How to explain to her? Tell her that he's going to destroy the Hughes family's business, that he's been planning this for a whole decade, that Conny Hughes secretly switched his father's medication back then, causing his father to leave him too soon? Tell her that Conny Hughes has always wanted to remove him and seize his shares.
But what does this have to do with her? This is his issue; why should she shoulder it for him? He doesn't know if he'll have the chance to explain to her, to seek her forgiveness. Joshua Hughes held her small hand tightly and lightly imprinted a kiss on her cold little hand, "Avery, if you don't like it, I won't want anything. I'll take you abroad, and we'll start over, okay?" He couldn't risk losing her because that would be more painful than death. He owes her a lot—her innocence, her peaceful life, and even Lucas Yates's eyes, so much that he doesn't know how to repay her...
