My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Chapter 653: No Other Choice

With a pale face, she kept trembling. She looked so fearful.

She said in a trembling voice, “I... I’m sorry. I didn’t expect Florence would come here so suddenly...”

If she had known it, she would rather take the risk of being strangled by Ernest and break into the bathroom earlier.

However, she had only waited outside, aiming to let Ernest come out for her when he couldn’t bear the drug effect any longer.

She realized that she made a mistake -- Ernest had amazing endurance, and Florence would come here.

Victoria looked so fierce as if she was wishing she could kill Dolores.

Dolores just couldn’t do anything right!

Victoria carefully planned everything tonight, but now...

She frowned deeply, looking at the door of the bathroom irritably and angrily.

She squeezed a few words between her teeth in difficulty, “How long have they been there?”

With a pale and darkened face, Dolores shook her head stiffly.

Since Florence had entered the bathroom, Dolores was completely defeated. Every second and minute seemed to be several centuries for her.

She had no idea how long it had been.

Looking at Dolores’s expression, Victoria went more furious.

Right then, a bodyguard standing aside said, “Almost fifteen minutes.”

Victoria looked more annoyed.

It had been fifteen minutes. A man and a woman were in there alone, and the man had been drugged and suppressing the drug effect over two hours. She could imagine what had already happened there.

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Victoria kicked away the chair in front of her angrily.

Over the years, she had everything in control. This was the first time that something had happened out of her control.

Her precious daughter was dragged in.

How she wished that she could drag Ernest out and kill him immediately.

However...

If she walked into the bathroom, she wondered how embarrassed Florence would be. It might become Florence’s shadow for her whole life.

On the other hand, Victoria was reluctant to wait outside until they came out.

Every single minute was torture to her. She was so furious that she wanted to kill people.

“Mrs. Fraser, the matter has ended up in this way. You’d better not go in.”

They heard a man’s clear voice.

Collin was standing at the door, leaning against the door frame, looking meaningfully in the direction where the bathroom was.

What was going on right now made him at a loss of whether to laugh or cry.

Victoria gazed at him sharply. “What do you mean?” she asked.

As a wise woman, Victoria knew that Collin didn’t mean the current moment.

Even Florence and Ernest had sex, if Victoria still disagreed, she could forcibly separate them.

Since she hadn’t agreed yet, there shouldn’t be an end.

However, Collin only made cautious remarks. Since he said that things had ended up, Victoria felt extremely panicked.

Collin glanced around others in the room and said in a leisure tone, “You all are useless now. Get out of here. You’ll get your punishments later.”

His words made others except for Victoria shiver.

The bodyguards neglected their duties, so for sure they would get the punishment. Dolores didn’t finish her task well and even made the matter become this way. She wouldn’t skip either.

With pale faces, the three wished that they could vanish at the spot.

Collin’s words also implied that he wanted to talk to Victoria privately. Victoria didn’t hesitate at all.

Waving her arms, she snapped, “Get out!”

The three dared not to stay any longer, immediately walking out of the study.

When Dolores reached the door, she looked back at the bathroom with hidden bitterness, looking sad.

Soon, only Victoria and Collin were left in the study.

Collin was still standing at the door. Leaning against the door frame, he looked leisurely and playful.

Frowning, Victoria asked him hurriedly, “Tell me. What did you mean?”

Facing Victoria alone, Collin dared not to delay any longer.

He cast a glance at the bathroom and answered in a steady tone, “Originally, there’s still some time before Ernest’s disease breaks out. If I give him reasonable medicine, it can be delayed until we’ve found Magnolia Liliiflora. When his disease breaks out then, Magnolia Liliiflora can control his condition, so Ernest’s life won’t be in danger. In that case, he doesn’t need to have sex with Florence.”

Upon hearing his explanation, Victoria couldn’t keep calm at all.

Collin continued, “Mrs. Fraser, as you know, the genetic disease from the Turner family needs someone from the Fraser family to cure. When the disease breaks out, having sex could avoid the condition from getting worse. That was why you want Dolores to go with Ernest to find the herbs.

“The dependence of the disease would make him long for having sex once he had sex with a woman.”

As he spoke, Collin looked over at the bathroom and heaved a sigh. “From now on, before we’ve found Magnolia Liliiflora, Ernest won’t survive if he is apart from Florence for more than three days.”

Hence, Florence must be with him and go find the herbs with him together.d

After what was going on in the bathroom now, everything came to an end.

No matter if Victoria agreed or not, unless she could make Florence watch Ernest die and hate her for all her life, Victoria couldn’t do anything to stop them anymore.

Victoria looked pale, collapsing onto the sofa weakly.

She muttered in a floating tone, “How could this be... How could...”

Collin had never seen Victoria so upset before. His eyes slightly twinkled, and he felt a bit sorry for her.

He whispered to comfort her, “Mrs. Fraser, the destiny has been planned by God. Probably Ernest and Florence is a perfect match that cannot be separated. Please let go of them. Let Florence walk her own way and find her happiness.”

Let go of them? It was always easy said than done.

Victoria was unwilling to let go of them and watch Florence gamble on the unpredictable future.

However, she wondered if she could still control this matter.

Things had come so far under a strange combination of circumstances. There was no other way out at all.

“Alas...” she sighed in a low voice, looking as if she had become ten years older.

Victoria slowly stood up, walking out of the study step by step. She felt so miserable and disappointed.

She couldn’t stop them at all no matter what she had done.

She couldn’t do anything at all.

Collin moved away. Frowning at Victoria’s receding figure, he shook his head helplessly.

How much Victoria loved Florence, how much she was protective of Florence.

Watching Florence go suffer from Ernest and gamble an unpredictable future was like cutting her heart.

However, the actual fact was quite cruel, making her have no other choice.

She had to become the party that compromised.

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Florence didn’t know when she fell asleep. Or, to be exact, when she fainted.

When she woke up again, she immediately felt the crushing pains all over her body.

In pain, she didn’t want to wake up at all. She’d rather sleep again.

“Are you awake?”

Right then, she heard a man’s magnetic and elegant voice that was quite close to her.

It was a bit unclear, but it was so close to her like a wind blowing into her heart.

Florence’s heart skipped a beat. She slowly opened her eyes, only to find a handsome face that was extremely close to her.

Florence’s eyes twinkled. She asked in a weak tone, “Is it daybreak?”

Ernest’s eyes were deep and darkened. He gazed at Florence as if there were flames in them.

He answered in a hoarse tone, “Not yet. We can still continue...”