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

two red lines appeared on

long time. When she realized what she was

She was pregnant.

was carrying Alfred’s

knock at the door followed by faint footsteps. Melora recognized

her belly, she

two hours, yet they felt somewhat distant from

tell him that she was pregnant, but he

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

She wanted to tell him that

can you do for me if you continue to stay by my side? Can you shed blood for me like Caylie? I need someone

her?” Melora mumbled.

pants. “She

should return to Barnwood

understand what

You are adorable, Melora, but you’re only suitable for passing the

added viciously, “You will never understand

was dazed by Alfred’s

not enough for him to give up what

a good match for

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

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

lighting cast a hazy glow on their final

end, Melora didn’t tell Alfred about her

and said softly, “Then I wish you a bright future, Mr. Lodge.” When Alfred gazed at her, she turned

slowly stood

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 said in a low voice, “Melora, I’m

prepared for this encounter and for the absence of a happy ending between them.

person like him was only fit to

Alfred left.

the door being opened and closed gently, Melora slid down onto the soft carpet and began to cry

that, she returned to Barnwood, but she didn’t dare

went to the house at Broadway Alley and lay lifelessly in there every day, surviving on whatever little food that was

didn’t know how to cook, she simply boiled food in water.

that her Mr. Alfred had come back.

she woke up, there would be tears at the corners of her

came back for her.

it was already two months later. Her baby bump had started showing. which made her even more

dare to 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

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

to count every money she spent. Even a cup of

would see Alfred

clothes were very expensive. When she looked at her own shirt which cost twenty-nine, she felt that they were now living in two

Alfred was just like

bad habit of checking his phone

there was not a single

any messages from her on special occasions

there, and it

was told that she had

sometimes bring him burritos seasoned with pepper at night. Although he didn’t like it, he would