After making things clear to Jessica, the bodyguard slowly stood up, and together with the others, stared coldly at Jessica who was lying on the ground, frantically applying direct pressure on her wrist to stop the bleeding.
Never in her wildest dreams would she have expected James to be so smart, and his methods would be so cruel!
She had acted too hastily this time. With the assumption that he was sick, she thought she could care for him and strengthen their bond together, but she didn't expect...
While Jessica was secretly regretting, her anxious gaze was on her wrist that wouldn't stop bleeding.
It was not a wise choice to choose to die, be it right then or later.
Yet, she had no other choice. If she tried postponing her death, she might still stand a chance to escape. So...
"Okay, I'll tell you everything!"
Jessica raised her head to look at the bodyguards and said, "First, get me a doctor!"
The bodyguard scanned her as if he was looking at a fool.
"You're not qualified to negotiate terms with us!"
Jessica gasped at the harsh truth. Although trembling with anger, she had to swallow all her wrath.
She took out her mobile phone from her pocket and threw it on the ground.
"Tell him to read the text messages by himself!"
One of the bodyguards picked up the phone, asked for the password, and strode out of the bathroom to come to James and handed him the phone.
"Mr. Evans, she wants you to read the text messages."
James took the phone and clicked on the chat log...
Except for all the texts that were enough to sow discord and crush hearts.
There were, too, photos that were secretly photographed when he met Emelyn at school, as well as countless intimate photos that were maliciously photoshopped.
As he took everything into his eyes, James' face darkened in an instant, the look in his eyes more sinister and stern than ever.
What he resented the most was the photo of him being invited into a French restaurant after being stopped by Emelyn's men, as well as the words, romantic restaurant, on display.
It was obviously just an ordinary restaurant, but relying on the fact that Amelia couldn't understand French, Jessica called it a romantic restaurant to set Amelia off!
It was no wonder Amelia had shown not much of a response as he explained himself for not coming back in time since he was delayed by some matters at the organization.
It turned out that Amelia wasn't sleeping at home that night. Instead, she had visited the restaurant and witnessed him and Emelyn in the restaurant together.
She must have misunderstood that he was dating Emelyn. Feeling all the disappointment in him, she didn't bother to even ask about anything in the face of his explanation.
While he, on the other hand, thought that she was anxious to leave after finding out her lost items were found so she resorted to using cruel words to end the relationship.
He didn't expect Amelia to leave him without hesitation as a result of others playing tricks on them!
At the thought of how it was all a misunderstanding, James gave Zack an immediate order.
"Shut down the airport, stop Amelia!!!"
Zack, who received the order, exited the ward and dashed in the direction of the airport.
James then coldly ordered the bodyguards in the bathroom.
"Spare her. I'll deal with her when I get back!"
After saying that, he pulled out the needle on the back of his hand, wasting no time to get up and rushed to the airport.
Not only did he not have a single nap or sleep for the past few days, but he also insisted on not drinking or eating anything since Amelia was starving herself.
His worn-out body exhausted him to the point of fatigue when he rushed all the way to the airport.
Yet, he held on, and with the support of his two bodyguards, he walked into the airport step by step.
As soon as he arrived at the terminal, he saw Zack running towards him with disappointment written all over his face.
"Mr. Evans, I'm sorry that I didn't manage to stop her. Ms. Garcia's flight took off an hour ago..."
James's face turned deathly pale. The powerlessness had almost sent him dropping to the ground once more.
Zack immediately stepped forward to support him.
"Mr. Evans, don't worry. When you're in better health, we can still return to the US to clear things up."
Hearing Zack's words, James controlled his emotions to raise hist chilling eyes and say, "Let's first deal with Jessica!"
Zack and the bodyguards nodded respectfully. "Got it!"
At the hospital.
"Drag her out!"
James' voice was ice-cold to the bone that Zack couldn't help shuddering. It seemed that James was going to deal with her personally.
After receiving the order, Zack entered the bathroom to grab Jessica's crushed wrist and dragged her all the way up to James.
Jessica held onto her wrist which had stopped bleeding right then, trembling as she raised her fearful gaze to look at James who exuded a murderous aura all over.
The man settling on the sofa had his eyes on Jessica no different from looking at a dead man before he reached out his arm with his palm facing upwards.
Zack behind him immediately took out a golden knife and handed it to him.
