Delayed Regrets: He Regretted Only After Her Death-Chapter 162: Kissing Takes Skill—Let Me Teach You

Chapter 162: Chapter 162: Kissing Takes Skill—Let Me Teach You

Just as Tiana withdrew her hand from Daisy’s palm and entwined it gently around Hector Chaucer’s neck, ready to respond to him, the little Daisy on the hospital bed furrowed her thin, willow-leaf eyebrows.

Unable to feel her mother’s presence, Daisy’s sense of security vanished, and she was about to wake up.

However, at that moment, Tiana was completely unaware of Daisy’s unease.

She entwined her arms around Hector’s neck and smiled playfully, "Hector Chaucer, that’s not how you kiss. Let me teach you..."

Her nose, fair as jade, brushed past the man’s rugged profile.

In the next instant, the man opened his eyes, filled with jealousy, "When you were with Aiden Grant, were you this playful and forward too?"

He didn’t care about her past.

But at this moment, jealousy surged within him like a wild storm.

Thinking about how Aiden had occupied all of Tiana’s youth and how she had been this proactive in kissing him made Hector mad with jealousy.

Tiana flashed another mischievous smile.

She never expected this tough and rugged man to be so adorably jealous.

"Is someone jealous?"

Overcome with jealousy, Hector didn’t care about his kissing skills, and his thin lips descended...

The storm raged on as he dominantly invaded.

Just as Tiana was inwardly murmuring that provoking this man could end with him devouring her whole, a soft and tender voice came from behind her.

"Mommy!"

Both of them stopped suddenly.

They froze simultaneously.

Tiana quickly pushed Hector away.

Daisy on the bed hadn’t opened her eyes; she just couldn’t feel her mother’s presence and had a nightmare.

Tiana quickly withdrew and bent down to embrace Daisy, grasping her small hand reaching out in mid-air with one hand and gently patting her shoulder with the other, soothing her tenderly, "Daisy, Mommy’s here, Mommy’s here, don’t worry, don’t worry."

Daisy’s tight willow-leaf eyebrows finally relaxed.

Her breathing slowly became even.

And she continued to sleep soundly.

...

Another hospital room.

Daniel Linden slowly opened his eyes.

He instinctively tried to sit up, but the pain from his wounds made him break out in a cold sweat.

James Linden quickly stepped forward, helping him to lie back down slowly, "Daniel, you just had surgery, and your wounds were just stitched up, don’t move, just lie still."

Daniel was unconcerned about his injuries and immediately asked, "How are Tiana and Daisy? Are they okay?"

James promptly explained to him, "Hector Chaucer brought Aiden Grant and Gordon Lowell in time, Sharon Sullivan and Uncle Cameron have been captured, it’s all over, it’s all fine. Tiana and Daisy are not in danger anymore, rest assured."

Daniel finally let out a sigh of relief.

Only then he endured the pain, slowly lying back down, "It really hurts."

He couldn’t even remember how many times Sharon had stabbed him as he pressed the lighter down firmly.

All he had in mind then was a single thought.

Since Daisy and Tiana were doused in gasoline, if Sharon got the lighter, both Daisy and Tiana would be burned alive.

So despite Sharon’s relentless stabbing, he remained steady as a mountain with his hold on the lighter.

Luckily, Daisy and Tiana were unharmed.

Despite the pain, a gratifying smile appeared on his lips.

Beside him, James said, "Tiana wasn’t injured, but Daisy has a slight concussion and needs to be hospitalized for observation for a day."

Upon hearing this, Daniel’s eyes couldn’t help but redden, "Our poor Daisy followed her mother through so much hardship, all my fault as her uncle."

If only he had seen through Vivian Linden and Sharon Sullivan’s true colors and consistently trusted Tiana, Tiana would not have been imprisoned.

And Daisy wouldn’t have suffered so much.

James, being the grandfather, also had reddened eyes filled with tears of regret, "Daisy indeed suffered along with Tiana. We must make it up to them both in the future."

"Brother!"

At this moment, a woman’s voice came from the doorway.

The voice made both Daniel and James knit their brows tightly, and then simultaneously ask in a cold voice, "What are you doing here?"

It was Vivian Linden at the door.

She cautiously walked in, worried to see Daniel injured, "Brother, I heard you were hurt, so I came to see you."

Vivian was genuinely concerned for Daniel.

She remembered all the kindness he had shown her.

Seeing he wasn’t severely injured, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Dad, Brother, I had no idea Uncle Cameron was Sharon’s husband. If I had known, I would have warned you."

"Don’t call me Dad."

