Thompson knew what Alice had gone through. Now he was even with her, wasn't he?
Alice looked at Thompson in shock. She hadn't come to herself from his kiss. Then she opened her eyes wide and looked at Thompson. Everything was like a dream to her.
"What..." Alice looked at Thompson in confusion. Thompson said nothing but looked into Alice's eyes.
What had just happened was real. It was real that Thompson had kissed Alice. But Alice still felt that everything was unreal. What happened?
"I thought I was going to die. But when Jonathan attacked me, I kept telling myself that I couldn't die. I still have a lot of things to do. I... "
Lowering her head, Alice said in a low voice. Thompson looked at Alice in silence. Her low mood also affected him. Thompson reached out and caressed her hair.
Alice looked at Thompson in horror. She was not used to seen him like that.
"What's wrong with you?" Asked Thompson in a low voice, but Alice shook her head. She wanted to ask him the same.
Alice looked at Thompson and dared not look into his eyes.
"I need to go now. I have business to deal with. I have to make a break with Jonathan." Alice whispered. She thought she was really going to die that day.
Death was instant, and then no more worries left. But when Alice was strangled by Jonathan, she had no fear at all.
She even felt a little relieved because her pain was finally going to over, and she didn't have to live in fear anymore.
But when Alice woke up, she found that she was still in the same nightmare. No one could define the domestic violence till now.
Thompson sighed, "You are going to find him, right?"
Alice was stunned and recalled Jacob's face. Yes, she needed to find him. It was time to end it.
She had hurt Jacob so many times. Would he forgive her and meet her again? Alice was not so sure. What goes around comes around. She deserved it.
Alice looked around and found that the room was empty with the smell of disinfectant. She didn't expect that Thompson would accompany her till now, and she also didn't expect that Thompson would...
Alice sighed and then left the hospital. Even though the doctor also persuaded her to stay, she was determined.
However, Thompson didn't stop Alice. She could do whatever she wanted to do now. Thompson had no choice but to let Alice go. It was her choice.
Alice didn't care about Jonathan's whereabouts right now. She had to go to find a detective as soon as possible, because that detective had all the evidence she had investigated.
In order to get Jonathan down, Alice endured humiliation and torture from him. Now, it was time to make an end.
But the vital evidence was not enough. In order to pull Jacob down, Jonathan not only bribed the directors of the company, but also tampered with the financial documents.
Of course, it doesn't mean anything. The key point was that the Shi Group couldn't hold on any longer. Jonathan even wanted to sell the company's shares he had. As a CEO, it was unreasonable for him to do so.
But Alice was just an outsider, and she had no right to charge him even she had evidence in the company.
Alice didn't tell Thompson about it, but she guessed he had known about it.
What's more, Jonathan had long been unpopular in the company. Alice even thought that Thompson was wrong to choose her as an ally.
She was not as determined as she thought. She had already changed her mind before she really did something.
Alice sat quietly in the cafe with empty eyes. Now she didn't even know what to do next. She took out her phone and called Jacob. She only told him that she had something to talk to him, but she didn't mention the details.
Would he come? She had done so many bad things to him. Would Jacob forgive her?
Alice stirred the coffee with a spoon and looked absent-minded.
Her suffering was caused by her own choice. If she could see through it at the beginning, then she would not be ended up like this now.
Jacob didn't answer immediately, but hung up the phone. But Alice didn't feel disappointed. She even wanted to laugh. Now she and Jacob were really strangers now.
Well, everything could be started again since they had no connection anymore.
Alice drank a cup of coffee, and then another one. The coffee without sugar was bitter. It tasted like her short youth.
And it was all because that she didn't put sugar in it. She looked out of the window and there was no sign of Jacob.
Alice didn't expect any more and she understood Jacob's decision. After all, she had lied to him so many times and it was reasonable that Jacob didn't believe her this time.
It didn't matter. Alice didn't plan to keep waiting for him. When she stood up and was about to leave, she saw Jacob stood at the door.
Everything seemed to have not changed. Jacob was still wearing a white shirt, just like he did when he was young.
Alice was stunned. Even Jacob walked to her, she still couldn't come to herself.
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