James held the knife before tapping on the dollar bills on the glass table with the tip of the knife.
"Fifty million, your fee in helping her repair the skin on her back. I've repaid your favor."
Jessica glanced at the piles of dollar bills, terror filled her eyes, enlarging her pupils. Did James repay her so that he could...
Before she thought of the word 'kill', James got to his feet and walked up to her before his tall figure crouched before her eyes.
"Since the favor is repaid, the feud now starts..."
After James stroked the knife in his hand before raising his bloodthirsty eyes to fix them on Jessica's ten slender fingers.
Without even blinking an eye, he slid the knife across her fingertips!
"Since you sent her those texts with these ten fingers, they shall accept their punishment!"
Jessica screamed from the tearing pain in her fingertips. "Ah! Don't destroy my hands!!!"
Her hands would hold the scalpel and must never be harmed, but the unbothered James was unbothered by her pleas as he continued to slash her fingers!
Jessica, who was held down by the bodyguards, had no choice but to shout at the door of the ward.
"Someone! Help! Someone is murdering me!"
Zack sneered. "Ms. Simmons, save yourself some effort. Whether it was the surveillance cameras or everyone on this
Chapter 553 Since the Favor is Repaid, the... floor, I've dealt with them all. Since you've offended someone you shouldn't have, you should brace yourself to accept whatever Mr. Evans does to you..."
When Jessica heard that, sweat broke out from nervousness. Was it true that James did intend to kill her?
In disbelief, Jessica hollered, "James, do you know that I'm the daughter of the Simmons Family, a prestigious family well known throughout the entire Washington. If you kill me, my family will come for you!!!"
James acted as if he hadn't heard her, his scarlet eyes stared coldly at the knife in his hand, carving her fingertips like a work of art.
With her eyes on the extremely heartless man, tears couldn't stop streaming. "Why are you doing this to me? I did all this because I like you and I want you, is it wrong to like someone?"
James paused briefly as a burst of sharp bone-piercing coldness erupted from his eyes.
"It's not wrong for you to like me, and I won't beat you up because of it. However, you used nasty tricks against my woman so you can't blame me for not showing mercy!"
Jessica's expression turned cold upon hearing his words. That was right. She had liked him for years, and he knew it, but he had never hurt her because of that. It was just that he had never been bothered to respond to her feelings, but the treatment he gave her right then was all Amelia's fault!
The seething Jessica was stubborn to push all the faults on Amelia.
"If you want to blame, you can blame Amelia. It's because she doesn't trust you enough. I made a few words up, and she believed all of them. Everything is caused by the fact that there is no trust between the two of you. That's the reason behind her leaving!"
James sneered. "Do you know why she trusts your words so easily?"
Jessica looked at James in confusion. "I don't know..."
James' eyes dimmed. It was because Amelia was hurt in the past.
He once hurt her badly. How could the heart riddled with a thousand gaping wounds have trust in him?
James didn't answer Jessica's words. Instead, he maintained a chilling face as he clenched onto the knife in his hand, aiming at Jessica's other hand...
Seeing that he didn't intend to let her go, Jessica burst with rage.
"It's you, it's you who treated her with indifference. That's why her disappointment in you overflowed. It has nothing to do with me!!! "
James was stunned. When had he ever treated Amelia indifferently?
His sharp cold glance swept past Jessica before he raised the knife in his hand to stab it into her fingertips.
"Make your words clear!"
Sensing that it could potentially save her life, Jessica knew that she must not tell him everything so easily.
"If you promise to let me go, I'll explain!"
James was a man of his words. As long as he compromised, she could escape a close death!
She was waiting for James' answer, but a loud and confident voice was heard...
"You don't have to tell him, I found out about everything!"
In a long red gown and high heels, Emelyn marched in with her arms crossed, stepping into the room with a female bodyguard.
After throwing the surveillance footage to Zack, she walked up to James and waved at him.
"Mr. Evans, go and see the truth. Give me some time to teach her a lesson!"
Hearing those words, Jessica looked up at Emelyn in disbelief, her eyes were wide open.
"Ms. Davies, I didn't offend you. Why would you want to teach me a lesson?!"
Without bothering to give Jessica a single glance, Emelyn took a pair of white gloves from Cindee and took her time to put them on.
