Chasing Back My Ex-wife

Chapter 69

However, touching the tears on her face, he didn't want to hurt her anymore.

Snuggling tightly in each other's embrace, Arthur called out her name.

Lucy couldn't describe how she felt, but right then, she really wanted to see him.

She turned around and gazed at him under the bright moonlight.

Arthur's forehead was covered with sweat and his veins stood out from holding back. His handsome face looked quite frightening.

Was he...holding back?!

Thump!

Lucy's heart froze, then started to beat wildly.

She had been with him for three years, so she knew how direct he was when making love! It was because she knew that she was so taken aback at seeing him control himself right then.

Buzz—

Buzz—

"Arthur, your phone is ringing." Lucy's body was tense, and she didn't dare to move an inch. She was covered in a thin sheen of sweat.

The phone vibrated for a long time before stopping and the room became quiet again.

However, a second later, Arthur's phone started to vibrate wildly again.

Lucy nearly couldn't catch her breath at being hugged so tightly by Arthur. She frowned and said, "Arthur, someone is calling you. It could be urgent."

The Johnson Group was such a large company. There could be emergencies he had to deal with sometimes.

"Mmm." Arthur replied. It was just one syllable, but it was enough to show his irritation and anger. Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

He let go of her and took his phone from the table.

Lucy took the chance to distance herself from him and lie down warily facing him. However, she accidentally saw the caller ID——

It was Lizbeth!

Only her first name. How close they must be!

Lucy bit her lip hard as what happened in the car before the kidnapping replayed in her mind. Complicated emotions overwhelmed her.

A part of her said, "Arthur doesn't care about you, so just cut him off cleanly!"

Another part of her said, "Arthur's holding on to you while playing around with other women. Do you really not feel sad about that?"

Conflicting thoughts filled her mind, making her feel dizzy and lost.

In the dark, Arthur glanced at her coldly and put the call on speaker mode.

"Arthur, those... those people who kidnapped me... Were they sent by you..." Lizbeth's sobs filled Lucy's ears.

Boom!

Lucy was thunderstruck and her mind went blank.

Arthur sent people...to kidnap Lizbeth?!

"Arthur, say something. Is...is it really your doing? Is it you...who made them kidnap me...and beat me up?" Lizbeth was crying so hard that she almost fainted.

Lucy got up and looked at Arthur with a complicated expression.

Arthur was bathed in moonlight. Moonlight shone on one half of his face while the other was hidden in darkness. He looked so beautiful that he seemed otherworldly.

"Yes." He said softly, but his tone was bone-chilling.

"I..." Lizbeth got cut off after saying one word and all they could hear was noise.

"Doctor, hurry up and save Lizbeth!"

"Miss Byrd has had another heart attack. Hurry up and contact Dr. Stone for surgery!"

"Prepare for surgery!"

"Beep, beep, beep..."

The call was cut off.

Lucy looked at Arthur in silence. She had so many things to ask him

'Arthur, why did you do that? Is it for me?'

'Don't the Johnson family and the Byrd family share a strong bond? Won't you ruin that friendship by doing this?'

'Arthur, Lizbeth is your childhood sweetheart. Could you really bear to do that?'

'Arthur, even if you really ordered the kidnapping, you could have done it without leaving a trace. Did you deliberately let Lizbeth know?'

...

However, she couldn't voice out her questions even when they reached the tip of her tongue.

Arthur glanced at her and threw his phone aside. Then, he lay down and pulled her into his arms, not saying a single word.

Lying in his arms, Lucy felt uncomfortable and unused to it.

When they were husband and wife, he would leave after having s*x with her. He never stayed the night, and she had never slept in his arms before.

She had thought that she wouldn't be able to fall asleep lying in his arms, but little did she know that she would fall asleep a while later. What's more, she had a dreamless slumber that night.

The next morning, when Lucy opened his eyes, Arthur wasn't there anymore.

She sat up and felt a little sore in her right hand, so she rolled her wrist. Only then did she see that her palm was slightly red and swollen.

After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't figure out how her hand had gotten injured.

"Ma'am, it's time to eat." Aunty Julianne knocked on the door a few times and came in after getting permission.

"Okay." Lucy thought of Lizbeth and asked, "Where is Arthur?"

She still wanted to ask him what was going on.

"Old Mr. and Mrs. Johnson wanted to see him." Aunty Julianne was in high spirits every day knowing that Lucy was still alive. "Mr. Johnson saw that you were still sleeping, so he didn't wake you."

"Okay, I got it." The Johnson family wanted to see Arthur most probably because of the incident about Lizbeth, didn't they?

...

At the hospital.

The VIP ward was very spacious, consisting of a lounge, bedroom, and a bathroom all in one. However, it seemed quite packed right then.

Old Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were sitting on the sofa on one side. The usually proud couple seemed a little awkward and wary that day, which was a rare sight.

On the sofa opposite them, Mr. Byrd, who was always warm and polite, was staring at them with his gaze filled with anger.

Besides them, Jenson and a few relatives from the Byrd family were there, and they all looked displeased.

"Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, you said that you've informed Mr. Arthur, but why hasn't he arrived?" Jenson's pleasant voice carried a tinge of threat.

If he hadn't been wary of Arthur's identity, he would have asked someone to kill him already!

"He'll be here right away." Mrs. Johnson was a little unhappy at being questioned that way by a junior, but the Johnson family was in the wrong, so she couldn't act too haughty.

Mr. Byrd sneered. "Good. When he arrives, I'll ask him what the Byrd family has done to wrong him!"