The Ex and Her Riches

Gwendolyn’s tears turned into a stream. She could not stop them.

Clutching his hand, she screamed, “Don’t you dare die, Cedrick! I’m going to marry someone else if you die and make you regret it as long as you live!”

Cedrick’s bloody lips parted in a painful smile.

“T-That won’t do. You’re mine.”

Despite her tears, she managed a chuckle before turning to the two paramedics in the corner. “I’m here. Send him in, quickly.”

Cedrick would not let go of her hand. “Let me explain, Gwenny, please?”

“Be good and go through with the surgery. I’ll be out here. You can tell me everything when it’s over.”

Cedrick’s visage was paler than ever. It looked as though every drop of blood had been drained from him. It was plain he could not hold on much longer.

However, he stubbornly maintained his grip on her wrist—he wanted to get a good look at her. There was only a ten percent chance of survival if he went in, and he feared he might never regain consciousness.

Gwendolyn’s heart wrenched painfully. She forced herself to pry his fingers apart and watched him being wheeled into the emergency room.

The light came on, indicating that the surgery was underway. Gwendolyn sat outside and gazed blankly into space. The tears streaking her face had not yet dried.

It was her first time shedding tears in front of that many people, but she did not care. All she knew was that she did not want Cedrick to die.

She waited for three hours until nine that night, yet Cedrick still had not emerged.

Nico sent the squadron home. With a similarly grave expression, he sat on the bench across from Gwendolyn.

Then, as if he had considered something at length, he began, “You thought that Mr. Jenson had lied to you about the incident involving the abandoned warehouse six months ago. He was not. He did enter knowing full well he might die. If not for the rest of the boys making it there in time to rescue what’s left of him, he would have died in the fire.”

slowly to meet

he needed to return and deal with it. The whip scars on his back are a consequence of his defiance of the Jenson family laws. Though he was fortunate to have survived at the warehouse, vast areas of the skin on his face had been burned,

and he skipped the part about the virus in Cedrick’s

cure for the virus within him, and it necessitated a trip to the laboratory every other day. It was only with the help

not a word of

Gwendolyn? He’s true to you! He’s a fool when it comes to love for he only knows how to give everything he has but would never tell you any of his pain. He was

heart was filled with guilt to the brim, and it tormented

Worse still, something

during the incident at the

that he had kept all that from her. She blamed him for his deception and she even

though it was stabbed. The intensity of it made her

“I am sorry.”

words, she could not offer anything

bit of love

blamed himself. He had me procure a whip not because he wanted to put

so he could explain things, but you went to Old Mr. Jenson and asked to call off the engagement instead.

at once and frowned. “I did see Old Mr. Jenson and proposed for the engagement to be called off, but he did not agree. I was planning on doing something about it. Who told

not add up, he quickly sent somebody to

later, the atmosphere at the entrance to the emergency

somebody sent by

hardened. “Xander? How well does Cedrick get along with

Yael, Mr. Xander’s father. Mr. Cedrick had only been back for three days and the power nearly fell to Mr. Yael’s hands; he only managed

pursed her lips. Looking down, she did not

colder. “Do you know how to

aback. “Ms. Gwendolyn, are

cold, dangerous

settle the score

…

and a muffled

in a bathrobe, Xander was drying

began flickering. The curtains, too, rustled from being whipped by the wind.

awry, he put his