A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 134 Participating in His Memories

William took out one of the photobooks and opened it. For a moment, he fell into a trance; it was a picture of him and Lucille together. They were facing the camera together, his arm around her waist, and both of their faces gleaming with the bright smiles. In an instant, his expression looked dazed as if he had travelled back many years…

Seeing his expression, Sherry's face was as pale as a white sheet, and so were her lips.

Did this memory touch his innermost soul? Judging from his expression, he seemed to be deeply stuck in the memory and engrossed in it. Sherry lowered her head, not daring to look at such an expression on William's face again, because she was afraid her heart would really be broken…

It turned out that love really made people greedier. She couldn't believe that she didn't want him to look back on those good memories of the past. Sherry, you couldn't be like this!

She took a deep breath, looked down, and kept admonishing herself not to be so narrow-minded, not to be like this!

"Is this okay?" William handed the photobook to Jesse. He hadn't noticed Sherry's strangeness until this moment, perhaps because he was too careless, or because he simply didn't realize what was going on.

Jesse took the photobook from William and tried to get closer to Lucille, but she screamed. "Ah, don't burn me…"

Jesse immediately stopped in his tracks, not daring to take another step forward. Then he turned his attention to Sherry. "Miss Murray, please give it to her, she seems to trust you!"

Looking at the photobook handed to her, Sherry fell into a momentary daze. Her body swayed and her face was almost transparently white, but she eventually nodded and agreed, "Alright!"

She didn't even know how she took the photobook, her hands seemed to be trembling.

"Miss Mclean, I found William for you. Can you see if he's the man you're looking for?" Sherry said, handing her the photobook.

William suddenly reacted, and it was only then he saw Sherry's face ghastly pale, while Sherry seemed to be afraid of being found out by William, she kept her head down and focused all her attention on Lucille.

Then, Lucille slowly raised her head as Sherry opened the photo album. "Look, this is a picture you and William used to take together. You are so beautiful! William is handsome too, is this him? Is he William?"

Lucille's attention was drawn back and her eyes fell on the group photo. She frowned in confusion at first, and after thinking for a long time, she suddenly exclaimed, "Yes, he seems to be Will, but why his eyes aren't blue?"

Sherry tried hard to hold back the hundred complicated feelings in her heart. She didn't look up as she didn't want anyone to see the vulnerability in her eyes. She just flipped through the photos and said, "Look, this is you! How beautiful you are!"

Lucille suddenly shook her head, twisting her hands together. "But I'm not pretty now, Will doesn't like me anymore!" Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Everyone held their breath while William's eyes fell on Sherry's downcast head and felt damned. As he watched Sherry flip through the old photos of him and Lucille, he suddenly felt uneasy. He had neglected her feelings, dammit!

"How so? You're beautiful!" Sherry looked up.

At that moment, William saw that her face had been devoid of any color, and there seemed to be some lights in her eyes. Did she almost cry out? With that, his heart tangled so much that it hurt. How could he not consider Sherry's feelings?

Sherry looked at Lucille in front of her. She really wasn't pretty anymore, her cheekbones were gaunt and high, her eyes were deep-set, and the corners of her eyes also looked more wrinkled.

Her youth had long been gone. Such an embarrassing woman was really not considered beautiful, but she was once beautiful and would still be beautiful again when she recovered.

Perhaps, she would even become William's most beloved woman!

Suddenly, she smiled, albeit a little bitterly, but smiled nonetheless.

"Miss Mclean, look, such a handsome man like William is charmed by you, how could he not like you? Look how well-matched you two are, I'm envious of you!"

"Really?" Lucille seemed to be a bit unconvinced by Sherry's statement. She looked up at the photobook in Sherry's hand and suddenly took it again.

Sherry followed her line of sight and found that the background of the picture was somewhat familiar. The background of the picture was the dawn of Lake Akan in the eastern part of Hokkaido. In the dawn, there was a couple embracing each other, and their smiles were so blinding!

Her heart was hollowed out at once, and her mind went blank for a moment.

Lucille flipped back a few pages, then pointed to one of the photos and suddenly said excitedly, "This is a photo Will and I took on a trip to Hokkaido! This is...Akan National Park!"

It shocked Jesse that she could give the address so accurately.

William was also shocked! However, his shock wasn't because of Lucille's memory, but because of Sherry's expression!

"Sherry!" He shouted, not wanting her to look at those photos any longer.

But she just gave him a glance blandly and smiled. She remembered that when they traveled to Hokkaido, they didn't take a single photo. It turned out that it wasn't that he didn't like taking pictures, he just didn't like taking pictures with her. "William, look, Miss Mclean still remembers. What a pleasure! Doctor, Miss Mclean remembers the old times!"

Jesse was delighted, and so was the special nurse.

William's face, however, was suffused with worries. "Sherry, come here!"

He couldn't let her see those pictures anymore.

But Lucille suddenly pointed to another photo and said, "Where is this place? Why don't I remember?"

"Then let William tell you, okay? I'll call him over!" Sherry smiled, her smile was so blinding. She turned to William and said with a smile, "William, come here and tell Miss Mclean where this place is?"