He grabbed Jessica by the collar and lifted her up from the ground before raising her free hand to send a firm slap across Jessica's face!
"You're asking why?"
"You maliciously edited pictures of me and ruined my reputation, shouldn't I teach you a lesson?"
"You spread rumors and made my crush misunderstand me, don't you think I should teach you a lesson?"
"As a doctor, you have medical ethics but no morals, shouldn't I teach you a lesson?!"
With every sentence Emelyn said, she slapped Jessica hard.
Only when Emelyn was left with swollen cheeks and blurred eyes was she thrown back onto the ground.
Emelyn took off her gloves and handed them back to Cindee, heaving a sigh of relief.
"It's the first time I've ever given someone such a beating. How rude, but it's quite satisfying. What's going on?"
Looking at the elegant woman in front of her, who showed no mercy when making her move, Cindee couldn't help chuckling.
"Ms. Davies, please do not forget. This isn't the first time you've given slaps, you just do not like wasting time and will just get rid of them directly."
Emelyn agreed and nodded. "You're right."
After a great stretch, she walked up to James and saw the screen on the tablet in his hand, which happened to show Amelia at the restaurant searching for him, but after noticing the look in his eyes, she dared not take another step forward.
She pointed to the glass of the restaurant shown on the screen and explained to James, "It's LOW-E glass. When the light from the outside is stronger during the day, the people outside won't be able to see through the window. At night, the opposite happens. When the lights inside are brighter than the outside, the inner surface of the glass serves as a mirror and one wouldn't be able to see what's happening outside while everything is visible from the outside."
"Unfortunately, when Ms. Garcia came for you, it happened to be at night. I begged for the two of us to act as a couple and requested your help in forging an alibi, but out of unwillingness, you turned your head to the window with your face cold. Ms. Garcia, who thought those sitting in the restaurant could view the outside of the restaurant, probably took it as your indifference toward her after seeing her, so she was heartbroken..."
After Emelyn's words came to an end, she glanced at the pale James and couldn't help complaining to herself.
Couldn't this good-looking face smile a little more? Was there any need for James' face to be cold all day long just like her brother's? Did they think that it was cool?
After Emelyn's grumble, she continued, "I have to admit that Ms. Garcia is quite brave. She stood stunned for a while before rushing to the door of the restaurant, probably to demand an explanation face-to-face, but she was stopped by the security."
"This is my fault. Out of consideration that someone might eavesdrop on our conversation, I booked the venue, and for fear that members of the organization would come to me at any time, I reminded the guards to only allow whoever handed the invitation card over to enter. As you know, the invitation card is the secret code of the organization..."
The screen swiftly turned to the scene where Jessica stopped Amelia from knocking on the glass. Seeing so, Emelyn turned around and landed her palm on Jessica for another slap.
"You know that the restaurant is equipped with LOW-E glass, and not only did you not tell Ms. Garcia, you stopped her. Damn
it!"
Jessica suffered from such a vicious beating that she was rendered at a loss of fighting back. The pain in her fingers, wrists, and cheeks forced her to lie on the ground, unable to speak a word.
After giving Jessica a slap, Emelyn looked away and returned her gaze to James who was trembling all over again.
"I'm sorry. When we left the restaurant, I was the one who requested everyone to put on wireless headphones so that it'd be more convenient for all of us to get in contact, so when Ms. Garcia ran from behind, trying to catch up and calling your name, no one noticed. Plus, the sound of the rain that night was too loud, so we couldn't hear her voice while we were talking to the headquarters."
James stared at the monitor the whole time without saying a word as he watched Amelia running behind him all the way and ended up tripping over into a muddy puddle. His heart ached so much for her that his eyes were red-rimmed.
It turned out that not only did she visit the restaurant, she tried her best to catch up with him, which he failed to notice at that
time...
James tightened his grip on the tablet, shuddering uncontrollably, as his trembling fingers stroked the desperate
woman on the screen.
He stared closely at her figure, to see that not long after, she braced herself to get back up, staggering all the way to the hotel.
Although she was disappointed to the extreme, she had never given up on searching for him.
Yet, the hotel was the territory of the Ireland royal family, so how could Amelia ever get in?
James' heart stopped beating when he saw the wry smile on her pale face after being driven away by the bodyguards.....
He thought she would leave just then, but he didn't expect her to settle on a bench not far from the hotel after wobbling down the steps.
