Returning With A Thousand Favors

Chapter 290

“What about Chrislyn Neil? Jeffery Garcia sounded like a real man to Simon Hernandez.

No wonder Marina Bailey was friends with him.

“Chrislyn was really exceptionally gentle and also exceptionally naive.” When Marina mentioned Chrislyn, her tone changed somewhat.

Even the expression in her eyes couldn’t help sinking slightly.

“In our circle, I was the only girl. Chrislyn was naturally closer to me.

“After all. Jeffery was an extremely possessive guy. He didn’t allow Chrislyn to interact with other men at all.

“Therefore, our relationship became closer.

“She looked a lot like her mother. She was one of those particularly flamboyant types of beauty, but she herself didn’t like it

at all.

“She always stood behind the crowd furtively. She never took the initiative to interact with others, nor did she take the initiative to speak.

“But she would remember everything Jeffery and I liked.

“She was smart, too. She could master everything she learned in a short time.

“Not only did she take good care of Jeffery, but I also enjoyed quite a lot of benefits from being near them.

“It could be said that with Chrislyn around, Jeffery and I didn’t really need to concern ourselves with anything in our daily lives.

“I’d always felt that we would probably continue like this.

“However, later, Jeffery’s grandfather found out about what happened between Jeffery and Chrislyn.

“He wanted very much to tear them apart. He also thought of sending Chrislyn overseas.

“For the first time, Jeffery chose to resist his grandfather. He fled from the Garcia family with Chrislyn in tow.

“For Chrislyn’s safety, he handed her over to me and went back to face his grandfather alone. NôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.

“Back then, I promised him that I would take good care of Chrislyn.

“But…” Marina gritted her teeth when she reached this part of her tale.

Being the smart man that he was, Simon could already guess the ending of the story.

Nonetheless, he did not say anything. He only chose to hold Marina’s hand tightly.

Marina paused for a while before continuing,

“When Chrislyn was at my house during that period, I always went everywhere with her. We even slept on the same bed.

“But it was precisely because we were so close that the enemies who came to seek revenge took her for me.”

Marina stopped again, her face full of sorrow.

“When we found her… she was already tortured until almost unrecognizable…

“But she still smiled and told me that she had been lying to them all the while, saying that she was the Bailey family’s Missy.

Then why did she lie? She told me so that this way, those people wouldn’t come looking for me again….

“She had just started her third year of high school that year.

“She told me that she wanted to get into the Janeborough University and study business foreign language. After graduation, she would work as Jeffery’s secretary.

“She said that she wanted to study hard and get the approval of Jellery’s grandfather as soon as possible.

“She had already dreamed of such a beautiful future, but that fool lost her life for me…

“In reality, she didn’t have to do that. I was the one who caused her to be kidnapped, but she was still worried that others would come and give me trouble after finding out that they had captured the wrong person.

“Tell me. How can there be such a foolish person in this world? Didn’t she know what would happen to her after she admitted to being me?”

Marina was choking back her tears very strenuously.

Actually, it was also from then on that Marina began to completely fade away from the circle of wealthy families in Janeborough.

She even erased all traces of herself.

Then, Marina began to work hard to learn combat techniques and even enlisted in the military for this.

This was because she didn’t want to become a target again.

More than that, she did not want the people around her to lose their lives because of her.

“You don’t have to feel guilty about this. I believe she must have known what would happen to her when she made this choice.

“Yet she still did it. You should know that humans are always timid and fearful in the face of death.

“If she was able to overcome her fear of death for you, it showed that what you gave her was enough for her to risk everything for you.

“This is called mutual striving. She was willing to sacrifice herself for you because you had given her so much.

“Marina, don’t blame yourself. This matter is not your fault.”

Simon’s voice was very gentle but very powerful.

It was as if a source of strength had slipped into her heart through his voice.

Then, that strength began healing those old injuries bit by bit.

“Even if I accept your explanation and accept that Chrislyn was willing to die for me, I still owe Jeffery Garcia.

“I promised him to take good care of Chrislyn, but I didn’t do it. I even caused her to lose her life.

“After Chrislyn passed away, Jeffery left the Garcia family.

“He didn’t take the college entrance examination or go to university. He hid in an alley house alone.

“Chrislyn and Jeffery chose that house together.

“Jeffery said that when they reach adulthood, they would get married. If his grandfather still objected to them getting

together, then they would live in that small alley house.

“I went to that place subsequently. It was particularly quiet and possessed an ethnic style.

“It was very rare to see such an architectural style in Janeborough, but it really suited Chrislyn’s character to a tee.

“We used to fantasize about drinking coffee and chatting there when we were free.

“Except that those scenes could only exist in the imagination forever.”

Marina had never felt like she owed anyone anything in her life except Jeffery Garcia and Chrislyn Neil.

She would not be able to make up for what she owed Chrislyn in this lifetime anymore.

However, Jeffery was still alive.

Marina couldn’t idly watch him continue to decline.

That was why she had persuaded him to walk out of that alley.

However, Marina did not expect that Jeffery would encounter such a thing as soon as he came out of the alley.

“So you’re so worried, distracted, and fearful now because Jeffery Garcia did something again?” After listening to the whole story, Simon understood why Marina said previously that she did not know where to start.

Marina shook her head and said, “The main reason I was distracted and fearful was that… Chrislyn Neil appeared again.”

“What?” Simon frowned at once when he heard this. “Didn’t you say she was dead?”

“Yes. I personally brought her body back and saw her buried with my own eyes,” Marina said with a nod.

“Then… someone is impersonating Chrislyn?” Simon quickly realized something.

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“That was what I thought before. I felt that someone knew about this past, so he wanted to use this weakness to deal with. Jeffery Garcia and thereby achieve his goal of dealing with the Garcia family.”

“But tonight, I saw Chrislyn…”