anthony recognized me, even though my features had changed a lot.
However, the only impression he had of me was just as what Nicolas told him. In his knowledge, Sienna was nothing more than a woman who betrayed her husband, so he humiliated me when we met by saying, “Not all women are worthy of me.”
Not only was that an insult to the person who betrayed him, the way he said it made it obvious that he wouldn’t accept me into his family, as the woman had left Gregory behind for six years.
However, when Gregory mentioned about his mother, Anthony instructed the child to forget about her, but the image of the woman inside the car kept on surfacing in his mind.
It was the same when he returned to the Featherstone Corporation. The scene at the intersection continued to play in his mind repeatedly. It was right at that moment, the emotions in his heart erupted and surged through his body like an electric current. The man clenched his fists and groaned in pain as he felt suffocated while his memories came flooding back.
“You are getting bolder now, aren’t you?”
“I agree to file for a divorce.”
“Today is Grandpa’s funeral!”
“You’re overestimating yourself.”
“My baby’s gone…”
“Ugh!” Anthony’s head throbbed in pain and he passed out.
When he woke up, it was already the next day. His memories of the past returned, and he remembered everything he did.
Six years. I had actually caused Sienna to suffer for six years.
Lying on the ground, the man stared at the ceiling with his red eyes and he gripped his fists tightly before punching the ground. “Oh, Anthony Featherstone, you are a useless scum!”
Realizing his actions had hurt Sienna, he continued to lie on the ground in agony until the assistant knocked on the door. Then, he had no choice but to get up from the ground and return to his usual self.
The one who came in wasn’t Joseph, and this reminded Anthony of his identity—the cash cow of the Hall family.
Before the assistant could say anything, the man roared, “Scram!”
The assistant thought he had heard wrongly and raised his head to look at Anthony, but his gaze was met with a deadly glare by the latter.
Fear overwhelmed the assistant, and his arms felt weak, scattering the documents on the floor.
Soon after, the assistant picked the papers up with trembling hands and left the office quickly without glancing back.
The office fell into silent once again, but there were no signs of joy on Anthony’s face.
He had regained most of his memories, but he couldn’t recall the reason behind his memory loss, so he decided to look into it. The first thing he did was to call Joseph back to investigate the truth behind the explosion on the island and the culprit who had hypnotized him.
Before he got the results, Anthony received intel from his subordinates and knew that Sienna would show up at The Jade, so he changed his schedule to meet her.
The Halls were around him, so he could only try this best to remain calm when he finally saw the woman he loved in front of him. However, no matter how hard he tried to hide it, his heart started racing when he saw her.
Sienna was standing in front of him. She was still the same woman he knew, but she seemed to have lost a lot of weight and her eyes looked dull and lifeless.
The light that brightened up his life was lost.
The man gulped as his heart pained for her and he dared not even get close to her.
Perhaps it was because he was blaming himself. He wanted to make Sienna leave him, even if it meant to become the type of man the woman hated the most.
“If it’s not because of this, you won’t be able to get close to him.”
“There are a lot of women who wish to become Mrs. Featherstone, yet no one has tried something as silly as this.”
“You’re a smart woman who knows how to avail yourself of your strength. Unfortunately, you’ve picked the wrong target. If you want to become my wife, you should just come after me.”
Anthony knew that I, who had lost my memories, would have a bad impression on him for what he said. He knew the young lady who was passionate about love would probably find him hateful.
His heart was dripping with blood. Nevertheless, he plastered a smile on his face.
Sienna, stay away from me like how you did today. Forget about our past and live your own life. Let me deal with all the troubles and conspiracies.
If everything went according to the plan, we wouldn’t need to go through all these sufferings.
Anthony wanted to let me go, yet his resoluteness and composure fell apart after reading the document brought to him by Joseph.
Even if it would mean putting himself at risk of being found out that his memory had recovered, Anthony had insisted on moving out of the Hall residence with Gregory and moved into the house next door to Marcus.
He wasn’t sure if I had really lost my memory, so he resorted to other methods to take me away from Marcus. As such, he had made use of some of the Hall family’s secret hideouts. After he found Camelia and the child, he made them reunite in front of me.
Those harsh words he threw at me about the cooperation and that me being a substitute were just his tactics to make me stay by his side with the fake identity.
He was afraid I might recover my memory way before he sorted everything out.
John’s appearance, on the other hand, was not within his expectation. He had forgotten that John was an old acquaintance of Zachary; our encounter would increase the chances of me recovering memories of the past.
As expected, I became a completely different person after meeting John.
Although his plan went slightly off course, that would only light a fire under him to retaliate. Soon, he set his first target – Tiffany.
Anthony knew I had recovered all my memories. Regardless of his reluctance to part with me, I was the one who got to decide whether I wanted to stay or leave him.
It was a surprise and a huge relief when I came back to him. My return was the best reassurance given to him.
Meanwhile, Anthony and I were snuggling up on the couch in the living room. I leaned against his chest while the man wrapped his arm around my shoulder. Our back views looked like an elderly couple who had gone through thick and thin in life.
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