Seven Years a Fool One Day a Queen (Kristine and Colton) novel Chapter 378

Chapter 378: Parting in Life, or Death

Chapter 378: Parting in Life, or Death

Yes. As long as a person is still alive, everything still means something.”

Back when Eliza first learned that Calvin might be sentenced to death, her mind had been in complete chaos too.

She could accept spending the rest of her life never speaking to him again.

But she had never imagined a final parting through death.

Not even at her angriest had she ever wished for that.

By the time Calvin landed in Washington, it was already deep into the night.

After picking up the car, Gideon asked him whether they were heading straight to find Eliza.

Calvin paused, then called Sadie first.

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When Sadie picked up, she sounded completely confused. “President Grant didn’t come back to Washington. She went to G City.”

There was a long stretch of silence on the other end before Calvin finally said in a low, heavy voice, “Got it.”

Gideon was still waiting for instructions when he saw Calvin get out of the car with a grim face.

“What’s wrong? We’re not going to find Eliza anymore?”

“She flew to G City.”

Calvin truly hadn’t expected Belle to trick him like that.

The key point was that he had brought it on himself, so there was no one he could blame.

Fresh off the plane, Calvin turned right back around and returned to the airport, buying the earliest flight to G City.

The weather was beautiful on the day of Ophelia’s competition.

liza personally took her there and promised she would wait outside the whole time, so that the first person Ophelia saw after coming out would be her.

Ophelia was overjoyed, like a dream had come true.

Over the past few years, whenever she traveled around for competitions, it had always been nannies and bodyguards accompanying her.

Unlike the other contestants, who all had family there with them.

But now it was different,

Now she had family coming to pick her up too.

When I win the prize money, 111 buy you something delicious!”

Eliza smiled and nodded.

The car had only just arrived at the competition venue when the driver suddenly slammed on the brakes,

Caught off guard, both of them in the back lurched forward.

Ophelia reacted quickly and threw out a hand to shield Eliza, keeping her from hitting her forehead.

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But her own head banged hard against the seat in front with a heavy thud.

What happened?” Eliza steadied herself and immediately checked on Ophelia, afraid she had hurt herself.

Ophelia shook her head and said she was fine.

The driver explained that someone had blocked the car.

The moment he finished speaking, a middle–aged man and woman outside began pounding furiously on the rear window, shouting that they wanted their child

back.

The second Ophelia saw who they were, she shrank into Eliza’s arms in terror, clutching her own head.

The bodyguards in the back got out at once to drive the pair away.

Eliza didn’t even need to ask to know who they were.

She pulled Ophelia into her arms and covered her ears, trying to keep the outside world from reaching her.

But the filth they were shouting still made it into Eliza’s ears.

They cursed them for stealing someone else’s child and refusing to return her, cursed Vega for using his power to bully people, and kept crying out to Ophelia that they were her biological parents and that she should come back to them.

They promised they would love her properly from now on. Pamper her from now on.

If they had really cared about Ophelia, then how could they ever have abandoned her in the first place?

Eliza had heard the servants at the estate talk about it before. When Ophelia was abandoned, she had already been four years old–old enough to understand

some things.

Her birth parents had discarded her because she couldn’t speak. They had suspected she was mentally disabled and were afraid treatment would cost too much

money.

When Ophelia was finally sent to the orphanage, her back had been covered in bruises from deliberate abuse, and she had been so thin she was practically skin and bones.

The place they had abandoned her was cruel too–a remote mountain forest where almost no one ever went.

If a group of hikers hadn’t happened to pass by, Ophelia probably would have starved to death out there.

Only after the bodyguards drove the two of them away did Eliza help Ophelia out of the car.

Thankfully, it hadn’t delayed the competition.

While she was waiting for Ophelia, Eliza finally learned just how difficult this competition actually was.

And the key point was that Ophelia was the youngest contestant there.

The others were mostly master’s and PhD students from prestigious universities.

Eliza even ran into Charlie there.

Charlie was quite surprised to see Eliza too. When he learned she was there accompanying a family member competing, he chatted with her a little more out of curiosity.

The moment he heard that her family member’s name was Ophelia, his eyes lit up.

You said your family member is Ophelia?”

It was rare to see Charlie so visibly thrown off.

And once he confirmed that she really was Ophelia’s family, he became even more excited. “I’ve wanted to meet Ophella for a long time. I’ve tried every possible

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way to get introduced and never had the chance. I didn’t expect her to be your family member. That’s wonderful! Miss Grant, I hope you can help introduce us.”

Eliza had met Charlie through Enzo, so she knew perfectly well how highly respected he was in the field of computer science.

Even he was this astonished…

So Ophelia was really that amazing.

Charlie even said outright that the champion of the competition was already decided.

And the final result turned out exactly as he predicted.

Ophelia won first place and took home the championship trophy.

Ophelia also kept her promise and treated Eliza to dinner.

Only this dinner came with one extra person.

Charlie.

The two of them spent the meal discussing things Eliza couldn’t really follow.

All she could tell was that it had something to do with network technology.

Near the end of the meal, Vega arrived, saying he had come to take the two of them home.

After sitting down beside Eliza, he said in a lowered voice, “I’ll need you to help me out in a bit.”

Eliza immediately understood.

When she turned to glance around the restaurant, sure enough, in a corner seat she spotted Kim.

Even from that distance, Eliza could still feel the violent jealousy surging in her eyes.

That sister–in–law of Vega’s was not just a little crazy.

One encounter with her years ago had been enough to leave Eliza with a lasting impression.

The worst part was that she clearly had serious mental problems. People like that were the kind you genuinely couldn’t afford to provoke.

No wonder Vega had such a headache dealing with her.

Sometimes Eliza truly couldn’t understand it. Mrs. Vega had been such a wonderful person–how could she possibly have had a sister that extreme?

And of course, as always, the good died young while the worst kinds lingered on forever.

When the dinner ended, Eliza quite naturally slipped her arm through Vega’s.

They hadn’t even made it out of the restaurant before the sound of shattering dishes rang out behind them.

The moment they reached downstairs, Kim came chasing after them.

“Vega, stay away from that woman!”

Vega’s expression darkened slightly. “She’s my flancée.”

Then call it off! Right now! I won’t let you marry her!”

She bared her teeth and claws and tried to lunge forward to tear Eliza away, only to be stopped by Vega’s bodyguards.

A trace of coldness entered Vega’s dark eyes. “The Blake family only just managed to pull you back out. You’d better behave yourself. Otherwise, I’ll send you back in again.”

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Kim’s face went white at once. She didn’t dare scream anymore and was eventually forced into a car by the bodyguards.

As Kim looked this way, Eliza raised a hand and straightened Vega’s tie for him.

Vega lowered his head to look at her.

And she, smiling with soft eyes, spoke to him from time to time.

What a picture of tender affection.

Inside the car, Kim was nearly mad with jealousy, but all she could do was pound furiously on the window.

Calvin saw that scene too.

He had rushed all the way from Washington to G City, exhausted from the journey.

And after finally finding Eliza, this was the sight waiting for him.

She really was beautiful when she smiled.

But she wasn’t smiling at him.

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