Filed to story: The CEO’s Wife Is a Secret Boss Novel (Allison & Jeremy) Free Online
“Jeremy is weak, always second-guessing. He had you, but he was afraid of everything. He doesn’t deserve you.” He pressed the hand wearing the ring against his chest, his eyes burning with passion. “I’ll give you everything he couldn’t. We’ll have a romantic island wedding here on Rose Island. The creatures and the birds will be our witnesses.
“I have a huge field of roses here. I will pick the freshest and most beautiful at dawn for you. Aren’t these part of the life that you longed for?”
“I do long for these… But only if it’s with Jeremy.” Alyssa stared at Jameson fiercely. She clarified, “With you, all these are meaningless!
‘Jameson, so what if you scheme and go to any lengths to do all these? Your heart is just a barren land where nothing grows. It’s where roses will never grow. Never ever!”
The smile froze on Jameson’s face. Accompanied by his usually-paled face, he looked especially frigid, sinister, and sly at this very moment.
That said, he regained his composure soon enough. He placed a hand behind her neck and lowered his eyes, ready to taste the lips he’d longed for.
“Mrs. Schmidt… Where is she?” Fearing that Jameson would have his dream realized, Alyssa blurted a question. Jameson’s chest tightened. He froze.
Alyssa sensed the sorrow surging in those dark eyes behind his gold-framed glasses. Immediately, she realized, so she pressed on anxiously, “What in the world happened to Mrs. Schmidt?”
Feeling like his heart was being pierced by blades, Jameson’s words filled with pain. “My mother has passed away.”
Alyssa’s head started buzzing. “When did that happen?”
“That day, after getting on the helicopter, she passed away on the way to Rose Island.” The warmth dissipated from Jameson’s palms, perhaps out of guilt. At this moment, he dared not look into Alyssa’s sharp, bright eyes.
However, Lyse was a sharp witted and attentive person.
Being in such close proximity, Alyssa took notice of all the microexpressions on his face. Suddenly, it clicked. Her chest rose and fell as she glared at Jameson. ‘That’s not right! Mrs. Schmidt didn’t have an episode because she became too agitated from what I said. It was you… You did something in secret!”
Jameson pretended to be surprised. “How could it be me, Lyse? You know the condition my mother was in. Her body was already on the brink of breaking down. The doctor had said that she might not live till next year.
“At a time like this, of course I’d have to spend the rest of her time together with her… How could I hurt her? She was my mother, my only family member.”
In an instant, Alyssa could make the connections between those minute details. “If so, you should’ve flown to the hospital and done your best to save her. But, as you said earlier, you flew straight to Rose Island after picking your mother up. This shows that you’ve never even thought of saving her in the first place!”
A cold glint flickered in Jameson’s eyes, masking the savage fury unleashed by the pain and desperation as his wound was torn open.
*Lyse… I know you despise me, but you can’t slander me like this…”
“I slandered you? Jameson, you’ve really gone off the deep end. You dared to do such a thing but don’t have the guts to admit to it?”
Alyssa stared straight at his pale and gloomy face. There wasn’t any fear within her, only a heart-wrenching resentment. “Mrs. Schmidt looked like she was having an episode because of what I said, but I already felt something was off when she was seizing and foaming at the mouth.
“In the past, you’ve said that your mother’s heart was weak. But when I checked on her eyes and pulse at the time, she wasn’t presenting with symptoms of a heart attack, let alone a seizure.
‘Subsequently, red spots started to form on her skin. Pairing all that with the way you’re reacting right now, I have reason to believe that you injected Mrs. Schmidt with some poisonous substance beforehand. She was poisoned to death!”
Jameson’s hand on her waist started to tense up. The veins on his hands popped, and a menacing gleam presented itself in his eyes.
‘Jameson… hasn’t it been enough that you’ve hurt and killed so many? You even used and murdered your own mother? How could you do that..”
“Lyse, do you know that your smarts are both your strength and weakness?” Jameson smiled despite having reddened eyes, making his face look even more twisted and despondent than if he were to cry.
“How could I have done that? Others may not understand me, but you do, don’t you?”
Jameson grabbed Alyssa by the chin, squeezing her so hard that it seemed like he wanted to crush her bones. “It was all because of you… All because of you!” Jameson’s voice, ragged and raw, erupted from him, a mutilated sound filled with anguish.
To outsiders, he was inhumane and evil. But to Alyssa, he had never raised his voice-not once in all the years they’d known each other. Yet now, love and hate, despair and rage, melded into a twisted knot inside him.
Suppressed for too long, it festered, rotted, devoured him like maggots feasting on decayed flesh. He had become a breeding ground for sin, and when he finally wanted to turn back, it was already too late. He was a monster-his humanity lost.
