Chapter 180 – Can’t Let You Get Hurt
Mia was shocked by the thought of herself, could Riina really do something so hurtful? Her thoughts, however, quickly changed just at the sight of the lighter already raised high in Dina’s hand. If Riina threw the lighter on the gasoline, the consequences would be unthinkable!
“Lena, listen to me, you drop these things now and get out of here. I’ll turn around and get rid of the place so you won’t be found out. I’ll all pretend you weren’t here, hurry up and drop the lighter in your hand!” Mia forced herself to put on a calming emotion, thinking that this would be the best thing if she could get Lena to let go.
But where was Riina willing to let go, since she was here, she had no intention of going back alive!
“Haha, go? You think I’m three years old? You and that bastard Asher took away everything from me! My love, my happiness, and now you won’t even leave me a way to live! How dare you annex Lai’s group! Do you know how much I hate you? I hate to gnaw on your bones and eat your flesh every day! I’ll let you go, just kidding!” Riina turned on her lighter and gradually backed away, shouting as she did so.
Mia saw that Leena was already acting crazy and tried to sound very gentle, trying not to anger Leena, “Leena, I know you hate me, but I don’t hate you. I know that Asher and I have caused you a lot of hurt together, but you have to know that love can’t be forced. Since Asher and I are determined to be with each other, we won’t let go easily. Lena, you should stop torturing yourself. With your looks, family background and education, one day you will meet your true love too. Be a good girl, give me the lighter in your hand, then I’ll take you out of Jun’s house and you’ll be fine.”
Mia slowly approached towards the dazed Lina, watching as Lina no longer moved as much as she had earlier, thinking to herself that maybe her words had done the trick.
“No!” Just as Mia’s hand was about to get close to the lighter in Riina’s hand, Riina suddenly let out a yell and pushed her down into the gasoline floor, “No! I just can’t believe that I once forced you to abort your baby, kept you and Asher apart for five years, hit Asher with my car, and poisoned you … I just can’t believe that you’re that big-hearted to forgive me!”
Riina’s long, dense brown curls, each one looking like a viper as the wind blew, shook off the work cap disguising herself due to the sheer force of her earlier push on Mia.
Lena gasped and shook her head as she backed away, suddenly looking up and laughing, throwing her lighter onto the gasoline-covered lawn, “Ha ha, let the fire burn everything! Just let it all start again!”
The lawn was covered by the gasoline obscuring the moisture that would have been there, and all at once the fire sprang up. Lena stood off to the side, looking at the fire that had sprung up and Mia, who had fallen into the gasoline and couldn’t stand up, and laughed loudly, a harsh, eerie laugh.
Soon, Mia will be swept away by tongues of fire!
“Asher ah, what’s taking so long Mia hasn’t come back yet?” Lily and Asher were busy in the kitchen at the moment.
“It’s okay, she’s an adult and she’s right inside the villa, she should be fine.” Asher glanced at his mother to reassure her, but he couldn’t help but look towards the garden, he couldn’t let any more harm come to Mia after what had just happened to Lena!
“Ha ha ha ha!” Just at this moment, a sudden burst of wildly triumphant laughter came from the garden.
Sudden laughter interrupted the mother-son duo and Asher and Lily looked at each other.
“That voice?” Lily wondered, it sounded so familiar and gave her a sense of foreboding.
“Lena!” Asher’s eyes lit up and he hurriedly dropped the plate he was holding and ran for the yard. At his sight of the garden, his jaw dropped!
The garden was already on fire, just not a big one, and only the bushes next to the cottage were on fire there. But in the midst of the blaze, there was a petite figure that he knew beyond all recognition!
Without another moment’s hesitation, Asher immediately ran towards the fire in a frenzy, cursing himself in his mind no less than a dozen times for how he could let this happen again!
“Mia!” Asher saw the fire burning closer and closer to Mia and thought nothing of rushing into it.
“Lena, you’re crazy!” Mia, who had been smothered by the smoke, and who hadn’t fully recovered from her previous illness, now saw Asher with a sudden jolt of relief, and surprisingly fainted through. Seeing the fainted Mia, Asher carried her and immediately ran out of the ring of fire.
Perhaps it was the crisp air outside the ring of fire, or the warmth of Asher’s embrace, and it wasn’t long before Mia was awake.
“No, don’t burn! Lena!” Mia just screamed, half awake, half confused.
