Laura’s POV 105
There was not a single ripple of emotion on that cold face, as if starving me for these few days was something I deserved.
I was furious at the sight of him, but I didn’t have the strength to deal with him, so I could only angrily put my face aside, out of sight out of mind.
“What did you just mutter about me?” The cool voice line was permeated with a few hints of laughter.
“How dare I say anything about you!” As soon as George saw him, he immediately stood up and smiled, “We were talking about this Ms. Laura.”
“Talking about her what?” Cameron smoothly sat next to me and took my hand.
“I’m saying …” George paused, “Heh, I’m saying Laura’s got a good image and could be a star with some packaging!”
“Hey, really!” Gina got energized at this, “I just felt the same way as soon as I met Laura! I’m a doctor, and there are quite a few senior brothers and sisters in the plastic surgery department of the First Hospital, and I often learn from them … In my opinion, Laura’s face and facial proportions are really quite perfect, and she doesn’t even need to use micropigmentation, she can simply put on make-up and go straight to the camera!”
“Look, what did I say!” George patted Cameron’s shoulder, “My sister gave a professional opinion! And I’m never wrong about anyone, why else would I have gotten all those top stars? Your Laura does have star quality …”
“Enough!” Cameron faintly interrupted them, “This topic ends here, I don’t want to hear any more.”
“What?”
He was silent for a moment, his eyes locked on me, “I don’t like my women throwing their weight around.”Belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - All rights reserved.
George and Gina looked at each other, smiled, and made an excuse to leave the room.
With just the two of us left at this point, Cameron gently took my hand and ruffled the broken hair on my forehead, hooking his lips slightly.
“Are you satisfied?” I glared at him, “Why did you save me when you could have just starved me to death?”
“If I’m right, you should be angry right now.” He smirked, “But that sounds a bit like flirting to me …”
“You …”
I don’t argue with him, for one thing, I really don’t have much strength, and for another, what’s the point of even arguing with him? In the end, it’s still being taken advantage of by him. How about I save my strength and settle the score with him later.
I gave him a blank look, then closed my eyes and stopped paying attention to him.
“This is just a small lesson for you, Laura,” his tone was indifferent, “You have to know that it’s easy for me to get you killed and no one will trace it to the end, but then you won’t have a chance to see your daughter again in your life.”
My heart shook.
“Laura,” he laughed softly, “I’m giving you a chance by keeping you alive this time, next time you disobey, the punishment will be worse than that!”
I opened my eyes, anger tightening against my heart, “What did I ever do to offend you, Cameron? Why didn’t I listen to you? You told me to come back to Jerez State with you, and didn’t I come back with you obediently? But you didn’t even honor your promise, you wouldn’t even let me see Sunny!”
“Of course I’ll let you see her if you make me happy.”
“Then when will you be happy?” I was like a mouse, constantly being teased by this cat of his, “What do I have to do to make you happy? When the hell are you going to let me see my daughter!”
“Laura!” he suddenly leaned down, the tip of his nose almost brushing against my forehead.
I felt his hot breath and the … spurt in his eyes …
“No, Cameron!” I snapped, both of my hands dead against his chest, “No … we can’t do what we did before! You’re my brother!”
“I don’t care about that!” He sank his voice to a whisper.
I snapped to something and looked at him with wide eyes, “Cameron … our relationship, it’s not going to come out, is it?”
“Just now I felt that the way George and Gina looked at me was not quite right, they are your best friends, do they already know about our relationship?”
Cameron looked at me, his eyes were stern, but there was a faint hint of sadness underneath them.
“What?” He said softly, “Are you ashamed if we’re together?”
I bit my lip, and after a long time, I squeezed out a few words with difficulty, “We are brother and sister …”
“Because of that?” He squeezes my shoulders and shakes me upside the head.
“Yes, because of that!” I looked straight into his eyes, “I didn’t know about the relationship before, we were together and had a child … But now that we know, we can’t keep making this mistake!”