William didn't move his feet, but just fixed his eyes on Sherry. His gaze was full of grief and regret. He really felt so regretful. Sherry's face was so pale, and he knew that if he walked over, her face would be even paler.

His heart became even more restless, his hand subconsciously took out a cigarette, and then he said, "Excuse me, I'm going to smoke a cigarette!"

Lucille looked at his leaving back, frowned and shook her head. "He's not Will. Will would never ignore me!"

William came to the study, his hand trembled as he lit a cigarette, and then took a deep puff.

Lucille's surprised voice came vaguely from the living room, "Oh, this's William fishing, he caught a very big fish. Look, isn't it a big fish?"

Sherry looked at the picture of William, which showed him holding a fishing rod and really catching a very big fish. Sherry looked at it, her eyes inexplicably red, but still with a smile on her face. "Yes, this fish is really big, William is really great!"

At this moment, she seemed to be a paper doll whose life had been all taken away. She just smiled casually, a mist in her eyes, but she tried very hard not to let that mist spread. She still said with a smile, "Miss Mclean and William are really a perfect match!"

Speaking of which, Lucille suddenly dropped her eyelashes as if she had done something wrong. "But Will doesn't like me anymore, he doesn't like me! He has his children. I tell you, he has his children! Don't you tell others, Will doesn't know that I know about it!"

Sherry was shocked that it was really because of Samuel. Lucille knew about Samuel's birth. At this moment, Shirley suddenly reproached herself inwardly. Why did she agree to this contract in the first place? Instead of saving Luke, she had just changed her life.

At this moment, she really had some regrets!

"No, William doesn't have children. It's true! I'm telling you, everyone else is lying to you. You have to believe him, make yourself pretty and be his bride! You need to take your medicine and get some sun, you're too white now! You need sunshine!" Sherry comforted her, but a tumult of feelings inside her fought for supremacy.

"Okay! I'm going to get a tan!" Lucille said obediently, "I'm going to be Will's bride! I'm going to make myself pretty!"

"Yes! You can wear a wedding dress once you're pretty!" Sherry also smiled, but her smile was unconscious.

William couldn't bear to listen anymore. With trembling hands, he walked quickly out of the study. He strode toward Sherry, and his sudden approach made Lucille wince with fear again.

William, however, didn't even give Lucille a glance, and directly grabbed Sherry. At the moment he grabbed her hand, he only realized that her hand was as cold as ice, so cold that his heart also trembled.

Perhaps because of the great magnitude of his movements, Lucille screamed in fright and the photobook in her hand fell to the floor with a snap.

It just so happened that it was the photo that Sherry had seen earlier, in which William and Lucille were kissing intimately.

Sherry's eyes fell on the photobook on the floor, and William followed her line of sight.

Time passed in each other's subtle breathing…

Blood oozed from the corners of Sherry's pale lips, and her body trembled slightly.

A drop of tear slipped from her eye, and then instantly fell to the floor along with the blood drops. On the white floor, there was bright red blood and also crystal tears…

Yet a peculiar smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, as if she was in pain, but also as if she was relieved.

She looked up, there were no more tears in her eyes, and what she had on her face was only a smile, which was so elegant that it seemed to contain the aura of the universe. Her eyes looked a little tired,

her pale lips were tattered by her teeth, but that smile seemed like an eternity. She smiled shakily, as if this smile would float away with the wind.

William's heart panicked and so did the looks in his eyes. "Sherry…"

With a quiet and lonely smile, she just looked at William. Then she broke away from his hand and knelt down to pick up the photobook; however, her hands were trembling and she could barely grasp it.

Everyone in the room was stunned, while Lucille cowered in fear and kept trembling.

Jesse and the special nurse seemed to understand what was going on and were afraid to speak.

William suddenly felt that her silent smile had touched the softness of his heart. For a while, he forgot what he should do, only to feel flustered.

Sherry finally picked up the photobook on the floor and handed it to Lucille. She felt like she had exhausted all her energy and had a feeling of weakness. She hadn't eaten anything at lunch, and now, she felt even hungrier. She was still pregnant, and nothing was as important as the baby.

Then she suddenly realized something and said to Lucille, "Miss Mclean, take it, William will talk about it to you, I have to go to work! I have to get back to work now!"

"Will you still come to visit me?" Lucille suddenly grabbed her shirt.

Sherry looked back at her and nodded with a smile. "Of course, I'll come back to see you. Remember to go get some sunshine! Don't be afraid of anyone!"

"All right then! You can go to work!" Lucille let go of her hand, then took the photobook again and looked at it.

Shirley nodded to Jesse and the special nurse, then walked straight outside without giving William a glance.

William chased after her. "Sherry…"

He didn't know how to explain and felt that every word that came to his lips was feeble. He really was a careless man.

But Sherry still turned her head with a smile, looked at him and said gently, "Just go in and tell her about the memories of those photos, maybe she can think about it and get better, I should go back to work!"

Sherry was smiling, but only she knew the bitterness of her smile.