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Chapter 314
Chapter 314
Chapter 314
Chapter 314
All evidence obtained by the police indicated Christopher as Scarlett’s murderer.
She had also arranged for people to inspect the scene but found no trace of a third party involved in the incident.
If Layla hadn’t believed Christopher, she would have suspected that Christopher was the one who killed Scarlett.
Layla felt a headache surging upon her. She then propped her elbows to support her head and massaged her temple with her fingers. After a few minutes, the headache eased gradually.
She then stood up and walked to the window, opened it, and let the night breeze in the room.
She had never told anyone that she owed Christopher a lot.
In fact, she was actually repulsed by Christopher’s existence when she was a child. It was perfect to have only her and Kendrick at home. Zachary had high hopes for Kendrick, and Mrs. Solace couldn’t interfere. Hence, before Christopher was born, she was the Solace family’s darling, indulged by her parents and Kendrick.
After Christopher was born, she felt that Christopher had taken everything she had.
Even her mother’s health was taken away by him.
Consequently, before the incident occurred when Christopher was six years old, she had often bullied Christopher behind Kendrick’s and her parents’ backs.
When Christopher first learned to walk, she deliberately pushed him to the ground, bullied Christopher when he was young, and even mocked him for being clumsy and not being able to walk properly.
She secretly ruined Christopher’s birthday gifts prepared by his parents and would snicker inwardly when she saw Christopher crying miserably.
At that time, she thought Christopher didn’t understand, so no matter how she bullied him, he would always call her “Layla” as he followed her around.
Due to Kendrick’s busy schedule, Layla was the only one at home with Christopher and their age difference wasn’t that big either.
Christopher was very clingy to her. He would go wherever she went.
At that time, Christopher was an obedient and adorable child, which made him very likable, especially to the elders of the Solace family. Everyone adored Christopher as they would hug and kiss him whenever they saw met him.
However, Layla was jealous of him, thinking that Christopher had taken
everything from her. She never treated him well, nor spoke to him in a pleasant
manner.
Ever since that incident happened, Christopher didn’t like to speak or smile anymore. Additionally, he had not addressed Layla with a sweet voice since then. Christopher would hide in his bedroom in a pale and sick manner, and he would shut the windows tightly.
Whenever Layla went to his room with his favorite snacks and toys, Christopher would always hide in his closet.
No matter how she comforted and coaxed him, Christopher would not listen to her at all.
past,
Eventually, Christopher’s condition gradually improved, and he began calling her “Layla” again, but without the sweet voice he had used to address her in the as if there was a rift between them, making her feel uncomfortable. Hence, she took the initiative to talk to Christopher about it.
Christopher merely glanced at her coldly, which made Layla feel very uncomfortable.
He then replied, “Don’t you hate me because I was annoying?”
Layla was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. She wasn’t able to comprehend his words right away as well.
When she grew up later, Layla gradually realized that her younger brother wasn’t dumb at all. He knew that she was bullying him all the while, but he had never exposed her and even clung around her, letting her bully him.
From then on, her discomfort became a sense of guilt within her.
Layla didn’t know why she had thought of this right now. In fact, after so many years, though she felt guilty toward Christopher, Layla knew that he didn’t take it personally and that there was and was no need to express anything between siblings.
Perhaps she was afraid of losing a family member once again.
Therefore, she couldn’t let anything happen to Christopher.
After ending the phone call with Layla, Yuliana decided to go to bed, as she was supposed to meet the lawyer the following day at the detention center. However, she tossed and turned around in bed, unable
to fall asleep.
As she closed her eyes, the scene of Christopher in the detention center would appear in front of her.
Layla grabbed a bottle of melatonin from the drawer and popped two pills before donning an eye mask and retiring to bed. After more than ten minutes, her thoughts finally dissipated as she drifted to sleep.
However, she didn’t sleep soundly and had another dream again.
Subconsciously, Layla knew she was dreaming, but she couldn’t wake up at all.
In her dream, she walked into a cold, small room containing only one bed, where a man appeared to be lying on the bed covered in white cloth as if he was a person who had passed away in the hospital.
Slowly walking over toward the bed, Yuliana lifted the white cloth, and found herself staring dazedly at Christopher’s pale and ashen face for a while.
Her fingers slid from his eyebrows to the bridge of his nose, then to his lips, and finally to his chin.
All of a sudden, a sharp pain clenched in Yuliana’s heart. As she clutched her chest, she felt as if someone had strangled her throat, causing her to feel suffocated.
Meanwhile, Yuliana, who was sleeping in bed, had also felt a sharp ache in her chest. With her eyes shut, she clenched her chest as tears kept rolling down from the corners of her eyes.
Just when Yuliana felt that she was about to die from suffocation, a baby’s cry awakened her from her sleep.
Yuliana’s eyes suddenly shot open. There was a night lamp in the room. After staring in a daze for a moment, she raised her hand to wipe the tears off her face and lifted her blanket before picking Rowan up from the crib.
Rowan was bawling loudly. Yuliana held him in her arms as she tried to coax him but to no avail. Assuming that he was hungry, Yuliana brought Rowan out of the room and planned to make some milk for him.
However, once she was done preparing the milk, Yuliana fed the bottle into Rowan’s mouth, only for him to stick his tongue out, refusing to drink the milk.
It was rare for Yuliana to encounter such a situation. After setting down the bottle, she touched Rowan’s forehead, but his temperature did not appear to be that high.
Feeling concerned, she checked Rowan’s temperature with a thermometer, but it indicated that his body temperature was normal.
In the middle of the night, Yuliana panicked, fearing that something might be wrong with Rowan. However, in the midst of Christopher’s matter troubling her heart, as well as the backlog of emotions resulting from the divorce, she experienced a feeling of breakdown in an instant.
Hearing Rowan’s crying, she couldn’t help but cry as well.
As Yuliana sobbed between tears, she hurriedly carried Rowan into the room, coaxing him, “Darling, please stop crying. I’ll get changed right now and take you to the hospital.”
But how could such a young child understand her words?
Hearing Rowan’s crying, Yuliana burst into more tears as well.
She was so anxious that she didn’t have time to change her clothes. As she wrapped herself in a coat, Yuliana dressed Rowan, packed up all the items they would need, and prepared to rush to the hospital.
Meanwhile, Hailey woke up and emerged from her room just as Yuliana was carrying Rowan out of the bedroom.
Seeing that Yuliana was wearing a knitted coat over her pajamas, holding Rowan in one arm and a bag in the other, with tear stains on her face as she came out from the room, Hailey was shocked and immediately walked over to ask, “What’s wrong?”
She then looked at Rowan, who was bawling loudly.
When Yuliana saw Hailey, she controlled her emotions slightly as she raised her hand to wipe away her tears, trying to calm herself down as much as possible before explaining, “Roe has been crying for a while. I’m worried he’s not feeling well, so I’m taking him to the hospital for emergency treatment.”
Hearing this, Hailey immediately said, “Yuliana, wait for me. I’ll change my clothes and go with you.”