Chapter 229 If Your Identity Is Exposed
Adeline bit her lip, stubbornly looking up at Jasper's face. "Why?"
If something like this happened to Linda, even if Adeline returned to Radiance Springs, she couldn't relax, let alone focus on work.
Jasper's gaze was faint. "Even if you stay in Victoria Hollow City, what can you do for Linda?"
He continued, "Will you just continue feeling guilty? You'll also let Linda keep thinking about the past and be sad with you."
His words made Adeline instinctively take a step back.
She looked at him in disbelief, wanting to say something but she couldn't.
Jasper frowned, his voice cold and calm. "First of all, what Linda went through is irreversible. We need to make sure she doesn't see anyone or anything related to this incident. Let her slowly heal from the psychological and physical trauma."
"You should also know that everything she went through was because of you. Even if she doesn't blame you in her heart, can you guarantee that every time she sees you, she won't remember the past?"
Adeline felt like her heart was being stabbed, throbbing painfully.
Jasper looked at her ashen look, heart-wrenching sympathy surging within him.
However, he still furrowed his eyebrows and continued, "Secondly, since she can't remember why she was silenced, don't make it difficult for her to remember. Even if she does, can you protect her every step of the way?"
"For Linda, forgetting at this time is the best protection."
He added, "Lastly," He took a deep breath before continuing, "David owes me a favor."
"If I ask him to help watch over her and her father in Victoria Hollow City, he can do it."
Afterward, Jasper glanced at Adeline, who looked pale and weak due to emotional turmoil. "By staying here, not only will you make it difficult for Linda to escape her sadness, but you will also increasingly blame yourself and feel worse."
"So, you must return to Radiance Springs with me."
Adeline looked at his face, feeling like he was very far away.
His voice sounded distant.
However, she had to admit that his words were calm and logical.
Jasper was also cold-blooded.
He implicated Linda in her troubles, and he expressed her inability to protect Linda through cold words.
The insignificance, helplessness, and suffering she has brought Linda surged in her heart instantly.
Adeline looked at Jasper, wanting to say something. However, nothing came out when the words reached her heart.
She stared at him, suddenly coughing up blood before everything went black before her eyes.
When she fainted, Jasper quickly pulled Stella's arm away.
He rushed forward in a single stride, letting Adeline fall weakly into his arms.
On the side, Stella watched him holding Adeline and pursed her lips. "Jasper, put her on a chair. I'll have Ryan call the doctor."
"No need," he responded.
He lifted Adeline up. "She's just overwhelmed."
"Let's go back to the hotel first."
Stella furrowed her eyebrows. "Aren't we returning to Radiance Springs today?"
He looked down at Adeline in his arms and replied, "Tomorrow."
Adeline was reluctant to leave Linda, so he gave her one more day.
Jasper carried her, walking briskly toward the elevator.
Watching his back, Stella stomped her foot in frustration and quickly followed. "Adeline's psychological endurance is really poor."
The elevator doors opened, and Jasper carried Adeline inside.
Stella also hurried in. "You didn't say anything too harsh just now. Why is she so weak?"
He furrowed his brow slightly.
He thought, 'The Adeline from six years ago would've never made such a cold when seeing another woman faint.'
'But now...'
He was starting to get used to Stella's sharpness.
He didn't like her attitude, but he had to tolerate her.
This was because Stella once left everything she had in Victoria Hollow City and married him without regrets.
She bore him two children and endured unbearable pain.
Even if she had become someone he disliked, he couldn't abandon or leave her.
It was his responsibility as a husband and father.
However, he couldn't understand. "I remember you and Linda were desk mates and best friends for three years in high school. I thought if something happened to Linda, you would react the same way as Adeline."
Stella suddenly froze.
After a moment, she looked at the numbers on the elevator. "We were just desk mates; not best friends."
"And we haven't been in touch since high school graduation."
She continued, "For me, Linda's just an old classmate I haven't contacted in years."
Jasper squinted his eyes. "But she fought with Adeline for you."
Stella retorted, "That's because she knows I married a good husband and wanted to get close to me. Later on, she realized I didn't care about those old feelings, so she became friends with Adeline."
"Just a few days ago, she was arguing with Adeline and calling her a third party. Now, they're suddenly so close as if their lives depended on each other."
She continued, "How fickle."
"No wonder she was..."
"Stella," Jasper interrupted her before she could finish her sentence.
His eyebrows furrowed, about to say something. However, the elevator had already reached the ground floor.
She rushed out of the elevator and found Ryan waiting by the car.
She said, "Help us out!"
Ryan hurried over to Jasper. "Sir, let me do it."
Jasper furrowed his brow, glancing at Ryan's outstretched hands before bypassing him and going toward the car.
Ryan's hands awkwardly hung in the air while Stella rolled her eyes silently.
However, she didn't get in the car.
She stood with her arms crossed, staring at Adeline's unconscious state in the back seat. "Since we're not going back to Radiance Springs today, you guys go first. I'll visit an old friend of mine here."
Jasper smirked coldly. "You have friends you can contact here?"
His words echoed what she had just said about Linda in the elevator.
Stella's face turned pale and replied, "I have some distant relatives."
After saying that, she glanced lightly at him. "Are you coming with me?"
He smirked mockingly and closed the car door before driving off.
Stella stood in place until the car gradually disappeared from her sight. She then sighed in relief and hailed a cab by the roadside. "To the police station."
At the police station.
She met Morris Quinn there.
"How can you be so muddle-headed?"
When they met, she gritted her teeth and scolded Morris from head to toe. "You could've at least waited a while before taking action!"
"Our car didn't even reach Radiance Springs yet, and David already called us back!"
Stella continued, "Do you know..."
Morris replied, "Linda knows you're my daughter."
Before Stella could finish, Morris coldly interrupted her.
She was stunned and asked, "So what? Does the Quinn family have more to reveal?"
He replied, "But Linda wrote a letter, wanting to tell Adeline about this."
He narrowed his eyes and continued, "Gabriel is gone; our family's only card left is you by Jasper's side. If your identity is exposed, then everything will be over."
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