The Ceo’s Convict Wife

Chapter 1242

“It’s because she’s worth it! I love her resilience, and my heart aches over her stubbornness. I’ve not experienced such feelings with any other woman before. Bruce, do you know what it’s like? I hope to be her shelter from the storm and a helping hand when she’s facing troubles. It doesn’t matter even if she doesn’t love me back, as long as she can have a good life.”

“But isn’t it pathetic to hold on to a love that can never be reciprocated?” That was how he’d responded then.

However, Nicholas had only smiled. “There’s nothing pathetic about it if I don’t feel that way. Loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean having ownership over them or expecting your feelings to be returned. Sometimes, devoting oneself can also be a form of bliss.”

Nicholas had appeared to be so foolish to him.

Alas, it seemed that someone else was following in his footsteps. Nicholas’s comment about how bullish Riley could be rang true.

Bruce remained silent as Riley picked up the three candles on the floor with trembling hands and lit them up before kneeling before the headstone, staring at the burning candles.

Her eyes were filled with grief, yet she was as quiet as a mouse. Even her tears were shed in utter silence.

Riley uttered lightly after an indeterminate amount of time had passed and the candles had burned out, “Nicholas, I’ll be heading back now. I’ll visit you once I’ve settled everything, okay?”

The whistling wind of the night was her reply.

Rosalie hurriedly helped Riley up and said, “All right. Let’s go back.”

Riley made a sound of acknowledgment. Her legs had gone completely numb from kneeling too long, causing her to tip forward the moment she tried walking.

Jonathan beckoned to Rosalie, “Let me do it.”

bridal style and strode toward the graveyard exit

suddenly warned, “The Griffin family territory isn’t a place anyone can have free access to. I wouldn’t want Nicholas disturbed and won’t hesitate to

Riley’s body, and Jonathan’s baritone rang out. “You might not

arms without waiting for a

in the backseat next to Rosalie so that she could help take care of her like before once they reached the car.

once we’re back. You were too

was too

finally regaining some freedom without needing to be confined

funeral, and the Griffin family had forbidden her from going anywhere near

her being unable to light a candle in prayer before Nicholas’s grave after his death.

should be more careful. After all, you still aren’t truly

Riley expressed her gratitude. She knew that Rosalie

arrived at the hospital.

he knew of the state the woman he’d

more and more for Riley,” Jonathan

deal of information about Riley and spent so much time with her for the past few days. That’s why my heart goes out to her,” Rosalie lamented. “Perhaps everything would have turned out different if Riley’d loved Nicholas back then.”

still have happened, and Nicholas’s death would have been even more

arms around Jonathan out of the blue. “Jonathan, I’m so relieved that you’re well!” She’d learned to cherish the things

to think that the heavens had given her her fair share of misery and that she had now ridden

back. “I still need to protect you and the

you’ll have to live longer than me,” she said from beneath her

flickered