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.

pharmacy just across the street from the hotel. After buying it and keeping it in her pocket,

later, two red lines appeared

time. When she realized what she was seeing, she covered

She was pregnant.

carrying Alfred’s child.

the door followed

belly, she

yet they

to tell him that she was pregnant, but

fingers and deliberated for a while before

stared at him defiantly. She wanted to tell him

an amused smile. Then, he asked calmly, “But what can you do for me if you continue to stay by my side? Can you shed

her?”

patted the crease of his pants. “She lost her right arm and I

should be scared. You should return to Barnwood

what he meant.

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

never understand any of

by Alfred’s words.

give up what he currently had. His love for power and

Miss Cook a good match

the question despite wanting to. Slowly, she lowered her eyes.

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

lighting cast a hazy glow on their final silhouettes together.

Melora didn’t tell Alfred about her

Lodge.” When Alfred gazed at her, she turned away. “Leave quickly! Otherwise, I

slowly stood up.

for a moment, thinking if he should give her a pat on the head, but he gave up in the end. It

for not being fully emotionally prepared for this encounter and for the absence

little girl would eventually meet a good man again, while a person like him was only fit to live in the realm

Alfred left.

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

but she

in there every day, surviving on whatever

didn’t know how to cook, she simply

would dream that her Mr. Alfred had come back. He would gently carry her to bed and

be tears at the

he never came back

two months later. Her baby

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 and

do odd jobs, and earned a meager wage to support herself. She even learned how to make simple

a

see Alfred in the news.

as ever, and she could tell that his clothes were very expensive. When she looked at her own shirt which cost

was

Alfred developed a bad habit

was not a single

any messages from her on special occasions or holidays.

Melora wasn’t there, and it wasn’t appropriate

asked Leslie about it and was told that she had gone away

seasoned with pepper at night. Although he didn’t like it, he would eat everything as if