"Don’t call me Brother."

As Vivian said, even if she was innocent, abducted by Sharon from childhood to be a pawn in the Linden Family, she had many helpless circumstances.

But she still wasn’t worthy of sympathy.

She wasn’t worthy of forgiveness.

Seeing Vivian again, the aura of the Linden Family’s heiress was entirely gone from her.

She said she had to be a forced waitress and delivery person just to have her daily meals.

Her face tanned, her skin coarsened.

Yet James and Daniel didn’t feel the slightest bit of pity.

James hardened his heart, saying coldly, "Vivian Linden, even though you did warn us in advance, it doesn’t change anything. We don’t welcome you stepping into the Linden Family gate again. You clearly knew you weren’t my daughter, yet you had countless chances to come clean. Yet you chose to seek wealth and bullied, lusting for my daughter’s wealth, causing my daughter and granddaughter so much suffering. If you were as honest as you claimed, why didn’t you speak the truth sooner? The Linden Family didn’t even seek you out to settle scores. How can you shamefully keep trying to come back?"

Is this supposed to be not settling scores?

She studied pharmaceutical research, but the Linden Family blocked all her pathways, notifying the industry, leaving her with no equivalent job opportunities.

To make ends meet, she had to brave the sun and wind, going out to deliver food.

Don’t they feel any pity for her?

Weren’t they once family?

But then Vivian thought, isn’t this exactly what she brought upon herself?

As James said, she did once indeed covet Tiana’s place as the heir of the Linden Family, vainly imagining replacing Tiana and leading a luxurious life.

Now facing this outcome, Vivian accepted it.

"Dad, if you don’t wish to see me, I won’t appear before you again."

"Brother, seeing you’re alright puts me at ease."

"I’m leaving now."

Vivian turned to leave, looking back with every two steps.

Eventually, she had to leave with a sense of propriety.

Her figure seemed pitiful.

After she left, Daniel on the hospital bed had his mind filled with thoughts of his sister and niece.

He asked James, "Dad, does Tiana know I had surgery?"

James nodded, "Hector visited half an hour ago, Tiana should know you’re out of danger."

Daniel was full of hope, "Dad, I got stabbed several times saving Tiana, will she feel even a little compassion and come to see me?"

James gently patted Daniel’s shoulder, "Don’t worry, hearts are made of flesh. You got seriously injured trying to save Tiana and Daisy, Tiana will surely be moved. Perhaps, she’ll come to see you soon."

...

The hospital lobby on the first floor.

Vivian Linden walked there in a daze.

In just two months, she suddenly lost her mother, her loving father and brother, her fiancé, becoming a pitiful homeless person.

Her fate was not hers to choose from.

Brought here by Sharon Sullivan, deceiving James Linden, from the day she became James Linden’s illegitimate daughter, she was destined to be labeled as a villain.

But she never wanted to be a villain.

At this time, Vivian Linden received a call.

It was from the landlord.

"The rent is almost a month overdue, if you don’t pay, I will have to evict you, the most I can extend is three more days, three days at most."

Actually, she had already scraped enough for this month’s rent.

But a few days ago, when delivering food, she knocked over an old lady.

Actually, the old lady wasn’t hurt, just a superficial injury, but she insisted on lying on the ground and blackmailing her for five thousand yuan.

After much persuasion, the five thousand became four thousand.

After compensating, she was penniless.

That day she was starving, waiting for the meager delivery money to be cashed out the next day, only daring to buy two steamed buns while delivering, biting into them on the way to fill her stomach.

This kind of life was too harsh.

Just as the rent demanding voice finished and hung up, Vivian Linden saw Aiden Grant walking towards her.

Both of them stopped walking simultaneously.

Seeing Aiden Grant, Vivian Linden’s gaze hesitated.

She wanted to find a place to hide because she didn’t want Aiden Grant to see her so down-and-out and unattractive.

But there was no place to hide.

She could only lower her head deeply, clutching tightly to her washed-out clothes.

Looking down, she saw her ten-yuan slippers, stained from delivering food every day, and she was even more afraid to raise her head.

Once, when she was still the eldest daughter of the Linden family, she truly loved Aiden Grant.

Even though the peace charm contained a listening device.

But when Aiden Grant was critically injured in a car accident, she really knelt for him at Clear Spring Monastery for 9,999 steps, bowing each step, praying for his blessing.

In her dreams, she always wanted to become Aiden Grant’s wife.

Now, so desolate, her tanned arms, face, and neck were much darker.

She quickly pulled down her sleeves, trying and failing to cover up.

