- up.
The kidnapper sneered and shouted, “Aren’t you the daughter of the Bennett, the wife of the president of the Blake Group? I made ten calls, and not a single person came to save you. You are of no use to me!”
Then, she saw the gleaming dagger of the kidnapper, and it stabbed into her heart, the blood staining her chest in circles of blood blossoms.
Aria touched her chest, where she could still feel the excruciating pain as if it had penetrated her very bones.
Nora also saw her, and after a moment of surprise, a gentle smile appeared on her face.
Stepping forward quickly, he grabbed her hand.
“Ria, why didn’t you come home if you didn’t die? Do you know that our parents, upon hearing the news of your death, were so devastated that they were hospitalized multiple times?”
“What’s bothering you, tell it to your sister. You are my younger sister, and your sister will always give in to you.”
The light and casual words solidified her act of “taking her death to deceive people“,
It is clear that she was really kidnapped.
Aria didn’t want to see the insincere Nora, so she was about to leave, but just as she took a step, her hand was grabbed by Lucas.
“Where else do you want to go? Even if you really died, I wouldn’t be sad.”
Aria’s wrist ached, and her heart felt pain, but her gaze fell upon the translucent prayer beads on his left hand.
That was three years ago when Lucas fell seriously ill, and she braved the heavy snow to devoutly pray for him at Ashford Chapel.
Aria didn’t say anything, she just reached out and took off the prayer beads from Lucas‘ wrist,
The prayer beads broke, just like her love for him in this lifetime shattered.
Chapter 2.
The prayer beads rolled in the ground, and Lucas’s heart seemed to roll along with them.
Someone laughed and said, “Aria, this is something you broke yourself. We all saw it with our own eyes, so don’t go blaming Log
