With her eyes fixed forward, Ophelia moved her lips a bit. She was about to tell him she wouldn’t take any belongings with her. Even her bank account would be canceled after her departure. Everything related to her life with the Chambers would be removed completely so that she could totally go vanished beyond their reach.
That was what she planned. But she didn’t intend to tell Zachariah about it. Since the divorce was done, they were just strangers to each other.
“Zachariah, if you marry another lady, will you forget about me and Tommy?” leaning against the seat, Ophelia still couldn’t help asking.
Zachariah replied with a glimpse and then a smile, “Never!”
A smile appeared on her face as well.
‘Zachariah, thanks, that’s a relief for me.’
After the divorce, Ophelia went back home to tell both Madeleine and Ted about her plan to settle down abroad.
Madeleine asked with concern, “Ophelia, have you made up your mind?”
She nodded, “Zachariah will still figure out my whereabouts with his network if I still stay in the country. So living abroad will be a solution. Besides, I wanna be in somewhere new.”
Madeleine nodded. Perhaps moving to another country would be a solution to bail her out of the shadow in a shorter period of time.
Meanwhile, Ted couldn’t agree more. He also deemed that a better choice to live abroad. What was more, he started to wonder it might be a chance for him to get her love.
So with the help of both Ted and Madeleine, Ophelia got down to a visa process. Meanwhile, she started her move and laid low to keep her plan unknown.
Ever since Zachariah separated from Ophelia after the divorce, he lost contact with her. She never picked up his call. Nor did she text him back. It seemed that she suddenly vanished on the planet.
Ophelia might be still in the midst of tantrum, he supposed so at the very beginning. So he did whatever she required even including the divorce, which he never deemed it a serious problem. From his perspective, they would remarry when it was time.
However, she had totally disappeared. No one knew where she was.
He felt like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay. For a few days, he found nothing.
He wanna talk to Madeleine, who had also vanished. Not until then did he realize that Ophelia had been preparing for the separation. But fortunately, she still had Madeleine by her side, someone whom she could rely on when the loneliness struck.
Zachariah sent his men to keep on investigating. Though Ophelia had been laying low carefully, there might still be a breakthrough if they started from Madeleine.
Five days later, one of his men finally found out that Madeleine booked flight tickets of two for tomorrow.
This time, Zachariah had resolved to bring her back home.
So he made his man to buy a ticket for the same flight. After a whole night of insomnia, he decided to head to the airport to wait.
In the early morning, he drove himself to the airport.
Driven my anxiety, he drove far beyond speed limit. It was so fast that he didn’t have enough time to hit the brake. Out of instinct, he made a sharp turn and accidentally bumped onto a barrister on the roadside.
After a violent hit, he found himself too dizzy to remain sober again. The last thing he heard was somebody yelling for help.
When he woke up in the hospital, it was already 8:00 PM. With his hand pressing against his aching head, he still insisted to head to the airport. Though he missed the flight, at least he grabbed a clue of Ophelia’s whereabouts.
However, when he reached the airport, he was told that there was an air crash today, while the rescue was still undergoing.
Unfortunately, that was exactly the flight Ophelia had booked.
He then saw her name on the list of casualties, which stung his eyes.
He felt like his entire world had collapsed. He teetered forward, but soon slumped onto the ground because of injury and desperation. Tears streamed down his face, running out of control.
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