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Malik’s eyes widened as he felt himself being lifted off the floor and he stared at Adrian in bewilderment. He was incredibly scared of heights no matter how small, and this little action made his heart want to leap out of his chest. “I…I don’t know where he is,” he admitted in a voice trembling with terror. “He didn’t tell me where he was going when he left my house!” Adrian’s jaw tightened and he yanked Malik higher, not believing his excuse for a second. “You’re trying to play smart with me, right?” He sneered so darkly that even the bodyguard instinctively stepped back. The anger radiating off Adrian was enough to send chills down anyone’s bones. Malik frantically shook his head, the panic in his eyes evident as he noticed the way Adrian’s pupil’s dilated. “I’m not trying to play smart, I swear!” He sputtered. “I really don’t know where Nathan is!” Adrian tilted his head for a bit before finally releasing his hold on Malik, making him fall to the floor. He glowered
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Adrian reached where Nathan lay in no time and crouched down to his level. Raising him up by his collar so they were face to face, his narrowed eyes locked onto Nathan’s terrified ones. “You crossed the line this time, and I’ll destroy you for it,” Adrian hissed, his voice low and menacing. “For every single bit of pain Anita felt because of you, I’ll return it in a thousand folds.” Without waiting for Nathan to respond, Adrian lifted him up by the collar, making his feet dangle off the floor. “Get your hands off me!” Nathan cried out as he struggled to pry Adrian’s grip away from his collar. “You’re accusing me wrongly! I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Adrian’s eyes flashed with hot fury at Nathan’s blatant lies and denial. His grip on his collar tightened and he lifted him up further off the ground. So much so that Nathan’s eyes widened impossibly at his unusual strength. The shiver that ran down Nathan’s spine then intensified as he increased his struggling.
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Grandpa Lloyd remained speechless and unmoving for a few more seconds, and Adrian had to snap his fingers in front of his face to jolt him out of his spaced out state. Grandpa Lloyd snapped back to reality and his eyes flickered between the phone and Adrian. “I-is that real?” “Are you kidding me?” Adrian spat incredulously. “You still don’t believe me?”This was the final straw for him as he hurled his phone across the wall. The phone clattered to the wall and slipped to the floor, shattering to pieces. This was the second phone he was destroying in less than a day, but he couldn’t give two hoots about it. Without giving Grandpa Lloyd the chance to react or stop him, he charged for Nathan. Nathan’s breath caught on his throat and he tried to make a run for it, but Adrian caught him by the back collar of his shirt and yanked him backwards. Then, he forcefully dragged him along as he came to face Grandpa Lloyd again. He shoved Nathan to his knees and tightened his grip on h
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Adrian swerved into the parking lot of the Lifemate Hospital. He got out without delay, and went around to the passenger’s side where Nathan sat, shrunken back against the seat. Opening the passenger door, he unfastened the seatbelt and pulled Nathan out by his arm. Then without bothering to care how the man was holding up, he dragged him towards the entrance of the hospital Pushing the doors open, the sterile scent of antiseptic and drugs fanned his nostrils, but he ignored it and kept his gaze forward as he headed down the hallway leading to Anita’s ward. Patrons and staffs of the hospital murmured at the unusual scene before them. Some of them gasped at Nathan’s bloodied and disheveled state, while the others covered their noses in disgust as the smell of his urine contaminated the air. Adrian paid them no mind as he kept dragging Nathan through the narrow hallway with pristine white walls. The moment they reached Anita’s ward, he opened the door and pulled Nathan inside
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Vincent reluctantly listened to Adrian’s words and moved aside from a barely conscious Nathan. He looked at Adrian with a barely restrained, but pleading expression. “Please, take him away from here. I don’t know what I’ll do if I keep seeing him here.” “I’ll do that, but first he has to apologize to Anita,” Adrian suggested. “It’s the least he could do.” Vincent pressed his lips, but didn’t object to Adrian’s suggestion. He simply nodded and walked out of the ward, needing some space to calm his mind. “No, take him away,” Regina objected, her hands shooting out in front of her just as Adrian picked Nathan up, and dragged him towards Anita’s bed. “I don’t want him anywhere near Anita for one more second.” “Don’t you want him to apologize at least?” Adrian’s brows tilted as he tried to reason with her. Regina folded her arms and bobbed her knees, eyeing Nathan as though she was considering Adrian’s words. “Fine,” she begrudgingly agreed. “But make it quick. By the time,
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Blaze hesitated for a moment before his voice finally sounded through the receiver. “If that’s what you want, master,” he conceded. “I know there’s definitely an important reason why you made this decision, and I hope whatever it is gets sorted in time.” “Thank you for understanding, Blaze,” Adrian responded with a firm nod. “I’ll talk to you later.” With that he hung up the phone and leaned back against the backrest of the couch, and his mind swirled with thoughts for a moment before exhaustion overtook him and his eyes drooped close. Meanwhile, on another side of Wibston, Lawrence Smith was having a fit of rage as he reeled from the aftermath of his defeat to Adrian. Kai, on the other hand, stood a few meters away from Lawrence, while clutching his side. Despite the pain traveling up his body, he barely registered it due to the anger swirling inside him. His fight with Adrian replayed over and over in his head and he couldn’t still believe Adrian had won. But even mor
