You Are The Pursuit of My Life novel Chapter 159

Nathan agreed to her request and left. After tucking Eden to sleep, Irene stood by the door of the White family and glanced around nervously, checking her phone every few minutes. Why hadn't Nathan called her? Had something really happened to Edric?

All of a sudden, the phone rang. Irene answered it immediately, "Nathan, have you found him?"

"I'm not Nathan!" Edric said in a low voice.

"It's you. Where are you? John is looking for you everywhere..."

"Irene, I have something to tell you," Edric interrupted her. "Can you not marry Nathan?"

Irene was silent for a moment. "No!"

"Are my mistakes really unforgivable? Can't you just forgive me this once?"

Irene let his question hang. Was Edric truly that unforgivable? She had loathed him before and thought him inexcusable. But after knowing the truth, her hatred for him had abated. She had considered getting back together with him for Eden's sake; she really had. But with Margaret hovering around, Irene just didn't see a future for them. With a calm voice, she said, "You knew that we did not hold a future together, yet you still refused to let us go. What are you if not a fool?"

"We have no future together?" Edric let out a wretched laugh. "Irene, I've never forgotten my promise to you. Never. Did you know that?"

"So what? We can't go back!" she thought. Cold tears dripped down her face. She wiped them away. "Edric, I'm almost 30 years old. I'm no longer that girl who believed in fantasies and promises, you know? Whatever you had said is long gone, and I don't remember any of it anymore!"

What she meant was she had long dismissed his promise to her. Edric looked up at the sky, his heart coursed with bitterness. "Irene, I was all for my pretense to be generous. Though I do wish you abundant happiness, I just bring myself to do it. I'm already a pile of garbage in your heart anyway, I suppose I could make myself look worse, no? I hope you and Nathan won't be happy because only I can give you happiness!"

Hearing what he had said, Irene was surprisingly not offended at all. "Edric, I don't need your blessing. You'd better return to your hotel as soon as possible. John is everywhere looking for you. He is very anxious. Call him back! Or tell me where you are and I'll ask him to go get you."

Her indifferent voice spread in Edric's ears and crushed his hope into smithereens. She was not the slightest bit unshaken. As expected, she didn't care about him. He reached out his hand to sweep away the tears at the corner of his eyes. "I'll go back right away!"

The phone call ended abruptly...

Irene stood in the living room in a daze, her phone still in her hand. Six years ago on a night like this, Edric had stood in front of her firmly and asked for her hand in marriage. He'd told her she would only be happy if she married him. But now, he was wishing for her the opposite, claiming that he was the only one who could give her happiness!

How ironic! "Edric, my life will not be controlled by you. I will show you that even without you, I can very well be happy!"

It didn't take long for Nathan to come back. He stated that Edric had returned to the hotel, and Irene felt relieved at it. They then called it a night.

The next morning, Nathan and Irene drove to the marriage registration department. Because of their identities, they weren't required to make an appointment like regular people. They just had to wait to be notified.

The staff member informed them that all the procedures could be completed immediately before handing them a form and asking them to fill it out. A marriage license application in Mencodia was equivalent to a form filled at that in Haverland. The staff member noticed that they hadn't brought a witness along and reminded Nathan that a witness needed to be present. Therefore, Nathan called Britney.

After the form was completed, they had to collect the wedding certificate. The procedure in Mencodia was slightly different than in Haverland. Here they had to have a ceremony: the two parties had to make their vows in front of a minister and exchange wedding rings before the witness signed on their marriage license.

Irene and Nathan were brought into a small room, and the ceremony was presided over by the staff member who registered the information. Seeing that Irene was a foreigner, he asked her if she spoke the local language; if not, they could get someone else to ordain the marriage.

Irene said that she could understand the language; thus, the staff member commenced the ceremony. Irene and Nathan just repeated after what he said, which was basically not unlike a priest's speech.

Halfway through the oath, the housekeeper called, "Young Master Nathan, bad news, Eden is missing!"

Irene and Nathan were shocked. They could care less about the ceremony as they excused themselves and ran out. Along the way, their anxiety was peaking. When they reached the White Mansion, the housekeeper was already waiting by the door. "What's going on?" they asked simultaneously.

"Young Master Nathan, I'm sorry! It's my fault. I don't know what happened too. Eden was playing in the house, so I went to make a cup of tea. When I returned, he had already disappeared. I thought he was just being naughty and went into hiding. I looked around but I couldn't find him. So I called you," answered the housekeeper truthfully.

"Check the CCTV right now!" Nathan immediately ordered. On the monitor, it showed that while the housekeeper was making tea, Eden had picked up the phone in a living room. They had no idea who he was speaking to. But, after the call ended, he went out of the White Mansion alone. There was a car parked outside the gates. As soon as Eden left the house, someone jumped out, picked Eden up, and left in the car.

"Who on earth is this person? Why did he take Eden away?" Nathan and Irene exchanged glances. "Edric? It must be him! Find him right away!"

Wasting no time, Nathan took Irene to the hotel where Edric stayed. The front desk of the hotel stated that Edric was in the room. Nathan and Irene went straight to his room and pressed the doorbell for a long time. Finally, the door was opened, and a pungent smell of alcohol flooded their nostrils.

Edric staggered over and leaned against the door. He asked without looking up, "What?"

Irene frowned. "Edric, where is Eden?"