You Are The Star In My Life

Chapter 5: I Promise You 

Caroline's eyes widened, but she thought that she had just heard wrongly.She tried to look at the man for confirmation, but it was too dark to even make out his face.

"Did you hear my conditions?" She blinked but was still in a state of shock to reply. Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

"I'll give you a minute to think about it! '' he said after a few seconds.

Yet though his tone lacked any warmth, his voice was still magnetic that Caroline's heart couldn't help but somersault.It was beating so loudly it was as though the other party could hear it under the dark silence.

But she was quick to gather her wits back.

Although there were still many questions, there was always only one choice for her.

"There's no need to think about it for a minute."

She looked at the blurry silhouette in front of her and said, "I promise you."

"Alright." The man didn't seem to be surprised by her choice.

"Give me the ring." Caroline put the ring into the man’s palm.

"You can take the second step now" Caroline's breathing tightened and she didn't dare to move.She didn't think he was this efficient.

And though she might have done this type of thing with Aldrich, she only endured because she had love him.

Doing it with another, a stranger even, was her very bottomline.She was technically like those women who sell their bodies to anyone at this point.

"What? Do you want me to help you take it off?"

Instead of the indifference that she was starting to get used to, his tone this time carried a trace of impatience.

Caroline gritted her teeth and said, "I'll do it myself"

She told herself in her heart that she could do anything for the sake of her sister's illness ...Her clothes peeled off one layer after another, much like how she had lost her dignity.She wanted to cry, but she swallowed it back.

However, just as she was about to lie down, a ringing broke the silence in the room.

Caroline's cell phone lit up in the pitch-black room.She hurriedly reached out to get it.She was going to hang up, but she saw that it was the number from the hospital! She quickly slipped off the bed and answered.

"Is this Charlene’s family?" a female voice asked.

"I am" Caroline said anxiously.

"How is my sister? Is anything wrong? "She's gone." The female voice said.

"She was there this afternoon when I made the ward rounds.But when I checked again, she was nowhere’ Caroline's heart suddenly tightened.She was very clear about Charlene’s situation.Once she left the hospital, the consequences would be ...

"Did you check the surveillance cameras?" Caroline said.

"She couldn't have left the hospital at all!"

"Yes.She seemed to have received a phone call and left after that.Would you like to come over and take a look?"

Caroline immediately touched around for her clothes and put them on.

"Alright, I'll be right there"

She hung up the phone and realized that there was an unidentified man in front of her.

"I—"

But she only said a syllable when he interrupted.

"You want to leave?"

"I'm sorry, sir.My sister is missing.I must go find her immediately!" Caroline said.

"I'll take the ring as a deposit."

The man stepped away from her and stood by the curtained windows.

"I hope you don't change your mind."

Caroline was so anxious that she didn't have time to get the ring back, so she said, "Alright, sir, wait for me to find my sister first"

She hurried outside, but she didn't expect that the servant would help her arrange a car.

Thus, in less than an hour, Caroline arrived at the hospital.The ward was still the same as when she left, except Charlene was not inside.

Caroline swept her gaze and saw the cell phone in the bed.She knew Charlene's pin code, so she immediately unlocked it.

But as soon as the screen flashed, her face paled and her world stopped.It was a photo of her.She was pressed on the bed by Aldrich with her wrist tied up.

It was evident what she was doing.

Caroline's fingers trembled as she scrolled down.

There were even more pictures, different times and places, but the same protagonist who had been trampled into the mud.

Finally, she reached the end where there were a few lines, "Know where your hospitalization fee came from, naive sister! If you'd rather still be a parasite to your sister, stay in the hospital.If you don't want to, you should know what to do"