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.

a twenty-four-hour pharmacy just across the street from the hotel. After buying it and keeping it in her pocket, she hastily returned to her room.

two red lines appeared on

When she realized what she was seeing, she covered

She was pregnant.

carrying Alfred’s child.

door followed by faint

she slowly walked

apart for two hours, yet they felt somewhat distant from each other.

to tell him that she was pregnant, but he

couch, Alfred stroked the armrest lightly with his slender fingers and deliberated for a while before he spoke. “Melora, you’ve seen how dangerous it is to be by

to tell him that she wasn’t

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

you like her?” Melora mumbled.

admire her!” Alfred patted the crease of his pants. “She lost her right arm and

be scared. You should

didn’t understand what he

adorable, Melora, but you’re only suitable for passing the time when everything is peaceful. I am not destined to live in peaceful

will never understand any of this!”

dazed by Alfred’s words.

it dawned on her that Alfred did like her but just not enough for him to give up what he currently had. His

a good match

wanting to.

of great ambition, and he had made it so clear to her. Would it matter

hazy glow

end, Melora didn’t tell Alfred about her

wish you a bright future, Mr. Lodge.” When Alfred gazed at

slowly stood

hesitated for a moment, thinking if he should give her a pat on the head, but he gave up in the end. It wasn’t until he was holding the door handle at the

apologized for not being fully emotionally prepared for this encounter and

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

Alfred left.

the sound of the door being opened and closed gently, Melora slid down onto the soft carpet and

Barnwood, but she

and lay lifelessly in there every day, surviving on whatever little food that was left in the refrigerator.

cook, she simply boiled

night, she would wake up in fright because she would dream that her Mr. Alfred had come back. He would gently

be tears at the corners of

he never came back for her.

later. Her baby bump had started showing. which made her

pregnant, let alone that it was Alfred’s child in her belly. She hid here and there with no credit card or money and began wearing simple

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

she had to count every money she spent. Even a cup of milk tea would seem too expensive

would see Alfred in

as 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

with Alfred was

Alfred developed a bad habit of

was not a single word from her.

any messages from her on

by the Miller residence occasionally, but Melora wasn’t there, and it wasn’t

asked Leslie about it and was told that

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