Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Lucas didn’t know where to send the letters, so he sent them to Alexander’s villa.
Alexander brought a stack of letters to Ember.
She didn’t even open them, just threw them straight into the fire.
Alexander teased her, “Aren’t you going to read them? What if he needs you for something urgent?”
“I gave him life, but he wants my life. What’s there to see?” Ember replied flatly.
“From now on, don’t bring me these letters.”
During her time in the mountains, Ember occasionally stayed in touch with Alexander. He had bought a villa just for her contact information, though he rarely disturbed her.
After returning from the mountains, he visited Ember twice. Once, it was her birthday, and he brought her a cake.
“How did you know it was my birthday?” Ember asked.
“I was there last year, watching a good show,” Alexander replied, a hint of amusement in his tone.
It had been the day when Jennifer had found him at the hotel. He had been drinking and was carried to lie beside Ember. She hadn’t had time to notice his face at that moment.
When he woke up and heard strange noises in the banquet hall, he had come out and seen her.
He said she was beautiful and couldn’t understand how Joseph could abandon her for Jennifer, an older
woman.
Alexander was the CEO of a listed company and not short on money. To get closer to Ember, he spent a lot of money buying the villa, never living in it. He just said she could go back there anytime if she had no place to stay.
“So, what are your plans now?” Ember asked one day.
She had come back from the mountains, and the tourism business there was stable, so she didn’t need to supervise it. Life had slowed down, and there wasn’t much to do.
“I don’t know. I have too much money and nowhere to spend it,” Alexander replied, laughing at her
humble tone.
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“If you’re free and bored, how about being the wife of a CEO?” he joked.
Ember shot him a glance. “After what happened with my marriage, do you think I have any intention of getting married again?”
Alexander leaned closer. “How about we just date?”
“Right now, I can’t bear to be around any men,” she said honestly.
Alexander gritted his teeth. “I’ll be your backup.”
Alexander lied to her.
From the time he had frequently come to find her until her phone was completely silent, less than a month had passed.
The number that had been dialed repeatedly for three days without getting through had now turned into a disconnected one.
She went to look for him, but all she received was the news that he had moved out half a month ago.
He had never given her any explanation, nor had he offered a single word of farewell.
He had just disappeared from her life in a hurry, leaving her, caught off guard, still feeling a bit lost and melancholic.
A year later, she met her current boyfriend, David.
They met during a project on a tourist village, and their business ideas were perfectly aligned. Naturally, they grew close and eventually ended up together.
One day, while shopping at the mall, they witnessed a woman, seemingly out of control, trying to snatch a baby from a mother’s arms.
The mall staff quickly pulled the woman away and threw her out.
She overheard that the woman had lost her child and, after being deceived abroad, had become mentally unstable due to the double blow.
Ember looked at the woman’s familiar back.
She was sitting on the street, muttering to herself. Snow fell on her ragged clothes, and her hands and feet were swollen from the cold.
Ember had once seen this woman sitting in Joseph’s lap, provoking her with her gaze.
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She had heard that the woman ran away with a wealthy man and went abroad to live a carefree life.
No one knew that after being tricked abroad, her passport and ID were taken, and the man forced her into physical trade. She got pregnant, fell ill, couldn’t afford treatment, and was dumped on the street.
Now she had no money, no passport, no legitimate income, and spent her days begging on the streets, drinking the coldest dew, lying under a freezing bridge, living the rest of her life in misery.
“What are you looking at?” David asked, walking over and putting his arm around Ember.
“It’s nothing. I just saw a dog run by,” she replied.
Ember suddenly remembered some things from the past, especially Daniel.
He must have met someone new by now.
It seemed like they would never cross paths again.
But what Ember didn’t expect was that, that night, everything would take a complete turn…
