CHAPTER 43: CHAPTER 43: FOOL

At this moment, Jacob Green was indescribably happy, a happiness that only she could give him.

The passionate encounter lasted two hours before it ended.

Lucy Eaton lay in his arms, a light sheen of sweat on her forehead, her face flushed and breathing heavily.

"There are two things I need to confess to you."

"What are they?"

"The first is that my biological mother is Autumn Fletcher."

This indeed caught him by surprise.

She continued, "The second thing is that I’m actually not a special professional arranged by Grace Hughes, but it’s true that she was behind it. Her plan was to sleep with you for a night, but the hotel staff mistook me for her and led me into your room. That night, I was there to deliver clothes to the deceived James."

"Fool, I already knew that."

Lucy Eaton suddenly raised her head, "You knew?"

"I should confess to you too. After we parted at the hotel, I went to the funeral home dorm to find you, wanting to ask why you knew Grace Hughes, her phone number, and knew it was her. But she didn’t know you? That day, you thought I was there to do that with you again, so I went with it and booked you for a month. I investigated you and knew you were a victim too. But your attitude intrigued me, I didn’t understand why you, as a victim, would fabricate your identity and not want any involvement with me. Now I finally know the reason."

Upon hearing this, Lucy Eaton nearly choked on her own blood. So he knew everything...

If he had been this smart in a past life, how could their marriage have remained at a freezing point for six years?

Seeing her silent, Jacob Green tightened his embrace, "Aren’t you going to tell me about you and Grace Hughes?"

"Don’t you already know?"

"I want to know the entire truth."

"But I don’t want to tell you right now."

"Then tell me when you’re ready to share."

Lucy Eaton softly acknowledged, "By the way, I saw the reports about Stellan Quinn before, and I’ve always wanted to ask you about it. You were quite ruthless to her, but I really liked it."

Agreeing to marry him partly had to do with Stellan Quinn and Grace Hughes. It was very clear that Stellan Quinn could no longer win Jacob Green’s heart, and Grace Hughes had already been put on his list of dislikes.

But Lucy Eaton knew that Grace Hughes’s love for Jacob Green had never died. This lifetime, her ultimate goal was to make Grace Hughes wish she were dead.

"Playing dirty tricks to calculate against me, such outcomes are no surprise." He reached out to turn off the light, "Tomorrow morning, we’ll get our marriage license."

Lucy inhaled his scent and closed her eyes.

——

Robert Langley hadn’t returned that night, nor was Lucy Eaton around, leaving only Mia Townsend alone in the hospital room.

Sitting on the bed playing a mobile game, she seemed quite at ease. So focused was she that she didn’t notice someone entering the room.

When her game ended, she inadvertently looked up and was genuinely startled.

"When... when did you come in?"

John Green replied, "About two minutes ago. What are you playing?"

"A game." She awkwardly returned her gaze to the phone screen, "Didn’t I tell you not to come?"

"Because I can’t do that."

Mia Townsend looked up, slightly flustered, "For eight years you managed, and now you can’t?"

"If I hadn’t seen you again, I wouldn’t have realized just how poor my self-control is."

Mia Townsend stayed silent for quite a few minutes before finally saying, "I wish our lives could be just as before, undisturbed, peaceful."

"I’m going crazy missing you, and yet you say you wish our lives could be as before, undisturbed?" he pressed closer to her, "In these eight years, did you ever think of me?! Answer me."

"At first, I missed you terribly, but then gradually, it felt like you’d never been part of my life."

"Is that so? I missed you. There wasn’t a moment I forgot you." He suddenly cupped her face in his hands and kissed her fiercely. All the suppressed emotions of these days seemed to break free at that moment.

She quickly reacted and tried to push him away, but his strength was too great. No matter how hard she pushed, she couldn’t budge him an inch.

"John Green, do you know what you’re doing?! You have a girlfriend!"

He paused, his eyes deep, "Who told you I have a girlfriend?"

"That foreign beauty, isn’t she your girlfriend?"

"She’s just a longtime colleague and friend from abroad." John Green spoke from the heart, "I’ve always had you in my heart, always loved you. How could I be with someone else?"

Mia Townsend looked at him, so close, her eyes suddenly reddened, her nose stinging fiercely. Within moments, tears fell uncontrollably.

John Green gently wiped away her tears with his fingers, "Why are you crying?"

She cried even harder, "Why didn’t you say this sooner!"

John Green chuckled, "You never asked me?"

How was he to know she thought Sweet was his girlfriend?

Mia Townsend could no longer control herself, holding him with tear-filled eyes. All these years, she never thought there was any possibility left for them.

But now, she couldn’t bear to let go.

Since the moment he said he always had her in his heart, always loved her, her defenses were completely shattered.

"You say you love me, so why didn’t you ever contact me?" She looked up, crying till her eyes were bloodshot, "Is this how you show your love?"

"How did I not contact you?" he said gently, "After going abroad, I called you countless times, but each time, another female student would answer, never you."

"When did I ever have another girl answer my calls? After we broke up, I dropped out, there were no classmates left!"

"Every time I called, they said it was the wrong number, and after a while, they just stopped answering."

She straightened, looking him in the eye, "Do you still remember my number?"

"Of course, 187XXXX5302."

Mia Townsend laughed through tears, "You fool, it’s not 5302, it’s 5203!!!! You really did have the wrong number!"

John Green immediately took out his phone and dialed it, and her phone immediately rang.

Seeing this, he was filled with regret, "I always remembered 5302. After I called to break up, my family deleted your number. I thought I’d contact you once I was abroad and bring you over, but I never managed to reach you again. I even sent you dozens of letters, but they were all returned. I thought you’d truly given up on me, resolved to end things completely."

"Dozens of letters?" She shook her head, "I never received a single one. Where did you send them?"

"To your village."

"You know that being in the countryside, delivery doesn’t reach the doorstep, right? Besides, you filled out someone else’s number, naturally they’d be returned." Mia Townsend couldn’t help but punch his chest a few times, "Why does your intelligence sometimes run away from home?!!"