So there were only Ernie and Sylvie left behind.
Sylvie saw Marley and his uncle walked pretty quickly, they were really discussing something seriously.
“Let’s go, let’s leave too!” Ernie said that as he walked to her.
Sylvie immediately took a step back further from him, it almost seemed like she’s escaping. She accidentally twisted her foot and fell forward.
Fortunately, someone helped her in time so she didn’t make a fool of herself in public, and that person was of course Ernie.
Meanwhile, Marley and Kasper already walked to the building.
“Thank you!” Sylvie could only say thanks, in such situation she couldn’t do anything than thanking him… Once she looked up and met Ernie’s handsome face, whose eyes were smiling.
“You’re welcome!”
Sylvie stood steady in a hurry, she was so swift like she’s escaping from a beast.
Ernie chuckled out of joy like he found something funny, his eyes were totally mischievous but he was still supporting her, “I didn’t say I was going to kiss you, what were you afraid of? Seeing your guilty conscience, people who don’t know might think that something happened between us! Isn’t that so, Sylvie?”
His unclear and hoarse voice could indeed easily cause people to misunderstand.
Ernie said that as he touched her hand, Sylvie was very shocked, his slight movement at that time was really irritating.
She suddenly pulled her hand and scratched her scalded hand, she then gasped out of pain… She looked very cute with a row of her white teeth showing.
In an instant, Ernie saw her slightly dumbfounded expression and smiled again, he seemed very happy as he looked down at the back of her hand, “Eh! What happened to your hand? Why are your white and soft hands so red? Marley abused you, right? Tell me how he abused you, I’ll punish him for you!”
“Thank you, but it’s none of your business! I’m going in first!” Sylvie immediately said that. She looked down and passed by him to the inpatient building.
“Wait for me!” Ernie chased her too, “Why are you avoiding me? Sylvie?”
Sylvie rolled her eyes to Ernie from his back, lingering! He’s really lingering! Sylvie walked faster because she didn’t want to walk with him.
“Sylvie!” Ernie shouted as he chased her quickly, “I have something serious to say!”
Sylvie kept on walking, she just wanted to ignore him!
“Sylvie?!”
Sylvie suddenly turned her head, “You’re really lingering!”
“Ugh!” Ernie was stunned as he looked at her beautiful white face under the sunlight, her pair of big, black eyes looked very clear that it even reflected the bright sunlight so colorfully. She’s not an absolute beauty but she’s really beautiful too, especially when she slightly narrowed her eyes under the sunlight, she became even more dazzling, “I’m not even a ghost, how could you say that I’m lingering?”
“Just say it quickly if you have any serious matters!” Sylvie slightly lowered her head, didn’t dare to look at Ernie in the eye. Because he was really a bit wicked, he somehow looked evil too.
Ernie cleared his throat up and started the heart-to-heart conversation.
“Sylvie, what if we cooperate?” Ernie sounded quite unlike his former “bad guy” tone, as if he’s a friendly senior, that kind of tone didn’t won’t sound too offensive either.
Sylvie glanced at him from the edge of her eyes and saw that he’s looking at her.
Sylvie hesitated for a bit and frowned, “What do you want to do with me?”
“Have a guess?” Ernie winked.
“Just say it if you want to, and just forget it if you won’t!” Sylvie was going to go away.
“Hey! I haven’t said everything!”
“I’m no interested in cooperating with you, no matter what you’re going to say… Just find someone else!”
“I haven’t finished speaking, you’re really impetuous that you won’t even listen until the end! I’ll help you to make Marley fall in love with you! How’s that?” seeing how Sylvie walked away, Ernie shouted behind her.
Sylvie was slightly dumbfounded as her heart thumped. She did stop, she didn’t care about that sentence but the requirements behind it. She slightly turned around and looked at him, there were many people outside of the hospital building.
Sometimes nurses would walk by, they would look at Ernie with smiles like they were excited and shy.
Sylvie was a few meters away from Ernie, with his tall and slender body, his excellent figure, and well fitted clothes made with high quality materials, he’s quite similar to Marley. Thin lines, moderately thin lips, pointed nose, and black pupils, if he was serious instead of smiling wickedly, he would be really handsome.
Sylvie lowered her head and smiled, but he wasn’t Marley. She wouldn’t demand Marley to love her because she had known from the very start that the ending was destined… Everything she did was what she wanted to do, it had nothing to do with others!
“What’s your requirement?” in the end, she still couldn’t help asking.
“Hehe, what if I say that there’s no requirement?!” Ernie raises his eyebrows.
“Sorry, I’m not interested!” Sylvie smiled.
Ernie’s eyes looked a bit complicated, “What if there’s a requirement?”
“Then say it!”
Ernie looked at her as he said a few words, “I want Hughes Group to disappear from now on!”
Buzz!
