Chapter 27
Back in the day. I used to eagerly anticipate his calls.
Now, seeing “Jude” pop up on my se
screen felt like it was burning my eyes. Hui with a few projects in hand, I chose to head back to the office.
Walking into Jude’s office. 1 caught sight of Vivian rushing out, her eyes red from crying.
She shot me a hateful glare as
as she passed by.
Puzzled. I raised an eyebrow, and then stepped in. “You need something?”
Maybe it was my short hair, but Jude seemed momentarily distracted, asking instinctively, “Why’d you cut your hair?”
I didn’t feel like answering and repeated, “You need something?”
Family dinner tonight. You’re coming with me” Jude massaged his temples with a headache, his eyes filled with resistance.
He was part of the Carson family but never fit in.
I only knew he was an orphan, picked up by his grandma. The neighbors helped him get is legal identity later.
If not for his stellar grades, he might never have left that small town..
Yet, he had this unique aura that set him apan–that was what drew me to him.
Just when he was at his lowest, about to hit rock bottom, his identity was revealed.
Three months after I broke up with him and left for Kasenland, the Carson family found him. Guess fate had its twists. His grandma got severe heart disease, and he was jugding hospital visia and work.
Back then, he was just a broke programmer.
was spreading fast.
Meanwhile, I had my first cancer flare–up, and our family was in financial trouble. Things weren’t looking good. Cancer was sp
Mom decided to send me abroad.
Before I left, she made me break up with Jude.
I cried, holding her hand. “Mom, Jude won’t abandon me. He loves me so much; he wouldn’t leave me just because I have cancer”
Mom shook her head sadly, her eyes full of pain. “Sally girl, his grandma’s really sick, and we’re in this mess. Company funds are frozen. You have to go abroad now.”
I kept shaking my head, refusing to break up with Jude
It wasn’t until Mom revealed the truth that I had to give in.
In rummed our that my grandma and two aunts all died of cancer.
Back then, I didn’t know my mom had also been diagnosed with cancer, which was why she was so desperate,
“Ada, while this illness is 100% hereditary, look at us
“I know Jude is a good kid, and I know you love him, but I don’t want you two to end up blaming each other. You gei nie, right?
f you drag him down now, what about your future? Is there even gonna be one?” Mum’s words froze me in place,
e truth, he’d hate me to deaths.
Jude might not mind me, but what if our kids die from cancer, too? I shuddered in think if he ever found out the
He’d always wanted a family, a real home, and I didn’t wanna crush his last wish…
At only 20 back then, I never thought Emight die.
I didn’t know how many days I cried, but eventually, when I saw people coming to my house demanding debt, I finally left the country under my
Muamis arrangements.
Before leaving, I gave my roommate the pink diamond necklace my grandma left me to pass to juste, telling him to sell it for his grandma’s
If I gave it to him myself, he definitely wouldn’t take it
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Chapter 27
Things were already messy when we broke up. My mom even called him a gold digger in front of him.
Jude’d always been proud, yet he still waited three days and nights outside our villa until news spread I was leaving with a rich guy to Kasenland.
It was at the hospital where his grandma was that he met his biological grandpa
At the time, Ewan urgemly needed a bone marrow donor to save his life. Jude, simply answering the hospital’s call to participate in the matching process, never expected that it would actually succeed
After the surgery, Ewan insisted on personally thanking him.
Maybe it was the family blood running in the vein. Ewan recognized Jude as his own blood the moment he saw him in the hospital.
And with a DNA test, they confirmed Jude’s identity.
After marrying Jude and visiting the Carson family a few times, I learned that Jude’s parents had been missing for twenty years
When he was three, the whole family went hiking and just vanished.
Even though there were ransom cally, once the Carson family paid up, they couldn’t get in touch anymore.
Everyone thought the kidnappers must’ve killed them, but years later, Jude reappeared
And precisely because they hadn’t seen each other for years, coupled with the fact that Ewan had only this one grandson, his arrival threw a wrench Into the Carson family’s insual vibe.
Jude hated schmoozing with these people, so after we got married, he handed all that interaction work to me.
Hed just tag along, bring a total prop
Every time he went back to his grandpa’s mansion, he was all grumpy just like now,
He tapped the table, giving me a look of disdain. “Remember the time, you go yourself.”
Seeing him leave. I got it. No wonder Vivian was crying and running out earlier–after all, I was still the nominal Mrs. Carson and those family gatherings weren’t her scene
But she was not losing out either–jude had to comfort her now
The mere thought of the Carsons faces hindered me from attending the family dinner. But considering how nice Ewan had been to me, I reined in in—just doing it for his sake..
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