The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 542 - 521 - If blood is shed again, I’ll lose my dad!

Chapter 542: Chapter 521 - If blood is shed again, I’ll lose my dad!

Seeing her like this, a faint smile appeared on Oliver Thompson’s pale face. His furrowed brows, tightly knit due to the pain in his chest, gradually relaxed, and the eyes staring at the woman softened for a moment.

His pale, chapped lips trembled as he took a while to force out a few words, "Rosella, are you worried about me?"

While speaking, his restless hand touched her hair, disheveled from struggling. His broad palm slowly reached the tip of her hair, then moved upward. The next moment, his distinct fingers deeply inserted into her hair, gently swirling. Before Julie Harrison could nod or say yes, his weak breath added, "You said that as long as I’m alive, you would forgive me. Now... I... am alive. Can... can you forgive me?"

His cracked lips opened and closed. Each movement seemed to drain his breath further. The more he spoke, the more difficult it became to speak. By the end, Oliver couldn’t even say a complete sentence.

Humans tend to be like this: overcome with worry, they break through their limits. However, once their concern is relieved, all their underlying nerves relax, revealing the price they paid for pushing beyond their limits.

Oliver, barely able to stand, exhausted all his strength and even fired a shot. He should have known that firing a gun was a great exertion. This outburst left him with only a breath of life left too.

"Alright, Oliver, don’t speak. Let Lucas Sandy help you treat the wound first!"

Julie was terrified by his appearance and her face turned pale. When she was first brought in, she heard Harvey Dunn say that Oliver almost lost his life. The moment he appeared, she immediately noticed him and saw that something was wrong.

Throughout the entire process, she suppressed her breath and remained quiet, fearing that a single sound might expose his vulnerability.

High-stake battles are decided in an instant, especially between such longtime opponents. Therefore, she maintained her silent composure throughout the ordeal. Now that the danger was over, all her pent-up concerns erupted. She had no mood to answer his jumbled words and focused on getting Lucas to treat his wound first.

"No, you said you’d forgive me as long as I’m alive, and now you can’t go back on your word!"

While Julie worried, some people were courting death. When she didn’t mention forgiveness, Oliver became defiant. He slapped away Lucas’s hand as it stretched towards him and said, "If you don’t forgive me, there’s no point in me living. After all, I’ve already captured the enemy, and my mission is accomplished. I might as well die!"

Julie: "..."

What was with this grown man threatening death?

This was the first time Julie had seen him so childish. Even before when she liked him a lot and stuck to him, she would at most act coy and cute but never threaten death!

Now, he...

Julie felt a headache, a vague feeling that this situation was all too familiar. But where did it come from?

As she couldn’t remember, she prepared to compromise. Suddenly, a characteristic deep and teasing voice came from a man who had been standing by for a long time.

"Oliver, following my footsteps in threatening death with a woman? You should be paid for commercials!"

Julie: "..."

Now she finally knew why it felt so familiar!

He learned this bad move from Mr. Gordon. Ivy Aretha once told her that he had threatened his own life by creating a stomach problem in order to persuade her into dating him. Eventually, Ivy gave in and then...

Everything became out of control!

From being his girlfriend, she was directly upgraded to his wife!

Now, Oliver also learned this self-destructive trick, and Julie could only feel a twitch in the corners of her eyes and a surge of agitation in her heart. "Other people may have a stomach problem at most, you have a gunshot wound. Do you want to send yourself to death directly?"

As she spoke, Julie suddenly stood up, irritated. She didn’t want to deal with him but couldn’t ignore his condition after all. Despite not giving in, she couldn’t help but worry.

"Dad, please stop making a fuss. Let Uncle Thompson check your wound first. After the wound is healed, you can ask mom for forgiveness, okay?"

Roy Thompson saw Julie standing up angrily and hurried to appease his father, fearing that his childish father might lose his breath out of anger!

"No, if I survive and she still doesn’t forgive me, she will definitely fight for a divorce again!"

Roy: "..."

Why did he feel that his dad was more childish than he was even? Reluctantly, Roy had to lie. He believed that under these circumstances, his mother wouldn’t expose his lie.

"Dad, she won’t divorce you. Before you came, Mom told me she wouldn’t divorce you. She loves you, so Dad, please let Uncle Lucas check your wound now. If you keep bleeding, I’ll lose my dad!"

As Roy spoke, he wiped away tears and sobbed. He appeared like an orphaned child.

However, when Oliver heard this, it was as if he hadn’t. He didn’t even glance at his son’s sincere performance, and his pain-filled eyes remained fixed on the silent woman beside him.

Seeing that his pretend crying and pitiful act didn’t move his dad, Roy became anxious. This trick was something he and Bianca Aretha had learned: once a child starts crying and acting pitiful, adults would agree to anything.

But why was it as if his dad hadn’t seen how pitiful he was? Had Bianca lied to him or was his acting too bad and had been exposed?

While thinking, Roy tugged at Julie’s pant leg and looked at her with tearful eyes, pleading, "Mom, please forgive Dad. If we delay any longer, Dad will die. Then, I’ll have no father. Bianca said that children without fathers are pitiable. I don’t want to be without a father, and I don’t want to be pitiable. Mom, please, I beg you..."

As Roy spoke, tears fell once more. Seeing that his father’s stubbornness couldn’t be shaken, he could only try to persuade his mother!