A Moment in Destiny

At the house of the Ball family.

Hudson slammed what he had in his hand onto the desk. His heart was aching, and his usually calm face couldn’t even conceal the pain and despair written on his face. “You’ve ruined my entire life, do you know that?”

“What are you saying, Hudson?” Christ was taken aback; his hand shuddered a bit. He didn’t know what Hudson was referring to.

The second he saw some of the photos in the bag on the table, his face turned pale. The photos were of him from that night at the hotel.

“You were the one who dosed the drug as well, right?” Hudson calmed down a bit, but the look in his eyes still had a lingering sense of despair and grief. Everything was far too late now. “Is the marriage all that important? To the point that you have to ruin me?”

“Hudson, Winnie isn’t that bad!”

“You had someone record the video too, right? And uploaded it online?”

“Hudson—”

“Just tell me the truth! Yes or no?” Hudson bellowed.

After a slight pause, Christ replied, “Yes!”

In truth, from the second he got the results of the investigation, Hudson already knew the truth that it was his father’s doing. But he still clutched on to some vague hope and refused to believe his father could have done such a thing. But now, he was left utterly disappointed.

He stared at Christ long and hard in the eyes but said nothing. Then he turned around slowly and headed out. The darkness made his figure seem elongated and incredibly lonely.

Hudson doesn’t even recall how he made it back home.

When Winnie woke up, some of the servants informed her that Hudson asked her to stay and that he would return shortly.

She had cried; her eyes were red, and her face looked pale. After releasing all her pent-up emotions, she felt much calmer now.

She sat and awaited him in the living room. When the doors opened, she stared in surprise as his tall figure came stumbling in. Unable to contain herself, she ran up to ask concernedly, “Are you alright?”

Hudson slowly moved his gaze to look at her fatigued face. At this moment, he saw the resemblance between the two, how they were both on the downtrodden end of their relationships.

“You don’t look so well!” Winnie softly said.

He continued to stare at her, as though he was looking at himself.

Winnie continued, “Hudson, I’m going home first! Take care of yourself!”

She made the motion to leave.

Just as she brushed past his shoulder, he grabbed her wrist, “Don’t go, ok?”

He was soft-spoken, and there was a hint of begging in his voice, “At least just for tonight, stay with me, OK?”

to tear up again, “Do you need me, or

it matter? Do we have

me, I’ll stay! If you want to take responsibility, I won’t stay!” She said softly.

He was feeling incredibly lonely tonight.

Could their relationship still heal? Did she

I’ll stay!” She shut her eyes and let the

doing this to comfort her or comfort himself. He just felt incredibly tired. Never had he felt this tired beyond

was the embrace Winnie had longed for! And never would

her up

Their new home!

here; he always stayed in

didn’t expect that they’d go to the bedroom together

and felt confused. She didn’t know why he was bringing her upstairs, so she let

were suddenly

he didn’t

to keep her and be responsible for her! Because the one who had sex with her was him! The current situation was incredibly different from when they just got married and never went to bed together! He felt a flurry of mixed emotions in his heart; never had he felt this flustered before! It was this feeling, this familiar, longing feeling that made his body continue to reminisce that night. This was it!

she tried to resist, the stronger his grip became. Against his burning hot chest, her large round

trembled; his male dominance and kiss were like electric currents that went

fell deeply into

if she knew that he only wanted her body right now, she wanted to give him

and

realize the truth at this

perhaps it was the animal instinct inside him

so, without any drug effects or alcohol,

long, they had sex

he was sex-starved, or he needed a way to

Winnie was still deeply asleep. She was completely

Hudson got up, showered, and got

the rooftop doing his morning exercises when Lance rushed over

face suddenly twisted into a terrifying expression, and the veins

seen Hudson like this. He looked on as Hudson’s

***

up from inside him, and Hudson tightly clenched the letter in his hand, “Get the

began

the D University

rushed into Esther’s French class. Just as everyone was still confused by the situation, he spoke to the teacher fluently in French, then

the matter, Hudson? You told the professor it was urgent? Where are you taking me?” Hudson tightly gripped her hand until it hurt

were very quiet. He took her to a

reply, he held her tightly in his arms.

wrong?” Esther looked up

There was a quiver in his voice. Even now, he couldn’t believe the results, so he had to make