The Secret Heir's Return to Wealth and Love novel Chapter 1677

Larkin coughed lightly, his ears turning red.

"I do what I want."

He said this with a proud smirk on his face, casting his gaze down and continuing to bandage the mosquito bites on her arm. The atmosphere between them was too romantic.

Just then, another boat docked, and four or five girls came over, chatting away.

They sat down next to Erica and her group.

Erica felt a bit embarrassed, so she reined herself in.

However...

"Look at this!" A girl suddenly got excited, "Finally got signal! Look, there's news from home. A rich guy named Jacob, who was outed for betraying a girl for sixteen years, is critically ill now!"

"Wait, what? Didn't they say he was trying to crash a wedding a few days ago? How did he become critically ill?"

"I saw a paparazzi report saying that he failed to get the girl back at her wedding in Switzerland, then went home and overdosed!"

Hearing this, Erica snapped back to reality.

"Sorry, where did you see this news?" She got up with a frown and walked over to them.

They all looked at Erica.

She was still wearing an outdoor hat.

Erica simply took off her hat: "I'm Erica."

They were all stunned.

The girl who was reading the news instinctively handed her phone to Erica.

Erica took it, her face serious as she checked the news.

The hot news was just recently posted. A well-known gossip account revealed Jacob's medical condition.

Many details were blurred out, but the words 'organ failure' were mentioned quite a lot.

Erica's heart pounded as she read.

Further down, the insider mentioned in the comments that Jacob had attempted suicide by overdosing, which led to multiple organ failures.

"Who knows, maybe he lost his mind because he lost such a good girl like you?" Larkin said calmly.

Erica gently patted the back of his hand.

Then she said somewhat guilty, "Larkin, I..."

Larkin let go of Erica's hand, picked up his phone, and began to play with it.

Erica went silent.

She thought: What does Jacob's life or death have to do with me? I have nothing to do with him anymore. It would be horrible if my new marriage was damaged because of Jacob.

"After lunch, we'll head straight to the airport."

While Erica was lost in her thoughts, Larkin handed her his phone.

On the screen was a successful flight booking: "If all goes well, we'll see Jacob tomorrow."

"Larkin, I don't have romantic feelings for him anymore." Erica closed the distance between them, "I just don't want him to die because of me."

"I don't want that either." Larkin said, gently touching Erica's face, "If that's the case, he'd have won. His shadow would always be in your heart, and I don't want that."