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Ada let out a sigh of resignation."Carter, I know I tend to be willful and wayward, but I'm not that heartless and cold-blooded. You should go and comfort Ms. Brown. She must be feeling especially..."Without waiting for Ada to finish her sentence, Carter left her and walked straight to Shirley. Carter glanced sideways at the charred house which had been burnt down to its frame. His eyebrows drew tight as the burning smell hit his nostrils. He walked up to Shirley, lowered his body slightly, and was about to speak when Shirley raised a hand unexpectedly and slapped him. Carter was dumbfounded. His face remained sideways, seemingly did not react, and he stood motionless.Ada and the servants nearby had witnessed the entire scene, and all of them were shocked.Carter held the position as the honorable Viscount of St. Piaf; he carried with him the blood of royalty. Ever since he was a child, who would have dared to move a single strand of his hair? Presently, this woman who
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"Carter, this is bad!" Ada rushed up to Carter in a panic.Carter could sense that Ada was referring to Shirley. "Do you know where Shirley went?" Carter asked directly. Ada nodded repeatedly. "I wasn't paying much attention at first, but it struck me when you couldn't find Shirley." "Get to the point.""When I was returning from the scene of the fire earlier, I vaguely saw Shirley heading down the street to grab a taxi." Upon hearing this, Carter strode out hurriedly. It was a rare sight to see Carter worried and anxious, and it made Ada's heart feel a lot lighter.She was grateful for her own decisiveness. Otherwise, she would have been even more pained at the present.In reality, she had seen Shirley hailing a taxi by the street earlier, but Ada deliberately waited for a period of time before telling Carter. She wanted Shirley to have a head start so that Carter would have a difficult time finding her. Carter drove his car along the route Shirley might have taken, bu
Chapter 1852
Shirley's heartbeat trembled as she grasped the anti-toxoid test reagent in her hand. She was not aware that Madeline and Jeremy were not in Glendale. All she wanted to do now was deliver the anti-toxoid test reagent that could clear the poison in Madeline's body. She knew, however, that Madeline and Jeremy would have difficulty trusting her. They trusted Adam and Cathy, but now...‘Addy, I was wrong.'I already knew earlier that I was wrong.'But I lacked the courage to admit my mistake.'And you did not even give me a chance to apologize.'Addy. 'Cathy.'I know that your greatest hope was for me to hand over the anti-toxoid test reagent to Eveline. 'Don't worry. I won't let you down again.'Shirley held the anti-toxoid test reagent tightly and hid it in her sleeve. The rain continued to pour as she remained motionless.Jeremy had just gotten off the plane with Madeline. They were getting into the car, ready to head home, when Jeremy pulled out his mobile phone to fi
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Shirley saw a car drive through the entrance. She was about to speak when she heard footsteps approaching from behind her. Looking sideways, Jeremy's tall and slender silhouette came into sight. Shirley's despairing eyes lit up with a glimmer of hope.She adjusted the angle of her wheelchair and slowly turned to face Jeremy. With an umbrella in hand, Jeremy's handsome appearance was accompanied by a sense of coldness as he walked directly up to Shirley.Without beating around the bush, he asked, "Are you really here to deliver the anti-toxoid test reagent for AXP69?"Shirley looked at Jeremy and nodded. However, she was uncertain if she had spent too much time in the rain. Coupled with Adam and Cathy's deaths, her whole body was feeling unwell. Despite that, she lifted her arm with all her effort and held out the anti-toxoid test reagent to Jeremy."A complete anti-toxoid test reagent wasn’t available previously because Carter was the only one who had access to one of the
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When she wanted to continue asking, she saw Jeremy snatching the vial out of Shirley’s hand and quickly running toward the house.Karen, worried about Madeline’s safety, was not in the mood to ask any questions, so she merely glared at Shirley and swiftly followed Jeremy.After Shirley saw Jeremy turning around to leave, she finally let go of the pretense of calmness that she had been striving to maintain.Her pain was already so debilitating that she could not endure it anymore. She also knew that further physical and mental pain which awaited her would soon follow.However, that was no longer important.Presently, she only saw the blaze that devoured everything before her.Jeremy, holding the anti-toxoid test reagent in his hands, ran straight into the house.At the sight of Jeremy, Jackson ran gleefully toward him. “Daddy, you’re back!”When Jeremy saw his son running toward him cheerfully, he merely responded by lifting his lips into a smile briefly, then with a serious exp
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Jeremy questioned her immediately, but then he saw Shirley’s pale face and arched body, which seemed as if she was about to curl her body up.Everything Shirley had done back then made it difficult for Jeremy to empathize with her or pity her, but the thought of Shirley knowing what had happened to Adam and Cathy, Jeremy went up to her and asked.“Shirley, do you feel unwell?” Jeremy asked coldly.Shirley lifted her drenched face against the falling rainwater and shook her head weakly. “I’m not unwell.”“What about Adam and Cathy? Where are they?” Jeremy asked again.Shirley grabbed her hands hidden in her sleeves; her eyes were blurred by both tears and rainwater.“Addy, Cathy…”Addy?Jeremy was astonished to hear Shirley addressing Adam as Addy.From what he could remember, there were profound grievances between Shirley and Adam, and Shirley had been brimming with hatred for Adam.Now that she was addressing Adam this way, their relationship seemed to have taken a turn for
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“Shirley, what’s wrong? Do you feel unwell?”“Heh, hehe…” Shirley chuckled bitterly. “Retribution.”She uttered the word with great effort.Carter frowned.“What nonsense are you talking about?”“The fourth stage of the poison is flaring up.” Shirley was breathing heavily; her speech was indistinct.Carter froze instantly. He took this moment to look closely at Shirley’s face, and he began to panic.“Where’s the anti-toxoid test reagent? I went to your lab and saw that you’ve finished it. Didn’t you inject yourself with it?”Carter asked incoherently.Shirley lifted her tired eyes and, through her blurred vision, saw Carter’s anxious face.“Yes, it’s finished. And yes, I’ve injected it, but it’s not inside me.”Shirley displayed a relieved smile as she spoke.“I’ve done so much harm to others without benefiting myself. This is the first time I’ve experienced being a good person, and it turns out that it feels pretty nice. No, this doesn’t really count. I’m just making up as
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When Jeremy heard that, he was surprised yet again.Similarly, Carter was dumbfounded, and his grip on Shirley’s shoulders loosened. “Shirley, what do you mean by this? What do you mean?”Shirley lifted her wet, red eyes and chuckled bitterly.“I never wanted to give birth to that child in the first place.”“...”“I lied when I told you that the poison will affect the child’s growth. All I wanted was to get my hands on the ingredient for the anti-toxoid test reagent for AXP69.”“What did you say?” Carter looked at Shirley in disbelief as she said that.“Now that I’ve already achieved what I wanted, there’s nothing left that I can’t bear to part with anymore.”The light in Shirley’s eyes darkened slowly.“Something bad happened to Addy and Cathy because of me, and they’re no longer here now. There’s no longer anyone in this world who truly cares about me or cares for me. I don’t need the anti-toxoid test reagent anymore. I just want to finish the end of my journey in peace.”E
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