Love in Prime Years

Madeleine did not answer immediately. Glancing at Amelia's face slowly, there were twist and viciousness in Madeleine's lovely face.

Sometimes in the world, the love or hate to someone was inexplicable.

It was just like that Madeleine hated Amelia. In fact, Amelia never did anything to hurt Madeleine. On the contrary, she used to help Madeleine, but Madeleine still hated Amelia.

When Madeleine was a child, she hated Amelia's attractive face, but now she hated Amelia because of her attraction to Rufus.

"Lillian said..." Madeleine elongated the tone, which was sweet but particularly scary now, "Take her fingers to feed the dog!"

Madeleine's henchman shivered involuntarily but replied respectfully, "Yes, Miss Gibson!"

"As for this woman..." Madeleine glanced at Amelia with disgust and jealousy, "Throw her back to where she is from!"

Then Amelia was thrown back to her small apartment in Willow Alley.

Unlike the cleanness when she was taken away, she was lying on the floor with blood staining her clothes. But Madeleine's henchmen didn't want to make things worse, so they bandaged Amelia to stem the bleeding. However, Amelia was out of consciousness completely when they did this.

Because the severe pain in her stomach and the pain in the wound were more than she could bear, she passed out with pain after she was taken out of the dungeon.

It was already the next morning when she woke up. She would think what happened last night was just a nightmare, if there were not the extreme pain from her broken finger.

She could not imagine that Rufus, who had said he would protect her from hurts, would order others to cut off her finger on his own.

Her phone was not thrown away by those people. She clutched it with her right hand. She had intended to call the police.

However, considering the power of Family Moss in Harper City and the influence of Family Palmer, Amelia was clear that it would make no difference even if she called the police.

More importantly, even if Rufus hurt her cruelly, Amelia I couldn't forget that he had been her good friend who shared weal and woe with her.

Amelia got up from the floor wearily. She had not eaten anything since noon yesterday. It risked her life to treat her body like this.

She was really tired both physically and mentally, but she tried her best to live a few more days. The longer she lived, the greater the chance she could raise enough medical fees for Leigh.

After she cooked a bowl of millet congee for herself, the doorbell rang. Amelia was afraid that it was Rufus's men who came to trouble her again. To her surprise, it was her best friend Sapphire who was standing at the door.

There was heavy makeup on Sapphire's beautiful face, but the makeup could not cover the obvious scars on her face. It was evident that she had been beaten again.

Sapphire didn't want Amelia to worry about her, so she turn her face aside after entering the door in case Amelia would see the scars on her face.

"Amelia, there is 150 thousand dollars. I know it's not enough for Leigh's operation. Just take it, and I'll try to collect more."

Sapphire stuffed a heavy paper bag into Amelia's arms. Amelia saw clearly that the jade bracelet Sapphire had been wearing on her left wrist was missing.

"Sapphire, where's your bracelet?" Amelia grabbed Sapphire's left hand and said, "Did you sell your bracelet?"

Sapphire was not good at lying. When asked by Amelia, she didn't know how to answer Amelia, so she just said, "I don't like wearing jewellery, so it's no use keeping the bracelet."

"You're lying!" Amelia said with astonishment. She was clear how much Sapphire cared about that jade bracelet.

The bracelet was a gift given by Preston. Sapphire never took it off since she wore it on her wrist. It was her most precious object. How could she sell it?

"Amelia, take it easy." Seeing Amelia's worries, Sapphire was worried about her health, "Amelia, that bracelet is really not important to me."

"I admit that I did like Preston very much before, but he has already sent me to someone else as a gift, I don't want to abase myself to continue liking him."

"Sapphire..." Thinking of Sapphire's sufferings, Amelia felt grieved. Amelia wanted to say something to comfort Sapphire, but the words were too shallow and impotent to comfort Sapphire. Amelia just hugged her.

Amelia believed that Sapphire was the best girl in the world and she should have the best love in the world. When she was eight, she saved a little boy named Preston from the ruins. Before leaving, Preston gave her a jade pendant he wore and promised to marry her when they grew up.

However, Sapphire lost the jade pendant and also his promise to her.

By mistake, Sapphire became an orphan and was adopted by the Baker Family, when Preston had already had a beloved girl, Lydia.

At Preston's engagement ceremony to Lydia a month ago, Sapphire was framed to climb into Preston's bed. Lydia was so desperate that she jumped into the sea to commit suicide, she did not die, but her legs were broken.

So Preston hated Sapphire so much that he married Sapphire to a handicapped paralytic, Lochlan, to make Sapphire's life a living hell.

"Amelia, don't be sad. I'm fine now. Although Lochlan does not have a good temper, he's not so bad. We'll get better and better in the future, so you have to cheer up and regain your health as soon as possible."

Amelia did not say anything, since she knew she could not get better, but she did not want to upset Sapphire. So she just kept silent.

In order not to continue the heavy topic, Amelia loosened her hand from Sapphire and intended to tell Sapphire a joke to cheer her up.

Before Amelia said something, Sapphire grabbed her left hand with anxiety, "Amelia, what happened to your hand?"

Madeleine's men bandaged Amelia's wound perfunctorily, so when Madeleine grabbed Amelia's hand in this way, she could feel clearly that there was a pinky finger missing on her left hand.

"Amelia, where's your pinky finger?" Tears were dropping from Sapphire's eyes, "Amelia, what is going on? Did Lillian do this to you?! I'll kill her!"

Sapphire wiped away her tears, rushed into the kitchen with a knife and rushed out.

Sapphire was soft and gentle, but she cared too much about Amelia. As long as it came to Amelia, she could transform from a docile sheep into a shrew in an instant.

Seeing Sapphire behaving like she was going to put up a desperate fight, Amelia pulled her back in a hurry.

"Sapphire, I'm fine. It's just a slight wound." For fear that Sapphire would do something irrational, Amelia told her truth after a moment of silence, "It's Rufus who hurt me, but I don't want to haggle over it. Sapphire, I don't have enough time, so I don't want to waste my time on these unimportant things." "No, it isn't true!" There were more tears flowing down from Sapphire's eyes, "Amelia, don't say such words, or I'll break up with you! Your hand hurt. Let's go to the hospital now!"

Before Sapphire and Amelia coming out, the phone on the table rang suddenly.