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

two red lines appeared on a pregnancy

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

She was pregnant.

was carrying Alfred’s child.

door followed by faint footsteps. Melora recognized

she slowly walked out.

had just been apart for two hours, yet they felt somewhat

lips trembled. She wanted to tell him that

armrest lightly with his slender fingers and deliberated for a while before he spoke. “Melora,

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

her with 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 blood for me like Caylie? I need someone like her by

you like her?”

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

should return to Barnwood

understand what he meant.

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

added viciously, “You will never

by Alfred’s

on her that Alfred did like her but just not enough for him to give up what he currently had. His love for power and money was far stronger, so

good match for him,

question despite wanting to. Slowly, she

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

dim lighting cast a hazy glow on their final silhouettes

end, Melora didn’t tell

Mr. Lodge.” When Alfred gazed at her, she turned away. “Leave quickly! Otherwise, I can’t guarantee that I

slowly stood

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, “Melora, I’m

being fully emotionally prepared for this encounter and for

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

Alfred left.

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

she returned to Barnwood, but

went to the house at Broadway Alley and lay lifelessly in there

she didn’t know how to 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 carry

up, there would be tears at the corners

never came

baby bump had started showing.

didn’t dare to let her family know she was pregnant, let alone that it was Alfred’s child in her belly. She hid here and

learned to do odd jobs, and earned a

money she spent. Even a

would see Alfred in

was 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 felt that they were now living in

was just

bad habit of checking his

a single word from her.

even receive any messages from her on special occasions or

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

Leslie about it and was told that she

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