Chapter 14
Jacob finally returned to the home he hadn’t set foot in for so long.
Ever since Allison’s accident, he’d spent these past days either at sea or in the hospital. Perhaps unwilling to face the empty home alone, Jacob had resisted coming back here all along.
He stood before the door for a long moment before taking a deep breath and pushing it open.
The room was empty and silent, feeling so unfamiliar to Jacob.
Had the home always been this empty?
He stepped inside hesitantly, looking up at the bare wall before remembering the wedding photo hadn’t been rehung.
Sudden panic seized him as he paced frantically around the room searching.
Where was it? Where?
He yanked open drawers – empty, the engagement ring gone, entered the bedroom – the music box missing from the nightstand; in the bathroom, only his toiletries remained where their paired sets had been.
Jacob felt his heart turn cold inch by inch, as if thrown into icy water.
He understood everything now. All traces of their shared memories had vanished. Allison had discarded every remembrance, and with them,
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discarded him too.
Jacob stood frozen like a lost child, eyes welling up.
“No… I don’t want this…”
Stumbling toward the exit, he tripped over the foyer cabinet. A file tumbled down, papers fluttering before him.
His gaze fell on a miscarriage report.
The fetus had been four months along a healthy baby.
That tiny life had shielded his mother from calamity.
Tears streamed down Jacob’s face as trembling hands leafed through the documents. He found Allison’s medical records, pages tracing the journey of their monthly–growing child, until a single status affidavit struck him.
【Confirmed that Ms. Allison is currently single with no marital status.]
At that moment, Jacob felt as if struck by lightning!
This matter… he had actually forgotten about it!
When he forged documents and obtained fake marriage certificates, he’d acted selfishly, Back then, he thought… he hadn’t completely fallen for Allison yet.
But after marriage, he saw his own heart clearly he’d utterly fallen for his wife and longed to spend his life with her.
Their married life felt so wonderful that he’d forgotten it was all still an illusion!
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He never meant this! He simply forgot!
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So Allison discovered the fake certificates and lost faith in him. How
heartbroken she must have been then.
“Allison…” Jacob trembled, then burst into tears, “I didn’t mean to lie to you, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…”
But no matter how desperately he cried, nobody could hear or respond.
Allison sat before her computer, fingers flying across the keyboard as complex lines of code danced across the screen.
In the base command center, everyone held their breath–only the rhythmic clacking of keys echoed through the room.
“Ready in ten minutes.”
Her voice remained ice–cold, hands never pausing.
Relief washed over every face. They dared not cheer aloud, exchanging only triumphant glances.
Got it?!
They were to carry out a rescue mission; the hostage’s coordinates remained hidden, leaving them helpless for ages until the courthouse specially hired a code expert.
She seemed utterly out of place in the base–slender with her hair pulled into a neat ponytail–yet her fair fingers solved the problem that had stumped them for so long.
