The bar owner rushed over and carried me to the hospital. Afraid I’d be alone, he came with me on a flight abroad a few days later.
……
In her office, Isla couldn’t stop thinking about the gossip she had overheard from her employees.
“Did you hear? President Monroe’s husband tried to kill Mr. Reed out of jealousy. That’s just awful!”
“No wonder President Monroe won’t touch him. I heard that allergy thing was fake; she just can’t stand Landon. Married five years and still a virgin…”
Her feelings were mixed. So this was how everyone secretly saw Landon.
She knew her supposed allergy came from the trauma of her childhood, but things couldn’t stay like this forever.
It had already been several days since Landon had last contacted her, which had never happened before.
Maybe she should have a child with him, properly, to silence all the gossip.
For the first time, she reached out to Kelvin, someone who had also been held by the rich man in the past but had managed to rebuild his life.
When Kelvin heard that she had found the boy she once cared for as a child, he congratulated her over and over and asked to see a picture of the “little mute.”
Isla sent him a photo of herself with Cassian. Half a minute later, a message came back. [Isla, I think you’ve got the wrong person.]
[That boy is definitely not the little mute.]
