Chapter 1266: Cherish You With My Life!
"But he killed my brother, and recently he added another debt—he personally killed his own child. He used saffron to get rid of the baby in my womb."
Steven Cooper listened in silence, and when Nicole finished speaking and took a deep sip of her milk tea, Steven saw her deeply red eyes and heard the faint sound of her sobbing.
She was just making a noise by sucking the milk tea hard to cover her sobbing.
"It was Jose Floyd, right?" Steven Cooper looked at Nicole and asked in a low voice, "The first time I saw you with him, I felt that your relationship was out of the ordinary. He is the man who has been with you for five years, isn’t he?"
Nicole didn’t say a word, but the deep red in her eyes became even more intense and obvious.
From her expression and the way Andrea Greenwood targeted her today, Steven Cooper knew he had guessed correctly.
Nicole was Jose Floyd’s ex, and Andrea Greenwood was his current flame, so Andrea hated and loathed Nicole.
"Nicole—you fell in love with him," Steven Cooper’s eyes were somewhat deep.
"I did not!"
Nicole denied it so swiftly, so quickly that it made people doubt the authenticity of her words.
Steven Cooper silently lowered his eyes slightly, his figure enveloped in sadness.
Nicole bit her lip, her face pale, her voice hastily tinged with panic, "I never loved Jose Floyd; I will never fall in love with Jose Floyd! He is a murderer! The murderer who killed my brother and my child! He... what is so good about him! Arrogant, cold, unfeeling, full of flaws; I will not fall in love with someone like that! I don’t love Jose Floyd! I never fell in love with Jose Floyd... he is someone I do not love, someone I hate the most..."
At the end of her speech, Nicole’s expression became somewhat frantic and agitated, and she hastily shook her head, denying the fact that she had fallen for Jose Floyd.
Steven Cooper quietly watched her denial, and only after a long time did he faintly say, "Nicole, you’ve studied medicine, so you know the exact location of the heart. If your knife had really aimed at his left atrium, would Jose Floyd still be here in this world? But he is alive, Nicole; your knife missed..."
Steven Cooper used the plainest tone to state a crucial point.
Nicole bit her lip tightly, lowering her eyes without a word.
She hadn’t expected Steven Cooper to notice this little detail, a detail that no one else noticed, a detail even she didn’t want to admit, laid bare by Steven’s simple words, his eyes so firm that she had nowhere to hide.
Steven Cooper sat beside Nicole for a long time, his profile incredibly profound. It was only after a long while that Steven turned to look at Nicole, pursed his lips, and said, low and firm, "Nicole, yes, you never loved him, and don’t ever love him. I don’t know how good he was to you in the past, I only know how poorly his mother treated you. Marriage isn’t just to a person; it’s entering a family. Olivia Summer’s dislike for you is too evident. If you marry into that family... I’m afraid..."
"Nicole, if you trust me, marry me. You know my parents, they both like you. And for me... you are the only girl who has ever moved my heart in all these years. I don’t dare to promise you anything else, but I can promise you this: if I marry you, I will cherish you with my life!"
Listening to Steven Cooper’s words, Nicole bit her lip, "I had a past with Jose Floyd; I was his need for five years... think it over. With your qualifications, you can marry a better girl, at least a clean girl."
And she was no longer clean long ago.
Steven Cooper looked at Nicole, his eyes unwavering and deep, "Your past only makes me want to cherish you even more..."