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“That’s what I’m thinking too.” Shaun pondered. ” I suspect someone purposely kidnapped Thomas and framed Sarah with the sole intention of making these siblings hate each other.”
“Perhaps.” Cate shrugged. “Wicked people like them would surely have offended other people apart from us. You’re really lucky this time, Attorney Lyons. It seems like you’ll win the case.”
“Please. I can win it even without Thomas. I just need to use some tactics.”
Shaun took a piece of meat and some salad for her. ” Cate, believe me. My reputation as the most brilliant attorney in Australia is well earned.”
“Sure, sure. You once lost to the attorney whom I hired with two thousand dollars, ” Cate mocked him.
“That time… It wasn’t because I couldn’t beat him. I knew that I misunderstood you, so I didn’t want to proceed with the lawsuit, ” Shaun explained with a tinge of guilt.
At the mention of that issue, Cate went silent.
Although it was over, she could not get over the fact that Logan had lost his finger.
Silence instantly befell the private room. Shaun tightened his grip on the fork. “Cate, I’d like to make it up to Logan. See what he needs— “
“He’s a man who’s easily satisfied. He’s quite content with his present condition, and there’s nothing else he needs. ” Cate interrupted him and changed the topic. “Let’s eat.”
Nevertheless, the situation was rather awkward after that. No matter what Shaun said, Cate was not really in the mood to interact with him.
As Logan’s boss, she had failed to protect his subordinate, who had been protecting her wholeheartedly. She even got together with the person who chopped off his finger. As such, Cate was quite annoyed with herself.
Shaun stared at her silently and gradually spoke less.
Despite the fact that he had gotten back together with Cate, he knew that certain wounds were impossible to heal.
When Shaun chopped off Logan’s finger, Cate told him that it would be impossible for his finger to grow again. Even so, Shaun chopped it off regardless.
He may have been taken advantage of by Sarah, but whenever he reflected on it, he felt that he was still undeniably responsible.
The Lyons family’s villa.
Shaun was still not asleep in the dead of night.
He stood at the window for a very long time. At last, he took a knife and chopped one of his fingers off violently.
As soon as Chester received an emergency call in the middle of the night, he rushed to the hospital.
After the doctor bandaged Shaun’s wound, Chester looked at his hand from which a finger was missing. A grim look flashed in his eyes. ” Shaun, you’re f*cking crazy.”
“It’s just a finger, not a hand. ” Shaun bit his pale, thin lips. “This is much better. I don’t owe anyone now, and there won’t be a distance between her and me anymore.”
“What a madman.” Chester insulted, “That’s why I f*cking hate relationships. After you and Rodney respectively got into a relationship, both of you seemed to have gone insane. He’s still lying on the hospital bed, whereas you…”
“Chester, you won’t understand it. Sometimes, relationships can be painful yet sweet. The feeling is even sweeter than after you perform an operation and earn hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Shaun gave a weak smile. “I think it’s worth exchanging a finger for a complete relationship. What’s more, I dislike owing people. I said that I’d make it up to him, and I’ve always been a man of m y word.”
Chester was at a loss for words at that moment. He sat by Shaun’s bed and suddenly zoned out. “
Shaun, do you believe that dead people will appear in one’s dream and deliver a message?”
Shaun was momentarily stunned. ” I’m not sure.
What gives?”
Chester then told him briefly about what happened when he met Eliza today. “If this isn’t true, how would Eliza have known that Jennifer’s ashes were not a human’s? She even relocated Boris’s ashes. “
Shaun was dumbfounded. After a while, he replied, ” There are all kinds of occurrences in this world.
However, if Charity is dead, what Eliza said could be true. Cases of dead people appearing in one’s dream and delivering their message do exist.”
“Do you also think that… she’s dead?” Chester was dazed. The scene of Charity’s bashful expression under his body back then ran through his mind in spite of himself.
He had no idea why he remembered it so vividly. Perhaps it was because it was his first time.