Drenched in the pouring rain, silly, she sat where she was, with desperate eyes, motionless, looking at the entrance to the hotel.
She was waiting for him, waiting for him to come out, but he never came out, and for the sake of their organization, he left through the back door of the hotel...
Amelia knew nothing. What she saw was that he entered the hotel with other women, while she didn't even have the right to step into the lobby of the hotel.
He would never know how desperate she had felt when she sat on the bench with rain pouring, drenching her from head to toe.
All he knew was that he was a bastard, while he didn't give her enough sense of security. Instead, he hurt her, over and over again.
His heart ached so badly that he suffocated, especially when he saw how Amelia was hugging her knees and crying her lungs out when she saw no signs of him.
He was so distressed that he couldn't breathe. The tears that he had been holding back couldn't help but roll down his cheeks.
His Amelia, after crying bitterly, completely gave up on him. Only then did she find her lost pile of items...
No! How could it be such a coincidence? How could she have found her lost items just as she had lost all her faith in him?
The scene where she entered the study to search for her drawing tools flashed through his mind.
Perhaps back then, Amelia had found the lost items, but she pretended not to see them because she had made up her mind to stay by his side...
He was the one who shattered her heart for the second time, and it was why she took out the items to end things with him.
Yet, he failed to notice anything. He lost his mind out of rage when she said that everything between them was just a fling and he shouldn't have taken it seriously.
Not only had he forced himself on her and imprisoned her, but he, too, desperately compelled her to conceive his child.
After seeing him behaving in such a manner, his actions might have worn out the very last bit of hope Amelia had in him, which could be why she didn't even want to say a single word to him...
He was such a fool. His IQ would drop to zero as soon as he encountered anything that had to do with her, to the point where he would lose control of his emotions and rationality.
With trembling hands, James threw away the tablet with his hand covering his eyes, his head lowered as he felt endless remorse, sending him chills all over...
The problem between the two of them was no longer as simple as a misunderstanding. It was Amelia's heart, repeatedly impaired, that was tough to be repaired.
Seeing the side of him, Emelyn standing on the side. apologetically chimed in, "Mr. Evans, I happen to be returning to the US. I'll explain to Ms. Garcia once I'm there. It might be a little troublesome since I can't reveal our organization or identities to her. It may not be convincing enough, but I'll try to make things clear."
Although Emelyn was helpless at the fact that James was completely head over heels for Amelia, it was natural for her to feel guilty, about being the cause of their breakup.
Jessica, lying on the ground, heard Emelyn mentioning the organization, and soon came to realize their hidden identities.
As if she had grasped onto their biggest weak points, she raised her wounded finger to point at the two and threatened.
"My father once told me that there's a mysterious organization in the world known as Organization S. I never would have expected the masterminds to be the whole lot of you!"
"Huh! Since I've learned about all this, just wait and see, I'll make sure to expose your false masks and ruin your reputation!"
When Emelyn heard that noisy voice, she couldn't help but sneer. "Do you think you can get out of here alive?"
The delight on Jessica's face froze. Before she had time to refute, Emelyn added another slap.
"I'll never reveal a word about the organization in front of a living person. How lucky you are to hear it from me!"
Jessica's cars buzzed from the slap as she could no longer hold on from the pain from the bleeding at the corner of her lips. Her eyes rolled, and she passed out.
Seeing how weak and fragile she was, Emelyn's eyes rolled.
"Weak, yet she can't stop causing trouble. What an eyesore!"
With that, she turned around and instructed Cindee.
"She used to date many guys at the same time. Send photos of them in bed to every one of her exes, blur the men's faces, and upload the pictures to her social media so that she could get a taste of what it means to have her reputation ruined. Cut off her tongue and send her to Myanmar!"
Jessica had feelings for James and assisted Amelia in repairing her skin. Just that alone made it impossible for James to use his cruel means on Jessica.
It was most appropriate for Emelyn, the third victim, to deal with such incidents with the "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" method!
After Emelyn gave her orders, she turned to James.
"Mr. Evans, I'll be taking my leave. As for Ms. Garcia, you can leave her to me."
Seeing the man sitting on the sofa not raising his head or saying a word, Emelyn left.
Before reaching the door, a deep and hoarse voice came from behind. "I'll see her myself..."