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.

twenty-four-hour pharmacy just across the street from the hotel. After buying it and keeping

minute later, two red lines appeared on a pregnancy test

stared at it blankly for a long time. When she realized what she was seeing, she covered her

She was pregnant.

carrying

sudden, there was a knock at the door followed by faint footsteps. Melora recognized it as Alfred’s

belly, she slowly walked

yet they felt somewhat distant from each other.

trembled. She wanted to tell him that she was pregnant,

sitting down on the 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

at him defiantly. She wanted to tell him that she wasn’t

looked at her with an amused smile. Then, he asked calmly, “But what can you do for me if you continue to stay

you like her?” Melora

the crease of his pants. “She lost her right

scared. You should return to Barnwood

didn’t understand what he meant.

said bluntly and cruelly, “I admire women like her! You are adorable, Melora, but you’re only suitable for passing the time when everything is peaceful. I

added viciously, “You will never understand

by

did like her but just not enough for him to give up what he currently had. His love for power and money

good match for

ask the question despite wanting to.

and he had made it so clear to her. Would it matter if she tried to

dim lighting cast a hazy glow on their final silhouettes together.

Melora didn’t tell Alfred about her

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

slowly stood

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 entrance that he said in a low voice,

encounter and for the absence of a happy ending between

person like him was

Alfred left.

Melora slid down onto the

returned to Barnwood, but she didn’t dare

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

to cook, she simply boiled food in

that her Mr. Alfred had come back. He would gently carry her to bed and pat her bottom while scolding her for not being obedient.

be tears at the

he never came back for

two months later. Her baby bump had started showing. which made her even more afraid

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

and earned

she had to count every money she spent. Even a cup of milk tea

would see Alfred in

she could tell that his clothes were very expensive. When she looked at her own shirt

was just

bad habit of

not a single word from

any messages from her on special occasions or holidays.

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

was told that

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