“Miss Garcia…” Levi moved closer.
“Stop asking me. There’s nothing wrong with me. Really! Stop asking me!
“My body is still pure, it’s still pure, Eldest Young Master Williams.” Ava sobbed.
Eldest Young Master Williams waved his hand, and then he awkwardly but gently pushed Ava away.
Levi understood that Eldest Young Master Williams did not want him to ask any more questions, but he had not intended to ask.
Who would have the heart to do that when Ava was in such a state?
He wanted to remind Eldest Young Master Williams that Young Madam was behind them and to suggest that Miss Garcia…should not stand so close to Eldest Young Master.
However, the young madam had already left.
“Miss Ava, let’s get you home to rest.” Ewan felt sorrowful. If he had guarded her properly, would she have to suffer such grievances?
Even though Michael had gently pushed her away, Ava still clung on tightly to his clothes. At least Eldest Young Master Williams did not continue to force her away. Her distance from him had already taken a huge step forward.
“Eldest Young Master Williams, my body is still pure…”
Ava was already in a semi-comatose state when they got into the car, but she had that sentence on repeat.
Even the stone-hearted Levi could only sigh when he heard her. His disdain for Ava’s flamboyance and hypocrisy had turned to pity. It was extremely heartbreaking for a girl to encounter such a traumatic experience.
When Michael got in the car, he realized that Elena had left in another vehicle.
Ava sat next to him. Her eyes were closed, but she did not loosen her grip on his clothes. “Eldest Young Master, I’m afraid that Miss Ava… has suffered many grievances tonight.”
Ewan implored that, if nothing else, that Eldest Young Master Williams should give her a little more patience and sympathy.
Michael remained silent. Finally, he retracted the hand that had wanted to push her away. He sat in the back seat and allowed Ava to lean on him. He looked at Levi and said, “Take us home.”
…
“Eldest Young Master, take a look at this.” After Ava was sent to her room, Levi brought his cell phone to Michael’s room.
“They… They posted Miss Garcia’s photographs…”
Lu Ye did not finish his sentence, but he showed his mobile phone to Michael instead.
Michael’s expression immediately sank; those people were ruthless!
Ava was tied to a chair in the photographs, and a group of men surrounded her.
Her clothes had been torn to bits. Not only did they hurt her, but on top of that, they had also sent him those photographs.
“They are sending us a message!” Levi clenched his fists angrily, and his knuckles cracked.
His expression suddenly changed, and his voice subconsciously lowered, “They thought… They thought that the rumors on the Internet were true. They thought that you and Miss Garcia were a couple.”
The message was to target his heart!
That was because they thought that Ava and Eldest Young Master Williams were a couple. Therefore, they had hurt Ava in that way. If they knew that Eldest Young Master Williams had actually cared for the young madam, then she might be…
“Eldest Young Master, Paradise Island specifically hired these highly trained elites for some of the most despicable things!”
Levi’s inference was clear. Paradise Island had always operated in the underworld business. Therefore, they needed to develop their manpower.
It was different for them as Michael was a legitimate businessman. Even if Eldest Young Master Williams rallied all of his men, they were all genuine businesspeople. Their bodyguards would not match the sheer numbers that Paradise Island commanded.
More importantly, they operated in the light, while Paradise Island operated in the dark. It was easier to avoid a gun that one could see than an arrow in the dark. Unless one did not want to have a normal life. If those people wanted to make a move, there was not much that one could do about it!
Eldest Young Master Williams had enough protection for himself, but what about the people around him? If the victim that day had been the young madam… Levi could not even imagine the consequences of that. Eldest Young Master Williams would have gone insane.
“Miss Garcia took a bullet on behalf of Young Madam. Eldest Young Master, going forward…” He did not finish his sentence, but Michael knew that he meant.
Ava had suffered a tragedy in Elena’s stead. The rest of her life had become his responsibility.
“Establish a security team,” Michael suddenly said.
“A security team?” Levi asked after he recovered from his initial shock. “Very well, I will draw up a budget and publish the recruitment information tomorrow.”
On the surface, the new security details were for business purposes. Eldest Young Master Williams wanted to assemble an elite force of his own. He wanted retaliation! If one failed to build one’s attack force after one was targeted by Ashtontics like the people from Paradise Island, then one simply asked for a beating.
Michael took something out of his drawer before he went to Elena’s room. When he had arrived there, Elena had just showered and was about to go to bed.
The tragedy that had befallen Ava was beyond her expectations. She thought that her sister had been up to her devilish antics again. She did not expect her to fall into the hands of Eldest Young Master Williams’s enemies.
She did not know what she thought about it, but she was fretful that night. Even after a cold shower, she still felt uneasy.
“How is she?” Elena put down her mobile phone and stood up when Eldest Young Master Williams entered her room.
Without another word, Michael dropped something on her desk. It was a document.
Elena went over and picked up the document. Her hands suddenly turned cold.
Their agreement…
“You… What is the meaning of this?” She looked at Michael. She tried to remain calm, but her trembling fingers sold her out.
Michael stared at her face for a long moment, and then said, “She had suffered all that because of me.”
“So?” He felt guilty and wanted to make it up to her? The way to make up for it, was to be with Ava?
Elena did not know why, but she was not willing to let that happen. She thought she could walk away from him after two years, but she was wrong.
Michael wanted to terminate the agreement early, and she trembled in panic mode.
Michael gave her a straightforward answer. “The termination of the agreement was solely due to a breach of contract on my end. Therefore, you may ask for whatever compensation you desire.”
“What do you want to compensate me with? Money?” Elena wanted to laugh.
He had wanted to tangle with her in that very room just hours ago. Then he wanted to end their relationship by terminating their agreement?
“Because she was hurt, so you are compensating her with the rest of your life?”
Could one even measure their feelings that way?
Did whatever happened to Ava turn out to be a blessing in disguise for her?
She did not expect that she would sympathize with Ava’s tragedy, but she could not let go of the past. She reminded herself not to forget about the last moments of her past life when she was killed in the car crash. She also must not forget about how Ava had harmed her friends too!
However, Ava had finally gotten her wish, and that was to be with Eldest Young Master Williams.