Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Farrell Mansion

In the master bedroom, Liberty suddenly jolted awake after barely two hours of sleep.

Her abrupt movement startled her husband beside her.

"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

Duncan sat up, turned on the bedside lamp, and looked at her with concern.

"I dreamt that Kathryn was in danger," Liberty said, her voice filled with unease. "She wouldn't let me go

with her. She planned to get hurt on purpose. I'm afraid she might have risked her life."

After spending so much time with Kathryn, Liberty had come to admire her.

If not for the deep-seated grudges of the previous generation, she and Kathryn could have been the best of friends.

Even now, there was a mutual respect between them.

Out of everyone in the Farrell family, Kathryn was the only one Liberty truly liked.

Not just her-Hayden felt the same way.

At one point, Hayden had even considered setting Kathryn up with Hugh.

But Hugh wasn't interested in Kathryn, and Kathryn had no feelings for Hugh either.

admired Hayden-but Hayden was a

she could never have Hayden, Kathryn slowly found herself drawn to

might be an orphan, but his devotion and loyalty to Kathryn were

of them were a perfect

grabbing her phone. She didn't care

The phone rang.

connected, Liberty let

had been turned off, it would have meant she was still in danger-likely in the hands of her brothers, unable to reach out for

few seconds later,

"Miss Hunt."

It was Pedro.

his voice, Liberty's relief was short-lived. Her heart clenched with

Kathryn?"

"It's over,"

Pedro said, his voice

just taken to the hospital-she's in the emergency room now." The pain in his voice was unmistakable. He had seen the knife wound on Kathryn's right arm, the bruises on her face, the

Kathryn's plan,

could take her brothers down in

would never be a

were

family would no longer be

would be immovable. Connet

in prison, her brothers

And Kathryn?