Laura’s POV 89
Holly didn’t continue and Carter lowered his head and asked me softly, “How are you feeling? Is there anywhere uncomfortable?”
I stared at him in a daze, my lips were dry and there was a parched pain at the corner of my mouth.
“Cameron… what’s wrong?”
“Cameron?” frowned Carter.
Then he smiled nonchalantly, “He’s sitting pretty in jail, you don’t have to worry.”
My heart skipped a beat and almost jumped out of my mouth.
“Is there anything physically wrong?” He tucked me in, “The doctor has examined you in detail, everything is fine with the baby. But you have to be emotionally stable or you might go into premature labor.”
“Holly, you go out first.” He said faintly.
Holly and I looked at each other.
Her eyes were like ice cream, containing indignation and unwillingness. She bit her lip and her look was all of a sudden sinister, as if she was picking a fight with me.
It wasn’t until Holly was long gone that Carter helped me up to a sitting position and handed me a glass of water.
I didn’t take it, and he laughed softly, “It’s not drugged.”
I turned my gaze away.
“I know what Holly did to you.” He squared his shoulders, “Don’t worry, you won’t have to go through this shock for nothing.”
“Why did you do this to me?” I wondered.
“You think I’m too good for you?”
“All in all not too bad.” I said, “You did take care of me a lot during my pregnancy.”
He hooked his lips, “Because you’re my partner.” He shifted his gaze down to my stomach, “And him.”
“I don’t skimp on my partners, let alone women with children.”
“The Lynch Group, the property, the benefits, are those so important to you?” I looked over at him, “Worth everything you’d give for? You don’t even care about your future wife, carrying another man’s child in her belly?”
“If I cared about that, I wouldn’t have called Stella mom when I was a kid!”
His face was expressionless.
His figure was on the slim side, and his skin was white and almost transparent. Such an image looked like a sick person anyhow, but it was this sick person who smiled with the most tenacious posture until now.
“I’ve known since I was a kid to take it all back for my mom.” He says, “To get all the irrelevant people out of The Lynch Family!”
Irrelevant people, that would be Stella and her mother and son, I guess.
So he can put up with anything and act like anything. Once upon a time he pretended to be honest, sick, and amnesiac, and now he finally doesn’t have to pretend, but he still can’t help but pretend to be a good man in front of me.
“Laura,” he patted the back of my hand, “there’s another reason I’m doing this to you that you won’t believe, I’m afraid.”
“What?”
“I really like you.”
I froze, jerking my hand out.
“You really don’t get that at all?” He smiled to himself, “You can’t tell?”
“Carter,” I rubbed my temples, “I’m a little tired and I want to rest.”
He doesn’t say anything for a long time and silently walks towards the door.
Before he leaves he asks me, “Laura, is Cameron really that important to you?”
I didn’t answer. I didn’t know how to answer, exactly. Important? It was. He was the only man I’d ever loved since I was a child, the only man I’d ever given my all to, and the man who’d hurt me the most. But does it matter now? I’m afraid to say.
It’s his blood in my belly.
I’m sure I love this child.
Just now when Holly asked the doctor to induce my labor, I even felt that he appeared, and he held me in his arms to protect me … Maybe it was just a dream, and it should have been Carter who saved me from getting out of there, but I’d rather keep in that dream world for the rest of my life and not come out.
So Cameron is still important to me, but I don’t dare say a word about it now.
I’m afraid that if I say it, Carter will turn on him again.
Carter looks back at me, “Get some rest.”
I close my eyes.
The doctor and nurse come in to give me my shots and Yasmin brings in the stew and feeds it to me one bite at a time.
“I knew that Ms. Holly was up to no good.” She said as she fed me, “That woman doesn’t look kind at first glance! It’s a good thing I was nosy and called the youngest, otherwise I would have been chagrined for the rest of my life if anything bad had happened to you!”
“Thank you, Yasmin,” I suddenly remembered something and asked her tentatively, “Has anyone come to the house in the last few days?”
“Come to what people?”
“Like … Cameron’s former friends or something.”
Yasmin froze, and her expression changed to one of calm and sadness. “You’re thinking about the Second Young Master again?”
“Not thinking about …,” I lowered my head, “When Holly victimized me, it seems like Cameron broke in and saved me.”
“How is that possible!”
“I know it’s impossible, but it’s really real!” I said, “He was holding me and I could feel the clothes he was wearing, they were those rough prison uniforms with numbers on them!”
“You must be hallucinating.” Yasmin looked at me with some sympathy in her eyes, “The young master wore a linen suit with a fountain pen pinned to his breast pocket, that’s what you touched, right?”