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Adrian sat a bit more upright on the sofa as he glanced up, his gaze steadily meeting Regina’s. “I’ve not done that yet. He’s fainted, so he’s being revived. I’ll take him to prison once that happens.” Regina huffed and crossed her arms. “Him being the culprit, doesn’t make you innocent,” she muttered bluntly. “You still had a role to play in what happened to Anita, because you aren’t rich enough to protect her. I still stand by my earlier statement. You don’t deserve to be near my daughter, so leave.” Adrian’s eyes flashed with fury and disbelief. He knew Regina had always been an unreasonable person, but this was just too much. “Are you serious right now?” He echoed in incredulity. “You’re still blaming me for Anita’s accident?” “Of course,” Regina shot back, her voice rising slightly. “If you weren’t so useless, then a brat like Nathan wouldn’t have been able to harm a single hair on her head. She’s better off without you, so just get out for crying out loud!” “No,” Adri
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The man’s eyes flashed with annoyance, but then he masked it with a challenging smirk. “You can’t tell me what I can or can’t do,” he scoffed as he gave Adrian a disdainful once over. “You’re just a loser.” Adrian shrugged as though the words merely bounced off his shoulders. “Call me whatever you want, but don’t dare bother my girlfriend again.” The man folded his bulky arms across his chest and the smirk on his lips widened aa he openly checked Ashley out, disregarding Adrian’s words. Ashley’s grip around Adrian’s arm tightened and she shifted on her feet as the man’s lustful stare sent bad shivers down her spine. “Pretty lady, I have a proposal for you,” the man spoke up again, after he was done gawking at Ashley shamelessly. He rubbed his lips while licking them as he continued. “Ditch this loser boyfriend of yours, and come to me. I’ll give you whatever you want and turn your life around.” Ashley rolled her eyes at the cockiness in the man’s tone, and her gaze met his
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Adrian maintained a serious expression as he met Anita’s confused gaze. “I have…abilities,” he confessed.Anita blinked, and she removed her hands from Adrian’s grip. “What?” Adrian inhaled and continued. “After coming in contact with the mystic scroll of an ancient Chinese grandmaster, I gained martial arts and healing abilities. I want to help you walk again, if you’ll let me.”There was a brief silence before Anita’s face contorted in deeper confusion. “This doesn’t make sense. How can a scroll give you abilities?”“Do you think we’re fools or something?” Regina scoffed from behind Adrian. “I thought you had changed from your slimy ways, but it seems I overestimated you.”“I have to agree with my wife on this one, son,” Vincent added with a frown. “Making a joke out of Anita’s condition is highly insensitive. I expected better from you.”Anita’s eyes glistened as she stared at Adrian with hurt written all over her face. “I can’t believe you would play with my feelings like this?
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The next day, Anita and Adrian sat in their living room at the Glorious Garden Estate, waiting for Anita’s parents to arrive.Anita’s heart pounded and she placed a hand on her chest, taking in deep breaths in a bid to calm it.Adrian noticed her anxiousness and squeezed her hand, though his was a bit sweaty. Today wasn’t just about Anita’s pregnancy revelation, it was also the day he’d propose to her and reveal his abilities. He tried his best to keep himself calm, despite how almost impossible it seemed.The moment Anita saw Regina and Vincent coming down the stairs, her nerves skyrocketed and she tightened her hand around his.“Breathe, Anita. It’ll all go smoothly,” Adrian whispered to her, though it felt more like he was assuring himself.Regina’s gaze landed on them the moment she reached the foot of the stairs, and her steps slowed as she narrowed her eyes suspiciously.“What’s going on?” She voiced out as her eyes alternated between their awkward expressions. Vincent, on th
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The sales lady paused in her tracks at Evelyn’s words, and her eyes nervously darted to Adrian, unsure of what to do. “Sir…”“Ignore her,” Adrian interjected in an indifferent tone. “Just get me the ring. Whatever the price is, I’ll pay.”The saleslady nodded and was about to take another step forward when Evelyn dragged her back by the collar. You dare ignore me?!” Evelyn hissed with her hands raised in a bid to slap the lady, but Adrian quickly intercepted the hit by catching her wrist mid-air.He flung it back to her side, and gave her a hard stare. “Don’t lay your hand on her again. You have no right to.”The last shred of control in Henry snapped and he lunged at Adrian, grabbing him by the collar.“How dare you lay your filthy hands on my girlfriend!” He spat, his eyes shooting lasers at Adrian’s face. “It seems you must be seeking death!”Adrian’s gaze flickered down to Henry’s hand fisting his collar, then back up to meet his glare. “You have exactly five seconds to get your
