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Chapter 1853
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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Elsewhere, Carter was driving speedily back to his villa.In hurried steps, Carter, drenched in the rain, rushed into the living room with the unconscious Shirley in his arms.Camille and Ada, who were in the living room, were shocked when they saw Carter returned while carrying an unconscious and soaking wet Shirley.“How did she turn out like this?” Camille, whose eyes were filled with concern, immediately instructed the maid, “Get Dr. Lane here immediately!”The maid then carried out the order hurriedly.While Ada stood at one side, watching the worried-looking Carter as he carried Shirley upstairs, Camille followed Carter. When Ada saw how worried they were for Shirley, anger rose in Ada’s chest, yet a smile appeared on her face.She could see with her eyes, of course, so she knew that Shirley had gone out in the rain.Judging from how wet Shirley was, she must have been in the rain for a very long time. Additionally, with Adam and Cathy’s deaths, Ada was certain that Shir
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As soon as he heard that, Carter turned around hastily and strode toward Shirley's room. However, as Carter approached the room, his heartbeat became increasingly rapid with apprehension by the second. The production of AXP69 had originally been intended for Madeline.It contained a terrifying ingredient that would take effect and mutate upon entering the human body. In the end, it would shatter the person's soul by inducing hallucinations, forcing the person to relive their most painful and humiliating memories. Carter's footsteps grew heavier as these thoughts played on his mind. He felt nervous, along with an unprecedented sense of panic.He feared that, in a moment, he would see such a version of Shirley too. An undignified Shirley who was trapped in her painful memories. Carter's thoughts ceased abruptly when he arrived at the door of Shirley's bedroom.He felt a wave of inexplicable weight upon him and, for a moment, he felt weak.Amid Carter's hesitation, Shir
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Although the situation puzzled him, it was better than what he had originally envisioned.Due to her exposure to the rain, Shirley had developed symptoms of a cold and a fever. Since she was pregnant, she could not simply take flu medications. He called for the doctor to return once again. It was not until late at night that Shirley was completely settled in.Throughout the night, Shirley softly called for Carter several times as she dreamed. He stayed by her bed, watching her closely, not leaving her side. To avoid disturbing Shirley's rest, Carter had only turned on a table lamp.The warm, soft light hung over Shirley's face as she slept. Carter unconsciously raised a hand and gently caressed her scarred cheek."If you hadn't left me without a word back then, none of these would have happened. "Why did you make me hate you?"Shirley, why have you put such strain on our relationship?"Carter spoke to himself, knowing that Shirley would not hear what he was saying now.
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