After reading the message, Abbie’s expression changed to be awful. Memory loss? Did she lose a part of her memory while Richard and Michael both knew about it but hid the truth from her? This was like fiction.
However, since this woman had chosen to tell her everything, this was surely not groundless. After all, such a thing could be easily proven fake.
Abbie restrained her emotions. “Why did I lose my memory? Why did my brother and Michael hide it from me?”
“You lost your memory because of me! I didn’t want to stay as Michael’s lover, and I wanted to be his wife. But I couldn’t be with him because of my identity. Because of jealousy, I revealed our relationship to you. After you caught us in bed, you drove away broken-hearted. It was then when you got into a car accident and lost your memory.”
“Is this true?” Abbie muttered. There was a period when she kept having the same dream. Her car was speeding along the road while her hands were tightly gripping the steering wheel, and her entire body was shaking. Her heart was aching as if it had been stabbed by a knife, and she could feel her heart bleeding.
She then heard the screeching sound of the brake, and she would wake up suddenly. She always thought it was only a nightmare. Was it not a dream, but something that had happened in real life?
Josephine then sent a zipped chat record to Abbie. “This was the message I sent you to win over you. If you don’t believe me, you can have a look.”
Abbie opened the chat log sent by Josephine. After reading the chat log, she felt awful.
Abbie knew from a glance that the person chatting with the woman named Josephine was herself. Two years ago, Josephine took the initiative to look for her and told her about her relationship with Michael.
Abbie didn’t believe it at all back then. She thought that Josephine was making things up. Josephine then sent her a set of photos to prove her relationship with Michael and gave Abbie an address to see for herself.
This memory did not exist in Abbie’s mind. She had always thought that she only met Michael a few months ago in her home country.
She didn’t expect that she was already together with Michael since two years ago.
And Michael was also in a relationship with Josephine. How could Abbie accept this?
Abbie’s hands began to tremble for some reason. She only replied after a long while.
“Why did you come to me at this time? Why didn’t you look for me before?”
“After your accident, I was so scared that I went into hiding. Mr. Clark had been looking for me, and so was Michael. I knew they would kill me if they found me, so I was afraid, and I kept hiding. After two years of hiding, I used up all my savings, so I could only come out to work. I then met Michael, who immediately caught me and put me under house arrest.”
“Why did Michael capture you?”
“He wanted me to meet Mr. Clark and clarify what happened back then. He wanted me to deny being his lover and that I had nothing to do with him. He also wanted me to tell Mr. Clark that I was incited by Natasya, who was jealous of you, to scheme against him. Michael wanted me to clear his name and push all the blame onto me. I could help him with that, but would Mr. Clark spare me? It was because of me you got into an accident and lost your memory. If I were to admit all these to Mr. Clark, I would surely die. Ms. Clark, please save me!”
Abbie was shocked and angry at Josephine’s words. She did not believe that Michael would be such a despicable person. “You are lying! He is not like this!”
“Ms. Clark, he surely won’t behave like this in front of you. I know he must be very gentle to you and hide all his dirty laundry. He wants to marry you because you are a good match for him. That is why he is hiding his true colors. People like me are nothing to him as we belong in different worlds. He doesn’t need to disguise himself with me, so he only treats me ruthlessly.”
Abbie still didn’t believe Josephine’s words. This was not the Michael she knew. But what about these photos? She urgently needed to find out more about her memory loss.
“Who else knows about my memory loss besides you, Michael, and my brother?”
“Natasya and your parents should also know about it. As for the others… Let me think about it. Azalea should know about it too since she was also here at that time. Oh right, Ms. Clark, I have something else to tell you. Azalea likes Michael. I saw with my own eyes that she had an affair with Michael! Azalea hated me at that time and even warned me to leave Michael.”
Josephine was a smart woman. She knew how to convince Abbie so that she would believe her. Her mentioning Azalea like this wouldn’t arouse Abbie’s suspicions. Instead, Abbie would want to seek confirmation from Azalea.
Since Azalea was behind all this, she would surely not disappoint Abbie.
After reading Josephine’s reply, Abbie started to believe her words.
She had to find out the truth about her memory loss. If she did lose her memory, Helen would surely know about it.
Helen must have known about Josephine’s involvement too.
Abbie put away her phone and calmed down. She then went downstairs to look for Helen, who was watching TV in the living room. Abbie walked to her and sat down. “Mom, I had a nightmare just now. I scared.”
Helen looked at Abbie. “What did you dream about?”
“I dreamed that I had a car accident…” Abbie stared at Helen. She saw Helen’s calm face change, and Helen forced a smile before saying, “It’s only a dream!”
“But it felt so real. I felt the pain and discomfort. It felt like the car accident really happened.”
Abbie rubbed her forehead. “I remember clearly the place where the car accident happened. I remember the street. I remember my car going over the rail and crashing into a tree before stopping. I dream that I was covered in blood…”
“That’s enough!” Helen covered Abbie’s mouth. The car accident was something that no one in the Clark family bear to mention. Even though it had been such a long time, Helen still couldn’t accept it when she heard Abbie talking about her car accident. Her heart ached terribly.
Abbie stared at Helen and saw the faint tears in her eyes.
So the car accident was real, and she did lose her memory. Then it must also be true that the woman named Josephine was Michael’s lover!
Abbie felt disheartened.