Chapter 138
“Then I’ll tell you again: I’m divorced.”
Zachery: “…”
The car stopped in the underground garage.
Zachery walked over to the passenger seat, unfastened Josephine’s seatbelt, and scooped her
in his arms to carry her to the elevator.
up
Josephine kept repeating, “I’m divorced, did you know? Dr. Maynard, I’m divorced!”
“You’ve said that eight hundred times already,” Zachery said helplessly.
For most people, divorce is just a decision that two people make together without much fuss.
But for Josephine, it was a desperate struggle, a bloody battle. These past two months had been especially hard on her.
Zachery didn’t know the passcode to Josephine’s home.
Josephine had previously disabled the facial recognition feature.
Zachery had no choice but to set Josephine down, take her hand, and try each of her fingers one by one.
He tried five times, but each attempt was wrong.
The door lock was now disabled, and they would have to wait five minutes before trying again.
Zachery picked her up again and carried her to his own place, gently laying Josephine on his bed.
Josephine’s face was flushed, her fair cheeks tinged with red, and her hair was scattered messily.
Zachery leaned over and helped tidy up her stray hair.
He asked softly, “Are you feeling uncomfortable? I’ll get you some honey water.”
06:47
Chapter138
288 Vouchers
Josephine didn’t answer. Her peach blossom eyes glanced sideways, looking at Zachery in a dazed, dreamy way.
Zachery’s calm heart skipped a beat.
Josephine grabbed Zachery’s arm and suddenly burst into tears.
“Mom… Mom, I miss you so much. I’m sorry, it was my fault.”
Zachery was a little speechless at being mistaken for her mother, but Josephine’s tears wouldn’t stop, and even his own breathing felt painful.
Josephine cried herself to sleep.
Zachery knew Josephine needed rest and shouldn’t be disturbed
any further.
He took off her shoes and socks for her, and used warm water to wipe her face.
After that, he pulled up a chair to sit by the bed, his deep gaze fixed on Josephine lying there.
He recalled the first time they met…
Because of a family feud, he was surrounded and attacked by eight men under his second uncle’s command.
Two of them were armed with guns.
Alone and not daring to take risks, he ran toward the luxury shopping mall.
There were lots of people there, and police officers patrolled the area.
No matter how reckless his uncle’s men were, they wouldn’t dare fire a gun there, so his chances of survival would be higher.
Unfortunately, before he could reach the mall, he was chased into an alley.
The alley was close to the main street, so the men didn’t dare use their guns and instead came at him with knives.
At that time, he was only seventeen, just grown to his full height, skinny as a bamboo pole- he could handle fighting three or four people.
But against eight well–trained, burly young men, he was no match.
After ten minutes of grappling, his body was riddled with bloody wounds, and he collapsed
06:47
Chapter138
11 288 Vouchers
on the ground, unable to move.
Four men who were still standing walked toward him.
In the moonlight, those men looked as cold and terrifying as grim reapers.
He thought this time, he was surely doomed.
Verify captcha to read the content
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Take Back All She Lost