A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 176 Too Many Regrets

With a silent nod, William loosened his grip little by little. There were tears falling from his raised head. Feeling his arms empty, his heart ached. "No matter what, the position of my wife will always be reserved for you!"

Sherry's footsteps stopped as she ran away but she still turned to leave!

This time, she was the one who had escaped from the party. Only this time she was on her own, whereas last time she was with William.

Watching her gradually walking away, he laughed silently. Pain showed on his handsome face. Why did he always hurt her? Perhaps letting go of her was the most right and helpless choice.

"William! Why did you let Sherry go?" Seeing that Sherry had left, Liam came forward in dismay and was shocked to find tears falling down William's ghastly white face.

"We're done!" William turned sadly, "Liam, I'm going to New York on business tomorrow!"

"Why?" Liam wondered and chased after him. "Why is that?"

"She's Clark's daughter!" That was all William said.

"Oh my God!" Liam froze for a moment. "But you can't be blamed for that incident. It was Clark who was driving in the opposite direction. He's is mostly responsible for it!"

"But in the end, he died because of me. If I hadn't been so aggressive, maybe he'd still be alive today!" William sighed.

"You're leaving?"

"No! I'm going in to sing!" With that, William pushed open the door. At that moment, Ashley and Sarah were hysterically singing the saddest love song ever.

The crowd didn't know why Sarah was singing so hysterically. William looked back at Liam, who shrugged and leaned closer to him, "Women are like that, and they need coaxing! Just cajole her!"

***

As a result, William joined Ashley and Sarah, and together the three of them sang the sad love songs of the moment.

"Where's Sherry?" Leon and Liam clinked their glasses and drank beers.

Liam shouted back, "Gone!"

Because of Sherry's sudden departure, everyone was again feeling very uninterested.

On the way back, as all three men had been drinking, they were unable to drive.

Sarah took a look at Leon, who was drunk, and said to Ashley, "How about you take Leon back, and I'll take William and Liam?"

"I'll take William, and you take Leon!" Ashley refused.

"Are you really not going to get along with him anymore?" Sarah paused, and still asked, "I'm not taking Leon. He's your assignment!"

But the three men were simply too drunk for the two women to carry them out. After a while, Ashley was panting, and the feeling of nausea came back.

"Ugh..." She darted to the bin by the door to throw up. Luckily she was only puking air and didn't throw up.

Sarah froze, and suddenly it dawned on her. "You're pregnant?"

Ashley turned back in panic and covered Sarah's mouth with one hand. "Keep your voice down!"

Thankfully, neither of them heard.

"You're really pregnant?" Sarah asked.

"Yes!" Ashley didn't hold back.

Sarah nodded, but there was something odd in her eyes. After a few seconds, she instructed, "You must keep an eye on your baby, give birth to him, raise him by your side, watch him grow up, and see him call you mummy. That must feel so good!"

"Sarah?" Ashley wondered. What was Sarah talking about? Why would she want to have a baby if she wasn't going to raise him?

Sarah, however, suddenly smiled, "Let me know when you give birth. I'll be there to look after you and the baby!"

"Thanks!" Ashley was just touched and didn't say anything else. "I'll be sure to tell you and my sister!"

Sarah ran her hand over her belly and added suddenly, "I want to have a baby too! I want it so badly!"

"Then you should hurry up and find a man to get married!" Ashley said.

"But I only love my brother!" With that, Sarah looked back at Liam, who was drunk on the couch. Her eyes were a little hurt and confused, "But he didn't want me!"

"Why?"

"He probably couldn't accept that I grew up around him! He said it felt incestuous, even though we're not real siblings!" Sarah gave Ashley a big smile. "Forget it, let's wait here until they wake up. We can't carry them anyway. Let’s go outside and talk!"

"Okay!" --

Sherry went back to Sutton family alone. Dan and Sammy immediately ran towards her.

Sherry stroked the two children's faces and smiled.

"Mummy, where's Mr. Rowland?" Dan was sensitive. Having not seen William for three days, he immediately sensed that something must have happened. Belongs © to NôvelDrama.Org.

"He ..." Sherry hesitated. "He's busy!"

"Why won't Uncle come and stay?" Dan asked again.

"Dan, I'm tired and want to go and rest. Will you play with Sammy?" She was just too tired, both physically and mentally.

"Mummy, did Daddy make you angry?" Sammy asked worriedly.

"No!" Sherry’s lips curled up, but she couldn't bring herself to smile.

Cohen walked out and stood on the stairs. "Sherry, come here for a minute. I need to talk to you!"

Sherry nodded gently and followed him upstairs.

Entering the study, Cohen gestured for her to sit while Sherry's disturbed mood finally couldn't be contained.

"Sherry, I want to talk to you about me and Sierra!" Cohen spoke up and kept looking at his daughter. Looking at her face, Cohen was still a little distressed. Sierra was suddenly gone and had done such a thing. He had also had someone look into it and found out that Sierra had been abused all these years.

