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Startled, Cate’s head began to buzz. It took her a long while before she came back to her senses.
“He chopped off one of his fingers,” Logan added plainly. “What did you tell him yesterday? I was quite surprised that he did this out of the blue.”
“Yesterday?”
Cate recalled that Shaun suddenly mentioned Logan’s finger when they had a barbecue together. After that, her spirits sank, and she barely spoke to him.
There was a knot in her heart that was too painful to untie.
However, she did not expect Shaun to chop off his finger for real.
She thought that he was all talk. After all, it was a finger, not a strand of hair or a tree.
Was Shaun dumb?
Logan noticed that Cate’s pretty, confused face gradually paled, and he could not help but let out a sigh.
“To be honest, when you got back together with Shaun, I wondered if there wasn’t a better man in this world. I didn’t understand why you had to cling to him. But frankly speaking, he may have been tricked by Sarah back then, but he does truly love you now. If it weren’t for you, how could he have brought himself to chop off his finger? He did that for the sole purpose of reducing the distance between you and him.”
Cate, of course, grasped his point.
She had verbally agreed to get back together with Shaun these few days.
In fact, she did it for the sake of the children. Moreover, he had been pestering her so much that she could not do anything nor be bothered to oppose him.
However, she had not yet opened her heart to him.
Logan shrugged. “When you returned from overseas, you kept saying that you wanted to take revenge on him before getting back together with him. However, I could see that you were swayed. It was because he chopped off my finger that you totally gave up on him.
“Actually, I’ve long since gotten over it. You’re the one who hasn’t, and it’s probably because you think that you’ve dragged me down with you and failed to protect me. But I hope that the two of you can patch things up this time.”
After he was done speaking, he turned around and walked in the other direction.
A few steps later, he turned around again and added, “I just came from his place, and he didn’t look so good.”
Cate stood frozen for a while until Harvey came over and said, “chairwoman Cox, General Manager Wolfe wants to ask you out for lunch and talk about business…”
” ¡®I’m not available. I’m taking today off, and I won’t be back in the office.”
Cate then tossed the document to him and immediately left the office.
She drove directly to Lyons Corporation.
Once she arrived, she took the elevator to the top floor and kicked the office door open.
There were five to six executives inside, and all of them cast bizarre gazes on her.
“Cate, what brings you here?” Shaun instantly stood up. There was a look of surprise on his slightly pale face.
“President Lyons, we’ll leave now. ” The executives excused themselves knowingly.
When the executives left, they were still gossiping in whispers.
“It seems like Young Master Lyons has gotten back together with his ex-wife.”
“Duh. Rumors were flying about it earlier. How could it be fake?”
“Hey, I have never seen Cate come to look for Young Master Lyons before, but now, I’m convinced. “
“Do you guys think I’m deaf? Hurry up and get out. ” Shaun glowered at the bunch of executives impatiently before he slammed the door shut.
Then, he asked delightedly in a gentle tone, “Cate, has Logan told you something?”
“Which hand did you chop off your finger from? Show it to me.” Cate ordered glumly.
“There’s nothing much to see. It’s grotesque, and it might give you a fright.” Shaun retreated awkwardly.
He had never experienced such poor self-esteem until he looked at her foxy face at this moment.
“Shaun.” Cate lifted her reddened eyes and stared at him. “Why didn’t you think that it would frighten me when you chopped off your finger?”
Shaun’s exquisite, thin lips quivered. At last, he stretched out his hand obediently.
Among the positions of his five fingers, there was one empty spot wrapped with a thick layer of bandage.
Cate felt like her eyes were being pricked by something.
She tried to hold it in, but her eyes still reddened.
” Shaun, is there something wrong with you?” She lost control and scolded him.
Shaun gazed at her reddened eyes, and suddenly, he did not feel so self-conscious or nervous anymore. On the contrary, his lips lifted in a sweet smile. ” You’re concerned about me.”
Cate was too pissed off by Shaun to say anything.
He was in this state, yet he still said he was concerned about him. Was that the point?
“Cate, I’m really happy. It seems like chopping m y finger off was worth it.” Shaun said tenderly, “If I knew earlier, I wouldn’t have delayed it until today. I would’ve chopped it long ago.”
“Shaun, actually, I…” Cate felt a lump in her throat.
“Cate, don’t say anything. Listen to me.”
Shaun used his other perfectly fine hand to cover her mouth. “You told me before that you treat Logan as your family and that if I chopped his fingers off, it’d be impossible for us to be together. However, I went crazy and still did it anyway. In fact, I had another reason. I was jealous of Logan. I was very uncomfortable seeing you care so much about another man. But it’s been proven that I was wrong.”
“Although you’ve agreed to make up with me, I understand you did that for the children. You barely take the initiative to call, message, or meet me.
There are hurdles between us. Sarah is the first hurdle, while Logan is the second. I may not be able to compensate you for the first hurdle, so I must compensate you for the second. If not, even if we get back together, we can never return to the relationship we had in the past.”
After he spoke, he hugged Cate tightly.
“Cate, my memories of the past are jumbled up, and I can’t remember them anymore. However, after you came back to Australia, we were in a relationship for a short period. Although it was very short, it was unforgettable to me. I clearly knew you approached me on purpose to get revenge on me, but I was still very happy. I was the stupid one for not knowing how to cherish you properly. Can you give me another chance again?”
He lowered his head and looked at her with a deep gaze full of anticipation.
Cate did not say anything. Instead, she lowered her head, held his injured hand, and interlocked their fingers. They could do that in the past, but now, one of his hands would never be able to interlock with hers again.
Her tears fell uncontrollably.
She did not know why she was crying. She just could not help but think about how they always interlocked their fingers when they loved each other deeply back then.
“Cate, never in my life did I think I would see you shed tears for me.”
Shaun lowered his head and used his thin lips to kiss the tears on her face away. “Aren’t tears salty? Why are yours so sweet?”
Haha.
Cate wanted to cry, but after hearing his words, she could not resist bursting into laughter.
She raised her hand instinctively and hit him lightly. Shaun hissed in pain.
Cate said nervously, “Don’t pretend. I was hitting your chest, not your wound.”
“The body vibrates, and the wound will hurt too. ” Shaun smiled bitterly.
Cate frowned in silence. Just as Shaun thought he would receive her warm care next, she suddenly said, “You’re really weak. Logan sustained such severe injuries back then and even lost his finger, yet he didn’t even complain when I sent him to the hospital.”
Shaun was discontent from being looked down on by the woman he loved. “I was joking. I’m not in pain. If you don’t believe me, you can press hard on my wound and see.”
He then lifted his hand and tensed his handsome face as if he had nothing to lose.
Cate suddenly realized that he looked pretty childish that way. He was so childish that he looked a little cute, especially when that handsome face was very pale. That look could make any woman’s heart ache.
