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Love’s Rebirth: Another Chance at Forever
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Chapter 1
A gunshot rang out at the cliff’s edge, making the thunderstorm pale in comparison. A tall man collapsed before Madelyn Garcia’s eyes.
“Andrew!” she screamed. She ran to Andrew Miller and cupped her hands over his wound, hoping against hope that she’d be able to stop the bleeding. However, despite her efforts, the eyes she’d once feared slid shut. Andrew’s body gradually turned cold.
“Why did you…” She and Andrew were already divorced. Why did he still come to this place upon hearing that she had been abducted?
Madelyn turned her bloodshot eyes to a man standing nearby with a black umbrella over his head. He was Easton Miller, the man who had once gone against the Miller family to protect her. His once–tender eyes were now cold and ruthless.NôvelDrama.Org (C) content.
Tears streamed down Madelyn’s face, and she trembled violently. “Is this why you approached me in the first place?”
Had his goal been to make her hate Andrew so that he could destroy Andrew and claim the Miller family’s fortune as his own?
Easton didn’t answer her. He smoked a cigarette coldly as a woman in a form–fitting
dress walked out from behind him.
Was that… Elena Garcia? Didn’t she love Andrew? What was she doing with Easton?
Madelyn felt like she had been struck by lightning. She put two and two together and gritted her teeth angrily. “You two…”
Elena kicked her in the shoulder, where she already had an injury. “I told you long ago that the Garcia family didn’t belong to you. Why did you refuse to listen to me?”
Madelyn instantly understood what she meant. Elena and Easton had long since conspired in secret–one wanted the Garcia family while the other wanted the Miller family.
The realization dawned on her, making anger and hatred surge in her. “Aren’t you afraid of retribution for the things you’ve done to get what you want?”
“Retribution?” Easton finally looked at her, not bothering to conceal his contempt for
her. “You can go to hell and ask the devil for help with that!”
He aimed his gun at her, making Madelyn’s pupils constrict as hatred and despair washed over her. He smiled creepily, which made her face turn ashen. “No!”
Easton turned the gun to Andrew, and Madelyn’s eyes widened in horror. The bullets rained on Andrew as Madelyn screamed. Blood spurted from the wounds, soaking the already wet earth beneath him.
Madelyn hysterically threw herself at him. A bullet got her, and she lost her balance. She slipped on the wet earth, dragging Andrew’s body down with her as she fell over the edge of the cliff. As they toppled downward, she pulled his cold body close to
hers.
She shut her eyes and pressed her lips to his cold forehead. Tears streamed down. her face as she cried, “I’m sorry!”
She had made a huge mistake. She had placed her faith in the wrong people and even caused his death.
“I
swear I’ll listen to everything you say if I can turn back the time, Andrew…”
Blood gushed out from her throat as soon as she spoke. A smothering sense of asphyxiation washed over her as she and Andrew descended into endless darkness.
“No!” Madelyn shouted, her voice quaking with terror. When the lightning lit up the room, she met Andrew’s beast–like gaze, and her mind buzzed.
She stiffened as she stared at him. He was very much alive. Then, she noticed that the tip of the blade she held had already pierced his chest. Her mind went blank from the fear. “No, I wasn’t-”
Before she could release the blade, Andrew grabbed it and flung it away. The smell of blood mingled with his unique scent as he wrapped his arms tightly around her. Then, he growled out the words, “Are you going to escape again?”
“No, Andrew! I’m not going anywhere anymore!” With a sniffle, Madelyn wrapped her arms around his burning neck.
She took some time to process the fact that she had been reborn. Then, she lost
consciousness.
It was already the next morning when Madelyn woke up again. She moved slightly to find that she was in an uncomfortably tight embrace,
She opened her eyes blearily to see a horrific wound before her. She yelped and shrunk back fearfully. However, as soon as she moved, a pair of strong arms pulled her back.
Madelyn looked up to meet Andrew’s dark gaze. She couldn’t help trembling–it was an instinctive response. It instantly got on Andrew’s nerves. “Do you still have the energy to run?”
Sensing the danger in his tone, she shook her head. “No, I’m not going anywhere.
Her denial didn’t make him return to his senses. He moved to hover over her, making the wound split open again. Blood trickled down his washboard abs. This immediately made Madelyn lucid. “No, don’t!”
His wound was bleeding again. Did he have a death wish? She struggled, wanting to stop his actions.
Andrew took her tears and struggles to mean rejection and a desire to flee. His rationality snapped. The atmosphere became filled with danger and deadliness as he growled, “Do you hate my touch that much?”
Madelyn watched as blood trickled from his wound, and the despair she had felt at the cliff’s edge washed over her again. She pressed her hands to his wound helplessly, but that didn’t stop the bleeding. She cried desperately, “You’re bleeding,
Andrew!”
The fear and terror in her tone made him calm down a little. He looked down at the
hands pressed to his wound, then looked up to meet her tearful and anguished gaze. His breathing grew heavy.
Madelyn clutched his strong arms, pleading with him, “Can we please stop the bleeding first?”
Her tone was filled with fear. Andrew’s gaze darkened at that, and he scoffed. “What, have you changed tactics and decided to suck up to me before finding an
opportunity to flee again?”
She tensed. “I’m not going anywhere! Let me go for now!”
How could she possibly run away again? In her past life, after she and Andrew divorced, the monsters in her life showed their true colors and took everything away from her. They even forced her into a dead end on that cliff’s edge!
Now that she had seen the light, how could she possibly flee from Andrew, who had lost his life because of her?
She was only worried about him! She remembered she had seriously injured him in
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her past life, and it had taken him an entire month to recover because his anger had exacerbated the wound.
“I’ll go get a first aid kit.” Madelyn cautiously pushed Andrew away, afraid her actions would anger him again. However, he didn’t budge. He stared into her eyes, his doubt and wariness evident. It made her tear up again.
She didn’t know how long they stayed like that, but he eventually rolled away from her and sat up. Only then did Madelyn see how deep the wound was. She didn’t expect him to be so heavily injured despite her stopping herself before things could get any further.
Andrew thought she would bolt out the door as soon as she was free, like every other time before. To his surprise, all she did was retrieve the first aid kit from the
drawer.
As soon as she sat down, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms, making. her yelp. He grunted from the impact. She sat up straight, feeling anxious. “Stop moying, will you?”
The wound looked even worse than before. Madelyn hurriedly grabbed the
disinfectant and carefully tended to the wound. Her warm fingertips brushed against the wound, making him stiffen.
Before she realized what was happening, Andrew gripped her jaw and tilted her head up. Then, he kissed her hard. The pain from it made her finally accept that this wasn’t a dream.
She and Andrew were alive again!
“Forget about whatever schemes you’re cooking up, Maddie. You can’t get away from me!” he said in a raspy voice. The danger in his tone had dissipated somewhat, but his desire to possess her intensified.