During the three years of pestering Daniel, he never responded to my love and was cold and heartless to me from beginning to end, but I still did not hide my love for him.

I thought that even if he was tired of me, he stayed by my side and agreed to get engaged to me because he was grateful and moved by me. At this moment, I realized that from beginning to end, I was just a chess piece that he discarded like a worn-out shoe.

I lay on the ground with a dead heart. The former Thalia gradually died. The bright and beautiful Thalia who loved him like fire died. Daniel killed her with his own hands.

“What if she doesn’t want to give it?”

Lucy’s voice pulled me back from my memories. Not only did she want to know, but I was also waiting for Daniel’s answer at this time.

Time ticked by and the little hope that remained in my heart was completely destroyed with Daniel’s cold voice.

He smiled easily, but his voice was full of coldness. “If she doesn’t give it to me, I will take it. When you recover for a while, I will arrange the operation immediately and won’t put you in danger.”

The moisture that had been turning around in my eyes for countless times finally became unbearable and covered my entire face.

“It’s late. I’ll ask the driver to take you back.”

Lucy looked shy. “But, I want to stay here tonight.”

As she said that, she leaned into Daniel’s arms. “Okay!”

Daniel coaxed patiently, “Reporters love to catch wind and shadows, write nonsense to ruin people’s reputation. Be good, I will let you live here legitimately soon.”

I never knew that Daniel had such a thoughtful side.

Thinking back then, I went back to the Snyder Family with him just after my father’s funeral. The reporters’ hype instantly pushed me to the forefront and Daniel never stood up to say a word for me.

Seeing that the two were about to come out, I hurried into the room, leaned against the door and listened to the movement outside the door.

Not long after, Daniel’s door opened and closed and my body relaxed and slid to the ground.

No wonder he didn’t save me when I was kidnapped and even said he would collect my body.

It turned out that when I saw Daniel running toward me on my deathbed, he didn’t come to save me, but to take my heart to save Lucy.

After a long time, I wiped away my tears and propped myself up.

I had died once. I couldn’t repeat the same mistake again.

I randomly packed a few clothes and stuffed them into the canvas bag and put a power bank in it. I opened the bedside table and found the ID card that had been there all the time.

I didn’t want to alarm Daniel, so I didn’t turn on the light. I turned on the flashlight on my phone and searched the cabinet, under the pillow and in the suitcase, but found nothing.

Just as I was mumbling to myself, Daniel came in at some point, staring at me with a sharp gaze. “What are you looking for?”

I was so scared that I stuttered, “Nothing... Nothing.”

He walked closer step by step, stopped when he was a foot away from me, held my ID card and passport between his fingers and asked, “Looking for them?”

Before I could speak, Daniel pressed on step by step and I retreated uncontrollably with his body pressure until my heels hit the edge of the bed and sat down on the bed.

In the dark, he looked down at me. “Where are you going this time?”

The word “again” reminded me of the time when Daniel went on a business trip to Blaco and I secretly went to find him.

In the middle of the night, I was almost robbed and raped by a drug addict on the street. Fortunately, he arrived in time. That time, Daniel pinched my chin with bloodshot eyes and growled, “If you dare to run around again next time, I will kill you.”

I was so naive at that time. I thought he was just talking nonsense, but now I think Daniel was warning me. Warn me not to run away and put Lucy in danger, otherwise he would kill me and take my heart.

“You want to run away after getting into trouble, huh?”

As he said that, he put his phone in front of me, with a huge news headline: [Daniel and Thalia spent a night together in the hotel. Good things are coming?]

The picture showed me supporting him when he was drunk and taking an intimate photo together in the hotel.

“It was not arranged by me,” I denied it flatly.

In the previous life, Daniel got drunk that night and he asked me out when he was unconscious. In order to force marriage, I deliberately leaked these intimate photos to reporters. But I will reveal the information to reporters tomorrow, how could it be exposed tonight?

Daniel’s gloomy face suddenly smiled. “I have officially announced my engagement with you and it will be after.”

“What?” I looked at him in disbelief.

“What’s wrong?” Daniel pinched my chin. “Isn’t this what you want?”

In the previous life, this was indeed what I dreamed of.

However, I loved him desperately, but in the end, the company went bankrupt, my father died, I couldn’t get the love I wanted and I was kidnapped and killed. Now that I had the chance to live again, I had to stay away from Daniel.

