Chapter 349

Maybe at that time, Fiona would end up miserably.

Fiona was nervous, but now that she had already taken this road, she had no way back at all.

In any case, she had to firmly grasp Calvin. As long as Calvin didn’t know the truth, he would be her biggest backer.

Jonathan took Rosalie to the detention center, and then Rosalie met Mike Hughman.

Mike was in his 40s. He was slightly fat. His face was unfamiliar to Rosalie. To her, he was just a stranger.

But this stranger hurt her so badly.

If it weren’t for this man, Rosalie wouldn’t have been in prison for three years and suffered so much. She would still be a promising lawyer who would work hard for her dream.

At first, Rosalie thought that even before the court session, she would not see Mike. After all, he had fled abroad.

But she didn’t expect to see him so soon.

After seeing Jonathan and Rosalie, Mike seemed to be fearful.

Then he stood up and knelt down before Rosalie, shouting, “Ms. Leighton, I’m sorry! It was me who hurt you! I’m willing to accept the punishment of the law. Please forgive me!”

Rosalie looked at the man kneeling in front of her.

This strange man had made her suffer so much and changed her life, but now he knelt in front of her so easily.

Rosalie subconsciously took a few steps back and didn’t want to accept such an apology.

Jonathan put one hand around Rosalie’s waist and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“I want to go out for some air. It makes me uncomfortable here,” Rosalie said with a gloomy face.

“Okay,” Jonathan then took Rosalie out of the meeting room.

When Rosalie came under a tree outside, she took a deep breath. She didn’t expect it would be like this when she saw the person who got her into trouble.

Originally, when she knew that she was going to see Mike today, she wanted to ask him a lot of questions.

But when she saw Mike kneeling just now, she couldn’t ask anything. She only felt disgusted.

Mike was such a despicable person. He ignored the law and destroyed Rosalie’s life with dirty tricks. But in the end, he still wanted her to forgive him.

Could Rosalie forgive him? What a ridiculous request!

Could Mike be forgiven because he knelt before Rosalie and apologized?

How could Mike say that so easily!

“Are you feeling better?” Jonathan asked.

“Much better,” Rosalie said.

“Didn’t you always want to see him before? Why did you leave in a hurry?”

“It felt ridiculous. He made me suffer so much, but he wanted me to forgive him. How noble I would be if I could really forgive him!” Rosalie said.

Jonathan lowered his eyes and stared at Rosalie. “Maybe he also lived a terrible life after he made you suffer. He had been staying abroad before. If he didn’t want to come back, he wouldn’t have been caught so soon. He voluntarily returned home and surrendered himself when he knew that the case was going to be re-investigated.”

Of course, what Jonathan didn’t tell Rosalie was that the reason why Mike would surrender to the police was that Jonathan applied a lot of pressure to force Mike to do so.

“Was his life terrible?” Rosalie sneered and commented. “Can he be forgiven because he lived a terrible life? Isn’t it the same as asking the victim to forgive the murderer? If I hadn’t endured in prison, I wouldn’t have been able to stand in front of him!”

Every word Rosalie said was like a whip, which directly whipped Jonathan’s heart and made him feel heartache.

“You won’t forgive him, will you?” Jonathan murmured.

“I will never forgive a person who hurt me so much!” Rosalie replied without noticing Jonathan's reaction.

At the thought of it, Rosalie was overwhelmed by the pain. How could he ask for forgiveness then? Could he be forgiven just by kneeling and apologizing? If so, then what is the use of the law? I won’t forgive him, never in the slightest!”

“Stop.” Jonathan suddenly hugged Rosalie and said, “Rosalie, stop talking about it, okay? If you don’t want to see him again, then you won’t see him anymore. If you want him to be punished as he deserves, then he will be.”

Jonathan just didn’t want Rosalie to talk anymore.

If Rosalie knew the truth, then what she said today would be directed at Jonathan instead of Mike!

If Jonathan had a little pity for Rosalie back then, it wouldn’t have been like this now.

Rosalie sobbed in Jonathan’s arms, saying, “Jon, why do you think human nature is so evil? How could someone sacrifice someone else’s life for himself? Even if he took the initiative to come back this time and accepted the trial, I couldn’t get back what I lost at all.”

Unless time could go back, even if Mike was sentenced to life imprisonment, it would mean nothing to Rosalie except for venting her anger.

Jonathan felt that his shirt was getting wet.

He knew it was her tears.

She was crying for her painful three years.

But now, what Jonathan could do was only to help her turn over the case and prove her innocence.

But Jonathan couldn’t say anything else!

“Rosalie, you can never imagine how evil human nature could be,” Jonathan said.

Jonathan was cruel to her in the past and made her suffer a lot. In the future, he would make up for Rosalie.

So, just forgive me once.

Forgive me!

I love you so much,” Jonathan said in his heart.

In the meeting room in the detention center at night, Mike was looking at Jonathan blankly.

In Mike’s opinion, Rosalie was just an unimportant figure who could be easily bullied. Even though she was Zachary’s girlfriend, she had no power or influence. Mike knew exactly that the Xanthos family would never offend the Youngblood family for Rosalie.

So he used Rosalie as a scapegoat.

However, Mike never expected that one day Jonathan would stand up for Rosalie.

Jonathan and Rosalie were supposed to have nothing else to do with each other except Melanie, but they seemed to have some special connection now.

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