Chapter 1476
Chapter 1476
Over the years, Harper had always been Vanessa' side. She knew how eager Vanessa was to find the man who defiled her and bring him to justice.
Now that Jonathan was not the perpetrator, Harper knew that they would have to start all over again. However, none of them knew where to start. Harper thought that Vanessa would have been devastated, so she said, "Vanessa, I want you to know that I'm always here for you. Don't keep everything to yourself, okay?"
Vanessa said, "Don't worry about me, Miss Young. I'm really fine. Since he's not the one, we'll just keep looking. I believe that we will definitely find that man one day and bring him to justice."
Upon receiving Vanessa's reassurance, Harper was relieved. "Vanessa, it's good that you can think this way. That man will definitely get what he deserves one day. Also, if you need my help, please do not hesitate to give me a call, okay?"
Vanessa nodded. "Okay. Thanks, Miss Young!"
Back then, Vanessa had fallen into Fiona Cobb's wicked scheme and was pregnant with Lawrie. Not only that, Fiona even forced her to give up on the child. Hence, in a fit of anger, Vanessa decided to run away from home and cut all ties with her family.
After Lawrie was born, he had always been in poor health. However, it didn't catch Vanessa's attention at all. It was until one day that Lawrie was suddenly down with high fever. Hence, she quickly brought Lawrie to the local hospital only to find out that Lawrie was suffering from leukaemia.
From then on, Vanessa only had one goal, that was to make money to treat Lawrie's leukemia.
Over the years, in order to provide Lawrie with a good life and to treat his illness, Vanessa had once worked three jobs and would sleep less than three hours a day. Fortunately, there were helpful people like Harper Young and Winnie Ziglar who came into her life. They were always there for her when she was at her hardest.
Lawrie was not born into a complete family nor did he have a healthy body. At such a young age, he had to go through hardships which many people could not withstand. However, Vanessa was very optimistic. She believed that the gods would definitely make it up to him in the future for having to suffer so much when he was young.
According to Mencius, a Chinese Confucian philosopher, when heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, expose his body to hunger, put him to poverty, place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent.
After calming herself down, Vanessa walked out of the ward to see Julien. She saw that Julien was sitting on the sofa with his legs gracefully crossed. He was staring into the space, as if he was thinking about something.
Vanessa looked at him for a while before walking up to him. "Mr. Kyle, thank you for letting Lawrie stay in such a nice ward."
Previously, Lawrie was staying in a normal ward, with two other patients in the same ward. Apart from the patients, there were also their family members who were there to keep them company. Hence, the ward was usually crowded, and it was nothing like this VIP ward, which was like a service apartment.
Julien put his leg down and turned to look at
Vanessa. He said, "Is that all I get?"
Vanessa asked, "What do you want then?"
Julien added, "Would you do whatever I want then?"
Vanessa answered, "I'll try my best to make money and pay you back."
Julien added, "Huh... I'm afraid that you won't be able to pay me back even if you were to work for the rest of your life." NôvelDrama.Org: owner of this content.
Vanessa was speechless.
He was the one who paid for everything, of course he could say anything he liked. Moreover, Julien wouldn't actually do anything to her anyway, so she would just let him feel good by letting him say whatever he wanted then.
Julien said, "There are some rumors and nasty comments going around the Internet. You should just ignore them. I will have my men to deal with it."
Vanessa sat beside Julien and sneered, "I saw the news a while ago. Those people must have nothing better to do in life."
Julien was slightly astonished. "Aren't you angry?"
Vanessa said with a smile, "It's a fact that I have a child out of wedlock, so why should I be angry? What's more, they said that I have seduced you and it's the truth too, so I have no reasons to be angry."
Julien replied, "No, they're wrong. You didn't seduce me. I was the one who was trying to seduce you all this while."
Vanessa shrugged. She said with an indifferent look on her face. "They are the same thing, aren't they?"
Julien said, "Of course not."
Vanessa looked at Julien and suddenly changed the subject. "Mr. Kyle, it doesn't matter what others say about me. Then again, the reason why they looked into my past was you."
Julien was not surprised that Vanessa had managed to grasp the gist of this entire incident. He had always known that Vanessa was a smart person ever since he met her in school. She understood how the world works better than anyone else.
Julien said, "Tell me about it then."
Vanessa continued, "There are countless women who had children without getting married and I'm just one of them. If it wasn't because I'm your fiancee, no one will ever pay any attention to me. They wanted to expose me not because they wanted to destroy me, but you. They wanted to use this matter to destroy you."
Julien said with a smile, "Do you think that they have the ability to destroy me?"
"Julien, you really shouldn't take this matter lightly." Vanessa glared at him and said solemnly, "We all know that a few people can't do anything to you, but what if there are a lot of people behind this? If they continue to spread all these negative news about you, more people are going to join in to attack you."
Julien nodded in satisfaction. "Yeah. Well, you're analysing the whole situation very well. Go on."
"What do you mean by that? I'm telling you all these so that you will take this matter seriously." Vanessa was very worried that Julien would get hurt because of this matter. Through her tone and words, Julien could tell that Vanessa was concerned about him. "You should understand better than
me that in this digital age, the public's opinion is something that we shouldn't take lightly. People with malicious intentions may use this against you and you won't know how bad things will turn out."
Julien curled his lips into a faint smile. "Are you worried about me?"
Julien's light- hearted behaviour made Vanessa roar in anger, "If I'm not worried about you, why am I explaining all these to you? Do you think I have nothing else better to do?"
At that instant, Julien stretched out his long arms and pulled Vanessa into his embrace. "With you worrying about me, no one will be able to hurt me."
He would not let anyone hurt her. He would live a long life to protect the people he wanted to protect.
Vanessa was somewhat speechless. "Julien, I'm here to talk about serious matters. Can you please be a little more serious?"
Julien said, "I'm being serious here."
Vanessa did not know what else she could say.