Cliapter 3
I slapped his hand away and sald flercely.
“Asher, it wasn’t your tendons that were severed, what right do you have to ask me to forgive her,
murderer?”
If it weren’t for Asher blocking the knife for me, the Insane Isabel would have stabbed me in the
heart with the knife!
He took a fatal blow for me, should I forgive Isabel for hurting me?
He was generous toward his beloved, but I am not a saint! Asher’s stern face became even more frightening.
A
Annalise, I mean well. You are introverted by nature, and for so many years, Isabel has been your only close friend. Why not let go of past grievances and reconcile with her?”
“People have to look forward, don’t they?”
Asher spoke sincerely, with a tone that carried the authority of a superior.
But there was no longer the familiar heartache and care that I was used to.
The stomachache and heartache overwhelmed me, and I could hardly speak. The pride and provocation hidden deep in Isabel’s bright red eyes were just like that time when she went crazy.
but I will continue to repent and feel guilty until you are
“Annalise, it’s okay if you don’t forgiv
willing to consider me as a friend again.”
“Get lost!”
I grabbed onto the car door with force, so as not to lose my balance. The impatience on Asher’s face!
was evident.
“Annalise, forgive and forget. Isabel has already been punished, are you trying to kill her?”
He witnessed with his own eyes the bloody scene after Isabel stabbed me with a knife.
He used to be able to find the best lawyer for me, only seeking to make Isabel pay for hurting me
What exactly made him end up on the opposite side of me and start defending Isabel?
I stumbled and firmly told Asher, “You’re right, either she cuts off her own tendons or dies, otherwise I will never forgive her!”
Asher’s forehead veins were throbbing, clearly on the verge of rage.
Back then, he looked like this when he angrily scolded Isabel as a malicious and poisonous woman
for me.
“Isn’t it just that she can’t play the plano anymore? Do you have to be so malicious? It’s your business if you don’t forgive Isabel, but you must apologize to her! I don’t want to be ridiculed for having a fiancée who is a shrew!”
“If you keep holding onto your friend’s unintentional mistake for many years, it serves you right for not having any friends!”
He almost gritted his teeth and shouted the word “deserved” out loud.
I captured the disgust that flashed across his face.
So, the person who swore to protect me for a lifetime, in the end, looked down upon me as a loner.
The person who hurt me, causing me unhappiness and pain, was Isabel.
Nowadays, in his lover’s eyes, he was as beautiful as Xi Shi, and a crime committed with motive was called an unintentional mistake.
And his love for me turned into a sword, stabbing my heart on behalf of Isabel.
The person who took a knife for me will never again say to me with immense gratitude.
“Annalise, as long as I had breath, I would always protect you from harm.”
I, who was suffering from unbearable stomach pain, could no longer hold onto the car door and fell straight to the ground.
Asher quickly steadied me and only then did I realize that my white dress was stained with blood.
He raised an eyebrow and pondered for a moment, then understood.
“I was wondering
why you were so irritable, turns out you got your period.”
“I won’t force you to apologize this time, but you can’t be so rude and willful in the future.”
I pleaded with Asher, my face pale.
“Take me to the hospital…” Asher misunderstood that I was experiencing severe menstrual pain and climbed into my car to search for painkillers.
Isabel glanced at my abdomen and suddenly knelt down in front of me.
“Annalise, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have gotten angry at you!”
After she finished speaking, she unexpectedly wanted to kneel to me.
