Unexpected Blessing After Divorce

Chapter 272

Chapter 272

Yuliana didn’t pay much attention to the book.

She noticed the noise at the door, but she didn’t look up at once and continued to be engrossed in her book.

After a while, she only raised her head when she noticed there wasn’t any

movement.

Yuliana was sitting on the bed, and Christopher was standing by the door. The room was quite large and there was some distance between them. Plus, it was dark with only a little light coming from the head of the bed, so they couldn’t see each other clearly.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Christopher walked in and went straight to the bed. He looked at Yuliana without saying anything. His gaze was deep and tinged with fatigue.

They hadn’t seen each other for half a month. Christopher wasn’t that much thinner than before, unlike Joyce, but he was much darker. His previously pale skin had turned into the color of wheat.

But the biggest change seemed to have happened from the inside.

The arrogant Christopher seemed to have been taken out of his body and replaced by another person. Yuliana felt like he was a stranger and yet couldn’t help but feel pained by all that he had gone through.

Yuliana put down the book in her hand and got up from the bed. Christopher grabbed her wrist to stop her from leaving.

Yuliana was stunned for a moment. She tilted her head to look at him and said, “I’ll fill up the bathtub for you so you can take a bath.”

Christopher didn’t say anything. Instead, he walked behind Yuliana, wrapped her tightly in his arms, and buried his head in her neck.

After a while, he let go of his hand and went straight into the walk-in wardrobe.

Yuliana stood there and stared in the direction of the walk-in wardrobe for a while. She suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. She had the feeling that she and Christopher would never go back to what they used to be.

She snapped out of her trance and went into the bathroom to fill up the bathtub for Christopher.

Christopher didn’t let Yuliana go even while he was taking a bath. He was arrogant and domineering, and they did it twice. After that, they lay silently in the bathtub.

Only then did Yuliana notice that Christopher had a lot of wounds all over his body-old yellow and recent purple bruises overlapping with each other and the many cuts peppered all over his body, most of it concentrated on the soles of his

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feet and his lower legs.

It was a shocking sight to see.

Yuliana stroked a 1.5-inch cut on his calf. Several days must have already passed as the cut was already scabbing, though the wound was still slightly turned out. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“How did you get this cut?” asked Yuliana.

Christopher opened his eyes and looked at where the cut was, and then he spoke to Yuliana, “I was cut by a stone when I went down to the river valley.”

He couldn’t remember exactly what happened.

“No, it wasn’t painful,” said Christopher, as if anticipating what Yuliana was going

to ask next.

At that time, it seemed like there was something under the river valley. In a hurry to see what it was, Christopher didn’t pay attention to his safety, and that was how got hurt. But at that time, he only had Kendrick in his mind; he didn’t care about anything else. He didn’t even realize he was hurt.

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It was only when he got to the bottom of the river valley and someone pointed out that his legs were covered with blood did he realize that he was hurt.

Maybe the pain was too much, and it had sent him into a numbing shock, but he really didn’t feel too much of it.

Christopher put his arm on Yuliana’s shoulder and wrapped his fingers around her neck until he was leaning on the other side of her shoulder. He kissed her ears as if he couldn’t get enough of it, stirring up the desire in Yuliana’s body.

Yuliana ducked down and reminded him, “It’s late. It’s time for you to rest. There’ll be lots of things waiting for you to do tomorrow.”

Christopher paused and was silent for a long time before he finally said, “Let’s do it one more time.”

The last time was the most aggressive. Yuliana was so tired that she didn’t know how she fell asleep in the end. When she woke up, it was already the next morning, and she was alone in bed. She opened her eyes and remained dazed for

a moment.

Yuliana picked up her phone to check the time. It wasn’t even eight o’clock yet.

The crib wasn’t in the room either.

Vague memories flashed through her mind.

Yuliana remembered Rowan was crying last night, probably because it was time for his milk. She was about to get up in a stupor due to her tiredness but was pulled back into bed by Christopher. He said something to her, and then she immediately fell back to sleep.

Yuliana immediately got up from the bed and went downstairs after washing up. She searched all over but didn’t see Christopher. She asked Sofia and learned that Joyce had called Christopher to Kendrick’s study.

Yuliana pondered what she should do next and decided to leave them to it while she went to see her son, Rowan.

Christopher woke up at dawn. He had only slept for three hours. He went to the guest room to wash up because he didn’t want to wake up Yuliana, who was still sleeping soundly. After that, he went downstairs and bumped into Joyce, who was standing in the yard.

Nobody knew how long Joyce had been there.

According to Sofia, Joyce was already standing in the yard when they got up in the morning.

“Joyce!” shouted Christopher as he walked over.

Joyce looked back at him and turned around again. She kept staring straight ahead and judging from her expression, it wasn’t because she was worried or sad about Kendrick. It was more like she was giving some matters serious thought. After a while, Joyce said, “I don’t believe your brother’s death was caused by an accident.”

Kendrick had always been the cautious type. He would have died at least 800 times in the past 40 years of his life if he could be so easily killed by an accident.

Christopher knew what Joyce meant, and he felt the same way as her. He frowned and said, “I ordered someone to dig up some information on the driver in Nardor. He has a daughter who’s severely ill, and he used up most of his income to treat her. However, around a month before Kendrick’s accident, his wife and daughter were suddenly sent to the top hospital in Epea.”

The information wasn’t that hard to come by. He already found out about it not long after he arrived in Nardor.

It was just that the driver in Nardor was dead, and Christopher knew he wouldn’t find out anything from the driver’s wife or daughter. But it was definitely not an accident. It was just that at that time, he was so anxious to find Kendrick and make sure he was safe that he couldn’t think about anything else.

But he couldn’t find Kendrick’s body, not even a trace of it, after searching for half a month. On the contrary, Christopher thought that Kendrick was very likely still alive.

If they really wanted Kendrick dead, they could have killed him the same way as the others in the car who were now all dead at the bottom of the river valley.

Joyce shuddered after hearing what Christopher said. “Did the driver do it for the money?”

“It’s not that simple.” Christopher looked at her.

Although he still couldn’t figure it out, his intuition told him that it couldn’t be that simple. An ordinary driver in Nardor couldn’t do such a thing. Moreover, his wife and daughter went to Epea a month before Kendrick’s accident.

It was more like someone had predicted that Kendrick would go to Alendor on a business trip and set up the trap in advance.

Christopher’s eyes darkened a little at the thought of that.

“By the way, there’s another thing.” Joyce suddenly remembered that she also went to Kendrick’s study last night. She wanted to see the items he used and found the surveillance video on Kendrick’s computer.

It was she who made a copy of that video for Kendrick.

Previously, Kendrick had asked her to check the surveillance video when Zachary had an incident. She didn’t find anything wrong, so Kendrick asked her to make a copy for him.

However, the surveillance video on Kendrick’s computer had been tampered with. It certainly wasn’t the one Joyce gave to him.