My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins novel Chapter 606

However, it wasn’t the anger that surged in his heart. Instead, Stanford was in a panic. Without any hesitation, he rushed to follow her.

The tall and strong figure of Stanford was standing at the door, blocking Phoebe’s way.

Phoebe immediately paused, taking a few steps back to distance herself from him.

She slightly raised her head and looked at him in confusion.

“What are you doing?”

Looking at Phoebe’s aloof face, Stanford felt quite upset.

However, when he looked at the ponytail on her head, he felt relaxed actually.

Pressing his lips, Stanford whispered, “I’m here to take you back.”

Upon hearing it, Phoebe felt quite puzzled.

Her eyes twinkled, but in the end, they were dimmed.

She slightly bent down her head and said, “I’m pretty well when staying here. I can kneel to recite the scriptures and repent my sins. I’ll become calmer. You don’t need to feel guilty or sorry for me, nor do you need to force yourself to take care of me.”

He had said that he wouldn’t want to meet her again, so she wouldn’t show up in front of him to annoy him.

Her words were reechoed in his mind, ‘Kneel to recite the scriptures and repent my sins...’

Stanford looked at her in a daze, feeling as if there was a huge stone pressing on his chest. His breath became heavier.

It had been just a short period, Phoebe had lost a lot of weight. Her face was extremely pale without any color. Under her eyes, there were two huge dark circles.

Undoubtedly, he could tell how bad she had been in the past few weeks.

She knelt to recite the scriptures, and inwardly she kept feeling guilty and suffered.

Every day, she seemed to be living in hell.

She used to be optimistic and lively, but now she looked so dimmed, timid, and silent.

She wasn’t herself as before.

Stanford pressed his thin lips tightly, gazing at her deeply.

In a hoarse tone, he said, “I’m here to pick you up and go to see... Florence.”

Phoebe gaped suddenly.

Her widened eyes suddenly became reddened, tears welling up in them.

Between sobs, she said, “Flory... She... she...”

She wanted to ask if he had found Flory’s dead body.

She was too upset to finish the words to complete the question.

After leaving the scene that day, she was extremely sad and panicked. She also got some news later, knowing that Stanford had been searching on the sea. He blocked the area and poisoned the sea. He kept searching Florence’s dead body without a stop like crazy.

Phoebe wandered around the city. Every day and night, she was tortured by sadness and self-blame.

Once, she had thought that she couldn’t hold on any longer.

Later, she walked into this temple as a ghost. Looking at the believer keeling and praying there, listening to the bell ringing, she felt as if she had found a place to stop.

It was a place for her to repent.

It was also a place for her to tolerate her pain.

After that day, she stayed here. Every day, she knelt to recite the scriptures, repenting her sins in the same way so that to numb her nerve with the deep feeling of grief.

She had thought that she would be like this for a long long time.

She had thought that she accepted the fact that Florence was gone all through the past weeks.

However, upon hearing Stanford’s words, she still felt so suffocated and couldn’t stand it at all.

Gritting her teeth, she shook her head desperately.

She uttered words between sobs, “I... I don’t want to see that... I don’t...”

She refused to take a look at Florence's body.

She didn’t have the heart to.