CHAPTER 658: CHAPTER 658

"You don’t think I will?" Joanna’s eyes turned fierce as she gripped his throat tightly. She could easily break his neck if she wanted to.

"No, I don’t think you can." Ace laughed coldly, his gaze challenging.

"Fine, I’ll grant your wish if you want to die that badly." Joanna gritted her teeth and dug her fingers into his skin, gripping his throat hard.

"Ugh!" Ace’s face instantly turned red, and veins bulged on his forehead and neck. After a while, his eyes started to roll back into his head.

"Hard—Harder. I’ll have no regrets... if I die in your hands." Using his last bit of consciousness, he whispered to Joanna. Blood started oozing out of Ace’s mouth, and if Joanna used a bit more force, he would be dead.

But at the last moment, she could not bear to do it. She let go of him and sneered, "Killing you would be too generous. I’ll ruin you one day, just you wait and see."

After that, she got up and left.

"Joan..." Her figure gradually turned blurry, and Ace fainted.

"Ace, wake up..." Ace heard anxious voices. He woke up, unsure of how much time had passed. He was lying in the hospital with thick bandages around his neck.

"How long have I been unconscious?" His lips were dry, and he was weak. His neck and vocal cords were badly injured.

"A whole day! You scared Madam Susan and me!" Seraphina held his hand and cried. "What happened? Why are you hurt so badly? How can we survive if anything happens to you?"

Ace withdrew his hand, his expression cold. "I’m sure you know why."

Seraphina still had tears on her face. "Ace, what... What do you mean? I don’t get it."

"Hmph, you don’t get it? Where is the ring you hounded me to give you?"

"Er..." Seraphina looked away, avoiding his gaze guiltily. "I didn’t pay attention. I—1 might have lost it."

"What a coincidence! You lost it beside Quinton’s pillow?"

Ace sneered in disappointment. "You know I hate scheming women the most. You had everything, so why do you refuse to let them go?"

Seraphina stopped pretending after hearing what Ace said. In fact, she was waiting for this after leaving the ring there.

"Yes, I left the ring beside Quinton’s pillow on purpose to distance you and Joanna. Go ahead if you want to punish me, but I don’t regret what I did." She then lifted her head and closed her eyes, waiting for his decision.

"You..." Ace did not expect her to admit to it, and he was fuming. He didn’t know what to do with her. He couldn’t bear to punish her given their past and all her sacrifices for him, but he couldn’t pretend it had never happened.

"I have nothing to do with that woman; you should know that all I care about is you. However, what you’ve done will only make me hate you more." Ace swallowed, and the pain in his throat brought a frown to his face. He was still very weak, but his dangerous aura filled people with trepidation.

"Hmph, all you care about is me?" Seraphina scoffed, acting like she had heard the most preposterous joke. "Stop fooling yourself. We’re not stupid. Don’t you know who you care about? I didn’t want to do this, but you don’t care about me lately. You always have an excuse when I want to meet you.

In the end, it was because you were with that woman... I’m your fiancee and we’re going to get married soon, but you spent all your days with that woman in the hospital. You even went fishing with a doctor to save her brother, but you say that you have nothing to do with her and all you care about is me?" She burst out, resentment and dissatisfaction clear in her tone.

Seraphina narrowed her eyes at him. "If I did nothing about it and let you be intimate with her, I’d have to suffer the pain of being abandoned by you again. The whole of the City knows that we’re about to get married. I can’t be humiliated like that, let alone my family!"

"Yes, maybe I didn’t handle it well, but that isn’t a reason for you to harm people." Ace’s gaze was icy. He had only now realized just how horrible Seraphina really was. "I’m going to hold a press conference to call off our marriage."

"What?" Seraphina grabbed his hand and burst into tears. *

Ace, stop messing around. You said you love me the most and will be with me forever. This is just a small conflict. Why do you want to call off our marriage?"

"I did want to spend the rest of my days with you, but you’ve let me down. I doubt if the person I love is you."

"Ace, what do you mean? You remember what happened between us, don’t you? We made so many memories together. Why aren’t I the one you love?" Seraphina panicked when she heard his words, worried if Ace had recalled something.

After all, Seraphina had done something dishonorable with Ace’s brain surgery.

She had replaced Joanna in his mind with her so she could win all his love.

However, he was being so cruel to her now that she wondered if the surgery had lost its effect.

"That was the past.

Now I know for sure that you’re not the one I like." Ace’s answer was blunt and honest, filling her with despair.

Ace’s words might be cruel, but he could no longer lie to himself.

He knew that she was not the type that could bewitch him, and he couldn’t figure out how they fell so madly in love with each other in the past.

"If I’m not the one you like, then who is?" Seraphina choked on her tears, her eyes wild.

"It’s Joanna, isn’t it? She charmed you the moment you saw her, and you changed your mind.

Didn’t you even consider that I only did it because I love you? You forced me to doit!" "Yes." Ace nodded.

"So I’ll bear the consequences.

You were the one who pulled off Quinton’s oxygen mask, but it was because of me.

However, Joanna wasn’t cruel enough...

She didn’t kill me." When he chose to hide the truth and protect Seraphina, he knew that he had inexplicably become her accomplice.

He had been prepared to be killed by Joanna, and thought it would all be over but ...

’Joanna, you’re too kind!’ "Ace, what do you mean? Did Joanna do this to you?" Susan had opened the door and come in, and when she heard his words, she dropped the bowl of chicken soup in her hands.

Seraphina immediately went to Susan and held the latter’s arms, complaining.

"Madam Susan, hurry up and talk some sense into Ace.

That woman nearly killed him, but he wants to call off our marriage for her.

My family and I will be greatly embarrassed.

Please do something!" "Oh, stop crying.

Leave this to me..." Susan patted Seraphina’s shoulders and comforted the latter gently.

Looking solemn, she walked up to Ace.

"Were you telling the truth? Did that woman do this to you?" "Yes, she did...

but I deserved it." "You’re even defending her!" Susan massaged her temples, feeling her blood pressure rising.

When she recalled Ace and Joanna’s relationship, she felt even more stressed.

"It’s been so many years.

Do you want her to harm you even more? She blinded you and nearly killed you.

Both Seraphina and I nurtured you as if you were a baby and helped you get better, but she nearly killed you again!" Susan’s voice was getting louder.

"Do you have any idea what the doctor said? Your neck cartilage is severely injured, which hurts your vocal cords.

If she had used even a bit more force, you wouldn’t be able to speak anymore.

What’s more, your brain was in severe hypoxia when you were rushed to the hospital.

You were in a state of shock, and you would have been dead if you arrived any later...

Do you even realize how wicked Joanna is? Why are you so stubborn?" For the past few years, Susan had suffered greatly and was now exhausted.

She didn’t want to have anything to do with the Pierce family, but it seemed like she still couldn’t avoid them.