“But you’re my daughter’s mom.” He laughed bitterly, “Laura, I don’t understand why you care about that? Don’t you dare say you don’t have any feelings for me at all now? Don’t you dare say you’ve turned all your feelings for me into brotherly and sisterly love?”
I took a deep breath, my headache pounding.
And my heart ached so much. I didn’t know how to face him, and I even thought, why not just let me lose my memory for the rest of my life? It was better to live peacefully in that little town in Hallstatt than to come back and face it all.
“Yes, Cameron,” I said reluctantly, “I stopped loving you a long time ago. I haven’t had feelings for you since the day I realized you were my brother!”
His hand on my shoulder visibly stiffened and gradually slid down. He slowly straightened up and stood up, an incredulous look in his eyes at first, then a layer of grayness covered them, and his pupils turned cold.
After a long time, he laughed softly, ”It turns out that in your opinion, worldly fame is more important than the heart. You would rather go against your heart, but also care about the world’s opinion of you, is that right?”
“I’m sorry, I can’t help but care.” I said, “Because I understand four words, people’s opinions are fearful. I don’t want to live in the shadows for the rest of my life, and I don’t want my daughter to live in the shadows for the rest of her life!”
“Good!” He gritted his teeth, “In that case, Sunny doesn’t need you as a mom. You don’t want her to live in the shadows, then you step out of her life. From now on she can just follow her dad, many children from single parent families can still grow up happily, and I have that strength to give her a better life!”
“Don’t …” I panicked inside, “Cameron, you can’t separate us!”
“You’re the one who made the choice.”
“But my choice was …”
“Your choice was for me to give you my daughter and for you to take her far away and we would never see each other again, right?” He sneered, “It doesn’t work that way! I’m telling you Laura, forget it! My daughter is mine and I won’t let you take her away from me!”
“I’m giving you the same choice I gave you at the docks, either you stay and the three of us have a good life, or … you leave on your own and never see your daughter again!”
“Cameron!”
He completely ignores me and strides out of this room.
My heart was plummeting and I had absolutely no idea what to do next.
He was a man of his word and would never be merciful, he said he wouldn’t let me see my daughter, I might not actually see my daughter for the rest of my life!
I stayed in the villa for a whole week. I couldn’t see anyone except Gina, who came to give me nutritional injections regularly. I wanted to go out, but besides Cameron’s men guarding the house, there was the dog outside.
Gina smiled at me in embarrassment, “My brother was going to take Hani back, but Cameron said no.”
I shrugged in understanding.
Cameron wouldn’t be Cameron if he was so easily talked down to.
But I couldn’t see my daughter, and my heart was racing. After more than half a year, I especially wanted to see what Sunny looked like now. Has she grown taller and fatter, is she almost three and kindergarten age, and does she talk a lot?
She’s still the same little pink and pretty girl, isn’t she?
Sometimes when I think about it, tears fall uncontrollably. I’m going to go crazy if this keeps up.
So the next day, I ran downstairs to Cameron’s office.
It was the first time in my life that I was a shrew.
But I wore sunglasses and a mask, I was afraid of being recognized.
I chose the rush hour of work, it is the company white-collar workers have to run to the building time, I stood in the plaza downstairs, the most obvious position, a rolled up his sleeves and began to curse: “Cameron! Have the ability not to be a shrinking violet, you give me out!”
“Cameron! I worked so hard to give birth to my daughter, but you took her for yourself without a word of greeting! Do you realize you’re breaking the law? That’s my daughter, I have custody, I have visitation rights!”
“Cameron you come out here and tell me what’s going on! You prevented us from seeing mother and daughter, what are your intentions! You also imprisoned me to take revenge on me … You are not a man at all!”
My words naturally attracted a lot of attention, those rushing to work stopped in their tracks, preferring to clock in late rather than miss this once-in-a-lifetime show. The crowd had already started to whisper, Cameron was already a popular figure, and now that there was an emaciated woman fighting with him for his child under the building, people were of course even more curious.
A number of people took out their cell phones and started taking pictures and recording video.
