Delayed Regrets: He Regretted Only After Her Death-Chapter 107: Severing Ties and Breaking Bonds

Chapter 107: Chapter 107: Severing Ties and Breaking Bonds

On the sofa in the hotel lobby.

Tiana Linden sat there enduring the pain.

The long, champagne-colored gilded dress revealed a pair of fair ankles.

One of them was noticeably swollen.

Already a patch of blue and purple.

Aiden Grant carefully placed this bruised ankle on his knee.

But his hand was firmly held by Hector Chaucer.

So any further actions he wanted to take were prevented.

The two men were in a standoff.

Neither willing to let go.

It seemed like a silent confrontation.

Aiden looked at Tiana’s injury with concern and then warningly at Hector.

"She needs ice immediately!"

"Aiden, let go," Tiana scolded impatiently.

Aiden responded with persistence, not letting go at all.

"Tiana, before when you sprained your ankle, I always iced it for you and it got better."

"I know how to be gentle, I won’t hurt you."

Now he realized he wouldn’t hurt her?

Where was he back then?

When he sent her to prison, when she struggled to give birth there, when she begged him to take care of Daisy, begged him for a box of medicine, while he insulted her shamelessly.

Did he care if she was in pain?

She didn’t want to bring up the past anymore.

Who made her stupid?

Who made her foolish?

Since she was both stupid and foolish, she should pay for her actions.

She accepted that.

Now, she didn’t want to say an extra word to Aiden.

She shouted impatiently, "Get lost!"

Before she realized it, a strong arm had gently lifted her entire body.

When she came to her senses, she was already in Hector Chaucer’s embrace.

He easily picked her up completely.

"Hector, what are you doing?"

Hector carried her away with large strides, "..."

"Put me down, so many people are watching," Tiana said, embarrassed.

She had never been watched like this before.

But Hector was open and unperturbed, "Don’t you want to make Aiden uncomfortable?"

By carrying her away like this, surely jealous Aiden’s heart would be in turmoil.

Tiana understood the implication in Hector’s words.

So, he was only holding her to teach Aiden a lesson, to make Aiden uncomfortable?

Uh... it seemed like she was overthinking it just now.

...

Christopher Grant and Jane Summers arrived in the hotel lobby after hearing the news, but Tiana was nowhere in sight.

Ever since the news spread that Tiana was alive, the couple had not seen Tiana.

At this moment, Jane was eager to see Tiana.

She wanted to sincerely apologize.

When she learned the whole truth, Tiana was already critically ill.

For the previous insults, misunderstandings, and beatings, Jane was deeply remorseful.

She wished she could cut out her own heart to atone to Tiana.

She asked Aiden, "Didn’t you say Tiana was coming, where is she?"

Aiden did not answer: "..."

His fingertips seemed to still hold the warmth from Tiana’s ankle.

She felt like a shadow both so close yet so far, beyond reach.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t grasp her.

Seeing him not answer, Jane asked Daniel Linden, "Daniel, where is your sister, did she really come?"

Daniel was distraught, "Tiana is blaming me, she’s blaming me..."

Jane snorted, "Isn’t that what she should do? Everyone here is guilty."

Fortunately, Tiana is still alive!

This was Jane’s relief.

She turned to Christopher Grant, "Christopher, if Tiana doesn’t forgive me, I accept that. It’s all my fault for being so heartless to her back then."

They grew up like sisters.

How could she so easily believe those rumors, "From now on, unless I see it with my own eyes, I won’t believe it."

Christopher Grant: "Now it’s too late."

Jane sincerely repented, "I was wrong, all I want now is to see Tiana, even from afar is fine, where is Tiana?"

As long as she lived well, Jane would be content.

As she spoke, Jane’s eyes filled with tears.

Christopher gently wiped them away, "Don’t worry, you’ll see Tiana soon."

Next to them, Joshua Grant raised his head, looking expectantly at his parents, "Dad, Mom, will I see Daisy today?"

Christopher tousled his son’s hair, "Dad doesn’t know, maybe Aunt Tiana didn’t bring Daisy."

Given today’s situation, Tiana clearly came to cause a scene.

It was unlikely she’d bring Daisy.

Unable to see Daisy, Joshua’s head drooped.

He missed Daisy a little.

He wondered if she’d been well these past months.

Thinking of Daisy’s plight, Joshua’s face was full of gloom.

...

At James Linden’s wedding venue.

There were flowers everywhere.

Just because Sharon Sullivan liked jasmine.

The entire wedding site was adorned with jasmine arches.

Amid the waves of jasmine fragrance, came James’s self-mocking laughter.

A friend approached to ask softly, "Mr. Linden, it’s already noon, why hasn’t the wedding started?"

James responded with self-mockery, "The wedding’s off today."

"Mr. Linden, what nonsense are you talking, are you okay?"

Today is indeed the day he is supposed to marry Sharon Sullivan.

He didn’t cancel the wedding; he planned for all the guests present to witness his repentance to his precious daughter, Tiana Linden.

"Mr. Linden, why haven’t we seen the bride yet?"

Speak of the devil, and the devil appears.

At this moment, Sharon Sullivan, dressed in a wedding gown, lifted her skirt and walked through one archway after another to James Linden’s side.

