Torn Between Love and Hate

Chapter 125

Chapter 125 She Doesn’t Die

Joseph walked straight over and sat down on the sofa opposite Ashton.

Joseph looked indifferent without giving Ashton a glance.

“Just go straight to the point. I’m very busy and don’t have time to talk nonsense with you.”

While speaking, Joseph thought of something, covered the palm of his right hand with his left hand,

and took off the

diamond ring on his ring finger calmly.

For some reason, Ashton couldn’t help but glance at the door of the private room.

On second thought, he didn’t think Joseph would bring someone here.

Joseph put away the ring and then took a glimpse at Ashton opposite.

He was a bit surprised.

Ashton’s tone was calm, and Joseph thought someone as cold as Ashton might have long moved on

from the pain of losing Deborah as it had been three years.

Unexpectedly, Ashton looked a little unrecognizable.

He grew visibly thinner and haggard, no longer as high-spirited as he was before.

Ashton stared at Joseph with dim eyes and said, “It’s nothing else. I sincerely mean to take over

Jingron Design and offer a high price of 2 billion dollars. Mr. Black, why are you still displeased?”

Joseph sneered impatiently, “You came so far just to say such nonsense to me? 1 don’t want to sell my

things to you,

for no reason.”

Ashton said with a smile, “Oh, is there no other reason? Mr. Black, as far as I know, you’re interest-

oriented. There’s no reason not to make easy money, right?”

Joseph looked sideways at him with utter disgust in his eyes. “Ashton, don’t try to beat about the bush.

Well, are you still fantasizing about Deborah coming back from the dead and being hidden by others,

hidden by me?”

Ashton’s body froze obviously, and after his thought was seen through, the smile on his face finally

faded.

Joseph said coldly, “You spent so much money in acquiring so many design companies just to show

how affectionate you are. Drop the act in front of me. It’s disgusting. I’d rather throw or donate my thing

than sell them to you.”

Ashton sat there with a lump in his throat, unable to speak a word.

Over the years, he told herself and forced him to believe that Deborah was gone and lost.

So he was going to get her back, and he convinced himself that she was in a design studio

somewhere, and that was the job she loved.

No one would ever expose his self-deception. He just deceived himself like this, ignoring Deborah’s

body, ignoring Deborah’s ashes, and looking for Deborah for three years.

Until now, he realized that he had deceived himself too much, thinking that Deborah must have run

away with Joseph.

So he came to Oceanview City to ask for her from Joseph.

He deceived himself to forget that Deborah was dead.

When she died in front of his eyes that day, he asked Rodger to personally carry out an autopsy on her

and identified

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her DNA

The post-mortem revealed that the body belonged to Deborals.

But he still didn’t believe it.

Ashton believed that Rodger was lying to him and helping Deborah escape.

So Jett said to him, “Mr. Mullen, how about getting another coroner to do the test?”

Ashton refused without thinking about it, “No, forget it. Anyway, this corpse doesn’t belong to Deborah.

It doesn’t.”

He quickly had the body cremated and scattered the ashes into the sea.

When he returned home, he claimed that Deborah had disappeared and started looking for Deborah all

over the world.

The reason why he didn’t give up managing the Mullen Group was that he needed to carn money and

power.

Only in this way could we continue to acquire design companies, throw money, and try every possible

means to find

Deborah.

He was trying to find someone who could never exist again.

Joseph got up directly and said, “Ashton, you are ridiculous. I have made it clear what should be said,

and I think we

should have nothing to talk about.”

He walked outside, and behind him, Ashton got up and called him, “If Deborah really died, why don’t

you feel sad?

“You seem to have been doing well in the past few years. Deborah passed away three years ago, and

you left decisively without caring about her body or her mother’s funeral.”

Joseph suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned around.

He seemed to be at the limit of his patience, and suddenly approached with a few steps, and punched

Ashton hard in

the face.

Ashton was obviously in a trance now, slower in reaction.

When the punch hit his face, he didn’t react at all. He staggered and sat back on the sofa.

Joseph gritted his teeth and said, “Because I’m not interested. It’s meaningless to snatch a dead body NôvelDrama.Org exclusive content.

from you!

“Deborah is dead, Ashton, when she was alive, you had her for your own, and when she died, you

snatched her body away. What qualifications do you have to ask her from me?”

Ashton’s face trembled as he sunk into the sofa dejectedly.

He muttered to himself, “She’s not dead. Don’t play games. You must have hidden her. Your business

has been booming in the past three years. If she really died, can you live well as if nothing happened?”

Joseph stared at him with scarlet eyes and snapped, “Just dream. Live in the dream forever! So what if

I hide her?

“The person she wanted to choose from the very beginning was me. She made a mistake, and you

tricked her into believing you. If she hadn’t mistaken you for me, she would’ve been with me and we

would’ve gotten married and had kids. You would’ve got a shot!”

Ashton shook his head in despair and said, “I am the one Debby loved. We’d been married for more

than four years, and our relationship is the result of getting along day and night for so many years. It’s

not because of the fact that you saved her, no,”

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Joseph looked at him and found his words ridiculous. “You’d spent a lot of time together.

“But it’s you who killed her daughter and mother, crippled Zayne’s hand, and made her suffer a terminal

illness and have a miscarriage. Because of you, she lost her liver and her womb. Is this the way you

two got along?”

The color drained from Ashton’s face.

It was so long ago, so long ago that he began to forget that he had hurt Deborah so much.

It turned out that the marriage between him and Deborah which he thought so happy was so miserable

that he

couldn’t bear to recall

Joseph snorted lightly, “She should indeed have endless feelings for you, endless despair, and endless

resentment. I guess she couldn’t rest in peace because she didn’t kill you.”

Ashton’s face was overcast with sadness. “I regret it. If I could have been earlier…”

Joseph interrupted him, “Keep acting and acquiring companies, and live in your dream.”

With that, he exited the private room.