Love in Prime Years novel Chapter 21

“Lillian, you are insane!” Amelia did not want to bother herself to talk with her. Finishing these words, she hung up directly.

After hanging up the phone, Amelia’s heart was still thumping. She knew Lillian would keep her promise to give Amelia money if Amelia killed Dorothy. Although she was eager to get enough money as quick as possible to save Leigh, she could not violate her conscience.

Amelia liked Dorothy from the bottom of her heart. Dorothy was not only Amelia’s icon, but also a light in her heart.

When she was a child, Amelia was weak and sickly, and she was often bullied by her classmates at school. Once upon a time, she was pushed into a puddle by several female classmates and she was as dirty as a drowned rat.

At that time, Dorothy, who went to school to do public service, saw her and held Amelia from the puddle carefully without pretending to be a super star at all. Dorothy didn’t mind that Amelia’s dirty clothes stained her precious dress, and she just asked Amelia if it hurt.

A reminiscence of Dorothy’s gentle and loving eyes many years ago still tugged at Amelia’s heartstrings.

Amelia did not understand why Lillian wanted to kill such a good person. After all, Dorothy was Lillian’s mother!

She did not understand why Dougie, who almost wished to cut her into pieces, did not pursue her responsibility suddenly.

Amelia wanted to reveal all the truth and to prove her innocence, but she did not have enough time, so she had to spend her last time raising money to save Leigh. After all, there was nothing more important for her than to keep Leigh alive.

Amelia could find no way to raise enough money, but then she saw a piece of news.

“The eldest son of Moss Family, Rufus, returned and became a new leader of the Moss Group.

Rufus?!

Amelia checked out the news, and found that the man in the photo, who was like the bright moon in sky, was really the Rufus she knew and remembered! The Rufus was the one with whom she shared weal and woe!

During the four years imprisoned by Lillian and Jimmy in the dungeon, Amelia was not alone. Before her entering the dungeon, Rufus, a man covered in blood had been imprisoned in the dungeon.

At that time, Rufus was almost disabled, and it was Amelia who had been massaging him and trying to find a way to get the medicine, so he wasn’t actually disabled.

In order to save Rufus, her left arm was maimed. One day, Jimmy suddenly ordered the guard to take Rufus’s legs. Amelia tried her best to protect him at the cost of her maimed arm in exchange for his safety.

Amelia only loved Lawrence in her heart, and she had no romantic affections for Rufus. But their mutual support in the dungeon was enough to make them leave death behind for each other.

Rufus said that he would work hard for money to cure Leigh if they could leave the dungeon alive and regain the freedom.

Now, he was rich and prominent, so he must be willing to lend her money to cure Leigh.

Thinking that Leigh could be cured, Amelia was ecstatic. She did not know where Rufus lived now, but she found out the location of Moss Building on the Internet, so she intended to go to find him there.

Amelia wanted to go to Rufus’s office, but she didn’t make an appointment and the receptionist didn’t let her in. So she had to wait in the underground garage of Moss Building.

From sunrise to sunset, she finally saw Rufus.

Seeing him coming out of the elevator, she quickly walked to him and grabbed his arm.

“Rufus, I finally found you! Where did you go after you left the inn that day? Why didn’t you contact me and Leigh?”

Rufus seemed to be stunned when Amelia grabbed his arm. In a moment, he just showed a chill to keep her at arm’s length.

“Lady, please behave yourself!”

Rufus shook Amelia’s hand coldly, and his slight frown showed his obvious boredom.

Amelia looked at Rufus in disbelief. Rufus, who shared weal and woe with her and was more intimate than her relatives for her, did not know her now?

At this time, Amelia noticed a sweet and lovely woman standing beside Rufus.

Amelia knew the woman, who was Lillian’s best friend, Madeleine Gibson.

Madeleine held Rufus’s arm gently and said, “Rufus, do you know Amelia? It seems she knows you very well. I will be jealous if there are any other women around you!”

Rufus held Madeleine’s hand with intoxicating blandness on his face.

“My sweetheart Madeleine, I just want you in my life!”

Sweet Madeleine...

Amelia was shocked. In the dungeon, Rufus always called her sweetheart, but now he did not know her, and called another woman sweetheart. What was going on?

Amelia subconsciously felt that it must have been a trick plotted by Lillian and Madeleine. They did many evil things when they were at school!

Seeing Rufus holding Madeleine to leave, Amelia caught up in a hurry, “Rufus, I’m your sweetheart, you know! What happened? Why do you forget me and Leigh? Rufus, Leigh’s health is getting worse, and he...”

“Ah!” Before Amelia had finished her words, Madeleine staggered suddenly and fell over.

She raised her head with obvious grievances and innocence on her sweet and lovely face, “Amelia, what’s the matter with you today? Why are you pestering my fiancé and pushing me down?”

“Sweetheart!” Rufus held Madeleine gently into his arms, with undisguised affection and pity in his eyes.

Rufus, who was gentle and handsome, was the same in Amelia’s memory.

But he was cold in front of Amelia, “Amelia, apologize to my Sweetheart!”

“I didn’t touch her at all! She did it on purpose!” Amelia saw the camera flashing in the underground garage and said in a hurry, “If you don’t believe it, you can check out the video. Then you’ll know that it is she who should apologize to me!”

“Rufus, it hurts...” Madeleine’s lovely face puckered as if she had really suffered great pain.

There was a chill in Rufus’s eyes, and then he warned Amelia with impatience, “Apologize to her!”

Amelia raised her head and stared at him as if she didn’t know the man in front of her.

Rufus had soft facial contour, so Amelia thought of a saying when saw him. A gentleman was the one who had great intelligence and noble character. But he was no longer the gentleman as before, but a distant and cold person after a few months.

Recalling the man who always supported her unconditionally and would rather starve himself to save a piece of steamed bun for her became Lawrence failed to distinguish right from wrong, Amelia was aggrieved and sad.

When Amelia was about to explain, she felt a pain in her knee and Rufus kicked her knee hard.