Little did they know, she was actually escaping.
The guards watched as Denise disappeared within their sight. When Denise’s car was nowhere to be seen, the nanny finally woke up.
“The child!” she screamed. “The child is missing! The child is missing!!!”
“I really have to hand it to you.”
On the way back to the city from the countryside, Denise looked at the man sitting beside her with the baby while she drove.
Sean, playing with Riley with a toy, smiled. “You gave me a surprise too. I thought you’d just stay in the car and watch me do all the work. I never expected you to help out.”
Denise pursed her lips and looked to the front to concentrate on driving. “I promised Nigel to you rescue Riley. I was scared that if you failed, it’d be harder to rescue her the next time.”
“You got a point there.”
Sean looked at Denise’s side profile. “I thought everyone in your family was bad. Who knew-“
“I’m not a Hughes,” she interjected as her eyes narrowed.
Very quickly, however, she realized she had been too harsh and added, “Not all from the Hughes family is bad. Well, my brother is a good person.”
While she talked, she tilted her head to the side to look at Sean. “I know all of you don’t like my brother. All of you think my brother was the one who took Luke away. But…”
She narrowed her eyes. “If you really get to know my brother, you’ll know he’s really a good person.”
“I want to get to know him, but that’s not possible.”
Sean kept on playing with Riley while looking at the front. “Although I only saw Luke and knew him…”
He paused for a while and continued, “Well, since your brother, Steven, is Luke’s twin, I’m willing to believe your brother is a good man. Maybe it’s just fate’s cruel design that they didn’t have the chance to meet when they were alive and were instead made into one person.”
Denise’s hand quivered as she held the steering wheel. Everyone, including Gwen and those who knew Luke from before, wanted to find Luke. They wanted to make her brother become Luke again.
No one truly cared about Steven.
Even though this was the first time Denise met Sean, his words were like a warming feeling comforting every single cell in her body, and her heart felt warm after hearing it.
Her subconscious had her look at the man who was holding the baby in his arms beside her through the rearview mirror, and a myriad of emotions swirled in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Mr. Zink was not at home when Steven and Gwen arrived. Therefore, they could only chat with Mr. Zink’s wife. When they just started the conversation, Steven received a call from the guard.
“Sir, we’ve got a problem! The child… The child is missing!”
Gwen sat right next to Steven when he answered the phone, and she stared at him.
He was afraid Gwen would overhear the conversation, so he stood up and asked with a furrowed brow, “What happened?”
The guard sounded wronged, “What happened was Ms. Hughes made a commotion at the door, demanding to see the child. Of course, we didn’t allow her to go in. She kept on bothering us and even hurt two guards that were guarding the door, so we had to send more people to deal with her.
“After a while, she answered a call and left, but we eventually learned that someone had snuck into the mansion from the back door, knocked out the nanny, and brought the child away!”
After that, the guard asked cautiously, “Sir, what should we do? Should we send all men to search and capture Ms. Hughes?”
“Search and capture?”
Steven narrowed his eyes and spoke with a deep voice, “Are you treating Denise like a criminal? Let her take the baby, then. Don’t let anyone know about this. Continue to stand guard at the mansion and pretend the child is still there.’
“Once he gave his instruction, he hung up the phone.
It was his wildest imagination that Denise had the ability to rescue the baby. Nevertheless, it was not bad news. If Denise wanted to harm the baby, she would have let Tina take the baby away.
Since Denise had made her move, it proved that her conscience was still on the right path. If she found someone to help her rescue the child from the guards, it meant that she could protect the child.
Furthermore, Kate and her family knew he was the one who took the child. To everyone else, Kate looked like she was deeply in love with him, but the truth was she had never liked him. Her family only cared about gaining profit and benefit. Who knew when they would betray him and tell the others he had the child?
Therefore, it was a good option to pretend he still had the child when, in fact, Denise had found someone else to look after the child.
“What’s wrong?”
Gwen caught up when she saw Steven stand up. “I heard someone mention… a child. What child?”
“Nothing.”
