My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)
Chapter 835

I shouldn't ask questions about Natalie, but I couldn't help being curious.

I couldn't help but ask, "Hendrix, could you tell me more about Natalie?"

He frowned and asked the driver to start the car. The scenery outside the window changed slowly.

After a long time, he looked at me and said, "When she was young, my grandma always felt sad that she could not return to her hometown. She dreamt of having a garden that was planted with all the flowers she liked, where she could spend the rest of her life with Grandpa, with a dog and a cat."

"Grandpa was from the North. All three generations of his family served in the army. He could have stayed in Jarold City and continued to rely on his ancestors' business empire and reputation to bring up his descendants. However, my grandmother suddenly passed away without fulfilling her wish. So, my grandpa took several of his young children with him and moved to Ucrebury. For the sake of his children's future, he started a business in Ucrebury, which eventually became the Roberts Group."

I listened quietly and leaned my head on his shoulder. It seemed that he had never told me about the Roberts' family history.

Holding my hand, he continued, "Later, the Roberts Group was getting better, but Grandpa still hoped that his children could have their own careers. He sent Aunt Nerissa back to Jarold City, and then he asked me and Natalie to go to Jarold City in order to give us more options to choose from."

"Natalie and I only got to know Josiah and Austin after we came to Jarold City. Unexpectedly, Natalie fell in love with Josiah. She was eccentric from a young age, but she was naive. At that time, Josiah was not interested in Natalie because there was someone else in his heart."

"Natalie shamelessly pursued him for two years, and they became a couple later. However, not long after, Natalie broke up with him. She probably found that there was someone else in his heart, so she..."

"Why did she commit suicide after that?" As Natalie was an optimistic woman, she was not someone who would commit suicide after a breakup. Hendrix did not speak, but I noticed that there was something wrong with his hand. It was the first time for me to see him sitting so uneasily.

He was trembling!

I stretched my hand out to hold his, but he held my hand first and looked at me. His eyes were wet and his voice was choking with sobs, as if he couldn't speak for a moment. "Hendrix, you don't have to continue speaking anymore. It's alright, it's alright!" I said, not pressing on any further.

After a long time, he took a deep breath and continued after relaxing, "That night, I lost her. She called me many times, but I didn't pick up. I didn't do it on purpose. I thought she was just acting up like usual, but I didn't expect that she would go to the nightclub on her own. Ten years ago, Jarold City wasn't the way it is now. Natalie was humiliated on that night."

I suddenly remembered his conversation with Pedro in the hospital, and my heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

Staring at him, I asked with a little uncertainty, "Did Pedro's men do that?"

He nodded and answered, "Josiah and I found her in the alley next to the nightclub. She was covered in blood and her body was extremely filthy."

He suddenly looked up at me with teary eyes and said, "Not only had she been taken advantage of by a dozen men, but they had also destroyed her face. She was hospitalized for a month, but her reproductive system was destroyed as her injuries were too serious."

Upon hearing that, my hair stood on end and my body trembled a little. The fear in my heart almost made me unable to breathe.