Sherry was dumbfounded and wondered why Cohen was suddenly saying this.

Sherry was clearly taken aback by her words and didn't come back to her senses for a moment. She just bowed her head sullenly and didn't speak.

"I met your mother back then when she was a seventeen-year-old girl in high school. Back then, I broke into your mother's house because I was hurt, and she was kind enough to save me! But I ..."

Back then.

Cohen was seriously injured as a result of his involvement in a gang strife. When he broke into her house, it was Sierra who saved him, bandaged his wounds, and helped him buy medicine. At that time, she had no family and was an orphan, and relied on the people of her village for support.

During the time he spent recuperating at her home, Sierra took care of him for ten days without asking him for anything in return. The day he recovered from his injuries, Cohen was finally struck by the kindness of this girl. After dinner, he raped Sierra, who fiercely resisted and begged him, but he did not let her go.

Afterward, Sierra cried for a long time and regretted having saved Cohen.

At the time, Cohen regretted it too. But he had been touched by her and vowed to marry her.

Sierra finally came to terms with reality. Cohen and she then moved in together and the two of them sort of had no choice but to get in a relationship. Sierra never said she loved Cohen. But the more she

did so, the more Cohen liked her. Perhaps it was true what they said: the more you can't have, the more you want.

Only, when he finally gained Sierra's heart, he got into trouble with an even bigger gang. He was faced with a harsh reality. He couldn't marry and have children, or his wife and children would be the victims of a gangster's struggle.

In desperation, he forced Sierra to have an abortion and fed her the aborticide himself. Yet he never expected to find, more than twenty years later, that the child he had forced to be aborted was unexpectedly alive.

Sherry was stunned after hearing what he said.

"Sherry, life is like that. There are so many unexpected things! I don't expect you to forgive me for anything. I just want to tell you that it's too bad if you and William are separated like this! I know that Clark loves you and spoils you. Even if he were alive and knew about this, he would still want you and William to be happy!" Cohen told her the truth that there were really too many regrets in life and too many things that could not be helped.

"You really tried to get her to abort me once?"

Cohen closed his eyes and nodded in pain. "Yes! And I did!"

"But she still gave birth to me!" Sherry couldn't understand why she'd given birth to her. Why did she give birth to her and then treat her badly? Was it because she hated Cohen? He had forced her to have an abortion. No wonder. No wonder she didn't like her! For a moment, Sherry seemed to be able to understand Sierra! She thought she must have hated Cohen so much that her heart was twisted!

"Sherry, forgive me. I really couldn't do anything about it at the time!"

Sherry's heart gradually sank. She murmured, "I don't even blame her anymore, so what do I blame you for? No matter what, you gave me life. I'm grateful for that!"

"Sherry!" Cohen cried. Her pale little face was so haggard.

"I want to travel alone!" She said.

"Go where?" Cohen was stunned and asked instinctively.

"Hokkaido!" She said.

"I'll get Keegan to go with you!" Cohen said worriedly.

***

"Is it okay if I want to go by myself?" Sherry didn't know what was wrong with her. She just wanted to go for a walk by herself. Maybe her heart was too tired and she was too sad.

Cohen finally didn't say anything, but just nodded. "Okay!"

He planned to send someone to protect her privately, not to let her be left in Hokkaido like last time. He wanted to give her happiness, to protect her from harm. But how could he, as a father, interfere too much with his daughter's love? Yet he still wanted her and William to make up.

"Sherry, I think you've really wronged William. He didn't do anything in that car accident. It was indeed Clark who had been drinking!" Cohen had already asked someone to go to the traffic police's archives to investigate the file. It was true that Clark was driving illegally and drunk back then.

Sherry froze, and her heart thumped, "He ... really drank?"

Cohen nodded. "Yes! Do you know why?"

"Why?"

"Because Sierra wants to divorce him, so he's drinking! I had Keegan look into his workmates back in the day, checked countless people, and confirmed that Clark did drink!"

"So I can't blame William?" Sherry froze in her tracks. She'd thought he'd tampered with it, and she'd thought he was the one lying!

"Sherry, William wasn't at fault for that incident! Yet he insisted on paying double the damages. For all these years, he would go to Clark's tombstone every year to lay a bouquet!"

A bouquet?!

Sherry was in dismay. That day she met him at the cemetery and knocked off his flowers ...

She didn't know how to think any further! Her mind was already in turmoil, and she was digesting the news. Had she wronged him? She hadn't listened to his explanation. So she hadn't believed him all along?

"President! I'm going out first!" Sherry turned around hurriedly and walked out.

Cohen sighed. When would she be able to call him "Daddy"?

Cohen picked up the phone and dialed William's number. It took a long time for William's tired, hoarse voice to come through on the other end of the line. "Hello! Father-in-law?"

"What are you going to do, brat?"