He had lost all control, and it was too late for any regrets.
“My mother… Even if I hadn’t done it, she didn’t have long to live. She would’ve suffered horribly. I just helped her avoid that pain.”
His burning gaze softened, and Jameson leaned close to Alyssa’s ear, brushing his trembling lips against her skin. “Would you have gotten into the helicopter so willingly if I hadn’t? It would’ve been harder to bring you here. I only had one shot; I couldn’t fail.
“So, I had my mother help me. Although she’s gone, I think… Even if she knew about my motives, she would definitely, without a doubt, forgive me for the things I did to her because she loved me, her only son.”
Agony surged within.
Even though Alyssa wasn’t expressing her sadness on her face, tears streamed down her cheeks.
“What exactly in the world… made you like this? You weren’t like this 15 years ago…”
The Jimmy from 15 years ago has died a long time ago.”
With a twisted smile on his face, Jameson wrapped his arms tightly around Alyssa. Without him even realizing it, his face was also covered in tears. “But the Jimmy who loves you will never die.”
The news about Jameson abducting Alyssa was hidden successfully from her relatives in Cyrris. Even so, they didn’t manage to hide it from Axel.
Along with Amber, Axel rushed to get to the presidential office from the hospital overnight.
Amber didn’t dare to say a word along the way. She simply held Axel gently in her arms as she soothed his trembling back patiently to comfort him.
Even though Axel barely showed any emotion on his face, Amber knew he was on the verge of breaking down. One word from her-a futile attempt at comfort-and his carefully held emotions would explode.
*Jonah… Jeremy…
The moment Axel laid eyes on his family, his body trembled. His strong, unyielding fa?ade crumbled as tears finally broke free.
‘Don’t cry, Axel.’
Jonah went up and embraced Axel. He patted his back lightly. “Crying wouldn’t solve any of our problems. The most important thing now is to rescue Lyse.”
“It was all my fault… It was all my fucking fault!” Axel gave himself a hard slap. “I was the one who neglected Lyse …I was the one who lost her. I deserve to die.”
“Axel, it had nothing to do with you.” Jeremy walked over slowly, his footsteps heavy, eyes bloodshot and sunken.” I’m the one to blame.
“I’m Lyse’s partner, and I’ve swom to all of you that I’d protect her… Yet, I’ve messed everything up. I’m sorry.”
He had messed it all up. He’d spoken similar ones before-after Alyssa lost their child-but now, the pain was unbearable, tearing him apart from the inside.
“Lyse?” Miley cried out when she saw Amber, who looked very much like Alyssa. She ran up to her and held her in a tight embrace.
‘Miley, this isn’t Lyse. She’s Axel’s girlfriend.”
Jeremy studied Amber’s face in shock. He was also caught in a daze momentarily. Even so, he put his arm over Miley’s shoulders and comforted her in a gentle voice, ‘We can handle it here. You’re exhausted. Why don’t you go upstairs for a nap?”
Seeing that Miley was refusing adamantly, Amber spoke up softly. “Miley…”
Upon hearing that voice, Miley covered her mouth and burst out crying.
“How about if I accompanied you to go upstairs and take a rest?” Amber negotiated with her while imitating Alyssa.
To her surprise, it actually worked.
Because of her appearance, Miley, who was in a muddled state, heeded Amber’s suggestion. With Amber holding onto her, they made their way upstairs slowly.
The atmosphere in the living room was heavy and silent.
As Axel watched Amber from behind, tears welled up in his eyes, and his heart was pained.
The thing Amber hated the most in her life was being Alyssa’s substitute. This was a humiliation that Jameson had engraved deep within her.
Yet now, she had no choice but to be Alyssa to comfort Miley, who was on the brink of collapsing.
*Axel, we’ve looked into the helicopter that took Lyse away, and found that it flew toward the coastal area in the south.”
Cyrus waited until everyone’s emotions had settled down a little before speaking up in a low voice. “If I were Jameson, I would surely take Lyse away from land. I wouldn’t live in the woods either, as it would be difficult to escape, and resources would be limited.
“That said, even if the helicopter flew toward the south, it doesn’t eliminate the possibility that they’d change directions along the way. But whatever it is, it’s still a lead. We can start by looking into all of Kontina’s islands.”
‘Let’s look into them, then. We’ll find her. We’ll search the islands one by one!”
Axel wiped his tears away. His eyes had become bloodshot. ‘Let me inform Liam to deploy more manpower to Kontina as soon as possible.”
*I’ve informed Liam, even though I really didn’t want to.”
Jonah had an extremely bitter smile on his face as he took a deep breath. “Now, as we try to keep our family stable, we must also mobilize all the resources we have to track Lyse down. Liam is already rushing to Kontina. I’m sure he has the authority to mobilize some manpower.”