I cursed even more, and kept inciting the people around me, “Please do me a favor and help me judge! I’m definitely not the kind of woman who would rely on him just because she’s pregnant! On the contrary, I just want to quietly give birth to the child, take the child with me and run away, never to bother him again!”
“But this scoundrel! Simply despicable and nasty and shameless! He robbed me of my child, and he set out to prevent us, mother and daughter, from living in peace! He didn’t just hide my daughter, he locked me up! The doorway bolted such a big dog … If I hadn t tumbled out of the back wall today, I wouldn t have wanted to come out in my life!”
“You guys say, should I scold this kind of person?”
Probably I am too involved, and this scene is really quite heartfelt, next to a few mom-like women quietly wiped up their tears, my tears also fell, a kind girl handed me tissues, and others came up to comfort me, more people are secretly talking about Cameron.
“I didn’t realize that this Cameron, who seems quite decent on the surface, is actually this kind of person!”
“Yes, such a big president, powerful and influential, what’s the point of making things difficult for other women and children?”
I fixed my mind, seeing that my purpose was almost achieved, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit smug in my heart.
Now everything is ready, waiting for Cameron to find me to talk … I do not believe that he can carry the pressure of public opinion?
Not a moment later, only to see Cameron in a group of people in the crowd slowly downstairs, pacing in front of me. I didn’t expect him to come so quickly, and I thought he would talk to me alone, not in public here.
He was calm and collected, the corners of his mouth slightly quirked, still looking out of the corner of his eye.
His gaze was fixed on me, his black and white eyes, smiling. He didn’t look surprised, his eyes seemed to be saying, “As expected, you finally came.”
I was a little apprehensive, drooping eyelids, heart pounding.
“Are you enjoying the scolding?” He opened his mouth with his first words.
I coughed twice, “You finally showed up.”
“If you’ve come to ask me for my child, what’s the point of hiding it?” He sneered, “And wearing sunglasses and a mask? Why don’t you let these people see your true colors?”
I was shocked, and the arc of his mouth rose even more wantonly and wildly.
He came to my ear and whispered, “Are you afraid that someone will recognize you as Laura, or are you afraid that our relationship as brother and sister will come out in the open?”
“You …”
“Take it off if you can.” He laughs, “Don’t be vain, show them all what my daughter’s mom looks like!”
Saying that he reached out to take off my sunglasses, I let out a gasp of surprise and stepped back, almost tripping over a small stone. The moment my body leaned back, his strong arm stopped my shoulder and encircled my whole body in his arms.
Then he intercepted me and picked me up, and there was a hue and cry around us as someone pulled his car over from the distance and he shoved me into it in full view of everyone.
“What are you doing?” My body stiffened and I crossed my arms to protect my chest.
“What do you think?” He gets closer to me, his hot breath against my ear, “Laura, it’s hard not to see your daughter, isn’t it?”
“What the hell do you want?”
“I gave you a choice, but if you don’t choose nicely, I’m going to have to take some special measures.”
He raised his hand and a gash split open in my shirt collar.
“If you want a daughter, give me a son!” He presses in, and his voice seems like a dark cloud pressing down from the sky.
“Cameron …”
“No more children for me, and you’ll never see your daughter again in your life!”
I stared at him in bewilderment.
He lifted the corners of his mouth lightly, and his large hand reached in recklessly along the split collar. I closed my eyes tightly, my stiff body actually slowly relaxed under his touch, and a shameful thought rose up in my heart …
His kisses fell in a thin stream, his clothes peeled off one by one, and I became one with him, in a pleasure that was long overdue for my indulgence.
It was late at night when I was awake again. I realized he had originally driven the car to the top of the hill. When I tilted my head, I saw a starry sky through the panoramic sunroof, and the frosty moonlight poured over his toned body, with fine beads of sweat on it.
He was sleeping heavily, still holding my hand, and I couldn’t help but move closer to him, hearing him murmur my name under his breath.
“Laura, Laura…”
Tears drilled violently out of my eyes. I bit my lip, suddenly feeling my heart hurt like a knife.