Doris was incomparably frustrated as this was the cruelest and most crucial choice she had ever faced in her twenty-something years of life.

***

Meanwhile, Edmund sat in his Rolls Royce and simply drove away from Silverwing Hospital.

Edmund’s full name was Edmund Whittaker. He was an American whose family was a famous real estate developer in the United States.

He had been Doris’ collegemate in earlier years and had always taken a fancy to her, but because he had still been under the watchful eye of his family at that time, he hadn’t dared to take the plunge and pursue a woman of Oskian descent.

Nevertheless, Edmund had changed radically from his student days. He now had enough resources in the family as well as the control power, and now that he had taken his business to Oskia and started to enter the real estate sector here, he instantly set himself free from all the nuisances.

The first thing he wanted to do was to court Doris.

This was not only because he had always taken a