After sending the message out, Maria put away her cell phone. Then she continued to look at Dolores on the stage, her lips curled up into a sneer.
The lights were turned on and the background music was played - after Dolores’ speech, the models started the final and the most important section of today.
And the very last masterpiece was a wedding dress designed by Mrs. William.
It had been a long time that Mrs. William didn’t design any clothes. She designed this wedding dress particularly for the opening ceremony of LEO Corporation.
White was the purest color. The whole body of the wedding dress presented a luminous white like the snow. The layers of the light veil were permeated, covered with soft satin, woven roses, and gems, shining with both gorgeous and elegant charm, which was breathtaking.
Dolores stared at the dress, lost in thought.
A wedding dress was always along with the wish in love and hope in happiness.
Although she got married, she never wore a wedding dress. There was no wedding ceremony or a wedding dress for her. Even for the marriage certificate, she didn’t go to the civil affairs bureau together with her “husband”.
“Excuse me, Lola.” Theresa walked over, passing the cell phone to her. “Your cell phone.”
Since Dolores was on the stage just now, Theresa kept her phone.
Dolores took it over. Theresa reminded her, “It seems you’ve received a message just now.”
Dolores swiped to unlock the screen. After she tabbed the message to read, the blood drained from her face immediately. She could hear her heartbeat violently, and it hurt so much as if it was about to crack, making her tremble.
“Lola, what’s wrong?” Theresa could tell that she was not feeling well. She helped Dolores’ trembling body up. “Are you not feeling well?”
Dolores shook her head. “I’m alright.”
Then she left the vivid crowd with the cell phone in her hand.
Seeing that she had gone far in a panic, Maria curled up her lips into an ironic smile.
Thanks to Dolores, Maria could find those photos. Back then, when Dolores asked Sampson to look into the matters in Country A, he got the surveillance video from the hotel. Hence, Maria got those photos.
Maria wanted to thank her.
She wondered if Dolores would feel shocked and horrible if Dolores got to know it was all because of her.
Maria sneered.
Dolores went upstairs to the second floor alone.
It was quiet here, and all noises were blocked outside.
Seemingly all her strengths were gone, she collapsed onto the ground.
The scenes that night kept flashing through her mind as if it was a movie with sound and color, playing in her mind.
She lowered her head and licked the photo to open. In the photo, her face was clear, which was the same as the shame she experienced that night and she could remember clearly.
She had also dreamed to give her virginity to a man she loved, but...
Pak!
A tear dropped onto the phone screen.
Her heart also sank into an endless abyss along with it.
At this moment, she forgot to think and everything else, immersed in panic and fear.
She was unwilling to recall this matter, but it was presented to her and reminded her firmly as if it was reminding her that this was the stain and nightmare of her whole life.
She seldom cried. Since she had given birth to the two children, she rarely cried, because she was a mother and a daughter. On her shoulders, she had the burden to raise her children as well as to take care of her mother. Hence, she couldn’t cry nor could she be weak.
However, she couldn’t bear it at this moment. She felt a sharp pang in her heart, which hurt so much that she couldn’t breathe at all.
The sunlight on the ground gradually faded, and she sank into the dark shadow.
“Are you crying?”
Dolores wiped off the tears on her face in a hurry. She put down the cell phone face-down on the ground. “No. I, I’m not crying.”
Matthew looked down at her while standing straight.
Since she left the crowd, he could tell that something went wrong with her. Now the ceremony was almost over and Armand and Boyce had left, so he came upstairs to look for her.
Then he saw her shedding tears. Her face was covered with tears, but she denied that she was crying. He wondered if she thought that he was blind.
He squatted down and made her face him so that she could look into his eyes. “What happened to you?”
Her eyes' corners were wet, and tear stains still remained as if he could still feel the temperature.
As if her eyes were covered with a layer of gauze, she couldn’t see the expression on the man’s face. She was lost, and her blood and skin seemed to be drawn away by a needle, leaving only a pile of bones, lifeless.
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