Chapter 23
One of the top families in Beblistan, the Wiggins family, fell overnight.
The leader of the Wiggins Group was taken away for investigation on suspicion of kidnapping and illegal detention, which also led to a rape case from five years ago coming to light.
In the end, Howard was sentenced to ten years in prison, while the other person involved was sentenced to three years for hiring a hitman. However, since the crime was not successfully carried out, the criminal was also seriously injured and mentally unstable, so the sentence was changed to probation. The cost, however, is that the rest of his life must be spent in a mental hospital.
Howard confessed to all his crimes, with one condition – he wanted to see Gretchen again.
After hesitating for a long time, she finally agreed to meet.
She just didn’t go alone.
In the visiting room, thick soundproof glass separated a few people on both sides. Gretchen picked up the phone, the sound of
reality coming through, giving her a moment of confusion.
How did things end up like this now?
“Grete.”
From arrest to sentencing, it’s been a while. Not too long, not too short. Just a few months. They looked at each other, but it fe
like a lifetime ago.
Gretchen didn’t say anything, she just looked at him quietly, waiting for his response.
“If back then…I hadn’t taken you to the Wiggins’ villa, would our ending not be like this now?”
She still didn’t say anything.
If he hadn’t taken her back to the Wiggins’ villa in the first place, they wouldn’t have had so much entanglement between
them.
If he had been more resolute at the beginning, whether to marry her or to marry Veronica, there wouldn’t have been so many
issues between them.
If she hadn’t saved him back then…
But in this world, there aren’t that many “ifs”.
Howard was the only heir of the Wiggins Group, and as long as he regained his memory, he couldn’t possibly stay with her in
that rundown rental house for the rest of his life.
As long as he returned to the Wiggins family, he couldn’t completely ignore what Edwin and Brianna said.
But if it had been a little earlier, she probably wouldn’t have been able to really let a living person die on the roadside without a
care.
After a moment of silence, Howard looked at her and suddenly smiled, “Grete, I owe you an apology.”
I let you down, hurt you.
I’m sorry.
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Gretchen suddenly stood up and placed a red invitation on the table, “Howard, I’m getting married. Let’s pretend we never me
from now on.”
Gretchen left, but Lorenzo didn’t.
Without the person he wanted to see, Howard no longer bothered to pretend. He had a cold face, and his brows were filled with impatience.
He didn’t feel like he had anything more to say to the man, so he just got up and was about to give up on the meeting. But wher he reached the door, he thought for a moment and came back. The microphone was casually placed on the table, saving him th trouble of taking it down again.
“Treat her well.”
After a long time, he finally said only one sentence.
Upon hearing this, Lorenzo just laughed.
He stared at Howard and said, “I’m not like you.”
He didn’t have second thoughts, didn’t take things for granted. He waited for five years for the person he truly cared about, an he would protect her with his life.
“I won’t deny my love for her just because she’s seen me at my worst, Howard. It’s something you can’t do, but I can.”
“I stayed just to tell you that you owe her far more than this.”
After saying that, he hung up directly and walked away.
Another year, heavy snowfall.
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The pure white snow covered Beblistan like a thick blanket, giving the whole place a silver coat.
Gretchen walked down the stage in her wedding dress, stepping on the flowers. The emcee recited the blessings he had said
countless times, witnessing another couple’s union.
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“Ms. Belton, would you marry Mr. Lester, no matter if he was poor or rich, healthy or sick, young or old, and love him, respect him, support each other, and spend the rest of your lives together?”
“I’m willing.”
“Mr. Lester, would you take Ms. Belton to be your wife, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, to love and to cherish, till death do you part?”
Lorenzo glanced back at Gretchen beside him, his love for her never diminishing.
He raised his lips, getting the affirmation, “I’m willing.”
The century wedding, which was live-streamed in full, didn’t miss a single corner of Beblistan, including the prison where Howard was being held.
The next day, Howard was found dead in the prison.
