A Moment in Destiny
Chapter 459 Unhealable Wound

"I don't believe you! Now that he's gone, anything you say can't be proved!" Mabel shook her head.

"Mum, I think she might be telling the truth!" Leila held her mother's hand, "Father is already gone, even if she didn't say so, he would have forgiven her. This is probably why he had always allowed her to take revenge on us and bully us, Father had never blamed her."

"Leila..." Mabel sighed.

Nora turned again towards Leila. "I'm sorry, it's my fault! But Leila, Vincent is in a miserable state now. I have never pampered this child because he's a man, and the White family has a rule that sons are never pampered, and sons are meant to grow up in suffering! It's always been my ideology to raise my son strictly and my daughter benevolently as well, so I adored Pippa tens to a hundred times more than how I adored Vincent. But this doesn't mean that I don't love my son. Watching him being sad would break my heart as well! Come back with me, he needs you!"

"Leave, my daughter will never enter your home anymore!"

"Why can't you understand, Mabel? They are in love with each other, will we really be satisfied and assured, watching the two of them acting like strangers to each other thereafter?" Nora painstakingly explained. "You and I are both losers in love, I'm even worse off than you are! At least you had been loved once, but I have nothing!"

"You knew as well that Eric was the bane against my entire life, he was the pain that was buried in my heart unable to be forgotten by me for this life. Once it's touched, I'll lose my sanity, once I think of it I'll lose myself! Although I have once cursed that he should die but I didn't really want him to die! I'm still in such sorrow when he's dead! When Seth found me and told me about those things, I lost my sense. I've taken revenge regardless of the means, but it was the truth!"

"The experiences these days finally made me understand that if you have loved each other and if you have once felt deeply hurt for each other, the life or death of that person wouldn't have nothing to do with you but would instead be deeply related to you. Once you would think that you would only be happy when he's dead, but when he is really going to leave you, you would then realize that no, you didn't think in that way. You'd hope that he lives on healthily, even if he has betrayed you, even if he no longer loves you. You would still hope that he lives on well until the age of eighty and has many children and grandchildren. Yes, I thought so. But Eric is dead! Your Brian is dead as well. My son and your daughter, they loved each other, if they can't be together as well, are you and I really going to be satisfied?"

Nora's words stunned Mabel. It was true, she did not want to see Leila and Vincent breaking up for real as well, especially when they were in love. During the days when Leila was in the hospital, Vincent had been taking care of her busily for many days, he had been so caring and so gentle towards Leila. She had been touched as well!

Seeing that Mabel was silent, Nora continued speaking to Leila, "Leila, do you really intend to be strangers with Vincent from here on? Not knowing each other again? Having separate lives? Will there not be a bit of regret in your heart? Didn't you both love each other deeply? Weren't both of you once so happy and sweet?"

Leila froze slightly, thinking of Vincent. She thought about the things they had been through in the past - he cooked for her, made a brown sugar drink for her, bought her a notebook, bought her flowers, and gifted her a necklace. Even when they got divorced, he gave her some shares as well.

She paused. Back then, he was like an angel and a devil, so devilish and high profile, even being arrogant. But afterward, what he had was more of sorrow hidden under the coldness.

The memories were actually still so clear, she recalled the child-like, perfect face when she had left. The exhaustion that could not be hidden in his expression made her heart ache, wanting to go by his side to heal his wounds for him.

She suddenly felt so many memories and so many emotions, that she could not hold back the pain that was spreading in her heart.

She pursed her lips together tightly making it show a pale color, but she did not know how to face it. Without trust, how could they go on?

Seeing that she did not speak, Nora was quite anxious. "Leila, are you still unwilling to forgive me?"

Leila stunned again, feeling surprised.

Suddenly, Nora knelt before Leila. Proud as she was, she was actually kneeling at this moment.

For the time being, Mabel and Leila were both taken aback.

"Nora..." Mabel exclaimed quietly.

"What are you doing?" Leila hurried and wanted to help her up.

Nora shook her head. "Mabel, Leila, I have been wrong before. I've missed lots and lots of amazing things in my life. Now I'm old with heart disease and I am about to be near the brink of death. Perhaps in not more than a few days, I would no longer be in this world! They say that a dying person would always speak kind words. I'm begging you, please listen to my words?"

"You can speak after getting up!" Mabel pulled on her.

"No! Allow me to finish!" Nora shook her head. "Mabel, you should know how proud of a person I am. I'm kneeling before you two today, not for myself, but my son!"

Leila could not possibly bear for her to kneel before herself, "If you want to speak you can speak after getting up, don't kneel here, it's not good! I can't take this as well! Please get up first before you speak!" But Nora still insisted, "If you forgive Vincent, I'll get up!"

"Please don't be like this, auntie. You are really exhausting me greatly." Leila bit her lip and tried hard to tug on her.

