Chapter 420 Her Savior
“I made a point of keeping an eye on Mrs. Webster’s previous trips. Mrs. Webster once
went on a sudden overseas study trip ten years ago and didn’t return until shortly before
her marriage to you.”
She suddenly left the country?
Donahueiel had a strange moment of restlessness as if he was about to touch the truth,
and yet he couldn’t.
Donahueiel’s eyes sharpened on Alfred. “Go on.”
Alfred opened his notepad and relayed his findings to Donahueiel.
“A decade ago, Mrs. Webster’s father was in charge of the Longfellow Group. In an accident, Mrs. Webster’s family was involved in a car accident. On the day of the accident, Mr. Webster, you had passed by the scene.”
The scene of the accident?
Donahueiel was stuck in memory. Ten years ago, he had indeed witnessed a car
accident.
He was driving alone on a business trip when he saw a car overturned on the ground on an overpass, gasoline dripping down and forming a small puddle on the ground, with smoke billowing from the body.
Once the car caught fire, it could explode at any time.
Donahueiel was lucky. Before the explosion, he carried the girl leaning on the side of the car faint away from the scene, and saved her life.
However, the project was very important at that time. Donahueiel was in a hurry to go to a meeting, and took the girl to the hospital and then left.
When he returned to the hospital after work, the girl was already missing.
So, Janet was the girl he saved back then?
“Mr. Webster, it seems that you and Mrs. Webster’s destiny has been predestined for a long time!” Alfred was smiling.
Donahueiel felt his chest clogged with a mass of inexplicable emotions, something
called destiny growing wildly in his heart.
That was the first and only time he went into the fire to save someone.
He had experienced that accident when he was a child. If Anastasia hadn’t saved him, he
might have died in the fire.
From then on, Donahueiel developed a fear of fire. A little spark would make him panic, and sweat.
But in that rescue, he did not have any fear.
“Mr. Webster, what were you thinking? Did you rush in and save Mrs. Webster without any hesitation?”
Alfred had been around Donahueiel long enough to know him well, naturally, and he knew the president had a shadow over the fire.
“How did you find out about Mrs. Webster?” Alfred asked curiously.
Donahueiel’s gaze softened. “When I turned the corner, I hastily swept a glance in the rearview mirror.”
That glance went through the smoke and fire. His heart was like being gripped by a small, isolated hand that made him get out of the car.
Donahueiel smiled tenderly as if something had occurred to him.
“She has a dirty little face, like a little flower cat.”
By the time he responded, he had already walked up to Janet.
She was leaning weakly against the back of the car, her eyes feebly half–closed. Her clothes were tattered and torn by the fire, and her bare arms and neck were covered with fine wounds. The blood coagulated into scabs, and it looked hideous and horrific.
Flames rushed to the sky. The car made one jarring sound after another, and would soon explode.
Donahueiel did not have time to think about how Janet escaped from the car. He bent
down to pick up Janet, and quickly back to the car.
다.
Sarine
Janet was a teenager then, more petite than now, almost weightless in his arms.
Donahueiel gently placed her in the spacious back seat. Janet’s body was soft, and Donahueiel gently shook her shoulders.
“Wake up, wake up!”
It took seven or eight shouts in a row before Janet’s eyes finally opened.
Her body was covered with blood and soot, only the deer–like eyes were clean, like two crystal clear gems.
Janet’s eyes went from bewilderment to horror. She sat up abruptly and fell back into the seat because she was dizzy.
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