Chapter 1096 Finn's Love Story
I saw Finn's hand bleeding profusely, so I wanted to bring him to the hospital. But he kept insisting that he didn't want to go, claiming that the pain made him feel at ease.
I forced him to go to the hospital with Lauren.
In the car, he looked pained and said to me, "I like Beatrice. I've liked her since we were teenagers."
Finn's words didn't surprise me at all.
"How did you meet her?" I asked Finn as I drove.
Finn leaned back in his seat with a grim expression and said in a low voice, "We went to the same school. She's three years older than me. I started school early, so she was only two years above me
"In high school, I had a year with her before she left for college. I hoped to finish high school quickly, then take the same college entrance exam as her and go to Foswood."
Finn's words were naive, revealing his enduring affection. After all these years, he remained true to his feelings, which was rare to see these days.
Lauren listened attentively but didn't interrupt.
"But I didn't take school seriously enough. I didn't do well the first year and had to repeat a grade. During that year, Beatrice was already a senior in college and was doing an internship. I ended up getting into a college in Xyris and studied business management there for three years. By the time I was a senior, I heard about Beatrice's family facing one problem after another-first with Keller's Dairy, then her grandmother, and later, her mother."
"Since all those things happened in quick succession, why didn't anyone realize something was wrong back then?" Lauren murmured.
"It's not that no one realized. It's just that people tend to ignore things that don't concern them," Finn sighed.
"I also heard she had a boyfriend, Gabriel. He was the
eldest son of the Russell family in Gerby. Honestly, he had a good reputation, and their relationship seemed strong," Finn continued.
"But damn, everything was a facade. I heard that Beatrice was admitted to a mental hospital, and Gabriel attested that she was mentally ill. He's just a hypocritical scoundrel, no different from his father-in-law."
"What? Are you saying Beatrice's boyfriend at that time also said she had mental health issues?" Lauren became visibly unsettled. "Why was she so unlucky?"
Finn fell silent, and it was evident that his emotions were tumultuous.
After what seemed like a
considerable adjustment, he
continued, "Honestly, I was in deep pain back then. Once, I drank to drown my sorrows with Alvin. We were both half-drunk and ended up confessing all kinds of things. Alvin gave me an earful and asked why I liked a girl from the Chandler family. He said they were no good. We argued, and he told me he
suspected that his dad's death was
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