Instead, she looked even more beautiful than before. The beauty stemmed from her composure, her pregnancy, the little freckles on her face and the fact that Alex was no longer on her mind. Back when they were together, Jane would look at Alex with eyes filled with admiration and love - boundless love; and now, all that was left in her eyes when she looked at Alex was defensiveness and determination. She had not raised her voice at all, but her calmness resembled the terrifying peace before the storm. Even Alex did not dare to pull Jane up into his car at that very moment. He scanned Jane up and down before noticing the bag of leftovers Jane was holding in her hand.
"There's no need to look at it! I didn't buy these with money. The owner of the restaurant was kind enough t o let me pack the leftovers to take away."
Coincidentally, the entire restaurant had been booked for the afternoon by a family. The owner said that the gathering would last until late in the afternoon and asked that she go home to rest for the day. Jane was going to go back the next morning until noon.
Working for one morning and one afternoon tomorrow would make up for today and the owner would still count her salary accordingly. Before she headed out, the owner passed her another bag of leftovers.
"Pregnant lady, it's not much but still it's better than eating plain bread every day. Just heat these up
thoroughly and that should kill all the bacteria."
Jane headed out after thanking the owner. Around the corner, was a car that she had noticed from a few days ago. She did not pay much attention to it before, but somehow, she kept feeling anxious today as though something bad was about to happen. When she first stepped foot into the restaurant, she kept getting the feeling that someone was calling out to her from behind, but when she turned around, no one was there. She started looking around her after walking out of the restaurant and spotted the same black car again.
It was a local license and, based on the model, it could not have cost more than a couple tens of thousands. Out of the assumption that Alex would not have been i n a car like that, Jane walked up to the car casually with the bag of leftovers and a hand supporting her pregnant belly. Never had she thought that it was really Alex in the car. He had finally found her without warning. The way the two stared eye-to-eye at one another was something that one would only see in a movie: a majestically tall and handsome man, and a pregnant woman who was so poorly dressed that she looked no better than a beggar.
The ragged pregnant woman grinned fearlessly in the bone-chilling wind. "Alex Poole, you might not believe me even if I try to explain tens of thousands of times, but I didn't try to take a single penny from you! But then I thought about it and realized that this has nothing to do with money.
"That ex-girlfriend of yours brought half a dozen strong men and dragged me to the top of a mountain t o take the bank card linked to the account containing one million; how could you possibly not know about i t? Without your permission, who would have the guts t o kidnap me from your house and up to the mountain i n order to beat me to death? So you are the one that has been behind all these things, weren't you? You simply didn't expect for me to be rescued by someone else and escape, so you came after me yourself to finish me off!"
Jane closed her eyes. "Do whatever you have to, Alex Poole, I've been waiting for this day for so long." "Jane, come home to me," Alex said in a low voice.
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