She thought at least out of past sentiments, Aiden Grant might say a word of greeting.

But all Aiden Grant said was a cold, "Vivian Linden, your situation today is your own doing."

The words "your own doing" were like a dagger to Vivian Linden’s heart.

She was lost in The Linden Family’s glory and power, did many bad things, but no one understood how much she was not in control.

Just as Aiden Grant couldn’t even bear to look at her for another second, preparing to walk away, she carefully grabbed the corner of his suit.

"Aiden Grant, can you lend me a thousand yuan?"

She explained how she had an accident while delivering food, the other party got a slight scratch, and she was extorted four thousand yuan to Aiden Grant.

"If I don’t pay the rent, the landlord will evict me, Aiden Grant, please help me?"

"I will run deliveries for another week and pay you back."

She pleaded humbly and pitifully.

The sun had tanned the hand grabbing Aiden Grant’s suit, making it dark, coarse, and rough, which Aiden Grant coldly shook off.

Thinking about being deceived by her for five whole years, Aiden Grant wished her dead.

"You deserve your fate today!"

After saying that, Aiden Grant walked away.

Vivian Linden called after him, "Aiden Grant, I heard that Tiana and Hector Chaucer are together. I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, if not for me, you two would have been married by now, maybe even had two or three kids. I ruined your happiness."

Aiden Grant clenched his fist tightly, his knuckles making a crisp sound, "Tiana will come back to me."

His plan was already underway.

Everything was set up perfectly.

Soon, Tiana would be back by his side.

...

In the hospital room, Daniel Linden waited and waited.

He always hoped his sister Tiana would visit, considering he got stabbed multiple times by Sharon Sullivan to save their mother-daughter pair.

But until it was dark, Tiana did not come.

Daniel Linden felt quite disappointed.

Did Tiana still not forgive him?

"Dad, bring me a wheelchair; take me to visit Daisy’s room, I want to see Daisy."

James Linden missed his daughter and granddaughter as well.

He quickly had a nurse bring a wheelchair, pushing Daniel Linden to Daisy’s room.

Outside the door, people set by Hector Chaucer stood guard, and they couldn’t get in.

Inside, upon hearing Daniel Linden and James Linden were coming, Tiana was very determined, "Gordon Lowell, tell them Daisy is asleep, not convenient for visitors."

Gordon relayed the message and then came back, "Miss Linden, the father and son said they’d wait outside until Daisy wakes up and then come in."

Hector Chaucer, peeling an orange for Daisy, sarcastically said, "James Linden hopes to give you a grand wedding, agreeing to let you marry me, and asked me to cherish you deeply."

Hearing this, Tiana almost laughed in anger.

Did they think that after going through the Uncle Cameron incident, she could pretend nothing from the past mattered?

She decisively said, "Gordon, please pass on that even if Daisy wakes up, she doesn’t want to see them, ask them to leave. Also, buy some nutrition products to send to Daniel Linden’s ward, as a thank you for his bravery back then."

Hector Chaucer had already conveyed to her that Daniel Linden was out of life danger.

She didn’t want Daniel Linden and James Linden dead, but she also wouldn’t forgive these two.

Gordon became a messenger for Tiana and the Linden father and son, going outside to relay Tiana’s exact words to them.

Daniel Linden, sitting in the wheelchair, eyes filled with painful tears, "Hasn’t Tiana forgiven me?"

Gordon, nonchalantly, advised, "Gentlemen, please go home. Miss Linden doesn’t want to see you; no matter how long you wait, she won’t let you in."

From the wheelchair, Daniel Linden insisted, "It’s okay, I’m willing to wait as long as it takes."

It was he who let his dearest sister suffer many hardships, almost dying at his hands.

Waiting this time, what does it even count as?

Gordon couldn’t outright tell them to leave.

After all, it was a hospital.

He had to go back and relay again to Tiana, "Miss Linden, the Linden father and son are not leaving."

Tiana was also stubborn, with a sullen face, coldly saying, "Then let them wait."

Night fell deeply.

James Linden feared Daniel Linden, who had just completed surgery, couldn’t bear waiting here without eating or drinking.

He advised, "Daniel, let me take you back to the ward first to rest; we can come again tomorrow."

"No, Dad, if I don’t see Tiana today, if I don’t get Tiana’s forgiveness, I won’t leave." Daniel Linden was determined to wait here.

He and Tiana were still blood-related siblings in the end.

Tiana wouldn’t have the heart to see him, stabbed multiple times, barely escaping death, and still waiting here.

Just at that moment, the door creaked open...