Chapter 9
During her hospital stay, Juliana continued to send her various messages every day, tirelessly.
And all those messages were nothing but showing off how considerate. Vincent was towards her.
After reading it, Alice saved it all, but her heart remained calm.
The day she was discharged from the hospital, she had just finished packing when she received a phone call.
“Ms. Caylor, your visa has been approved. When are you available to come pick it up?”
“Great!”
After hearing the good news coming from the other end of the phone, she smiled a long–lost smile, “I will go pick it up this afternoon.”
She hung up the phone and then glanced at the ward one last time.
Here records her most embarrassing moment, also witnesses her rebirth.
Just then, Vincent pushed open the door and entered.
“What did you go to do?”
He stood with one hand in his pocket, looking at her with a scrutinizing gaze in front of the hospital bed.
Alice put away the smile on her face and said coldly, “It’s none of your business.”
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Vincent sneered and pulled out a marriage certificate from his suit pocket, throwing it on the bedside table. “Do I need to remind you that, legally, you are still Mrs. Seibert?”
The woman in the sickbed gently picked up the red booklet and ran her fingertips over the embossed gold letters.
“Are you sure you want to make sure whose name is written on it?”
She suddenly looked up, and in her dark eyes reflected Vincent’s suddenly changing face.
Just as the atmosphere was getting colder, his phone suddenly rang at this
moment.
Vincent glanced at the caller ID and couldn’t help but soften his tone, “Juliana?”
“Vincent! The bridal shop said the last couture gown was reserved by
someone!”
Juliana’s voice came through the speaker with a sob, “I don’t care, I want
that one!”
Vincent frowned and glanced at Alice, then turned and walked to the window, soothing her in a low voice, “Don’t worry, I’ll be right there.”
He hung up the phone and casually threw a gold–embossed invitation on the hospital bed.
“Tomorrow is my wedding with Juliana, you must be there.”
Alice picked up the invitation, and the two names printed side by side on it stabbed at her eyes.
Before, she also fantasized about her name being openly and proudly
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written alongside his.
“Don’t worry, I will definitely prepare a big gift.”
She whispered.
Vincent walked to the doorway and stopped again: “Tonight we are
moving to Southridge Estate, that is your reward for saving Juliana yesterday.”
Alice watched as Vincent’s figure disappeared at the end of the hallway, and she let out a soft sigh.
“Compensation?” she muttered under her breath, “All I want is to never see you again.”
The discharge procedures were completed very quickly.
Alice went to the consulate to get her visa first, then went home and had a good sleep.
The next morning at eight o’clock, the alarm clock rang on time.
After she got up, she put the t
prepared marriage certificates and a USB drive into a gift box, and called a local express delivery service.
“At 12 o’clock noon, deliver to this address,” she said to the delivery man, “Tell the recipient, Mr. Seibert, that this is a wedding gift from Alice for them.”
After finishing all this, Alice dragged her suitcase to the airport without looking back.
At eleven thirty, she boarded the plane and blocked and deleted all of Vincent’s contact information.
Snow began to fall outside the window.
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As the plane climbed, the city where I had lived for over twenty years gradually turned into a small black dot.
Alice leaned back in the chair and slowly closed her eyes.
This time, she could finally fall asleep peacefully.
The nightmare that lasted for two lifetimes has come to an end.
From now on, her dreams will only be of a bright future.
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When the dawn was breaking, Vincent drove to Juliana’s building himself.
“Will Alice really come?”
Juliana leaned against his shoulder in the car, playing with the tip of his
tie.
Vincent lowered his head and kissed the tip of her hair, “Of course, haven’t you always wanted her to witness our happiness with her own eyes?”
In the dressing room, Vincent checked his phone for the third time.
The last message in the WhatsApp pinned conversation box still stayed three days ago, under which he sent out wedding invitations, but there has been no response.
I dialed the phone, and a mechanical female voice said, “The user you are calling is currently unavailable.”
“Threw another tantrum…”
He frowned and put down his phone, but didn’t notice his unconscious fiddling with his wedding ring.
The midday sun shone through the stained glass, casting colorful patterns of light and shadow on the red carpet.
Vincent stood under the flower arch, but his gaze kept scanning towards the entrance of the banquet hall.
The emcee gave a third glance to signal the start, and the guests‘ whispers.
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could already be faintly heard.
“Vincent!”
Juliana walked briskly with the train of her wedding dress, her carefully styled curls slightly disheveled.
“How long do we have to wait?”
He suddenly realized that he had been procrastinating.
As Vincent shook Juliana’s outstretched hand, he suddenly remembered last year’s shareholders‘ meeting, where Alice, dressed in a beige suit, sat quietly in the back row clapping for him.
“It starts now.”
He closed his eyes tightly and expelled that figure from his mind.
Just as he came to his senses, the door was suddenly pushed open from
outside.
Vincent suddenly turned around, his leather shoes making a sharp sound as they scraped against the marble floor.
He subconsciously tightened his grip on the ring box in his hand, but his face instantly darkened when he saw the person approaching – just a delivery man.
“Mr. Seibert’s urgent package.”
The delivery man stood awkwardly at the door, holding a delicate gift box in his hands.
“Ms. Caylor demanded that it be delivered by exactly twelve o’clock.”
At the mention, all the guests‘ eyes in the room shot towards the door.
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Vincent furrowed his brow and strode down the red carpet.
He snatched the gift box and said angrily, “Can’t you see there’s at wedding going on here?”
“I’m sorry…”
The delivery man took two steps back. “Ms. Caylor said the documents inside are very important…”
Before the words had even finished, Juliana stormed over angrily, carrying her wedding dress.
The expensive skirt swept the ground, making a rustling sound.
“What did she want to do in the end?”
Juliana’s exquisite makeup couldn’t hide the hostility in her eyes. “Not coming to the wedding would have been fine, but to do this at a time like this…”
Vincent did not answer the phone.
The gift box in his hand was surprisingly light, yet it made his heart. inexplicably heavy.
Alice’s abnormal behavior was like a thorn, deeply piercing into his thoughts.
“Let’s get started.”
Impatiently, Juliana urged Vincent, “The guests are all waiting.”
Reason told Vincent that he should start the ceremony immediately, but his fingers uncontrollably untied the ribbon on the gift box.
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