Relentless Pursuit After Divorce
Chapter 367. Adam Jones is Dead_1

Chapter 367: 367. Adam Jones is Dead_1

In the middle of the night, she suddenly woke up, tears still lingering in the corners of her eyes as she opened them. She was taken aback for a moment and raised her hand to wipe her cheeks, finding them wet with tears.

Her hand rested over her heart, which was still pounding quite fiercely.

She had just dreamed that Adam Jones was dead.

Covered in blood, he lay before her, and the mere thought made her heart uncontrollably tremble.

Her gaze shot to Adam Jones lying peacefully in the hospital bed, his eyebrows knitted tightly together at some point unbeknownst to her.

Looking up, she noticed the IV drip had finished. The nurse must have come in at some point and removed the needle without her noticing.

It seemed that she hadn’t been paying too much attention to Adam after all.

She sat blankly in the recliner, wiping her face again heavily, and let out a chuckle.

Perhaps, one day, she really could let go of Adam Jones completely.

When Adam Jones awoke, it was already daylight.

Sunlight streamed through the white curtains at the window, so bright that it hurt his eyes, making them difficult to open.

Instinctively, he raised his hand to shield his eyes then paused for a second. He suddenly sat up in bed and exclaimed, "Elly."

His gaze instinctively searched for Elly Campbell’s figure and found her sleeping quietly in the recliner by his bed, not having left.

He hesitated a moment, and then the corners of his lips lifted uncontrollably in a smile.

Elly hadn’t left.

He didn’t wake her but simply admired her morning visage in silence.

Elly Campbell in her sleep looked nothing like her awake self, who was always so cold and distant toward him, her words prickly, seemingly only satisfied when his heart was riddled with holes.

He knew he deserved it all, but every time she looked at him with those distant, cold eyes, it felt like his heart was being viciously stabbed countless times, both suffocating and painful.

He kept staring at Elly Campbell, as if he wanted to concentrate a lifetime’s worth of time into this moment.

But while he was lost in watching Elly Campbell, she suddenly moved in her side-lying position and, unexpectedly, opened her eyes.

Adam’s face stiffened, suddenly feeling the embarrassment of being caught sneaking a peek, his ears growing hot, but he didn’t take his eyes off Elly.

Elly, however, was unaware that Adam had been watching her all along. When she opened her eyes and saw Adam sitting up in bed, she quickly sat up as well.

"You’re awake?"

Her voice, rough from just waking up, unwittingly oozed a touch of suggestiveness.

Adam’s Adam’s apple moved, a hint of mirth appearing in his eyes. Elly was not far from him, just an arm’s reach away.

"Elly, you haven’t left?"

Caught off guard as Adam took hold of her hand, Elly instinctively struggled to break free, but remembering James Churchill’s advice from yesterday, her effort to pull away stalled.

She shifted her gaze to Adam and saw him looking back at her full of hope, his face betraying a hint of bewilderment.

Elly’s gaze turned serious, "First let go of my hand, so I can get the doctor to check on you."

Adam didn’t let go, instead he stretched out his long arm to press the call button, looking at Elly with an appeasing expression, "There, the doctor will be here in a bit."

Elly frowned at him and said, "Can you let go of my hand, please?"