Chapter 76

Roschelle had tears in her eyes and nodded hard: “Okay, I know, I know.”

She opened her mouth, looking eager but worried, and said, “Kier, the thing between you and Alarieka—not that, but you and her… what exactly is your relationship?”

This time, Kieran was silent for a while again.

“I had nothing to do with her; you didn’t need to overthink it.”

A smile just started to appear on Roschelle’s lips, and Kieran patted her shoulder: “Go to sleep.”

Roschelle smiled with her lips pressed together and nodded lightly, “Then you should go to bed early too.”

Tonight, Roschelle got Kieran’s promise and slept really well.

It’s just that tonight, there were always people who didn’t sleep well.

Just for example, Alarieka.

When Alarieka dreamed about the car accident that killed Nina, she hadn’t realized yet that it was actually a dream, not real.

She sat in the car holding Nina, dressed sloppy, wearing clothes she bought from a street stall for a few bucks, no makeup, no necklace jewelry, her hair dull and messy on her head.

Twenty-four years old, it was supposed to be the prime of her life, but her face already seemed to have lost its collagen, wrinkles everywhere, and she didn’t look like a twenty-four-year-old girl.

Life was tough everywhere, and only my own daughter in my arms could bring me comfort.

Nina slept soundly in her arms, looking cute and sleepy, with delicate features.

Alarieka saw this, and her eyes suddenly went wide. She kept shouting, “Get out! Get out now!”

But neither “Alarieka” nor “Nina” responded.

She screamed her lungs out, almost yelling her lungs out.

“Get off! You guys get off!”

Until a truck came speeding by.

Bang!

The taxi that “Alarieka” and “Nina” were in got smashed to pieces, glass shattered everywhere, and gasoline slowly leaked out.

A shrill, familiar voice screamed like crazy, “Nina!”

This car accident was such a crazy coincidence; it was like Nina took the hit for Alarieka.

After the car accident, Alarieka just had some scrapes all over, but Nina was badly hurt and needed treatment right away.

When “Alarieka” climbed out of the carriage holding “Nina,” the Alarieka floating in the air was struck like lightning.

She vaguely remembered there was an ambulance just passing by at the scene.

She looked around and sure enough, she saw an ambulance parked by the road.

Alarieka rushed over, and the moment the ambulance doors opened, she shouted at the doctors and nurses:

“There was a patient over there; she was in danger. You guys go save her first, you guys go save her first!”

The doctor and nurse couldn’t hear what she said and just pushed the stretcher over to another Bentley that only had a bit of paint scratched, just like they were supposed to.

Seeing Kieran come out with a serious face, holding their son who just scraped his knee, Alarieka almost broke down:

“Don’t, I’m begging you, please, please save my child first; she’s dying, she’s dying.”

Alarieka floated over to Kieran, tears streaming down her face, and pointed at the smashed-up car.

“Kieran, look over there; that’s your daughter. Your daughter was dying; please save her, I’m begging you, save her!”

Maybe Kieran heard her calling; his eyes moved, and he actually looked over there.

A spark of hope lit up in Alarieka’s heart, and she stared hard at every expression on Kieran’s face.

But suddenly, the boy in Kieran’s arms whimpered, his lips trembling as he cried, and wrapped his arms tightly around Kieran’s neck.

“Dad, it hurt so much.”

Kieran never let Nina call him father.

Kieran said he only had Roschelle’s kid, no other kids.

Kieran said her baby didn’t deserve to call him dad.

Roschelle got out of the car too, her eyes all red, crying like crazy.

“Kier, hurry up and carry our son into the ambulance; don’t let anything happen.”

Kieran’s eyes quickly showed a flash of pain, then he looked away and ran to the ambulance with the boy in his arms.

At that moment, Alarieka heard someone crying out “Alarieka”: “Nina, Nina, wake up!”

Alarieka was full of despair and floated in front of Kieran.

“Kieran and Nina were both going to die; Nina was going to die!”

Kieran didn’t hear. He just held the boy in his arms tightly, treasured him so much, and carried him to the stretcher, letting the doctors and nurses push him into the ambulance.

“Nina!”

Alarieka knelt on the ground, completely hopeless.

She looked at Kieran.

Kieran held the trembling, crying Roschelle in his arms, his eyes fixed on the boy who kept crying because he’d scraped his knee.