Jamie looks better. She looks around and closes her eyes. The sun is shining brightly but not dazzling, warm but not burning. It’s pleasant.
“You need to head outside and get more sun, which is good for recovery.” Ryan pushes her in the wheelchair to the pavilion in the yard. The servant brews the black tea and he pours her a cup.
“OK,” Jamie responds and sips the tea, looking at Ryan.
She doesn’t know the reason but she does feel something wrong with this man and doesn’t want to get close to him.
“How...how did I lose my memory?” Jamie looks up at Ryan. Although she feels something wrong, she needs an explanation and doesn’t want to live with a blank mind.
What happened that day comes across Ryan’s mind.
He jumped into the sea with Jamie that day and was right away saved by his men that had been arranged for them in advance. He can’t forget how she looked at him when he was trying to save her.
Scared, startled, resentful, and desperate, she pulled herself away from him determinedly and sank into the sea again.
Her last words to him were “How could it be you.”
She sounded so desperate that Ryan was blank for a second, and then she sank.
He knows at that moment Jamie was ensured that he was the mastermind behind all the things.
Actually she got suspicious while seeing him in the ship. She probably just escaped from the truth and chose to trust him. But what he did in the end confirmed her suspicion.
After Jamie fell into the ocean, he sent his people in the nearby islands and countries to look for her around the beaches. She was washed up on a beach.
He saved her, but was afraid, afraid of her questioning and disgusted look.
He sent the explosive ship. He plotted the kidnap. To stop Dan from taking her away, he even deceived her into jumping into the sea, faking her death in the ship.
He had been scheming since he was under control of Jack.
Ryan is scared of looking at Jamie’s eyes. It will remind him of the scene where Jamie shook off his hands and fell into the ocean, which makes him stifled.
“My special position brings me lots of enemies. To protect me, you got ambushed by them and hit your head, resulting in memory loss.” Ryan looks at her and says affectionately.
Jamie is less defensive and asks, “Where are my family?”
“Your family are in France. We will visit them sometime.”
Jamie nods, tilting her head and looking at him curiously, “Did I love you before I lost my memory?”
“Yes, a lot,” Ryan answers without hesitation. Although he is cheating, it is worthwhile.
With a glint of mockery in Jamie’s eyes, she smiles and quips, “No, I guess I didn’t love you. Our marriage should be business marriage.”
Ryan freezes for a second. Even though she lost her memory, she still can’t be fooled and instead she almost convinces him.
“Yes. It’s the business marriage. I love you deeply but you don’t.”
Maybe only when Jamie is in memory loss, can Ryan feel free to say those four words.
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