He did not tell anyone about it, not even Charity, Shaun, and Rodney.
“Could she have survived?” Shaun looked at him in bafflement. “Why did you mention her out of the blue? Could it be…”
“Perhaps… I feel that her passing has to do with me.” Chester’s face darkened. “After Sarah’s true colors have been exposed, I’m more convinced by Cate’s statement that Charity didn’t kill Shelley, yet I hired a lawyer to send her to jail.
Because of Charity’s predicament, the Neeson family ended up in a mess.”
” In that case, I’m also responsible for it.” Shaun felt upset.
“It’s fine. Don’t overthink it. ” Chester rose to his feet. “Let me ask Cate to come over.”
“No need. It’s so late. I don’t want to disrupt her sleep.” Shaun rejected his suggestion.
Chester was speechless. Chopping his finger was such a big deal, yet he was afraid of disrupting her sleep. Come on.
11:00 a.m. After Shaun left the hospital, he contacted Logan, and when Logan came over, he tossed his finger to the latter at once.
Logan, who was having a churro, almost threw up.
His eyes swiftly swept over Shaun’s bandaged hand. Then, he widened his eyes in shock. “Young Master Lyons, this is…”
“This is my compensation to you. I told you before this, didn’t I?” Shaun said indifferently. His light- hearted manner made it seem as if he was merely compensating Logan with money.
Logan was dumbfounded. After coming to his senses, he gazed at Shaun in admiration.
He thought that Shaun was all talk at first because he was still as arrogant as ever even though the Lyons family had collapsed. How could he possibly bear to chop off his finger to make it up to someone else’s subordinate?
However, Shaun did it.
“Young Master Lyons, I know the true reason why you did it. Anyway, it’s really admirable, and I hardly ever admire people. You’re the first, ” Logan said sincerely.
“I don’t want to owe anyone, especially you. Although you’re just in charge of protecting Cate, I know you’re the one who kept her and the kids safe and sound all those years abroad.” Shaun lightly rubbed the wound on his hand, and it hurt. However, he felt less guilty now when facing Logan.
Logan raised his brows. “It’s fine as long as you don’t repeat your old mistakes. I, too, hope that she’ll be happy from now on. After all… I feel that her life has left her exhausted.”
As soon as Logan finished speaking, he tossed the finger back to Shaun. “You can keep it to yourself. I don’t have the peculiar hobby of keeping other people’s fingers.”
After that, Logan headed straight to Hudson Corporation to look for Cate.
Cate walked out from a meeting with a few executives, only to see Logan leaning against the wall with both his hands in the pockets of his pants. His cool expression made the female employees who walked past him turn around to do a double ¨C take at him.
“Tsk. You and Austin are so handsome, yet you guys are gay.” Cate felt sorry for the woman every time Cate saw him. “No wonder the netizens say that it’s not easy for a woman to get a man. Not only do women have female rivals but also male rivals.”
” If you feel sorry for those women, you can share Shaun with them to settle their trouble.” Logan bit his lip playfully.
Cate rolled her eyes. “I’m ready to do so, but I don’t think it’s fine by him.”
Logan sized her up intently a few seconds before he suddenly asked, “Don’t you know about it?”
“Know about what?” Cate was puzzled.
“He still hasn’t told you, huh?” It struck Logan that Cate was unaware of it.
“What?” Cate recalled her conversation with Logan, and her expression darkened. “Is Shaun cheating on me again?”
“What do you mean by again? He was previously hypnotized by Sarah, so technically, he didn’t cheat on you.”
It was rare for Logan to stand up for Shaun, so hearing him say that made Cate wonder if pigs could fly. “You actually spoke up for Shaun. Don’t you hate him?”
“I’m not a petty person anyway.” Logan looked into her eyes and said with mixed feelings, “What’s more, he has made it up to me.”
Cate was increasingly bewildered.
Logan lifted his hand from which one finger was missing. “This morning, Shaun returned a finger to me, and it belonged to him.”
