Chapter 259 The glimpse of the past II (2/2)

Upon hearing his loud announcement that was akin to a resounding slap, Lexi stopped. Not just her nonsensical chants but her world stopped. The pain that was on her arms caused by his tight grip, she couldn't even feel it anymore as the angst in her heart was enough to numb her.

”You what? Like someone else?” Knitting her brows, Lexi repeated his words with great effort. The moment he answered ”yes” with a guilty look plastered across his face, her heart split in half... no, into tiny particles that were minced even further afterward.

”Let's break the engagement— I can't continue with it. I love Mia.”

'I love you but we can't continue it or else I might completely lose you.' At the same time as he had uttered those three words, Morris Liu uttered the complete opposite of what he spatted verbally within his mind. However, in the next moment, Morris Liu never expected what she did after the last word landed.

*PAK!*

A loud, resonating slap approached his cheek that had made his head toss violently to the side. The slap was so hard that the sound bounced across the whole place. Slowly, he returned his gaze onto her now wrathful front.

”You dare to say to me to break our engagement because of her? Huh...” Lexi scoffed as torment, dismay, and rage gradually chopped the pieces of her heart even further. Maybe this was her way of crying at this moment, it was hard to really tell.

”Cheater...” She mumbled, locking her resentful eyes on him. ”I won't let a cheater be happy. Keep that woman hidden— far away from my sight. I won't break the engagement and let you two live happily ever after. You don't deserve it.” With that said note, Lexi strongly pulled away her arm from him letting out another scoff.

As she turned her back against him and took a step forward, she paused and said, ”I will forever make her the mistress and make you miserable for the rest of your life for marrying the person you don't love.” Lexi vindicated before resuming in her stride with great determination to not fall apart.

God knows that no matter how fierce Lexi was when she left him, the moment she arrived at her car, she was screaming, bawling her heart out, all the while driving crazily fast without a care for her life.

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Mia Chen watched the group of medical staff that rushed towards Morris Liu's lying figure through the transparent glass. Unending worry engulfed her heart seeing them doing everything they could to stabilize his irregular vitals.

”What's happening?” Just then, Chris Yu's voice rang behind her as his pair of eyes darted to her back and then to Morris Liu's withering figure.

”No, no, please...” Mia Chen mumbled worriedly as she ignored Chris Yu and never took her gaze away from Morris Liu.

”Hey,” Sensing her panic, Chris Yu placed his hand on her shoulder to make her turn to face him. ”He will be alright, yes...” He too was anxious as Morris Liu had been peaceful for the past three months but all of a sudden, his vitals went down from a normal range which alarmed his attending doctors and nurses. Still, he didn't want to think any negative thoughts as he believed he would survive this crisis like always.

”I saw his finger move earlier but why is he—” Mia Chen heedlessly clutched her trembling fist on his shirt as tears formed on the side of her eyes.

”It's okay, it's okay,” Pulling her to him, Chris Yu embraced her to calm her shaking being. ”He'll be fine.” He hushed her as he turned towards Morris Liu's direction again.

Soon, the doctors stopped whatever measures they were doing as the patient's vitals returned to normal and within the next several seconds, Morris Liu's eyes slowly opened.

”L—Le...xi...” Those were his first words despite the ventilator on him and how dry his throat was at that moment causing a burning sensation. He mouthed her name before submitting to the darkness that he had been surrounded by in the last three months.