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“Josie!”
Edward hugged Josephine tightly, tears streaming down his face.
After Josephine went abroad, he was always worried about her, sending her money every month on time.
It wasn’t until he discovered that Josephine’s account hadn’t been touched that he learned she had secretly joined a medical aid project in a war
Zone.
Back then, what he thought about most every day was whether Josephine was doing well in the war zone, and if she was in any danger.
Later, he found out that Nathaniel had abducted Josephine and brought her back to New York.
The villa was heavily guarded all around; after several failed attempts to break in, he gritted his teeth and set the place on fire!
Fortunately, Josephine was rescued.
“Josie, it’s my fault! I shouldn’t have wronged you or let you suffer so much…” Edward sobbed uncontrollably, his voice full of regret.
Back then, he thought Josephine was living recklessly and even accused her of being jealous of Dorothy.
It was only later that he realized Josephine had been a victim from beginning to end.
She had been toyed with by Nathaniel and Dorothy together; not only was her reputation ruined, but she had almost lost her life!
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He was filled with remorse and secretly vowed to make Nathaniel and Dorothy pay a heavy price for what they had done, and to seek justice for Josephine.
After the father and daughter cried together for a while, Josephine suddenly thought of something and said worriedly, “Nathaniel is ruthless. Now that you’ve taken me away, he won’t let you off…”
After spending time with him, she had come to realize deeply that Nathaniel was a madman!
His obsessive cruelty had long surpassed the boundaries of normal people.
Unexpectedly, Kathryn comforted her, “Don’t worry, Josie. Your father already made backup plans. During this time, he was not only trying to rescue you, but also working on bringing down the Gordon Group. Now, the whole story has been exposed online, and Nathaniel is about to be finished!”
That night, the love and hatred between the Reynolds family and the Gordon family swept across social media like a storm.
When netizens learned about the vile things Nathaniel and Dorothy had done to Josephine, their outrage was instantly ignited. They began to attack the two in droves, and the Gordon Group’s stock quickly plummeted to rock bottom.
Unable to withstand the pressure, Nathaniel’s old illness relapsed, and he was immediately hospitalized.
He drifted between lucidity and confusion, but one thing remained unchanged: he kept murmuring Josephine’s name.
That day, he woke from a deep sleep and vaguely saw Josephine standing by his bed. Like a drowning man, he grabbed her hand tightly.
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“Josephine, you’re here! You finally came…”
“Look carefully, I’m not Josephine!”
As soon as the woman spoke, Nathaniel snapped back to reality.
The person standing by the bed was not Josephine, but Dorothy!
After several months apart, Dorothy seemed like a completely different
person.
Her skin was dull, her cheeks sunken, her hair messy and draped over her shoulders, making her look as if she had aged ten years.
“Nathaniel, you’ve ruined me!” Dorothy gritted her teeth, her eyes full of hatred. “Do you know that from the moment you broke off the engagement, my life was completely destroyed by you!”
After she and her mother were driven out of the Reynolds family, they fell victim to an overseas scam and lost everything.
Her mother couldn’t accept going from a wealthy wife to a cast–off woman, so she desperately turned to gambling, ending up with a mountain of high–interest debt.
With nowhere else to turn, Dorothy could only try to borrow money from
her former classmates.
But when those people found out she had fallen on hard times, they locked her up and abused her for three days and nights!
While tormenting her, they cursed her for being the daughter of a mistress.
In a single night, Dorothy fell from heaven into hell and completely broke
down.
The thing she thought about most every day was dying together with
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Nathaniel.
Finally, today, she managed to sneak into the hospital.
“Nathaniel, die with me!”
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“Didn’t you love me so much? Let’s keep loving each other in hell, shall We?”
As soon as Dorothy finished speaking, she suddenly pulled a knife from behind her back.
Nathaniel reacted quickly and blocked her. The two stumbled and fought their way to the window.
Dorothy reached out to push Nathaniel, but he dodged to the side. Unable to stop herself, she tumbled straight out!
With a loud “bang,” Dorothy crashed onto the hard ground below and died instantly.
Lateefa Khanam is a spirited writer who finds freedom in horse riding. She cherishes her mare and the newborn foal, calling them her little happy family.