Sylvie opened her eyes widely as she doubted her own ears, “You… What did you say?”
“Hughes Group disappears from now on, you didn’t mishear it!” Ernie said that again with a serious tone.
“Tell me the reason!” Sylvie could also see his seriousness.
“You don’t need to know this, want to cooperate?” she couldn’t hear the emotions from Ernie’s cold and deep voice, his back was facing the sunlight, the shadow created a strange luster on his cold and handsome face, he was so cold and gloomy that he looked creepy.
“No!” Sylvie firmly refused, “I want Hughes Group to develop!”
“Don’t you want him to love you?” Ernie said that with a low voice, his eyes looked a bit uncertain.
“No need! Loving me is his problem, the development of Hughes Group is the business for both Marley and me, your calculation is wrong, I won’t cooperate with you!”
“Then why did you marry him?”
“That’s my problem, loving me or not is his problem, I have never believed that love could be forced on… I’ll regard what you said to me today as something that has never happened and I won’t tell anyone either. At the same time, Hughes Group won’t disappear, Marley and I won’t allow it!”
“You really racked your brains for him!” Ernie coldly smiled and walked two steps forward, his handsome face closed on in with a cold air, “Is that worth it?”
“It’s worth it if I think so – worth it or not, it is for peace of mind, just for my conscience!”
“Sylvie, I’m getting more and more interested in you, what should I do?”
“I think you’re not interested in me, you’re just getting more and more interested in destroying Hughes Group!” Sylvie was sure this time that Ernie’s 300 million gambling debt must be a bluff, her guesses seemed to be true by then.
Hearing that, Ernie suddenly grabbed and dragged Sylvie to the corner of the building… Sylvie struggled but she couldn’t get rid of his tight grip around her waist so she just gave up, she just glared at Ernie with her cold black eyes.
“Sylvie, without you, the Hughes Group would no longer exist and declared their bankruptcy! Do you know? I really want to choke you to death and make you disappear from this world!” it was just like he wanted to break her waist bone… Ernie coldly smiled, his cold thin lips got closer to Sylvie’s cheeks and his cold whisper could only be heard by each other.
“Life, death and fortune are destined by the God! I don’t decide when I’ll live and die, if you really want to then I have no other choice!” Sylvie was very calm, she was really not scared of his intimidation.
“Hah…!” Ernie snorted, “What a stubborn kid!”
“There’s hatred in your heart!” she sounded so certain, “it’s better to turn it into love!”
“Is that so? Then why don’t you turn yours into love for Sadie?” Ernie’s rhetorical question made Sylvie shiver… He unexpectedly knew Sadie; would that mean that he had investigated her? What kind of person Ernie was actually like?
“Put Sadie at the detention center, why didn’t you turn your hatred into love?”
“I don’t hate!” Sylvie smiled indifferently with a slight bitterness.
“Is that so?” Ernie smiled, “Then I really haven’t seen how much you love Sadie, no matter what she’s your mother, right?”
“I just don’t want to be related to this! That’s it. It’s not hate at all!” Sylvie looked up at him, “But you, what kind of resentment do you have that you won’t hesitate to destroy the Hughes Group?”
“Sylvie, maybe we’re the same kind of people, isn’t it better for you to be with me and let me keep on doting you and protecting you?”
Sylvie lowered her gaze indifferently as she just ignored Ernie’s frivolous words, she slightly gasped for breath before smiling provocatively, “I really don’t think that talking with a beast is worth it. You don’t have humanity, don’t forget that your surname is also Hughes!”
“You’re so foolish that you reject such offer?!” Sylvie’s rebuttal successfully angered Ernie, he then pinched her chin, with so much strength like he was going to crush her bones.
“Humph!” Sylvie snorted coldly, she didn’t care at all.
Ernie lifted her chin up and looked into Sylvie’s obstinate eyes, the anger in his heart flared up in an instant all the way up to his black eyes, such weird gaze looked like an uncontrollable emotion was going to explode.
Sylvie saw blue veins were beating on his forehead, his eyes were flaring with anger, but he’s trying to hold himself back… She suddenly sympathized with him – who did he actually hate? So much that he wanted to make their family business disappear?
Sylvie tightened her lips and coldly stared at Ernie, “Extremity is not the way to solve problems!”
“Ha! Then say it, what’s the way to solve the problem?”
“I don’t know!” Sylvie said, “Because I don’t know who hurt you either and you do not care about everything! Extremity will only make people lose rationality, in the end if it’s really destroyed, I think you probably wouldn’t be happy either! Ernie, please regain your rationality! Irrationality will only make yourself feel more painful!”
“Irrationality? I really want to do that, let’s be irrational!” Ernie chuckled, he then kissed her stubbornly tightened up lips in an instant… As long as he could, he wouldn’t mind humiliating the Hughes family in public.