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Three days later…Anita was finally discharged from the hospital, and Adrian took her back to their house. There was another emotional reunion; this time between Anita and her father, Vincent, who had just returned from a spiritual center, where he had gone to pray for her speedy recovery. He wasn’t happy to see his daughter in a wheelchair, but was grateful she was alive nonetheless.Speaking of Anita’s condition, Adrian had tried to heal her back at the hospital, but his attempts had failed.He restlessly wondered why until Grandmaster Xu appeared to him in a dream-like trance and told him that his abilities would only work on Anita if she knew about them….and believed in them.Because to be healed, one had to believe.Therefore, Adrian came up with an elaborate plan to break the news to her.He would do it as part of the special birthday package he had organized for her. A package that included his proposal and the lavish engagement party he had promised her some weeks ago.Her a
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Regina’s heart sank to her stomach as Anita’s words replayed over and over in her head. She flinched as though she was burned, and her hand clutched her chest as she stared at her daughter in disbelief.“W-What?” The word fell out of her mouth in an incredulous whisper. “How can you say that to me, Anita? I’m your mother…the same person who gave birth to you and raised you to become the woman you are today. How can you just…just sever ties with me?”A flicker of guilt was ignited within Anita, but she steeled her expression. She had to show her mother she was serious, otherwise the woman would never change.“You brought this upon yourself,” she muttered bluntly. “You should have listened when I told you…no, begged you to stay out of my marriage.”Regina’s heart sank even further, and her breathing picked up. “I can’t…” she wheezed. “I can’t…”Doctor Arnold sensed that she was about to have a panic attack, and he rushed over to her.“Mrs. Davies. Can you hear me?” He called out to he
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Regina clutched her phone tightly as she entered further into the ward. Her eyes narrowed into a heated glare as they locked onto Adrian and Anita’s closeness.The sight of them together made her blood boil, but she pushed her irritation back down.After what she was about to show Anita, there’s no way she’d remain with him.Anita frowned as her mother approached, and any sense of relief she had felt from not seeing her earlier, vanished. “Mother, seriously. What is it this time?” She asked, resisting the urge to roll her eyes.Regina glanced between Anita and Adrian, and then a triumphant smirk formed on her lips as she wiggled the phone in her hand.“Here with me is evidence that this useless man doesn’t deserve to be with you.”Adrian’s brows cocked at Regina’s words.What game was the woman playing at now?Anita’s gaze shifted to the phone in her mother’s hand, and her frown deepened. “What evidence are you talking about?”She then turned to Adrian. “Do you know what my mother i
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Adrian was silent for a few seconds, then as though Doctor Arnold’s words just registered, some color returned to his face.“Pregnant?” He repeated, still trying to confirm that he hadn’t heard wrong. “As in…carrying a child?”Doctor Arnold’s smile remained on his lips. “Precisely, Young Master. Though I’ll need to run a test to confirm it.”Adrian clapped his hands together, and pressed them against his lips as his eyes glistened. “What a bittersweet moment. On one hand, my wife might be pregnant. And on the other, she has lost her ability to walk. How would she react to this?”Doctor Arnold sighed empathetically. “I don’t know. But we can only hope the joy of the pregnancy softens the blow of the other news.”The room went silent as Adrian wrestled with the conflicted emotions within him, while Doctor Arnold went back to monitoring the images on the computer.About half an hour later, the MRI was complete, and Anita was slid out of the machine.Her gaze flickered suspiciously betwe
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“You!” Regina lunged forward and jabbed a finger at Adrian while practically shooting lasers with her eyes. “Ever since you came into my daughter’s life, it’s been one misfortune after another! Why can’t you leave her alone? Can’t you see your presence is causing her more harm than good!”Adrian’s jaw clenched, the irritation on his face unmistakable. He was getting increasingly fed up with Regina’s tantrums, and was very close to losing it with her.But he wouldn’t. At least not today.Taking a deep breath to control his rising temper, he focused back on Anita and brushed an unruly strand of hair out of her face as he continued comforting her.Anita didn’t as much as spare her mother a glance as she tightened her arms around Adrian, finding solace in his comfort.This, coupled with Adrian’s snubbing, seemed to infuriate Regina further. “Hey! I’m talking to you!” She snapped and stepped forward in an attempt to yank Adrian’s arm off Anita’s shoulders, but the look he shot her way ma
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Regina rushed towards Anita’s bed, her entire body bubbling with excitement. Without hesitation, she snatched her daughter’s hand from Adrian’s and pushed him away. Then she took his place by Anita’s side.Adrian said nothing as he quietly stood off to the side and watched the mother-daughter reunion.“Oh, my child,” Regina gushed, her eyes crinkling at the corners with pure joy as she pulled Anita in for a hug. “You have no idea how glad I am to see you awake again.” Her expression softened as she stroked Anita’s hair. “I was so worried and scared you wouldn’t come back to us.”Anita leaned into her mother’s embrace as she hugged her back and inhaled the familiar scent of her hair. “How could I leave without saying goodbye?” She murmured against her mother’s hair whilst fighting back tears.The hug lasted for a few seconds before they pulled apart. And Regina smiled warmly as she wiped the tears that slipped from the corner of Anita’s eyes. “Thank you for not leaving us.”Anita r