Steven curled up his lips and smiled. He put away his phone and looked at Gwen.”
What else did Mr. Zink’s wife say?”
Gwen paused for a while and did not ask further about the child. Instead, she smiled and told him what Mr. Zink’s wife said. “She said Mr. Zink left the house in a hurry when he received a call from Senior Howard. He hasn’t returned since then.”
She furrowed her brow and looked at Steven. “Why did Brettley have you come to investigate him?”
Steven shook his head. “I’m just as clueless as you are. Brettley told me we have to find a way to make sure Mr. Zink is safe. Only when he’s safe can he settle some problems.”
He took out his phone to take a look. It was all the tactics Brettley sent to him to overcome some problems.
“Since we can’t get any information about Mr. Zink here…”
He paused.
“Let’s go to the hospital. The one Senior Howard passed away at.”
Gwen nodded and turned around to head toward the parking. “Let’s go then,” she said while turning her back to Steven.
As he looked at Gwen’s back, his mind started to space out. Looking at the hair that fluttered with the wind, he furrowed his brow.
An image he had never seen before appeared in his mind.
It was at a hospital. Gwen was sitting at the window frame with a pale face. Her hands were grabbing the window frame with her legs fully extended outside the window. The wind blew in, and made her hair fly. It was actually a very beautiful scene, but she had tears in her eyes.
The Gwen in this imagery looked at him with despair.
“Can you leave me? I’m dirty, and I’m not good enough to be with you… Not only you, but I’m also not good enough for any man in this world. My only destiny is to die…
“I beg you. Please leave me alone. Let me take the road to my own doom…”
“Steven?”
At that moment, Gwen was already in the car park and standing beside the car. Her eyebrows pressed together when she noticed Steven merely spacing out. “Didn’t you say we are going to the hospital?”
Gwen’s question managed to pull Steven back to reality. Once his senses returned, he strode toward Gwen.
Both of them got into the car, and Steven started the car engine. It was a long way from Mr. Zink’s house to the hospital. In the beginning, both of them remained silent. Not long later, Gwen could not help and started to chat with Steven while looking out the window.
Steven used the corner of his eyes to peek at Gwen while driving. It baffled him, but when he chatted with Gwen, he could not help but think of the despaired Gwen who sat at the window while she repeatedly said how dirty she was and unworthy of becoming his woman.
Finally, the atmosphere between the both of them started to cheer up after Gwen came up with a funny topic.
Nevertheless, Steven could not help himself. “Gwen.”
He took a deep breath and asked, “Did you…ever think about committing suicide?”
Gwen, who was smiling, froze. She turned her head to the side to look at Steven warily. “What did you say?”
“I said “
Afraid that Gwen would misunderstand him, it took him a while to compile his sentence. “I… I dreamt that you sat at the window with the thought of committing suicide. I don’t know if it really happened or…”
He sighed. “Or someone told me about it and I imagined it myself. So…’ He stopped the car to look at Gwen. “Did you…ever have that moment?”
Immediately, Gwen’s expression faltered into solemness.
She never thought Steven would ask her such a question. Nonetheless…she did have such a moment of weakness.
With her eyes closed, she recalled the scene that happened more than a year ago in the hospital in Sea City. At that time, Hailey’s father had sent someone to rape her, and Ben chose to divorce her the moment he found out. She was crushed by the thought that she was corrupted and that no man in this world wanted her anymore.
Amid her despair, she found out she was pregnant with the devil’s child. She lived in pain every day, and all she wanted was to end her life, only intercepted by Luke every time.
Back then, she had just known Luke and never knew he would become such an important person to her in the future. During that period, she attempted to kill herself numerous times because she did not think she was worthy to be alive.
Every time she climbed up the window, Luke would reach her side immediately to trick her into coming back down with all kinds of methods. He was not about to let Gwen end her own life.
Having those thoughts in her mind, tears started falling down her face. It felt like Luke was already quite demanding with her when he was being nice to her in the first place. When they just knew each other, Luke had to put her under house arrest to stop her from ending her own life.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.