“Security, where’s the security! How does this keep happening over and over again!” Asher roared towards the empty mansion with Mia in his arms, “If they don’t show up in a minute, get the hell out of my way!”
Not far away, Rina, after seeing Asher appear, froze slightly, but soon laughed ruefully at the growing fire.
“Master Jun…” The security guard, unaware of what was happening, flew in front of several people, and when they reached Asher’s side, they were so dumbfounded by the sight before them that they actually forgot to react.
Asher’s handsome face shouted angrily, “Why are you still standing there! Put out the fire! Get Lena!”
“Yes, yes!” Only now did the five or six big men start to get their hands dirty and immediately grabbed Lina, who was still laughing mournfully, and twisted and walked towards the outside of the villa. And secretly, they came down and decided that this must not happen in the future.
Seeing a few security guards coming after her, Leena darted elsewhere, but was still quickly caught up by the guards, and she screamed miserably, “No, I don’t want you to catch me …”
Mia lost in thought as she looked at Leena who was grabbed away by some security guards, her voice weak, “Asher, you, don’t give her a hard time, by the looks of it, she didn’t mean to …”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
However, because her body was so weak, she didn’t even finish a sentence before her face was so pale that there was no trace of blood.
“Mia , Mia !” Looking at the pale Mia, Asher’s heart hung in the air, why did this little one always get hurt at the drop of a hat? Why was he always worried and scared?
Lily came out only to see the remnants of the fire being put out, and a contained Lena struggling and laughing on one side, and Asher and Mia who had fallen to the ground and asked with concern, “Asher, Mia how are you, are you hurt?”
Seeing Lily, Mia smiled weakly, “Auntie, I’m fine, I’m really fine, you don’t have to worry.”
Asher, however, grimaced and just held the small woman in his arms tighter without saying a word.
“Asher, don’t be silent, Mia. What’s wrong? What’s going on here?” Lily knelt down anxiously and put her hand on Mia’s face.
Asher’s eyes were full of pain and regret, “Mia got hurt trying to stop Leena from burning down the mansion.”
“Lena? Why is it Lina again?” Lily looked up at Lina, who was already close to insanity, and her gaze, which had been tinged with reproach, faded after a sigh.
Lily complained, but her eyes were full of tenderness and pity, “Hey, Mia, she’s always so kind, she should have called security when she saw this situation!”
“Mom, don’t worry, she’ll be fine, go back and rest while I carry her back.” Asher carried Mia straight back into the room.
Although Asher tried very hard to hide the incident, the incident still blew up in the villa, the family was worried, especially Grandpa Jun. When Grandpa Jun knew that it was done by Lina, he kept knocking his cane while counting Lina, “Really, how can this little girl be so vicious, if I had known, I would not …”
Two people in the room.
Asher held the small woman in his arms tightly, his voice gentle and painful, with a vague hint of fear, “You little woman, how could you be so foolish, how could you do all this without thinking about it? And, if you hurt yourself, I won’t forgive you!”
“Asher, promise me you won’t give Lina a hard time, I see her in a bad way too, just don’t give her a hard time, okay?” Mia looked anxious and grabbed Asher’s clothes without letting go.
Asher took the person in his arms into his arms as soon as he could, the worry was all turned into an invisible power passing through each other’s arms at the moment, “Don’t worry, I won’t give her a hard time, she has been sent away. Besides, nothing is wrong with the villa now, the fire has been put out.”
Burying her little face into Asher’s arms, Mia was still full of worry, “Sent away? Riina where has she been sent to? It can’t be the police station, can it Asher, let’s give her a break, she’s already and pathetic.”
Asher’s face was filled with helplessness, just how kind could this little woman be? Still thinking of letting Riina off the hook at this time?
“Good girl.” Asher reached up and caressed Mia’s face, saying gently, “Lena’s personal doctor said she was having a mental breakdown, so she’s being sent back to the Lees now.”
“Insanity?” Mia’s mouth dropped in surprise, how could she be insane for good reason, “What about her later?”
“Probably going to a mental hospital.” Asher reached up and closed Mia’s exaggeratedly small mouth, his eyes all relieved and doting, “Mia , remember, what happened to her has nothing to do with us, I just want you to be well and not get hurt again.”
…
Half a month later.
True to Claude’s words, Lai disappears from the city as if it had evaporated, while on the other side, Jun’s group is flourishing under Asher’s management.