I stopped defending myself.
It could really be my hallucination, Cameron is in jail, how can he just talk his way out?
I Anne heart in the hospital to recuperate, occasionally think of that hallucination, or can not help but smile.
The child in my belly also has a telepathic follow the movement, everything makes me calm and satisfied.
It’s been nine months.
I don’t dare to take it lightly as the baby starts when it says it will.
My body has become heavier, and more often than not, I just want to lie down and sit down, but the doctor said that more walking would be good for labor, so I walk a certain amount of road every day, and the route is to circle around the road outside The Lynch Family villa a few times.
There were few cars on that road, and there were trees on both sides, so it was quiet and safe.
I don’t like people to follow me when I walk, and it’s rare for me to enjoy breathing freely. However, as I was walking that day, a red sports car suddenly stopped in front of me, and I screamed in fear.
Holly stepped out of the car.NôvelDrama.Org owns all content.
My eyes widened. How dare she come back? She almost killed me last time and what was she doing here this time?
I regretted why I hadn’t asked someone to walk with me; in this situation, if she still wanted me dead, I wouldn’t be able to escape!
I hide my hands behind my back and quietly unlock my phone.
“Laura, I didn’t mean any harm.” She looks at me coldly, “You don’t have to call the police.”
“Heh, of course I won’t call the police.” I said, “With your skill, Sister Holly, by the time the police come, I’ll be dead already!”
“I won’t hurt you this time.”
“You’re lying to hell!”
“Laura!”
I reeled back and turned my head in a lifeless mad dash, calling for help as I ran.
Holly catches up with me in a few steps and easily grabs me, “You be quiet Laura! I’ll take you somewhere … I’ll tell you everything!”
“You let go of me!” My teeth chattered with hate as I struggled to get free, “Holly, I’m not going to fall for your tricks again! You little … man you’re despicable!”
“This is the front door of your house, there’s surveillance everywhere, I dare you to do anything to you!” Holly yelled, “Laura, what I’m about to tell you has to do with Cameron!”
“What are you talking about?” I was stunned.
“Cameron!” she bites the name.
“I was going to go after you at the hospital that day, and it was Cameron who came in and got you out, you know?”
I froze.
Heart pounding.
Cameron … It really was Cameron. I knew my feelings were real, I knew it was him!
“How?” I asked in a daze, “Isn’t he in jail?”
“Yes he was in jail, but he got out the other day.” Holly wrapped both arms around her chest, “Cameron is Cameron after all, even if he is sentenced to jail, his network of connections, The Scott family’s network of connections is powerful. Rumor has it that he was a little under the weather and bailed out that day to go to the hospital for a routine physical.”
I took a step back.
If he hadn’t coincidentally bailed out of the hospital, Holly would have gotten her hands on him.
Not only would the baby be gone, but maybe even I wouldn’t be on this earth.
“So he spoiled it for you.” I raised an eyebrow and laughed softly.
“I really didn’t expect him to show up.” She looks over at me, her face unusually pale.
“What the hell do you want to talk about today?”
“Go somewhere with me.”
“Holly …”
“To Cameron’s house!” She had a fish-out-of-water determination.
I was shocked and stood there half speechless. Holly stepped forward to look me firmly in the eyes, “Cameron and Queenie’s house, aren’t you curious about what’s going to happen?”
“Don’t worry, even if I wanted you dead, I wouldn’t be stupid enough to do it to you there.” She said, “His house has a sophisticated alarm system, and the police would definitely be at my door within a minute if I made a move on you. Also, what kind of man is Cameron? You know better than me, he’s very alert, and in a house as big as this, there’s a miniature camera somewhere. Do you think I would be that stupid to make a move on you there and leave evidence for the police?”
I thought about it, she had a point, but I was still skeptical. “What exactly do you have to talk to me about.”
“There’s no need to talk about it.” She said lightly, “I’m just inviting you to a good show.”
“I’m not taking your car.” I looked at her and called for The Lynch Family’s driver to bring the car out. “I’ll follow you.” I told her.
Holly gave a soft grunt, like a taunt. She didn’t say anything more as she got into the little red sports car and hit the gas and took off.
The driver followed me in his car.
Along the way I was apprehensive, I had a strong premonition that something would happen, that it was not good, and even irritated me a lot, but I still had no choice but to follow her. Human curiosity is the most terrible thing in this world.
The car stopped near South Bay, where an elegant and imposing villa loomed behind the hibiscus trees. Large clusters of hibiscus flowers red like fire, competing for color. In the distance, the sea and sky line up, blue and distant.