Mabel used some force together as well and they tugged Nora onto the couch. Mabel pondered over it and spoke, "You should speak sitting down!"

"Mabel, I just knew that you're still so kind." Nora sat on the couch and continued, "I'm not pressuring you, Leila. I don't want to force you as well, but I just want to tell you that Vincent is struggling greatly now. He's being busy without stopping every day, he didn't know to eat and didn't want to eat. He'll eat whenever he remembers and wouldn't eat when he doesn't want to. He's also smoking more, three packs per day, one after another non-stop. Or else he would be working crazily, being busy without an end, refusing to let himself stay free. He's missing you, do you know? My son has never cried before, but when I mentioned you today, he actually cried."

Worry flashed through Leila's indifferent eyes. No matter how, she still could not disregard Vincent, she was just this useless! She still worried about him, even if she has been hurt by him and was not trusted by him, she still could not help but want to care for him.

Hearing Nora's words, she went silent, biting her lip.

Nora saw her expression and immediately added, "Leila, why don't you two start by dating first? Can't you two try again?"

Mabel did not speak. She understood her daughter. If they loved each other, she would hope to start over with him as well. "You should go back first!" Leila replied lightly.

Nora had wanted to say something but she knew better than to continue, and she nodded.

"Alright! I'll leave first, you can think more about it!"

Thus, after Nora had left...

Mabel said to Leila, "Leila, I have something to say to you. You're no longer a young girl like before, you're a divorced woman. Vincent had announced that he was divorcing you so publicly, even if someone were to fall for you, but would he not mind and marry you? My child, once a woman is divorced it would mean that her value would drop significantly! You're merely twenty-two years old, and although you're stil young and pretty, you were married! Do you understand?"

"Mum, I'll just remain unmarried for the rest of my life!" Leila was conflicted, as her heart struggled.

"Do you still love Vincent?"

Leila bit her lip and thought about it. "I love him, Mum, he's the only person that I'll ever love for this life. This wouldn't change now and it wouldn't change after, I'm just stubborn, hard-headed like this. But even if I love him, it doesn't mean that we're suitable for each other!

"Nora had said just now, you two can try to have a date first! Allow him to pursue you properly this time, and the two of you can try to coordinate again, how does that sound?"

"Mum... we'll talk later! I'll go bathe first, I have to report tomorrow, and I need to attend the training at the base. Let's sleep early!" After Leila said so, she returned to her room. Mabel knew that she was avoiding it, but she knew that something could not be solved hurriedly.

At the mansion.

Absentmindedly, Vincent locked himself into the study, but he could no longer use his busyness to hid his painful heart. He sat on the chair weakly, his hands covered his handsome face. He closed his eyes, allowing the endless pain to consume his long fragile soul. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the FɪndNovᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Vincent became more and more silent, smoking cigarettes heavily. In the smoke, a lifeless and pained face was reflected. He never thought that this would be the ending, but he could only accept it. Vincent breathed in deeply, staring into the long night. It would again be a sleepless night tonight!

At about one in the morning, he saw a car driving in through the main gate. Vincent frowned, seeing that it seemed to be his mother's car. He saw his mother getting off the car hurriedly, and yelling in the yard without much care for her image, "Vincent, Vincent, get downstairs!"

Instantly, a sudden fear came upon his heart. What was his mother doing looking for him so late at night?

"Mum?" Vincent went downstairs immediately. His mother had already come to the living room and was panting heavily.

"Your heart is not well, can you not run so hurriedly? What happened?" Vincent was filled with the thick scent of cigarettes. "Vincent, I've just seen Leila, she's home!"

Leila?!

"It's impossible, Mum, how could Leila be possibly back? She's in City R!" Vincent tried hard to suppress it, but there was still loneliness in his heart that could not be erased. There was also anxiousness, as his heart twisted tightly.

"She came back, I saw her. My son, is she the only one you want and no one else?" Nora held Vincent's shoulders with both her hands, asking as she stared at him seriously.

"Mum, you know that without her, I wouldn't be together with any other woman! Not now, not in the future. I only want her, only her, but I can't hurt her anymore!"

"She still loves you. I went to find her! I can see that she has you in her heart!"

"Mum, what are you doing, finding her? Don't go to disturb her again!"

"I went to apologize!" Nora lowered her voice. "I've taught you when you were young, that you must recognize your mistakes. I didn't want to believe that I was wrong, but I was still wrong in the end. So that day I went to apologize to Brian, but I didn't expect that he would pass away that day suddenly. I went to apologize to Mabel and Leila, I no longer am against you two being together, my son. Go to find her, there's still a chance! I told her that you two could have a date first. Go, there must still be a chance!"

"What did she say?" Vincent finally believed it, he believed that his mother had met Leila.000

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