Worried about alerting the enemy, I bit my lower lip tightly. “It’s just... I just think it’s too hasty.”

Suddenly, Daniel’s cell phone rang and he opened his phone while walking toward the window.

“Daniel, I saw the news, why did you…”

Although Daniel deliberately lowered his voice, I still understood what he said to Lucy through lip-reading. “I don’t like her and I won’t really marry her. It’s just a stopgap measure.”

After living a new life, hearing him say this in person, my heart still hurt like a needle.

Daniel comforted Lucy a few more words before hanging up. When he looked at me again, his ink-like narrow eyes were dark and unclear.

“The day after tomorrow is the engagement day, don’t run around.”

I nodded in obedience.

At this time, I didn’t know that Daniel had put me under house arrest.

Daniel smoked in the living room on the first floor all night. I couldn’t find a chance to escape, so I fell asleep in bed in a daze.

When I woke up again, it was already noon the next day and Daniel was not at home.

“Ms. Richards, are you going out?”

I subconsciously tightened the canvas bag in my hand. “Well, I have something to do.”

“Mr. Snyder has explained that for your safety, you can only stay in the villa for the time being.”

“I’m just going to the supermarket and will be back soon.”

Winston looked at me warily. “What do you need to buy? Ask them to run a trip.”

As he was talking, two men in suits who were originally guarding the yard came in and stood at the entrance, one on the left and one on the right.

I realized that Daniel wanted to lock me up until Lucy had surgery.

Winston quickly brought out a bowl of fish soup. As soon as he approached, a strong fishy smell drifted into my nose and a strong feeling of nausea immediately surged in my chest. I quickly covered my mouth and ran to the toilet.

I vomited out all the stomach acid. I felt dizzy for a while and it took a long time to stand up.

Winston stood in the bathroom door in a daze, as if he knew something. “Ms. Richards, your reaction is the same as my wife’s morning sickness. You are pregnant!”

My heart began to beat violently. In my chaotic thoughts, I recalled my last menstrual period. A bad premonition came like a tidal wave. My heart beat faster and faster and the dizziness just now became more and more severe. I just wanted to stand up by the sink, but my eyes went black and I lost consciousness.

I woke up in the hospital. When I opened my eyes, Daniel was talking to his doctor friend, Wayne.

“The reason for fainting is that she just got pregnant. Her body is still a little weak and she may have been stimulated again.”

My tightly closed eyes couldn’t help but tremble. I was really pregnant, but this child didn’t exist in the previous life!

Daniel was silent for a moment, took two steps toward the bed and said to Wayne, “Arrange Lucy’s surgery as soon as possible.”

Wayne, who was originally talking, suddenly looked at me. “You are thinking about Lucy like this, have you ever thought about her?”

Daniel only glanced at me. “Time is running out.”

Because Lucy’s time was running out, Daniel was ready to do it to me. Even if there was this child, he could sacrifice me and his child for Lucy without hesitation.

I suppressed the huge sadness and ups and downs in my heart, waited until Daniel received Lucy’s call and left in a hurry.

The sky gradually darkened and Wayne was called away by the nurse after guarding me for two hours. I quickly got up from the bed.

Mobile phone, ID card, I didn’t need them. I put on a coat on the sofa and walked straight out.

The VIP ward of the municipal hospital was on the top floor of the inpatient department and there were almost no people in the corridor. I lowered my head and gathered my clothes, preparing to go down the stairs. Because the elevator had surveillance, I was afraid of being caught by Daniel.

The corridor was dark. As soon as I opened the door, the sensor light above my head came on.

Wayne leaned against the snow-white wall, holding the phone in one hand and the scarlet between the fingers of the other hand flickered in the wind.

Because it was so quiet, I could even hear Daniel’s voice in the receiver. “Tomorrow is the engagement party. Help me keep an eye on her. Someone will kidnap her…”

Daniel suddenly paused and explained, “I have made too many enemies recently.”

Wayne did not doubt his words at all. He was silent for a moment when he looked at me and promised the person in the receiver. “Okay.”

Wayne and I met silently in the air for a few seconds. My body, which was originally a little cold, trembled even more. How could Daniel know that I would be kidnapped? Could it be that... he was also reborn?