Tangled in His Obsession

Chapter 266

Seraphina thought she was seeing things.

Flashing through her mind were past images that mirrored the straight line she was looking at right now.

The first time, she was ten, standing at her father’s deathbed.

She didn’t understand what the line meant then, only that her mom fainted the moment she laid eyes on it.

In front of her, her dad lost consciousness and so did her mom.

From then on, she was without a dad and essentially, without a mom.

The second time was when Betty drew her last breath.

Betty was seriously ill by then and Seraphina, who was in denial, slowly couldn’t deny reality anymore.

When the flatline showed, she held Betty’s cold hand calmly, planting a gentle kiss on it.

Only when Sandra behind her broke into tears did her own tears finally fall.

Now, it was Sandra laying on the hospital bed, the straight line appearing before her eyes once again.

She thought she had nothing else to lose, but it seemed she still did….

Seraphina bit her lip, struggling to calm her breath and heartbeat. When she looked at the monitor again, it was still a straight line.

She couldn’t believe it, turning to look at Leandro, hoping for a different answer from him.

Leandro was expressionless, a hint of pity in his deep eyes.

He reached out and held her.

Seraphina turned her head again, this time to Bowen.

Bowen stood like a statue, his face pale, his expression bleak, as if his soul had left him.

Suddenly, Seraphina reached out and grabbed his collar.

“What are you doing here? Why are you standing here?” she said, “Get in there! You’re the one she loves most, the one she can’t bear to leave! You need to get in there, wake her up! You go wake her up!”

But no matter how much force she used, how loudly she screamed, Bowen remained motionless, his eyes unfocused.

Until the door to the sickroom opened, and the medical staff performing the emergency treatment walked out one by one.

“Mr. Smith.” Someone said softly, “We did our best, but Ms. Sandra has passed away…”

Hearing this, Bowen seemed to snap back from his numb state.

He gave the doctor a stiff look, then said in a low voice, “That’s impossible…”

He had nothing else to say, he just kept repeating, “Impossible, impossible…”

As he said this, he pushed away the people in front of him and rushed into the room.

When Seraphina heard the doctor’s words, she felt as if she had lost all sense of consciousness. She couldn’t see anything, couldn’t hear anything, her world became a chaotic mess, she couldn’t even feel

herself.

After a long time, she vaguely felt as if someone was pulling her, dragging her.

When she regained her senses, she opened her eyes and saw Leandro in front of her.

Leandro was holding her tight, kissing her hair. His voice was low, as if it was coming from another world, “At least she’s not in pain anymore…”

She turned her head dazedly, and saw Bowen holding Sandra in the sickroom.

Bowen must have been holding on very tightly, because Seraphina could clearly see the veins in his arms, neck, and forehead throbbing. But Sandra in his arms had no reaction at all.

She’s not in pain anymore, right?

The heartache before the accident, the physical pain after the accident, and the suffering in bed… she can’t feel any of it now, right?

No pain… Is this a kind of relief?

As Seraphina was lost in thought, her phone suddenly rang.

She took out her phone a little stiffly and saw that it was Herman calling.

But at that moment, she couldn’t quite remember what the name Herman meant.

Leandro also saw Herman’s name, took the phone from her, and answered the call for her.

“Why are you answering the phone?” Herman asked.

Without taking his eyes off Seraphina, Leandro simply asked, “Any news?”

Hearing this, Seraphina finally came to her senses.

She looked into the sickroom again.

Maybe she’s not in pain now, but why?

Why did she have to go through so much pain before getting this relief?

She shouldn’t have had to endure all this pain!

Shouldn’t those who made her suffer pay the price?

After a moment of silence, she suddenly reached out and took the phone from Leandro’s ear.

While she was taking the phone, she accidentally switched the phone to speaker mode, and Herman’s voice came out clearly from the phone-

“We’ve found surveillance footage related to the truck in the accident. There’s a brief stop by Keeley behind the loaded truck in one of the clips, captured by another driver’s dash cam. But due to the angle, we can’t clearly see his actions, He could easily argue that he was just passing by, so this can’t be used as evidence…”

Seraphina let out a short laugh, then bit her lip hard, “That’s enough.”

Herman was slightly taken aback, “What do you mean?”

Seraphina didn’t answer, she just asked Herman to send her the surveillance footage. After receiving it, she looked at Leandro again.

“I have something to do.” she said to Leandro, “You can go home, you don’t need to stay with me.”

After saying that, she broke away from Leandro’s embrace, didn’t look at the sickroom again, and walked towards the elevator.

But she had only taken two steps when Leandro rushed up and grabbed her.

“I’ll be waiting for you here.” Leandro said, “We’ll go home together whenever you come back.”

Seraphina didn’t expect Leandro to say that.

He didn’t ask what she was going to do, didn’t try to stop her from doing anything, he just said he would wait for her here. Material © of NôvelDrama.Org.

After saying that, Leandro let go of her.

Without any hesitation, Seraphina turned and walked away.

Abbot, who was standing in the corner, saw this and stuck his head out to glance at Leandro. When he saw Leandro nod at him, Abbot quickly followed Seraphina.

When they got in the car, Seraphina sent a message to Keeley, then told the driver to go to the riverside/

Even though it was spring, the wind by the riverside was strong and chilly. However, Seraphina had been drinking for hours in this gusty wind, waiting for Keeley until late at night.

The once carefree and frivolous Keeley was now cautious, his calm face had an edge of wariness.

“I thought we might never see each other again,” Keeley said..

Seraphina turned to look at him. The icy wind coupled with the alcohol gave her a haunting and disheveled beauty.

“You probably hoped you wouldn’t see me,” she suddenly smirked at him, “But you killed my best friend. How could I possibly let you off the hook so easily?”