Chapter 19
The moment Adam saw Ginnie, he got so worked up that he teared up. He tightened his embrace, worried that Ginnie would disappear from his world again if he let his guard down for even a second.
In his flustered state, he started talking about his feelings to the person in his arms. “Did you know? When I saw the account, I just thought the artist’s style was really similar to yours. But I was too stupid and didn’t put two and two together because I assumed you were already gone. I thought that the similarities were created by my mind playing tricks on me. That’s why I only found you after such a long time passed.”
Ginnie felt like she was about to suffocate from how tightly Adam was hugging her.
“Let me
E EO.
“Her voice was soft and distant.
Adam hurriedly let her go. Even though he was usually a firm and unyielding man, at that moment, Adam looked like a child who
had done something wrong, “I’m sorry, Ginnie. I got too excited. Are you hurt,
He wanted to touch Ginnie, but she coldly avoided him.
Once he sensed Ginnie’s aversion toward him, Adam felt incredibly dejected. He already looked disheveled to begin with, and at
that moment, he looked even more desolate.
A few years before she married Adam, Ginnie had seen him acting this way as well.
Adam’s father was the son of the Thompson family’s driver. While Adam grew up together with William and they were as close as real brothers, the distance between their social classes forever served as a ravine keeping them from truly understanding each
other.
One time, when Ginnie was still a teenager, she was drawing in the garden, and she heard some sounds not too far away from her.
Once she got closer, she learned that the sounds came from Adam, who held a heavy gift box for Snow, only to have it smacked on the ground while she mocked him for wanting a girl far beyond his station.
Ginnie had gone forward to stop Snow from mocking Adam. At that time, Snow still treated Ginnie as her best friend, so she did not continue putting Adam on the spot. She just gave him a disgusted glance before leaving in scorn.
Ginnie could still remember how Adam had stood dejectedly, just like he was doing at that moment. When he looked at Snow, his eyes were filled with an endless sense of inferiority and misery.
Unable to watch it any further, Ginnie had started encouraging him to be confident and get a sense of self–worth.
But Adam only cast her a glance before he left without a word,
Later on, William cheated on Ginnie, and Adam proposed to her by saying that he had started falling in love with her from that day onward.
Ginnie believed in him and decided in her heart that she would do everything she could to make Adam happy, all so that she
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would not see him miserable again.
She managed to do it. She worked day and night to repay Adam’s debts and get money to build his business.
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Even when her precious arm was broken, she always said that she was fine so that Adam would not worry about her and spend
money on her.
She had been a fool and did not know that it had been Adam’s trap.
After being betrayed countless times, the disappointment Ginnie felt killed all her love.
She would never feel moved again by the sight of Adam’s dejection.
Ginnie said coldly, “Just pretend that I’m really dead. Things are over between us, Adam. I don’t want
int to see you
see you again.”
Adam’s eyes widened in shock, and in his panic, he grabbed Ginnie’s arm, but before he could say anything, someone suddenly
ran over and pushed him away before standing in front of Ginnie to glare at him.
Sirius’s unique, refreshing scent wafted into Ginnie’s nose, and her heart felt at ease.
As Sirius shielded her, he said bluntly to Adam, “You’re not welcome here. Please leave.”
Adam narrowed his eyes. His instincts as a man made him feel extreme hostility toward Sirius.
He said icily, “I don’t care who you are. Move. You’re just an outsider. You have no right to butt into my business with my wife.
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