Before Sharon Sullivan could speak, James Linden, with a sullen face, scolded, "Didn’t I tell you to take off the wedding dress?"

Sharon Sullivan still deluded herself, thinking Hector Chaucer had already helped to turn the parentage test to her favor.

She had a look of grievance, "Mr. Linden, didn’t you ask me to arrive on time?"

She cried more and more fiercely, "You still don’t believe me, do you? I, Sharon Sullivan, swear to the heavens, I have never deceived you. If you don’t want me anymore, just say so, I will leave right now."

Beside her, Vivian Linden was also sure that Hector Chaucer had definitely taken care of that matter.

She too started crying along with Sharon Sullivan, "Dad, we can both leave, but you can’t wrong me and my mom like this."

The tears of the mother and daughter had numbed James Linden.

How foolish was he before?

Seeing their tears, he was willing to the extent of plucking the stars from the sky for them.

Truly, he was hopelessly foolish!

James Linden really wanted to slap their faces hard.

He tightened his fist, eyes full of fury, "Neither of you is going anywhere."

The wedding host approached, "President Linden, the auspicious time has arrived, can we start?"

His daughter, Tiana, hadn’t appeared yet.

It couldn’t start yet.

"Wait a little longer, give me the microphone, I’ll do the opening later."

...

At the far end of the long red carpet.

Tall and upright, Hector Chaucer came, walking slowly while holding Tiana Linden.

Tiana’s ankle had been iced for a little while already.

Then, walking wasn’t as painful, but she still didn’t dare to exert too much force.

She could only limp forward.

Hector Chaucer carefully supported her, "Does it still hurt?"

"It’s fine." She persisted in moving forward.

Her gaze passed over the guests who were either surprised, curious, or just watching the show, locking onto James Linden.

At the same time, James Linden saw the limping Tiana Linden.

"Tiana, are you okay?"

While speaking, James Linden had already strode in front of Tiana, "Tiana, what’s wrong with your foot? Let daddy take a look."

Before the words finished, James Linden had already crouched down.

Tiana coldly looked down at the crouched James Linden.

The James Linden who, in her childhood, had cared for her lovingly, was unwilling to let her suffer even a tiny bit of injury, seemed to be back.

It seemed Aiden Grant was right.

He had already proven to James Linden that Vivian Linden was not his biological daughter.

But she didn’t need Aiden’s proof.

She came prepared today.

"Tiana, how did you get hurt so badly, sit down quickly."

The old, trembling hand was about to touch Tiana’s injured ankle.

Tiana endured the pain and retreated, "Don’t touch me."

The cold voice made James Linden slowly rise, "Tiana, daddy is not here to hold a wedding, daddy wants to sincerely apologize to you in front of half of Veridia’s elite, daddy was wrong."

His repentance meant nothing to Tiana.

Even if he knew the truth, there was nothing to be happy about.

As planned, she took out a USB drive, "I am here to give a gift today."

At this moment, Gordon Lowell stepped up from the guest seats.

Taking the USB, he played the contents on the big screen.

In fact, James Linden had already guessed the content of the video.

But he didn’t stop it.

He allowed that video to be exposed.

On the big screen appeared a scene of Vivian Linden.

"Can you really guarantee that my identity as a fake heiress will not be exposed?"

"I admit, I’m the one who framed you and Tiana Linden for stealing the Linden-Grant Pharmaceuticals’ research secrets."

This video greatly shocked the guests present.

One by one, they started whispering.

"Ah, so Vivian Linden isn’t James Linden’s biological daughter?"

"How could the Linden Family be so foolish, to let their own daughter go to jail, yet keep the thief close?"

"In that case, Tiana Linden is really pitiful."

Tiana snatched the microphone from the host, and looked towards everyone, speaking with a firm voice.

"Taking this opportunity today, I want to clarify a fact."

"My mother, Wanda Townsend, even when pregnant with me, James Linden was already fooling around with Sharon Sullivan."

"It was James Linden who cheated first."

"My mother, Wanda Townsend, never did anything wrong to the Linden Family, nor to James Linden."

"Moreover, mother died in childbirth giving birth to a child for James Linden."

"She was not a bad woman; she was the best woman in the world, the best wife, the best mother."

A woman who clearly couldn’t have another child.

Yet because her husband wanted a daughter, she risked her life to truly give him another daughter.

But ended up being slandered as an adulterous woman.

Mother Wanda Townsend, truly died unworthily.

If it could mean mother was alive, Tiana would rather she had never come into this world.

She misses her mother so much.

When mother left, she must have been deeply worried about her.

Mother trusted James Linden and Daniel Linden so much when she entrusted her to them.

Yet these two men betrayed mother’s trust.

Tiana couldn’t help but cry bitterly.

"The body and hair are received from one’s parents."

"I have James Linden’s blood running through my veins, the blood relationship can’t be severed."

"But today, in front of everyone, I announce that I am severing all ties with the Linden Family, from now on we are completely estranged."

With that, she cut a lock of her own hair and threw it in front of James Linden.

James Linden was already weeping bitterly.

He hurriedly picked up the lock of hair cut by Tiana, carefully holding it in his palm, "Tiana, you can’t be so cruel to daddy. Have you forgotten how much daddy used to care for you?"