Chapter 3
Arlewing the Hacker’s place, I took a bus to a high street.
I had to drop out of school when I was sent back to Ouray. Now, I was handicapped.
I found a part–time job in a restaurant to provide for myself for the next ten days.
The Hacker family was incredibly wealthy, but I couldn’t get one mouthful of food from them.
I had been taken back to the Hacker’s place when I was 15 years old. I had received two hundred dollars upon my return, and that was all
Later, I was despised because I was not as outstanding as Grace in the eyes of the Hacker family. I was ignored even if I was a Hacker by blood.
I had to work p part–time to fend for myself and pay my tuition….
At 11:30 PM, I got the last plate cleaned
I walked out of the restaurant alone. Then, I saw Adam get out of a Bentley and walk towards me.
“Amanda, why have you been out for such a long time?”
Before I answered the question, Adam pulled me to the car. Soon, I saw a beautiful strawberry cake in the backseat.
“Amanda, happy birthday.”
Shock rooted me to the spot.
The Powell family and the Hacker family were old friends and neighbors.
Adam and I had been betrothed since childhood. I got the engagement back though I had been kidnapped for nearly 15 years,
I remembered that the first person I had seen upon my first arrival at the Hacker’s place was Adam.
Back then, he wearing a white shirt had shone under the sunlight.
Adam was the third child of the Powell couple.
Upon my return, the butler had advised me to call Adam Mr. Powell
As a result, I had called Adam Mr. Powell for three years.
Adem was the only soul in Timon who never despised me. Only he stood up for me when others bullied me. Only he brought me gifts to celebrate those holidays. In Timon, only he was good to me.
Inevitably, I fell in love with him and saw him as my savior and reliance.
When he was wounded by his business rival, I had given him my kidney without hesitation…
However, it was he who had personally sent me back to the hellish Ouray for another seven years.
“Amanda, what’s wrong? Did you think that I forgot your birthday?”
Adam’s voice helped me snap back to reality.
I calmly replied, “Thank you.”
Adem then took out a delicate gift box from the back seat and urged me to open it
I uncovered the lid and saw inside a custom–made white wedding dress.
Adam said in a gentle voice, “You once said that your biggest dream is to put o
on a wedding dress for your lover, so I prepared this one in advance. Do you
I feel bitterness in my mouth. “Adam… Your memory cheated you. I don’t like wedding dresses. I hate white,”
The gender bias in Ouray was severe.
When I was thirteen years old, I was almost sold to a filty–year–old bachelor in the neighboring village by my foster father.
Back then, I did my
by best to act insane. I covered my head with a white cloth and claimed that I was possessed. In this way, I had a narrow escape.
From then on, I often wore white clothes and played the fool to protect myself.
Alter the shock, Adam stroked my head as he had seven years ago. “I’m sorry. My bad. I will get a new dress made for you. Come, I have booked a Chapter 3
restaurant to celebrate your birthday ”
On the way to the restaurant, it kept raining.
Adam gripped my hand and said, “Amanda, why are you thinner than you were seven years ago? Your legs…”
His phone rang before he finished his questions.
On his phone screen, I saw Grace’s name.
I couldn’t hear what the caller said. With agitation on his face, Adam asked his driver to turn around and go to the Hacker’s house.
On the way there, he kept sending messages to Grace, but there came no reply from her.
The moment we arrived at the Backer’s place, I saw Grace standing on the rooftop.
I
Grace saw Adam and I come back together, so her face turned pale.
She shouted, “Dad, Mom, Terry, and Adam… Since Amanda is back, it’s time for me to step aside. Farewell.”
After that, she leaped down from the rooftop
