Elena Bush unconsciously put up a guard all over the person in front of her, “What are you doing here?”
“I ……” Edward Ford’s steps suddenly stopped with a look of trepidation, “Elena, I’m just here to make amends.”
Make amends?
What was the point of him saying that, now that it was over?
Elena Bush’s brow was furrowed in indifference, but Logan Brown could clearly feel her hand clenching into a fist beneath the covers.
Fearing that she might have tossed her wound, his large hand clasped hers silently, their fingers interlocked to prevent her from hurting herself.
The little woman glanced at him, her brow flashing with surprise.
The latter, aware of her gaze, quirked his head and returned a reassuring smile.
Edward Ford let out a long breath and then his gaze followed with determination, “Elena, I know you hate me, but I’ve thought about what I’ve done too, I was very wrong, I don’t ask for your forgiveness, I just hope you’ll hear me out …… ”
“No ……”
Elena Bush subconsciously tried to refuse, but to her surprise Logan Brown was the first to speak up and agree.
At her dismay, Logan Brown pursed his lips and smiled, “Instead of choosing to run away, why don’t you just hear him out and be done with it?”
It was the only way to avoid thinking about it later.
Elena Bush stalled for a moment, but finally gave in, “Yeah.”
“Don’t be afraid, I’m here.” His voice was like a magic that could not be denied.
The little woman looked down and caressed the little one’s cheek and said, “Logan Brown, can you see Harvey? I want to go out and talk to him.”
“No!” Logan Brown refused without a second thought, “I can’t confirm that he’s a threat to us yet, so I can’t leave you alone with him.”
The man’s face held a characteristic coldness that made it impossible not to comply, and Elena Bush had a flash of embarrassment.
But when she met Edward Ford’s expectant gaze, she finally gritted her teeth, “It’s just a conversation, it’ll be over in a minute, it’s fine.”
“No!”
“Logan Brown ……”
Without a word she placed the baby on his side, her small face tinged with a soft smile, “Trust me, okay?”
“Elena.”
“If you don’t say anything, I’ll take that as a yes oh!” Elena Bush immediately jumped out of the hospital bed before he could answer, her soulful eyes flashing with a slyness that caught people off guard.
“You ……”
Logan Brown sighed impotently and looked at Edward Ford with a flash of sternness under his eyes, “Edward Ford, if anything happens to her, I can guarantee you won’t be able to leave H City!”
Edward Ford lost his smile, “Don’t worry, I’ll return her to you intact.”
The man grunted coldly, a coldness that was impossible to ignore.
Elena Bush sighed helplessly and squeezed his hand before letting go.
Around the corner in the narrow corridor of the hospital, Edward Ford and Elena Bush looked at each other.
“Ahem!” Edward Ford cleared his throat and took the lead in breaking the silence.
“Elena …… I’m sorry about your mother Joanna Lake ……”
Elena Bush bowed her head and wiggled her fingers with slightly uncomfortable hands, “Since you know that too, all the more reason to know that some things can’t be undone just by you saying you’re sorry!”
“I know, but even so, I still have to apologise!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, he ‘flung’ himself straight down on his knees in front of her.
Elena Bush’s heart thumped and her knees went weak, immediately falling to her knees as well.
She clenched her teeth and flashed hostility, “What are you doing! If you have something to say, get up and say it, I can’t afford it!”
Edward Ford was unaware of this, and only reached out a trembling hand to grip hers, “Elena, you don’t know, and you can’t imagine, how wonderful Joanna and I were together back then, but I also know that in the end it was all completely ruined by my own hands.”
He chuckled, as if mocking himself, “I could have kept it going for the rest of my life, I could have stayed with her in peace and had children ……”
It was all supposed to work out that way, but it was ultimately destroyed.
By the time he reacted, Joanna Lake was already leaving him, and if he had done nothing at that moment, Joanna Lake would have been literally gone from his world, and that was bad news that he could never accept in his life.
So he did the heartless act of dragging the woman he once held in his heart into utter hell and destroying her ……
When he thought of this, the tears in his eyes gushed out as if they were breaking the bank, and he covered his face with his hands, with a face of pain!
“Elena, I’m sorry, I’m sorry …… I’m sorry for her, and I’m sorry for you!”
He was so overwhelmed by his fantasies that he ended up doing something that he regretted more than anything ……
Elena Bush looked at him, the man who was so wealthy in G, who could shake up the city with the stamping of his foot, who was as helpless as a child at the moment, that one could say one could not sympathize, but could not ignore it either.
There was a mixture of emotions.
Edward Ford wiped his face, “Elena, I’m not asking you to forgive me, I just hope you can hear me out, I’ve done so much wrong in my life and don’t want to do anything to hurt you again ……”
Elena Bush listened to his words with a vague sense that something was wrong, “What do you want to do?”
“Elena ……” Edward Ford closed his eyes deeply and when he opened them again they were light and spontaneous, “I’ve thought about it, I lost Joanna in this life because of my wealth and power, and it’s because of all this that I’ve tied you down, so I want to leave it all to you, and I ……”
He smiled with relief, the bleakness in his eyes was unmistakable!
Elena Bush didn’t even think about it and snapped, “Edward Ford, I don’t need you to make amends now, and I don’t need you to make any more sacrifices for me!”
“But I ……”
Edward Ford lowered his eyes, self-condemnation and shame filled his whole body, “I destroyed my happiness with my own hands long ago, what qualifications do I have ……”
“You are unqualified!?” Elena Bush snapped his shoulders, “Edward Ford, you’ve done wrong and you’re going to pay for it with this life, you deserve to live in remorse and misery for the rest of your life! So don’t think about killing yourself, that would be too cheap!”
She reprimanded him, word for word, her eyes fishy red.
Edward Ford looked up at her blankly, “Elena, I ……”