If I brought her back, I could not only care for her but also save my father’s manufacturing company.
But I refused.
“David, why are you like this?”
My mother looked at me in disbelief.
“I just… can’t accept it.”
Then I went out alone to the balcony.
Watching Rachel being driven away, I dialed Jessica Carter.
“Jessica, did you find it?”
“David, we’ve been searching at the foot of the Rocky Mountains for half a month. Still no body.”
“Are you sure she’s really dead?”
“I’m sure.”
“Then who is this woman now?”
“I’ve sent someone to investigate. David, I’ll find more people. Even if we have to scour the entire Rocky Mountains, we’ll find the body.”
“Please. Do your best.”
The next day, when Rachel’s relatives learned I had abandoned her, they dropped everything and stormed into my house.
They beat me savagely, leaving me curled on the ground, clutching my head.
One of my ribs even broke.
If they hadn’t worried about killing me, they wouldn’t have stopped.
And yet, miraculously, after just one day in the hospital, I was already able to walk.
By the next morning, I was discharged.
The doctor marveled at my recovery, calling it superhuman.
Leaving the hospital, I immediately drove to meet a friend.