Chapter 18
In just three years, she seemed to have been stripped of her flesh and bones. Lying on the seat, she felt weightless. Her hair was shaken by the bumps of the mountain road and covered her face. Her sharp chin and delicate features were beautiful.
But this beauty was tinged with a look of suffering.
Unconsciously, Mason had been staring for too long, a fact even the driver noticed.
Upon learning about Harper’s high fever, Ava rushed to the hospital and cried by her bedside for a long time before leaving.
With tearful eyes, she expressed her gratitude, “Mason, thank you for your trouble.”
“It’s no trouble,” Mason replied earnestly, “Ava, I wanted to tell you last time that Noah will never marry Harper. He was the one who orchestrated. this, and it almost ended in disaster.”
“I never expected him to be so despicable.”
Ava blamed herself more than anyone else, “I will demand justice from the Bennett family for this. I won’t let Harper suffer this humiliation again.”
Mason’s lips curled slightly, almost imperceptibly, “It’s getting late. I’ll stay with Harper. You can come again tomorrow morning.”
“How can that be acceptable?”
“Otherwise, Uncle Liam will definitely blame Harper for causing trouble as soon as she arrived. You wouldn’t want her first thought upon waking
Chapter 18
up to be self–reproach, would you?”
At this moment, he was thinking very thoughtfully.
Ava nodded, “That makes sense. I’ll come again tomorrow. If Harper wakes up”
“I’ll let you know.“–
It seemed as if someone was sitting beside her, motionless, their shadow pressing on the seat, with broad shoulders and a wristwatch on the raised hand.
This was what Harper saw while she was unconscious.
When she woke up and recognized it was Mason, cold sweat immediately soaked her back. She instinctively shrank to the side, and this subtle movement was noticed by Mason.
“Didn’t you say you liked me before? Why are you afraid of me now?”
A man who had wished for her death, cursed her to suffer and never have a good end–how could she still have the courage to like him?
This time. Harper would never throw herself at him without hesitation again.
Mason suppressed an inexplicable sense of loneliness, “You didn’t even fight back when you were pushed into the sea. When did you become this cowardly?”
Regaining her composure, Harper recalled the events of last night. She was taken to the seaside and pushed into the sea by a group led by Sophia. Even after being soaked and catching a fever despite taking a hot bath on the way back, she had no memory of how she was taken down the
mountain.
It turned out Mason was the one who brought her here.
Was this a rare act of kindness? But she didn’t need it.
“Mr. Brooks, did you bring me down here?” Harper’s throat was hoarse from the fever. “Thank you.”
“You don’t need to thank me. It was Ethan who begged me.”
Mason acted as if he had meddled in something unnecessary. “Ava already knows and will help you break off the engagement with the Bennett family. You don’t have to keep groveling to Noah anymore.”
“What?”
When Harper was pushed underwater, she didn’t cry. She endured being treated like a servant and humiliated, but she shed tears at this moment, “No, we can’t break the engagement.”
“Do you enjoy being humiliated that much?”
“We can’t break it.”
If she did, she would be driven away, sent back to that abyss of a swamp.
She wouldn’t allow the engagement to be broken, not at all.
“Why, could it be that you actually like Noah?” It was an unintentional remark from Mason, but Harper nodded through her tears.
“I do like him, so we can’t break the engagement.”
As if punched in the chest, Mason felt a dull ache in his heart.
Clearly, Harper had never told anyone else that she liked them except for him. She had only met Noah a few times–how could she talk about liking. him?
In the past, she had sworn to the heavens that she would only ever like Mason.
