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Nicholas paused and asked, “Who do you want gone?”
There was an eerie silence before Yale uttered heavily, “The third heir of Hamertons, Zephyr
Hamerton!”
There was an icy glint in Nicholas’ eyes.
“Come to Centrolis if you’re free. We’ll talk in detail when we meet!”
…
Cordelia looked at Linda, who was curled up on the bed, and could not help feeling the pinch in her
nose as she patted her back softly.
Since they came back, Linda had not said a word. She holed herself in the bedroom once she entered
the house, and her eyes seemed to have lost their focus. She looked like a husk where her soul was
sucked away.
“Linda, you must be hungry?” Cordelia tried everything she could to strike up a conversation. “Seth and
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMarcus are outside. I’ll get them to make you something, okay?”
Linda blinked, and a teardrop rolled off her eye.
Cordelia felt her heart clench.
The Linda she knew was feisty and carefree, like a seagull cruising through wind and riding on waves.
It was as if there was nothing in this world that she could not overcome. Now, though…
After a while, Linda took a deep breath and slowly sat up in bed. She wiped her tears dry and forced a
smile.
She said softly, “Cordelia, I’m sorry for today—”
“Why are you apologizing!?” Cordelia interrupted her anxiously. “Nicholas’ the one who came to pick a
fight. It’s not like you asked him to come!”
“But it still has something to do with me!”
Cordelia widened her eyes. “Linda, you mean he came for you?
“But it doesn’t look like it to me. He’s here for Marcus! They… had grudges when they were in prison
last time.”
“Hah, right.” Linda chuckled self-deprecatingly. “Cordelia, look at me. I used to look down on Marcus,
thinking he didn’t deserve you!
“But what’s my ex-boyfriend like? He’s no different from Marcus! He’s gone in there too!”
“Linda…”
“He got locked up because of me!” Linda could no longer hold herself back and cried.
Cordelia was stunned, and her mind blanked out. It was after a long time that she heard Linda’s soft
voice.
Linda had only told half of her and Nicholas’ story to Cordelia the last time. This other half was
devastating. It was also a memory that she did not want to look back on.
“Actually… my parents were already divorced when I was very young,” Linda recounted. “The court
gave me to my mom, but she was only a regular doctor back then. She was busy and had to take care
of a child. She could barely make ends meet with her monthly income. In order to give me a better life,
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmshe found me a stepfather.”
Cordelia had met Linda’s stepfather before. He was a kind and friendly man who ran his own small
business. The man was not rich, but everyday life was not an issue for them.
“Stepdad has a son whom I’ve always treated as my older brother.” Linda wiped her tears with
quivering lips. “I see him as a brother, but he thinks of me with ulterior motives! He made me go to the
construction site at the back of the school in senior year and forced me to…”
Cordelia held Linda’s icy hand, feeling his heart tighten.
“But he didn’t expect that Nicholas was following me. When he pinned me on the ground, Nicholas
stabbed him with a knife…
“I panicked so much that I went blank. I only remember blood everywhere. Nicholas kept stabbing him,
and he had blood on his face. My brother twitched in his pool of blood… until someone passed by and
called the police.”
Cordelia sucked in a cold breath. “So, he was sentenced because of this?”
Linda looked at her quietly, her pale face wearing a grieving expression.
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