Crystal's One Night of Love

Alfred halted in his tracks.

After a while, he instructed Leslie, “Find a hotel for her to stay.”

Leslie personally untied the ropes on Melora. When he saw that she was unharmed, he choked back his tears. “You’re okay!”

Melora remained dazed as she looked in the direction where Alfred had left.

Her heart slowly sank.

Alfred stood by the windolearly in the morning. As Leslie put a coat on him, he said softly, “Since Miss Cook’s right hand is injured, she may have to train her left hand in the future. What plans do you have for her now?”

Alfred lit a cigarette.

After a moment, he murmured, “Keep her. She’s still useful.”

He wanted Caylie to be his “lover.” That way, if anyone wanted to make a move against someone close to him, she would be the first person to go after. To put it bluntly, she would be his filter against people who wanted to harm the people he loved.

And she wouldn’t be able to refuse him.

Leslie fell silent.

Alfred turned his head and smiled bitterly. “Why are you so shocked? This is who I’ve always been. The others always say that I’m ruthless and cunning, no:

However, even a ruthless person like him had a soft spol.

And now, he was going to see her.

Meanwhile, several bodyguards were on duty outside a suite of the best hotel in Coldbridge.

Inside the suite, Melora held a box of food and ate tearfully.

Before meeting Alfred, she rarely cried. Even when she said she had taken sleeping pills when dating Robert, it was just to scare him. At that time, she had thought her infatuation with Robert was love.

But now that she had truly experienced love, she realized how superficial she had been.

Melora couldn’t finish her food. The more she ate, the more she felt like throwing up.

Later on, she felt so nauseous that she was unable to bear even the slightest scent of food. She began vomiting in the bathroom. This was unusual because she usually had a good appetite.

Melora rubbed her belly, feeling lost..

She remembered that Alfred didn’t take precautions when they had sex for the last time over a month ago.

Am I pregnant?

Melora raised her face and stared at her reflection in the mirror. Her complexion was deathly pale.

She rushed out of the toilet immediately because she wanted to buy a pregnancy test kit. She wanted to know if she was truly carrying Alfred’s child. If she really was pregnant, she wanted to ask him if he wanted the baby.

The bodyguard at the door stopped her and said politely, “Miss Melora, Leslie has instructed us not to let you go out.”

Melora’s lips trembled. “I don’t feel well. I just want to go downstairs and buy medicine.”

The bodyguard hesitated.

In the end, they allowed her to go downstairs with two people assigned to follow her.

across the street from the hotel. After buying it and keeping it in her pocket, she hastily returned to her

lines appeared on a pregnancy

a long time. When she realized what she was seeing, she covered her mouth.

She was pregnant.

carrying

knock at the door

belly, she slowly

been apart for two hours, yet they felt somewhat

wanted to tell him that she was

Alfred stroked the armrest lightly with his slender fingers and deliberated for a

to

he asked calmly, “But what can you do for me if you continue to stay by my side? Can you shed blood for me like Caylie? I need someone like her by my side, not a little crybaby like

her?”

“She lost

be scared. You should return to Barnwood immediately.

didn’t understand what he

like her! You are adorable, Melora, but you’re only suitable for passing the time when everything is peaceful. I am not destined to live in peaceful times, do you understand?”

viciously, “You will never

was dazed by

give up what he currently had. His love for

a good match for

ask the question despite wanting to.

clear to her. Would

a hazy glow on their final silhouettes together.

end, Melora didn’t tell Alfred

and said softly, “Then I wish you a bright future, Mr. Lodge.” When Alfred gazed at her,

slowly stood up.

in the end. It wasn’t until he was

this encounter

good man again, while a person like him was only fit to

Alfred left.

of the door being opened and closed gently, Melora slid down onto the soft carpet and began to cry silently.

she returned to Barnwood, but she didn’t dare to

Broadway Alley and lay lifelessly in there every day, surviving on whatever little food

she didn’t know how to cook, she

she would wake up in fright because she would dream that her Mr. Alfred had come back. He would gently carry her to bed and pat

tears at

he never came back for

two months later. Her baby bump had started showing. which made

to let her family know she was pregnant, let alone that it was Alfred’s child in her belly. She hid here and there with no credit card or money

over twenty square meters, learned to do odd jobs, and earned a meager wage to support herself. She even learned how to make simple scrambled

she spent. Even a cup of milk tea would seem

she would see Alfred in

confident as ever, and she could tell that his clothes were very expensive. When she looked at her own shirt which cost twenty-nine, she felt that they were now living in

time with Alfred was just like a dream.

a bad habit of

was not a

didn’t even receive any messages from her on special

Melora wasn’t there, and it wasn’t appropriate for him to ask her whereabouts as an

Leslie about it and was told that she had gone

Lucia would sometimes bring him burritos seasoned with pepper at night. Although he didn’t like it, he would eat everything as if he were eating Melora’s