Midnight Bride The CEO’s Temptation

Valerie sobbed, fingernails biting into her palms.

"Stop crying! You're making too much noise!" A tall and aggressive female prisoner, who seemed to have been awakened, came up from her bed and roared savagely.

Valerie, in a bad mood, impatiently replied, "ha, if you have another choice, I suggest you live in the presidential suite. Why don't you move out?"

"You'll be sorry for what you've said!" With those words, the female prisoner drew out a dagger, rushing to Valerie, and thrust it into Valerie's big belly violently!

Valerie's eyes widened as the sharpened dagger pierced her belly, and she fell to the ground in the shrieks of other prisoners who saw the blood.

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Savannah heard what happened to Valerie the next noon.

Garwood did not intend to mention the matter to Savannah at first, but when he told this to Judy, Savannah just went downstairs and joined their conversation.

Last night, Valerie was badly injured in a fight with a female prisoner in her cell.

After Savannah learned the terrible accident from Garwood's mouth, her stomach turned over, "what about Valerie now?"

"She was taken to a hospital. Her life is saved, but the baby is dead. It's said that the baby is a 2kilos boy. What's more,…" Garwood sighed.

"What?"

"After massive hemorrhage, her uterus was removed, and she couldn't have children in the future. The police said that Valerie would be formally charged when she recovers from her injuries."

Savannah didn't know whether or not she should feel sorry for Valerie. After all the recent things, Devin and Valerie were all left infertile.

However, she felt something was wrong and asked suspiciously, "how could the female prisoner in the jail have a knife?"

Garwood looked at her, "well, it's really difficult to smuggle tools or knives into the detention center."

"You mean... someone bought off the female prisoner and gave her a dagger in the dark and instructed her to kill Valerie?" Savannah widened her eyes.

"That's it." Garwood nodded.

Judy gasped, "who could it be? That's too cruel..."

Although Judy did not like Valerie at all, the unborn baby in Valerie's pregnant belly was always innocent.

The final purpose of the one who bribed the prisoner was to kill the pregnant woman and her baby together. It was so wicked.

Savannah and Garwood looked at each other, it suddenly became clear that who the initiator of the murder was.

It could only be Devin who wished Valerie was dead.

As a rich and powerful young man, Devin only allowed himself to hang around with other women, but he would never bear being betrayed by his wife. Whether he really loved Valerie or not, seeing Valerie cheating on him and being pregnant with another man's child, he must be extremely mad at Valerie and wanted to kill her.

But Valerie was now prisoned, so he paid off the prisoner to do it for him.

Garwood finished his work and left.

After learning about Valerie's tragedy, Savannah felt upset, and her mood was full of confusing pictures and disturbed emotions. In the afternoon, she fell asleep when watching TV on the sofa and had a lot of nightmares.

In her dream, Valerie stood in front of her with a dead baby in her left arm and a bloody dagger in her right hand, and blood was still spouting from the big hole in her belly; with a ghostly and cold look on her face, she rushed over to Savannah, "I become this all because of you! I won't let you go..."

"Ahhh---"

Savannah woke up from the dream in a cold sweat. She opened her eyes and saw a familiar figure squatting beside the sofa. "What's wrong? Have a nightmare?" Dylan asked with a serious look.

"Hmm." She collected herself, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and sat up.

But she didn't know why she felt much better and calmed down when she saw him back.

Staying with him set her mind at ease.

"You rarely have nightmares." Dylan frowned. He saw her struggling in her nightmare and turning pale, and she was still panting for breath now.

"I... I heard about Valerie's case today." She took a deep breath and curled up in the corner of the sofa.

"Garwood said it?" he knitted his eyebrows, "I don't know he has a big mouth."

He should have warned Garwood not to tell her.

She was pregnant and easily startled and scared. He only wanted her to lead a peaceful life free of care.

"Don't blame Garwood. I asked him to tell me." Savannah murmured.

He mused and caressed her hair, his voice soft and quiet, "tell me about your dream. I remember when I was a kid, my mom said, say your dream out, and then you will forget it."

She didn't work except that he would comfort her with his mother's words. "Valerie… she approached me in blood, saying I'm to blame for her end, trying to kill me..." She said slowly, holding her belly.

She always wanted to abort the baby, but in her dream, her first response was to protect her tummy.

When she woke up, she was glad that it was just a nightmare, and the baby was not hurt.

Was it because she began to have feelings for the unborn baby as it grew in her belly?

"Don't be afraid. I will protect you. I'm not going to let anything happen to you or the baby." Dylan stared at her with a steely resolve in his eyes.

Savannah's mind became rested. She restrained the apprehensions in her and changed the subject, "by the way, did the woman stab Valerie, really because she fought with her?"

"Devin did it," Dylan said, with nothing hidden, "he sent a lawyer to buy off the woman in her cell to kill Valerie."

This morning, old Sterling was shocked when he learned of this incident. He thought that it had something to do with his grandson, so he called the lawyer.

The lawyer knew he couldn't hide it from old Sterling and told him exactly what Devin ordered him.

Savannah had guessed it was Devin, but she was still shocked when she heard the truth.

"Dad was very angry. He was afraid that this event might affect the reputation of the Sterling family when it came to light, so he took Devin back and confined him in Sterling's house and planned to send him abroad."

"He wants to send Devin abroad?" Savannah was surprised.

"Well. Devin will be sent to Japan this month. We have companies under the Sterling group over there, and dad wants to put him through the mill."