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.

After buying it and keeping it in her pocket, she hastily

appeared on a pregnancy test kit.

blankly for a long time. When she realized what she was seeing, she

She was pregnant.

carrying

was a knock at the door followed by faint footsteps.

her belly, she

just been apart for two hours, yet they felt somewhat distant from

him that she was pregnant, but he spoke first.

fingers and deliberated for a while before he spoke. “Melora, you’ve seen how dangerous

stared at him defiantly. She wanted to tell him that she

what can you do for me if you continue to stay

like her?”

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

should be scared. You should return to Barnwood

understand what he meant.

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?”

will never understand

was dazed by

give up what he

good match for him,

ask the question despite wanting to. Slowly, she

clear to her. Would it matter if she tried to tie

glow on their final silhouettes together.

the end, Melora didn’t tell Alfred about her pregnancy.

Mr. Lodge.” When Alfred gazed at her, she

stood up.

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 entrance that he

this encounter and for the absence of a happy

a good man again, while a person like him

Alfred left.

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

returned to Barnwood, but she didn’t dare

lay lifelessly in there every day, surviving on

know how 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

tears at the corners

he never came back

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

Alfred’s child in her

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 scrambled eggs.

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

would see Alfred in the

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 two completely different

with Alfred was just like a dream.

left, Alfred developed a bad

a

from her on special

Melora wasn’t there, and it wasn’t

was told that she had gone away for a

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