Clang!
Joshua squeezed the glass in his hand so harshly that it burst into smithereens. He lifted his head to
stare coldly at Mr. Miller.
“Do you honestly think that Steven is perfect now?”
Joshua had previously thought that ‘Steven‘ was just Luke, whose memories had been wiped. He
never thought the Miller and Hughes families would do something like this!
They had used Steven‘s heart to save Gwen, then wiped Luke’s memories from his mind and instilled
Steven‘s consciousness into Luke‘s body, rendering him an entirely different person altogether!
However, Luke was also a member of the Hughes family; the unwanted son they had abandoned as a
child! The only reason they had tracked him down so many years later was because Steven had ended
up in a coma. Now that they had extracted Luke‘s consciousness, all that remained was an empty husk
of a human being, a vessel for their beloved Steven.
They loved Steven and even went so far as to change Luke into Steven! A chill spread through
Joshua‘s entire body at the thought of this. He was outraged by this. Luke‘s life had turned out to be
such a tragedy. He had been looked down on and used even until the last moments of his death.
Even though, in the end, he had crawled to the top of the food chain and become a well–feared and
well–respected gangster, he failed to protect the woman he loved just because of his past.
In the end, even after Gwen fell ill, he could not protect her at all, and the only solution he could think of
was to sacrifice his own life and literally give her his heart.
Little did Luke know, this would not be the death he expected.
The Miller family did not let him die at all and instead wiped all his memories, thus separating his
physical form from his consciousness and turning him into someone else. He had become someone
that, in their opinion, was of clean background and whose heart did not belong to another woman.
Both the Miller and Hughes family never treated Luke like a human or showed him a single ounce of
respect. The only thing they wanted was Luke‘s body, one that was identical to Steven‘s!
At the thought of this, Joshua narrowed his eyes, and the entire room seemed to drop a few degrees
colder abruptly.
“You‘re saying that Luke has now become another person entirely, right?”
Not only had he lost his memories, but everything–his thoughts and cognition–that made Luke the man
he was.
“That‘s right.” Mr. Miller did not dare to say more when he sensed Joshua‘s anger. “You can‘t call this a
simple amnesia…
“Well, all I can say is that now, everything about Steven belongs to Steven, apart from his body”
Joshua tightened his grip around the glass,
Despite the broken glass cutting into his skin and blood seeping out, he could not feel a single ounce of
pain
The pain in his heart seemed to surpass anything he could feel physically, This was Luke, his best
friend. Even if he had not sought out the Miller and Hughes family, Luke would have given his life for
Gwen anyway.
If that had happened, Joshua would have grieved and missed his best friend However, after finding out
the truth, Joshua was overcome with pain and pity toward Luke The Hughes family could have thought
of another solution Steven Hughes should have died five years ago. However, God had spared his life,
perhaps so that Steven could live until the Hughes family tracked down Luke
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