Contract Marriage: Abusive Love with Mr.CEO-Chapter 671 - 349: One Night on Foam Island (Part 2)
In the next moment, Rebecca Quentin broke into laughter through her tears.
Howard Geoffrey suddenly lowered his head and whispered in Rebecca Quentin’s ear, "Everything has two sides, it’s not all bad... at least, I won’t need to use a condom anymore."
Rebecca Quentin threw her pink fist onto Howard Geoffrey’s firm chest, "You’re annoying..."
Howard Geoffrey caught Rebecca Quentin’s flailing hand and gently pecked her flushed cheek.
Nighttime.
Howard Geoffrey sat on a rattan chair outside the villa, his expression slightly somber.
The evening tide strengthened, waves occasionally crashing onto the rocks at the beach, stirring up white spray.
Suddenly, Howard Geoffrey picked up the wine glass beside him and took a gentle sip.
His love for red wine was influenced by his father.
He remembered that in his childhood, whenever he saw his father facing a troubling problem, his father would stay alone in a quiet place, silently drinking red wine, and then the problem would be resolved.
Later, he often wondered what red wine was, could it help people eliminate their worries?
Only after growing up did he realize that red wine is merely a fine wine for leisure, yet somehow he became dependent on it...
He thought this dependence probably came from the fact that every time he drank red wine, it reminded him of his father.
In his memory, his father was always towering and majestic, not only gentle and considerate to his mother but also able to solve all the family’s problems like a superhero.
So, when he was young, he swore to become an excellent man like his father.
But no one expected that a bad woman who suddenly intruded into their family would forcibly destroy the perfect image of his father in his heart and make his originally happy and carefree family shattered beyond recognition...
How could he not hate this woman?
He even swore to send her to hell, yet she was the beloved mother of the woman he loved.
Heaven was so benevolent to this woman, allowing her to have such a beautiful and kind daughter like Becca.
He always thought this woman’s world was only filled with cruelty and revenge, only to discover in the end that in her world, besides hatred, there was also love.
He realized "M" also had love when he first confronted "M." After "M" was taken into custody by the police and all personal belongings were confiscated, he found an old photo of a young Becca on M’s phone.
At that time, he didn’t pay much attention until he found out the reason Chester Robinson was fond of Becca, it was because Chester once encountered Becca when he was little.
He investigated the time when Chester met Becca, which happened to be when Vivian Lindsey was hiding...
Vivian Lindsey had already found Chester then, but she did not bring him to her side. Instead, she quietly bribed the director of the orphanage to transfer Chester to the one next to Becca’s kindergarten, allowing Becca the chance to meet Chester.
Whether by coincidence or not, Becca truly did meet Chester and gave him warmth and care during his most lonely and helpless times.
Thus, Chester’s feelings for Becca began to take root deeply.
Only then did he realize that Vivian Lindsey wanted Chester to become the one who would shield Becca from the wind and rain in future days.
Later, all the puzzles were solved.
For instance, in the death of his father, the person Vivian Lindsey hated the most should have been Alexander Quentin, yet she never acted against him because he was the one caring for Rebecca Quentin.
And, when Vivian Lindsey threatened Christine Quinn to kidnap Becca to force his compliance, according to Jason Wood’s investigation afterward, Vivian Lindsey never ordered her subordinates to harm Becca...
Tracing back a few years, when Vivian Lindsey ordered her elder brother to harm Becca, thinking about it now, if Vivian Lindsey wasn’t intending to harm Becca but secretly protecting her, perhaps he wouldn’t have let Becca off either!
Apparently, from beginning to end, Vivian Lindsey never stopped loving her daughter; she was just protecting her in another way... 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
When he understood everything, Vivian Lindsey was already in prison.
Vivian Lindsey once proposed a deal to him, as long as he let Rebecca visit her in prison, she would make Chester stop opposing him, but he did not agree.
He didn’t want Becca to get involved with Vivian Lindsey, and he was even more afraid that Vivian Lindsey would allow Becca to feel motherly love, never hindering his steps against Chester and Vivian Lindsey...
So, he selfishly chose to conceal Vivian Lindsey’s motherly love for Becca.
He always thought he had never made any wrong decisions in his life. He didn’t tell Becca about Vivian Lindsey’s love just to protect his relationship with Becca because he knew better than anyone that if Becca knew her mother loved her, she would never allow him to deal with her mother.
But he truly had no choice...
His hatred for Vivian Lindsey was profound and intense.
If not for Vivian Lindsey, his once joyful family wouldn’t have collapsed, his father wouldn’t have died, his mother wouldn’t have been deeply gloomy, and his brother wouldn’t have left home; he wouldn’t live in such darkness for this life...
He asked himself whether he was not a narrow-minded person, but being magnanimous wasn’t something he could achieve either.
Good deeds bring rewards, evil deeds bring retribution; every decision Vivian Lindsey made sealed her fate today, whether it be the Geoffrey family’s fragmentation or the years his three brothers lived in darkness because of her, as well as the few lives lost due to her, letting Vivian Lindsey spend the rest of her life in prison was already his mercy.
Therefore, he wouldn’t regret making such a decision, even if Vivian Lindsey didn’t expose him when seeing Becca.
Although he deeply detested her, he could give her a promise: that he would always protect her daughter and ensure her daughter leads a happy life.
"Husband!"
Two slender and delicate hands silently wrapped around the man who was holding a wine glass, sipping red wine.
Howard Geoffrey had long heard her intentionally softened footsteps but let her, cooperating by saying, "Not making a sound."
Rebecca Quentin chuckled, "Time for you to shower, I’ve already prepared the bath for you."
Howard Geoffrey extended his arm, letting her fall into his embrace.
Rebecca Quentin was startled, but fortunately, he caught her and seated her on his lap.
His head rested on her shoulder, buried in her neck to inhale the faint fragrance left from her bath.
His breath heated up instantly, and even a certain part of his body seemed to awaken, gradually strengthening in his groin area.
Rebecca Quentin blushed deeply, knowing the man was like a beast; the more restrained, the less able to control. Even if she wanted to punish him, if he insisted, he would consume her, bones and all, without leaving anything behind. She decided to forgive him, after all, she had already been brought to Foam Island by him...