What a unique location.
“These two bought their house here, they still know how to enjoy it, right?” Holly suddenly tapped me on the shoulder from behind, “I heard that Cameron also gave you a small apartment once upon a time?”
“See, that’s the difference between you and Queenie.” That smirk at the corner of her mouth is rather playful, “Queenie is his wife, so he has to keep her in a big house like this, while you’re his plaything, so he can just give you any cage you want and you can live in it!”
I look at her as if I have a thorn in my throat.
Holly shows me in, and I wonder how she has the code to Cameron’s door.
“No need to wonder.” She looks at me as if she’s guessing what I’m thinking, “I’ve been here a couple times.”
“What?”
“Sure.” She smiled, “All when Cameron wasn’t home.”
Before I could ask her why she was here, she took my hand and headed inside, The Lynch Family’s driver kept a wary eye on me, “Ms. Laura, would you like me to …”
“You don’t have to come over.” I told him.
I have a feeling that the “good show” Holly wants to invite me to see must have something to do with The Lynch Family. If someone saw The Lynch Family’s driver and car here, it could be bad.
“You pull across the street.” I said, “There are woods there, so hide yourself and I’ll call you if anything happens.”
The driver looks at me, then at Holly, and hesitantly walks away.
Holly raises a smile and looks at me in a way that seems to say, “Good job.”
“You’re smart.” She leads me into Cameron’s house, “But Laura, with all your smarts, didn’t you ever notice that Carter wasn’t normal?”
“Not normal?” I froze.
Holly gestured for me to go upstairs.
We went upstairs to a cabin that was secluded and unusually constructed. Holly closed the door, and from the glass in the door we could see right into the downstairs living room.
“This glass is peculiar,” she said, “the inside looks clear to the outside, but the outside can’t see in.”
“What did Cameron put such glass in the door for?”
“That I’m not sure.” She shrugged, “But this room has helped me a lot.”
My heart was pounding, and my belly was tightening up so much it hurt.
“Sit down.” She moved a chair for me, then I sat beside me. “You may not be able to take that good show in a few minutes, but don’t worry, whatever happens to you, I’ll be responsible.”
“What the hell?” I asked breathlessly.
But before the words left my mouth, I heard the front door slam, followed by a mix of high heels and leather shoes entering the door, and the soft laughter of a man and a woman.
Clothes rustled to the floor.
I looked outside to the living room where a man and a woman were kissing passionately, stripped almost down to their underwear, their two bodies entwined as if in ecstasy.
The room was empty, and the sound transmission was so good that the sounds of ennui pierced through the air and all the way into my ears. Then they collapsed on the couch, the man violently broke through her last line of defense, like a ferocious beast, the woman in his body under the pleasure, body twisting, love is difficult to self-control.
My heart beat fast and uncontrollable, the blood in my body instantly poured to the top of my head, like someone had covered my mouth and nose, and I felt like I was going to suffocate.
“Didn’t lie to you, did I?” Holly’s voice was tinged with laughter, “This kind of live action movie is not something you can see all the time! I’m afraid the love action movie masters in that country across the ocean wouldn’t dare to shoot it like this!”
My body was drenched in cold sweat.
A nauseous feeling traveled down my stomach and up to my throat.
It’s never been this disgusting, ever.
“Brother Carter, be gentle …” the woman softly chirped from downstairs, “Don’t … I can’t stand it …”
“Lighter? Heh, how about this!”
He pushed hard, and the cries of pleasure were unceasing. “Don’t … I just gave birth not long ago, the doctor said not yet!”
“It’s still so tight after just giving birth, you dead leprechaun!”
“Carter…”
I almost fell down the chair and sat on the floor.
“What’s wrong?” A hand on my shoulder, “Can’t believe it? What you see with your own eyes is always a thousand times more brutal than what your ears hear.”
I mumbled, “Why …”
“I know you heard me talking to Carter in the hospital bed the other day.” She looked at me, her gaze icy, “I told you his relationship with Queenie wasn’t normal. But I’m afraid you wouldn’t believe me if I didn’t let you see it with your own eyes, so I brought you here to see … what Carter and Queenie are really like!”
“Why are you bringing me to see this?” I looked up at her, “What do I have to do with the two of them cheating on each other? You don’t think that I really think of Carter as a husband, do you? Or do you think that I would hold out for Cameron?”
I stood up, a little dizzy, and my stomach ache was getting worse.
I don’t know if I’m pale or not, but the corners of my mouth are trembling and my whole body is shaking.