Chapter 21
Ethan locked Summer in the villa.
He took her phone and all her belongings. He left no food in the house.
Ignoring her screams, he locked the door tight.
Then he walked away.
His assistant had been blowing up his phone.
When Ethan finally answered, his assistant sighed with relief.
“Boss, you finally picked up! There’s an urgent thing needs you.”
Ethan didn’t respond to that. Instead, he emotionlessly ordered:
“Buy several cases of alcohol. Deliver them to my home.”
He hung up and ignored his phone after that.
Back home, he sealed all the windows shut and closed all the curtains. He clutched
Scarlett’s pillow, desperately inhaling whatever scent remained.
But he quickly realized even her scent was fading away.
He completely broke down. All his bottled–up emotions crashed over him like a tidal wave.
He screamed Scarlett’s name in agonizing grief. Never before had he so desperately wished
he could turn back time…
When his assistant arrived, it was already dark. He knocked for ages but no one answered the door or phone.
Growing worried, he called a lacksmith to open the door.
The smell of blood hit him immediately, making him grimace.
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He rushed in and spotted Ethan collapsed on the floor.
“Boss!”
When Ethan woke up, he found himself in the hospital.
“Boss, you need to stop drinking.”
Ethan ignored his assistant’s words. With his free hand, he frantically searched his body.
“Where’s the red string?”
“Where’s my red string?”
His eyes were wild with panic as he ripped out his IV.
“Boss! Don’t move! You need to rest!”
“What are you looking for? Tell me and I’ll find it.”
Ethan grabbed his assistant’s arm. “The red string! Did you see it? It was cut into pieces!”
“Scarlett got it for me from the mountain! I finally found it in her drawer! I can’t lose it!
Help me find it! GO FIND IT NOW!”
His grip left red marks on his assistant’s arm. The assistant tried to hold down the agitated Ethan but got shoved away instead.
“You were making such a scene when admitted,” his assistant said urgently. “It might have dropped on the way or somewhere in the hospital. Don’t worry, I’ll look for it. Let me get the
nurse to reconnect your IV first-”
Before he could finish, Ethan jumped off the bed and rushed out of the room.
“Boss! You just had surgery! You can’t get up!”
Ignoring him, Ethan clutched his aching stomach. Each step felt like his organs were being
torn apart.
He was drenched in sweat from the pain. Just as he exited the elevator, he collapsed
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face–first onto the floor, his head splitting open and bleeding.
“Boss!”
His assistant hurried over to help him up.
He gave Ethan a complicated look. “Boss, the company needs you more than that red string right now. Please pull yourself together. Scarlett is gone. You need to let go.”
“Besides, she loved you so much. She wouldn’t want to see you like this.”
Ethan’s pupils trembled.
That’s right. Scarlett had loved him so much.
Yet he had hurt her over and over. Even when her family was in trouble, he had stood by and done nothing.
He gasped for breath, carelessly wiping the blood from his forehead, letting his assistant
take him back to his room.
He started cooperating with treatment–taking his medicine, accepting IVs.
Except for being unable to sleep at night, he seemed like a normal person.
After leaving the hospital, he quickly immersed himself in work.
He ate and slept at the company. His office light stayed on–late into the night.
His assistant watched him from a distance through the door.
Since returning to work, Ethan had been strangely calm. He’d acquired the Reid Company
and given it all the best resourcés.
When the Brooks family wanted him to rename the Reid Company and let their relatives
run it…
Ethan didn’t even blink before having them all thrown out.
For the Reid family’s sake, he’d offended too many people. Now he’d even offended his own
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family.
His assistant shook his head and sighed.
“What’s wrong? Still worried about the boss? He’s moved on, hasn’t he? He’s even more ruthless in his decisions than before!”
The assistant looked back at Ethan hunched over his desk.
“Haven’t you noticed?”
“Noticed what?”
“There’s a deathly aura around him.”
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