Filed to story: I Got Married Without You
They squatted down next to Stella and checked her up and down, relieved to find that she wasn’t injured.
Rosalyn looked at Stella for a few seconds, then straightened up and hugged her tenderly. “Stella, it’s okay, we found you…”
Stella’s restrained emotions suddenly overwhelmed her as she saw them. Her eyes reddened, as if she had seen her own family, and she couldn’t help but reach out and hug Rosalyn back. She didn’t say anything, just quietly leaned against Rosalyn’s embrace, while her other hand held Eva’s.
“Thank you both…”
Dealing with Erin wasn’t easy, yet they managed to find her location in such a short time. This meant that they had put in a great deal of effort in terms of manpower, resources, and finances. Stella felt insignificant, but the fact that so many people cared about her made her think that maybe her existence had meaning.
“Stella, you’re family to us, no need to thank us.’
Rosalyn gently patted her back, her actions gentle, her words warm, warming Stella’s heart. She couldn’t control herself and hugged Rosalyn tightly once again.
Like grabbing a lifeline, Stella held onto her desperately, finding redemption in that moment, despite her physical and mental exhaustion.
Eva, like an older sister, brushed the messy hair from Stella’s face and tucked it behind her ear, her movements gentle, not disturbing the tranquility of the moment.
It was unclear how much time had passed, but Stella’s anxious heart gradually eased with Rosalyn’s hug and Eva’s gesture, and she no longer felt frantic.
Seeing her emotions expressed and her expression returning to calm, Rosalyn finally took Stella to clean up the blood stains, while Eva went to buy new towels and clothes.
They helped Stella take a bath and wanted to take her to a hotel to rest. However, Stella insisted on waiting for Henry’s surgery to finish because she was worried about him. When she heard from the doctor that Henry’s surgery was successful, she finally felt relieved.
Henry was still unconscious from the anesthesia. Once Stella knew he was okay, with Eva’s persuasion, she got up. But before she could leave the room, a bodyguard sent by Andrew suddenly came in with a phone call.
“Mr. Evans, Erin is dead.”
Andrew froze for a moment. Without waiting for the bodyguard to finish, he immediately hung up the phone and turned to look at Stella, who was slowing down her steps.
After hesitating for two seconds, he spoke, “Stella, Erin is dead…”
Stella’s body suddenly stiffened. Whether it was fear or something else, she felt her hands tremble in an instant, followed by her legs weakening and her inability to stand steadily.
If it weren’t for Rosalyn and Eva supporting her on both sides, she would have collapsed on the ground by now.
Her face gradually turned pale, and her once sturdy back that refused to turn also visibly slumped down…
She froze in place, not knowing how long, until Andrew’ cold voice came again from her car, and she slowly turned her head…
“What?”
She didn’t hear anything clearly just now, as if the whole world had become silent, leaving only the ringing in her cars and the explosive wailing in her mind, preventing her from hearing what Mr. Evans said… Andrew held his phone tightly and took heavy steps towards Stella.
“The police temporarily won’t let anyone touch his body. If you want to see him, you can see him for the last time before they arrive.”
Erin died from a gunshot, which was a criminal case and required the crime scene to be sealed. In addition, the American police were also investigating Erin’s whereabouts, so the body couldn’t be easily taken away.
Stella, still in a daze, heard the words “body” and finally realized that Erin was really dead. But he was so skilled in medicine, how could this happen…
When he was young, he had once survived a gunshot wound in the wilderness, performing the surgery himself. Back then, he managed to pull through, so why now…
Stella lowered her gaze to her hands, which were already clean with no traces of blood. But for some reason, she still felt like her hands were covered in blood…
After staring at them for a long time, she suddenly let go of Rosalyn and Eva’s hands, rushed out of the ward, and ran into the restroom. She desperately tried to wash off the “blood” from her hands, but no matter how hard she tried, it wouldn’t come off.
Feeling powerless, she leaned her hands against the edge of the sink; looked up at herself in the mirror-pale face, lips devoid of color, dark circles under her eyes…
She told herself that she had become this way because of Erin. If he died, she could peacefully live the rest of her life without anyone bothering her…
Thinking of this, Stella’s eyes unexpectedly turned red.
She raised her hand and slapped herself hard, feeling foolish. Why was she feeling upset and why should she be upset?
He’s dead, so what? Why should she feel upset?!
However, her tears continued to flow uncontrollably.
Erin was the person she had loved with all her might when she was young. She actually shot and killed him…
Stella slapped herself hard again. She shouldn’t be crying for a man who had bullied her since childhood and even took away her uterus. He deserved it!
She felt like she was being torn apart internally. After struggling repeatedly in her mind, she turned on the faucet, desperately splashing water on her face. After splashing herself awake, she grabbed a tissue and expressionlessly wiped the water off her face.
When she came out, Andrew, Paul, Rosalyn, and Eva were standing outside the door, looking at her as if waiting for her response.
Stella clenched her fists and said firmly, “I was the one who shot him. Of course, I won’t go see him one last time.”
After saying that, she walked past the four of them and quickly entered the hospital room, sitting by Henry’s bedside, waiting for him to wake up…
The local police officer who received the case asked Andrew, “What did she just say?”
Andrew’s cold eyes, as if covered in frost, glanced at the police officer, who was intimidated by this look and didn’t dare to ask any more.
Rosalyn, who slowly recovered from the shock, looked through the glass of the hospital room at Stella, who seemed calm but was actually in a panic. Stella must have been pushed to the extreme to shoot the person she once deeply loved, right?
She had thought that Stella and Erin would be entangled in hatred for their whole lives, but she didn’t expect that their ultimate ending would be paying with their lives to end it.
She remembered the look Erin used to give Stella, possessive, there was intense and passionate love.
Erin loved Stella, but the love he gave was too extreme. However, whether this ending was good or bad, nobody knew…
Eva wasn’t very sensitive when it came to emotions, so it was hard for her to tell if Stella still loved Erin or not. She just felt that Stella right now seemed to be trembling all over…
After standing still for a moment, she walked into the hospital room and placed her hand on Stella’s shoulder, giving her a little strength.
Paul didn’t have much of a feeling about whether Erin was alive or dead. The only regret he had was that Erin turned out to be a computer genius and was gone just like that, which was a bit of a shame. Before the police arrived at the scene, Andrew’s bodyguard called again, “Mr. Evans, I just wanted to let you know that before Erin died, he wrote a will with blood on the ground. He also held a gun in his hand, and from his posture, it seemed like he wanted to make it look like suicide…”
After hearing this, Andrew immediately realized Erin’s intentions and quickly instructed the bodyguard, “Get rid of any traces of Stella and Henry ever being here.” Even if it was self-defense, there would still be consequences. Since Erin wanted to protect Stella, it was as he wished to protect her even after his death. ard replied and quickly hung up the phone. Before the police arrived, he cleaned up all the evidence, even wiping away the fingerprints on the gun.
After doing all this, the bodyguard put the gun back in Erin’s hand and then raised his gloved hand, waving it at the others before swiftly leaving the scene.
Andrew stared at Stella in the hospital room and hesitated for a moment before telling her about the will and the staged suicide left by Erin. As for whether she wanted to go see Erin or not, it was her own choice.
After being stunned for a while, Stella looked up and asked Andrew, “What did he write?”
Andrew shook his head, “I didn’t ask, I don’t know.”
Stella’s clenched fists tightened uncontrollably in her hands.
