CHAPTER 343: CHAPTER 343: TEARING SERENA JENNINGS’ WEDDING DRESS TO SHREDS

Serena was caught off guard, she wanted to get up, but Caleb’s heavy body was like a mountain pressing down on her.

"Who are you going to marry?"

Caleb’s voice was hoarse, his wide eyes filled with red veins.

"You are my wife, I will never allow you to betray me!"

A pair of large hands roughly tore through the thin wedding dress on Serena’s body, her mind buzzing as if struck by lightning.

At this moment, Caleb, who was lying on top of her, wasn’t a man at all, but had transformed into a beast.

Clearly, though Caleb’s eyes were open, his mind was not clear.

"Caleb, listen to me, I didn’t... mmph!"

Her lips were met with heat; before Serena could explain, Caleb sealed her mouth with a scorching kiss.

Serena had thought that her statements might provoke Caleb.

But she never imagined that a provoked Caleb would turn into this.

She struggled fiercely.

Serena thought she had exerted all her strength and wouldn’t be able to break free from Caleb’s restrain.

However, she was naive.

She had previously escaped Caleb’s force many times, but that was when Caleb was clear-headed.

Now, Caleb was not only unclear but also furious.

An enraged beast only amplifies his instincts infinitely——

such as the desire to conquer and possess.

The more Serena resisted, the more Caleb felt something belonging to him was trying to escape his control.

"I won’t let you get away... You belong to me! You can only marry me!"

Caleb used only one hand to tightly hold Serena’s hands above her head.

The other hand grabbed her moving chin, making Serena endure the burning hot kiss.

Serena couldn’t speak, with Caleb’s domineering tongue wreaking havoc in her mouth.

When the kiss left her brain deprived of oxygen, her vision darkened, the grip on her chin finally loosened.

Yet what followed was a coolness that caused her to shiver all over.

"No... Caleb..."

Caleb’s powerful hands clasped her soft, slender waist, and Serena couldn’t control her body’s trembling.

She realized...

This time, she couldn’t escape.

Before, she could escape, not because she was so formidable, but because Caleb was willing to let her go,

However, this time, Caleb wasn’t willing.

Serena closed her eyes in despair and pain.

Outside the window, the sun was setting.

The ambiguous sounds in the mansion continued until dark.

...

Caleb felt like he had a dream.

In the dream, he and Serena had remarried.

When did it start becoming indistinguishable between dream and reality?

Perhaps it was the meals Serena cooked that were just too delicious.

Caleb and Serena moved back to The Jade Pavilion to live, and for several days, neither went to work.

They stayed home, watching movies together, playing games together.

Just like that, Caleb felt incredibly happy.

In his memory, it seemed like he hadn’t eaten Serena’s cooking for a long time.

So now, when Serena cooked for him again, every meal he ate a lot.

Even the millet porridge Serena cooked, he could finish an entire pot.

At first, Caleb hesitated on how he should address Serena.

When they first got married, he would just call her by her name.

But calling her by her full name didn’t sound intimate at all.

Caleb thought of the nickname "Chloe."

Serena is Chloe.

Now he knew.

But Serena seemed very resistant to her identity as the Linton Family’s biological daughter.

Moreover, Caleb remembered Serena said he never truly loved Chloe.

Otherwise, how could he have mistaken Claire Shaw for Chloe!

Whether it was Chloe or Serena, Caleb had loved them.

And still loves them now.

They are actually the same person, which was great news for Caleb.

However, Serena was not happy about it.

Caleb pondered over it and decided to call Serena "wife."

Since they had remarried, and Serena called him husband, so calling her wife was only natural.

They were living a romantic life, inseparable, just like newlyweds.

Yet suddenly, one day, his wife wore a wedding dress and told him she wanted to marry Ethan White.

Caleb absolutely could not allow his wife to betray him.

He could not accept his wife abandoning him.

So he punished her severely.

Severely punished her...

What met his eyes was a messy bedroom, no lights on.

If it weren’t for the approaching dawn, Caleb might not have seen where he was at all.

He lay on the bed.

Not only was his body empty, but his mind was even more so.

After a long period of silence, he suddenly sat up.

Caleb realized——

He had confused dream with reality.

He and Serena...

Never actually remarried.

Serena wasn’t his wife at all.

However...

He had done something irreparable to Serena.

A great panic encircled Caleb in an instant, he quickly got dressed, picked up his phone only to put it down again.

Driving from The Lockwood Family’s old house to Vornath took considerable time.

When Caleb parked the car below Serena’s apartment, daylight had broken.

"Serena! Serena, open the door!"

Caleb stood at her door, almost pounding it down, but Serena never came to open it.

A neighbor returning from the market passed by, initially intending to scold him for the disturbance, but upon seeing his face, swallowed their words and instead put on a smile.

Serena truly hadn’t come home.

Caleb returned to his car dejectedly.

If Serena didn’t go home, where would she have gone?

Again, he picked up his phone, but once more he couldn’t make the call.

He felt Serena wouldn’t pick up.

He dreaded Serena wouldn’t pick up.

The deep-space grey Koenigsegg left Vornath, heading towards The Lockwood Group’s headquarters.

The immense office building of The Lockwood Group was turned upside down, but Serena couldn’t be found.

Amelia noticed something was wrong with Caleb.

Even though they had told him President Jennings hadn’t come to work, Caleb refused to believe it.

Amelia contacted Mr. Sanders through the HR department, conveying Caleb’s state to Mr. Sanders.

In the general manager’s office, Caleb stood by the window.

His tall figure stood alone.

He was waiting for Serena.

But instead received a call from Mr. Sanders.

"President Lockwood... Miss Jennings is currently at Vaeldrake."

Vaeldrake——

is a Chinese restaurant.

Seeing that Caleb remained silent, appearing to wait for further information, Mr. Sanders hesitantly continued:

"Miss Jennings is in a private room at Vaeldrake... having a meal with Ethan White’s parents."

The last words exploded like fireworks in Caleb’s mind.

He recalled in the blurred lines between dream and reality, Serena had said——

She was going to marry Ethan White.

Vaeldrake, The Magnolia Room.

Serena sat facing Walter White, Joan Garrison, and Ethan White, decisively giving her answer: