When We Were In Love

Jessica was panicked.

"Christian, what are you saying? Why would I lie to you?" Jessica pretended nothing had happened, dodging his question.

"Really? Professor Lewis seems to know you very well." Christian curled his lips in disdain. It was the first time he ever hated her.

His words came as a thunderbolt for Jessica. He had seen through her scheme. There was nothing she could do now.

"Fake pregnancy? Fake miscarriage? And you lied to me about your heart disease? Jessica Joseph, you are quite an actor. You had fooled me for so long."

Christian held Jessica's chin to force her to look up at his eyes.

She looked so delicate and her eyes looked so pure. He had been obsessed with those eyes. Whenever she looked straightly into his eyes, he would fall in love with her again.

Now, he found them filthy and repulsive.

Jessica frowned. Her chin hurt so much. She racked her brains and quickly came up with a reasonable explanation.

"Christian, I am sorry."

knew very well how her charm worked for Christian. As long as she was delicate and beautiful, Christian would give in to

the thought of you and my sister being together. Do you know how painful it was for me to hear others call her Mrs. North every day?

Christian, I shouldn't have lied to you, but I hated the fact that my sister

louder when she saw Christian's

pushed me downstairs and I was so desperate. How

ruthless with Grandpa. She certainly wouldn't go easy on me. Christian, I was so frightened. I feared that she would treat me the way she had treated Grandpa. She

that I had heart disease, my sister would certainly be ruthless with me too. Christian, I couldn't

desperate. Her fragile body kept twitching, as if she was being severely

thought

Vivian showed up, Jessica would instantly feel sick and he would always be there to look after her

multiple occasions, he would completely ignore Vivian's feelings, leave her alone in the wilderness and ask her to be Jessica's servant and do chores for her, just

tricks at all. He had been brainwashed by Jessica since the very

confused, to question everything he had known. Maybe he shouldn't have been so reckless. He shouldn't have trusted Jessica or emotionally sentenced Vivian to death so

She tried to lean her trembling cold body on Christian, but

surprised that her words hadn't affect Christian at all, because Christian would have

me. Just don't ignore me, okay?" Jessica tried to raise Christian's hand

and looked at

with a weird smile. He wouldn't allow Jessica to