Mending Hearts, Fading Regrets

The woman was emaciated, her hands were stained with blood, and her body was ruthlessly pressed to the ground.

"The best newcomer lawyer back then is nothing but a lump of mud now." A cold and harsh voice rang above Giana's head.

Giana raised her head desperately and looked at the charming face in front of her. Who would have thought that a popular star in the showbiz was so vicious?

"Alexia Jerome, why?" She asked in a trembling voice.

"You killed my sister, and you still have the face to ask why?" Alexia sneered, with a cold face and extremely sinister eyes.

"It's not me... I was wronged!" Giana said painfully, shaking her head constantly, trying to straighten her body. Her black eyes were fixed on the man standing beside Alexia.

That was... her former boyfriend, William Hawthorn! The man who once said that he would protect her for the rest of his life.

In the past, when her finger was accidentally pricked by a needle, he would feel distressed for a long time. But now, he just watched her being tortured like this.

"William..." Giana shouted to the other party with almost all her strength. "Please... believe me..."

He was still the same as before, dressed in a suit and leather shoes. There was only gloom and indifference left in his black eyes.

Alexia said, "William, you won't sympathize with this woman, will you? She is the murderer who killed my sister! I did this just to let my sister rest in peace."

She held the man's arm affectionately, and when facing the man, her sinister expression turned into a pitiful one.

"She deserves it. There is no need to sympathize." William gently stroked Alexia's well-maintained hair. "You can do whatever you want."

Giana's eyes widened suddenly.

Deserve it?!

Ah!

This man who once held Giana in his palm now only had an aversion to her.

Not knowing where the strength came from, Giana broke free from the person holding her body, struggled to crawl forward, and tried hard to get closer to William.

"William, I don't know what happened to that car accident. I really didn't drive drunk that day. It was Zoe Jerome's car... that hit me..."

Thud!

A foot stepped heavily on the back of Giana's hand, which caused bone-piercing pain.

But none of these could match the severe pain in Giana's heart at the moment.

She raised her head with difficulty, looked at William who was stepping on her left hand with a leather shoe, and couldn't believe that he would go to this extent.

She took a deep breath, her voice sounded hoarse. "Have you ever loved me?"

"What I regret most in my life is finding you as my girlfriend," William said in an extremely cold voice.

"William, break her hands. She drove the car with both hands and killed my sister," Alexia said.

The next moment, Giana heard him say "Okay!"

...

"Ah!" Giana opened her eyes suddenly, only to realize that she had dreamed about what happened in the prison back then.

She looked down at her calloused hands. After three years in prison, her hands were no longer as delicate and smooth as they used to be.

Although the nails of her fingers had grown, her hand was still injured.

At that time, Giana's fingers were all broken. Through skeletal self-healing, her hands had not completely lost function. But the finger joints looked a little distorted, and she couldn't perform many fine movements well.

Whenever it was cold and damp, the fingers would be more painful.

Sometimes the pain was so severe that Giana wanted to chop off her hands to get rid of the pain.

Because of a car accident that year, she was accused of drunk driving and killed Zoe. Besides being the eldest daughter of the Jerome family, Zoe was also the fiancee of Kason, who was powerful in New York.

After that, she was betrayed by all her relatives, was kicked out of the house, and was finally sentenced to three years in prison.

Standing up, Giana picked up the cleaning tools that were lying aside.

She was wearing a sanitation worker's fluorescent overalls. Her delicate face was slightly reddish due to the cold weather. Under her almond-shaped eyes was a delicate nose and light pink lips. Her long hair was simply tied into a ponytail.

If people only looked at her face, they may think Giana was just a college student who has just left school. It was just that she didn't have the vigor of a young girl, instead, she looked a little dull.

Giana was on the night shift today, and just now she had a nap at the Environmental Sanitation Agency, so she almost missed her work time.

Just when she was about to leave, she heard a colleague watching the news on her mobile phone saying, "Hey, William and Alexia are getting engaged. Alexia is so lucky. She is both a big star and a rich young lady. Now she can join the same wealthy Hawthorn family."

Giana's body shook suddenly, and she hurried out of the Environmental Sanitation Agency.

William, Alexia, these two names, to her, were like nightmares.

The night in January was very cold. Giana held the sweeper and cleaned the road. The bones in her hands throbbed again and again due to the cold weather.

Giana said to herself in her heart, "Just bear it and it will soon finish!" Now that she was a sanitation worker, even taking painkillers had become a luxury.

While Giana was sweeping the road, suddenly, a Ferrari stopped in front of her.

A man and a woman get out of the car, and Giana's face turned pale. She recognized the man.

He was a rich second generation. When she and William were together, the man used to molest her, but she scolded him.

"Miss Kelsen, the famous lawyer? Why are you sweeping the road here?" Martin Stowe asked knowingly.

The woman on the side sneered, "How can she be a lawyer?"

"Don't look down on her, she was the girlfriend of William back then!" Martin said while looking at Giana lewdly.

He said, "Your Willian is going to get engaged to Miss Jerome. How about sleeping with me once? What I give you will be much more than you get by sweeping the road."

Giana couldn't let Martin succeed and tried to dodge desperately, but Martin grabbed her arm and directly pressed her against the wall by the roadside.

Seeing that Martin was about to mistreat her, Giana raised her foot and kicked Martin, escaping desperately.

Martin was furious. He was not willing to let Giana go, and he drove his Ferrari directly behind Giana.

At this time, Giana had already run to the other side of the road.

The strange thing was that it should be a bustling road at night, but at this moment, it was terribly cold, and there were not even any shadows of people or cars.

It was just... like there was no one there.

Giana was cornered by the Ferrari.

Martin got out of the car and was about to rush toward Giana when footsteps sounded.

In the silent night, it was extraordinarily clear.

Then Giana saw a tall man.

His bangs almost covered his eyes, so she couldn't see what he looked like, and he was wearing an old-fashioned suit.

"Fuck off, don't interfere with me!" Martin scolded.

The man glanced lazily at Martin, which made Martin suddenly feel like his hair was standing on end.

The man's eyes were full of coldness.

Martin spat and raised his fist directly to punch the man.

As a result, in the next moment, Martin was trampled under the man's feet, with one side of his face pressed against the ground, extremely awkward.

Afterward, Giana only saw a one-sided fight, which could even be called a complete victory.

And in a hidden corner of the intersection not far away, a car was parked.

Henry Pope in the car watched the scene in front of him, and prayed in a murmur, "Mr. Louise, please don't go crazy!"

If Kason went crazy, Henry knew what the consequences would be that day. Even killing was normal.

Once, Henry saw Kason's crazy appearance once, and then...he felt that he would never want to see it again in his life.

This road was obviously closed tonight, who would have thought that these people and a Ferrari would break in here suddenly and disturb Kason?

Every year on this day, Kason would seal off the whole road, wear old clothes, and stay here alone quietly.

No one dared to ask why as if it was a taboo.

Even though Henry had been by Kason's side for several years, he still didn't know why Kason did this.

But at this moment, when Henry watched his boss directly pick up the slightly fat man and was still beating him, he didn't know whether he should stop him or not.

At this moment, Henry suddenly saw that the woman who was almost raped seemed to say something, and then Kason...stopped?!