Chapter 256

Ned wanted to deny his actions to Angeline, but he could not make a sound. He wanted to hug her as she stood alone by the pool, soaking wet, but he could not reach her no matter how hard he tried.
He watched her stand with her back straight as she faced all her friends and insisted on reviving his memories. When everyone had dispersed and abandoned her, she had hidden herself in the storeroom under the stairs and sobbed as she hugged her knees into her body.
He saw himself deliberately kissing Ingrid in front of Angeline and intentionally getting drunk when taking Ingrid to the house that he had prepared for Angeline. However, he and Ingrid hadn’t done anything in that master bedroom.
Ned saw Angeline sit in the living room, her hands trembling as she held a wine glass. He watched as she gulped down sleeping pills with the wine.
When Angeline had woken up in the hospital, he had contemptuously said that she should have slit her wrists if she wanted to die faster so that he and Ingrid could be free at last.
For two whole years, Ned had done everything in his power to torture her, until the day he drank a glass of wine with something added to it and stated that she was disgusting.
He had stood looking down on Angeline, who had fallen to the ground.
He had lifted her chin with a finger and said to Tommy, “Since she’s so thirsty, find a few people to satisfy her!”
He clearly remembered Angeline laughing quietly after recovering from her shock. It had been an imperceptible sound, full of desolation.
She had asked him, “Ned… If you recover your memories one day and realize what you did to me, will you regret it?”
He tried to recall his response.
“If I recover my memories one day, I would wish that I had never met you. I should have just let you rot in Emmerson Village.”
If Zachary hadn’t carried Angeline away, Ned knew he would have just let Tommy find someone as he’d suggested.
After that, Angeline tossed the divorce agreement at him with a distant look in her eyes. The intense, heart-pounding love in her eyes was gone.
She said, “I refused to let go because I was afraid that one day my Ned would return. He would have blamed me if he had learned I had easily given up on our love. I tried my best, but it was too tiring. So Ned I don’t want you anymore.” Ned was in disbelief.
He couldn’t believe that Angeline no longer wanted him.
He thought himself an asshole. He
had deeply hurt Angeline. He ha
hurt Angeline
who had loved him
fiercely her entire life..net>
What had happened to him?
Had someone possessed him, or had he gone mad?
He watched himself push Angeline and cause her head to bleed profusely, He watched her break down because of Anne’s death and
he watched her despair because he used the Emmersons to threaten
her.
BUMS
He watched himself push Angeline down the stairs when she was pregnant, and he watched as Angeline told him with a smile that
Eshe was pret with someone
else’s child the night that he drugged her.
Ned jolted awake and sat up, his face covered in tears.
“Ned! You’re awake!”
Gregory woke up from where he had been sleeping with his head in his arms. He rubbed his eyes.
“You kept crying while you were asleep.”
Ned’s gaze widened as he grabbed Gregory and asked, “Where’s Angeline? Where’s Angeline?”
“I think Angeline’s boyfriend took her away yesterday,” Gregory said.
“Boyfriend?”
Ned trembled.
“Yes. I called Alva. She said that it was Angeline’s boyfriend,” Gregory said truthfully.
He saw Ned’s reaction and realized that it was very likely that Ned had recovered his memories.
He added, “Angeline is very happy now, so you don’t need to feel too guilty.”