Chapter 9
Melody’s eyes flickered for a brief moment
However, a single tear dowed down from the comes of her eye a split second later.
She instinctively reached up to wipe the tear away, but joshuabeat her to the carefully as shakily siped
“Mel, what’s the matter? Please don’t scare me like this. Tell me if anything is making you feel upset. Bartholdij ahug. Howe, Melody neatly avoided him again.
Shelly looked at him and spoke in a distant, faraway tone, “peshundeetchen, let’s go bathe seaside”
Joshua’s hand armened. He looked at hen in shock.
“Mel, aren’t you afraid of water? Don’t that why you’ve always been tested of the sea?
Melody answered him faintly, “I just feel like in ”
Amer all, the method she’d chosen to “die” was death by jumping into the sea and drowning.
Joshua didn’t ask any further when he heard her answer. He just got Gaston to prep the cat at mer.
On the way to the seaside, ha held on to her hand as his other hand held the steering wheel. She didn’t seem to shake his holdaway like last time anymope.
Seeing that Melody was starting to accept him again, joshua smiled happily and started recounting the past ever since they started dating each other.
At that time, Joshua only had eyes for Melody, so he still remembered everything they did as a couple even if Melody had already forgotten about it
When they were young. Melody once gave him a lemon favored candy with a bright smile on her face in high school, she’d held him by his hand as they danced their first dance together at prom When they were in a long–distance relationship, she took a red–me flight just to see him
“You were the one I’d always loved and chemshed the most, but you took such a long flight in the wee hours of the moming host to see me. I wore back then that 1 would never let you feel hurt or uncomfortable ever again
“Mel,” Joshma said, stopping his car by the seaside and looking at her with his eyes full of love. “I will love you until the end of my life.
Melody smiled back at him. However, her smile was mixed with a him of sarcasm and mockery
He’d been hing to her so much that he was now starting to believe in his own lies.
They sat on the beach, side by side, leaning against each other as they stared out at the open sea before them. They enjoyed the calm and quiet of the beach in the
Just then, Joshua’s phone started vibrating like malay.
He didn’t even look at it before declining the call
However, the other party wouldn’t let up and continued calling him over and over again
Finally, Joshua glanced briefly at the screen and went to take the call away from Melody.
She didn’t know what the other party said to Joshua, but his eyes turned dark with lust. At the same time, Melody also crived a text message from Angel
It read, “Melody Foxglove, so what if you’re both getting married tomorrow? Would you believe me if i said he’d be pinning to me as soon as I called him?
“You know what? You should give up on him and give me the title of Mrs. Gretchen tow if you know what’s best for you”
This wasn’t the first time Angel forced Melody to give up her spot, but it was the first time Kelody ever responded to any of Angel’s texts.
“As you wish!
Moments later, Joshua hung up and can toward Melody with an apologetic look on his face.
___“Mel, I’m sorry, but something urgent just came up at the company.”
“Joshua Gretchen, do you still remember what I told you on the day you proposed to me?”
Melody’s sudden question angle Joshua off guard. He felt anxious all of a sudden
“I told you that if you were to change your mind and not love me anyusor, you just have to tell me. I would then end our relationdap and stop butlarning veoma non il you were to lie to me, den i would leave you forever:”
There was a faint smile on Melody’s face, but the smile ever reached her eyes
Joshua suddenly gripped his phone a little tighter until his lucides tumed white. He fell silent for a long time before put
“Mel, I love you too much. Why would I ever lie to you?
At once, the last but of love Melody had left for joshua disappear into the dark of the right.
She just chuckled and said, “Didn’t you say that you have something went at the company? Hurry long pow”
Jost looked at Melody’s calm demeanor and was suddenly consumed by an unknown fear. Suddenly, be didn’t duur in lei
He was worried that he wouldn’t be able to see her seat if he left this time.
However, he kept thinking about his last call. He kept gripping and wwrapping his phone, anume of what te
Melody was right here. What could possibly happen to her? Also, they were going to get named tomarov
Joshua heaved a sigh of relief when he thought about this. “Mel, go back home little caber after you’re done booking wedding faserTow
Then, he turned and left in his car, disappearing entirely from her sight.
Melody watched quietly as he left. She didn’t try to stop him or ask him to stay.
Ten minutes later, another car stopped by the seaside.
Aman came up to her. “Ms. Foxglove, all of your records within the country have been completely wiped out. Your new identification card, new phone, and flight ticket have all been prepared. From today onward, nobody in the world will be able to find you anymore.”
Melody kept her eyes lowered as she took the things from the man. She also gave him her phone.
“Send that corpse straight to the wedding tomorrow. Also, please hand this phone personally to the groom.”
She wanted him to know how Angel had been continuously challenging and threatening her for the past few days.
She wanted him to know that she had “killed” herself when he heartlessly lied to her and left her for another woman’s auns.
She wanted him to know that this was the last time they would ever meet.
He was going to spend the rest of his life wallowing in pain and guilt that he would never recover from
After confirming everything, Melody took all of her documents bearing her new identity and got into an unmarked car
“To the airport.”
The darkness of the night would soon end, and she would welcome the warmth of the golden sunlight with open arms.
