Chapter 1993
Chapter 1993
On the first day of school, Miranda was once again met with an unpredicted truth.
She found out that Sierra was the top scorer in the entrance exam. She was the overachiever that every university was dying to recruit.
Not only did Sierra come from a good family, she was smart and beautiful to boot.
Sierra possessed everything she could have in life. Miranda couldn't figure out why she had to take Johan away from her when she already had so much.
What made Miranda even more disappointed was not her inferiority but rather Johan.
On the first day of school, she was over the moon to see that Johan was at the gate to receive her.
However, when Johan took her luggage from her and she was wallowing in her excitement to see him,
he said to her, "Miranda, that is the girl I like, Sierra. She will be your sister-in-law in the future. You should get on well with her."
She didn't want to be nice to her. Instead, she
hated her.
Miranda knew deep down that there was no way she could stand a chance against Sierra, so to the best of her ability, she curried favor with her instead. She wanted to make use of Sierra's friendship as a beeline to her own goals.
Her plan worked as expected. Through her relationship with Sierra, she secured the opportunity to be an exchange student. She became an international student that was admired by all.
She even thought she would be able to drive Sierra away and be with Johan once and for all after returning to the country.
However, Johan was once again the one, who with his own hands, shattered all her dreams mercilessly.
"Johan, I love you! Everything I do is out of my love for you. I want to be with you forever!" Miranda knew that if she didn't make herself clear right then, she wouldn't have the opportunity to do so ever again.
"Get out!" Johan once again answered her in an emotionless and heartless tone.
Miranda knew that she had lost the chance to turn the tables. She had lost it forever.
With that, she dragged her weakened legs out of
the infirmary.
The sun was shining brightly, but Miranda felt no warmth.
Her dream was shattered. What should she do?
"Miranda?"
Her name was heard all of a sudden. She thought that it was Johan but when she looked back, she saw a different face.
It was Maxtor, her senior from university.
Trying her best to hide the disappointment in her heart, Miranda forced a smile. She didn't want to humiliate herself in front of someone she knew, so she greeted with enthusiasm, "Hey, Maxtor, it's you! What a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet you here."
"It's really you. I hadn't seen you for so long and you've become such a knockout." Maxtor greeted Miranda politely as he looked around. "Have you seen Sierra? She said she'd come and pick me up. I've been waiting for quite some a while now, but she hasn't shown up yet."
Sierra!
"It's that d*mned Sierra again!"
Miranda thought that Maxtor had greeted her because he remembered her and wanted to catch up with her. However, it turned out that he only greeted her to ask about Sierra.
"Sorry, I haven't seen her." Miranda turned around with a smile and tears began to flow down uncontrollably.
Why was she always the one who was on the losing side despite all the hard work? She pondered.
In the airport infirmary.
After examining Sierra's condition, the doctor told Johan that there was nothing serious about her and that she would wake up in no time. Johan sat next to Sierra's bed. He placed his large palm on her forehead gently and his gaze was like glue, firmly fixated on her.
After staring at her for a long time, he said slowly, "Sierra, do you know how much I love you?"
His every word and action were influenced by her. Whenever she wasn't frolicking around him, he felt like the world had lost its colour.
With her hand in his, he confessed, "You never even bothered to ask me and just assumed that I loved someone else. Do you really think that I'm the kind of person who would be with you because of your family's influence?"
He admitted that the Silas family
were just ordinary businessmen and it was true they could never compare to the Yard family.
However, he was confident that he was able to provide her with a life that was on par with her life with the Yard family with his own abilities.
Ever since his university days, he had already started his own business and it was rather successful.
After graduating from university, he worked his fingers to the bone and expanded the company.
He had worked so hard because he wanted to tell her that she had made the right choice in picking him. He wanted her to know that she could rely on him for the rest of her life.
But what about her?
She seemed to have no faith that he was able to do that at all.
Sierra even tried to use her family connections to help him when he repeatedly told her that he didn't need it. Nevertheless, she refused to listen, leaving him no choice but to give up on any business which involved the Yard family.
"Ring..."
Sierra's cell phone suddenly rang, interrupting Johan's listless musings.
He took out the phone from her handbag and looked at it. It was Maxtor. Why would Maxtor be calling her at that hour?
Peeved, Johan frowned. "What is it?"
His indifferent tone made Maxtor, who was on the other side of the phone, extremely irked. "Hey, Johan, we have been friends for so many years. You don't have to speak to me like that just because I told your girl to pick me up."
"She came to the airport to pick you up?" Johan smiled bitterly as he was hoping that Sierra was there because of him.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.
"Who else would she pick up? Are you afraid that she might run away with some other man?" Maxtor said jokingly, "You can put your heart at ease. She loves you way too much. She would never run off with another man even if she was held at gunpoint."
Did she really love him though? Johan wondered.
Sierra often said that she loved him, yet she never trusted him which often made Johan feel like Sierra was just enjoying the thrill of toying with him. Maxtor's voice once again sounded through the phone. "By the way, are you guys here already? I've been waiting for you guys for a long time." Johan said, "Well, you didn't ask me to pick you up, did you?"
Maxtor was so disgruntled that he cried out,
"Excuse me, I called Sierra. How can you not know about it?"
"Well, she didn't tell me about it." In the past, Sierra would tell him about everything she did. She would give him a phone call and blabber to him even if it was just about a piece of clothing that she wanted to buy. To borrow her words, she just wanted him to think of her
twenty-four-seven.
However, at some point, Sierra no longer told him anything about herself nor did she pester him ever again.
"Does that mean that you guys are
standing me up? Huh, I really can't believe that you and Sierra actually chose love over friendship. Very well, if you two don't come today, then I'm afraid that you've lost yourself a friend." In fact, Maxtor always knew that both of them valued love more than friendship, but he still couldn't help but get annoyed by that.
"Come to the airport infirmary." Johan hung up the phone as soon as he said that.
"The infirmary? What's wrong with Sierra?" Maxtor's fury instantly vanished and was supplanted by worry.
He immediately dashed to the infirmary. The moment he arrived, he could see Sierra lying on the bed. He looked at Johan in dismay. "Did you
do something to her?"
Johan did not speak.
Maxtor added, "What on earth happened, Johan?"