Love Contract
Chapter 273 Proving It To You (Part One)

"William Lan! Where are you taking me? Stop the car!" Mary shouted at the top of her lungs, pulling William's arm. "Put me down! Stop the car!" she cried out desperately. With his hands firm on the steering wheel, William answered, "Mary, stop it. I'm driving."

Mary pierced her sharp eyes at him while wearing a grim expression on the face. "I said, stop the car! You can go anywhere you want to go! But I'm not coming with you! I don't want to be anywhere near you a all!"

William's thin lips were pursed even more tightly. His eyes, which were now gloomy, landed on the road while he kept mum.

"Where are you taking me? Tell me!" Mary asked him again, gritting her teeth. "If you don't tell me, I'll jump out of the car!"

"Mary!" Now, she caught his attention. For a second, William glanced at her with an evident pained expression. "You don't want to stay with me even for one minute? Have you forgotten how happy we were before?"

"Happy?" Mary sneered. "Don't you feel sick saying that?" "I...." For a while, William struggled to replace the right words to say. "As for the videos, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to hide it from you! I was afraid you wouldn't forget me if you knew about it. Andy and I--"

"Stop it!" Mary interrupted his words, covering her ears with hands to show that she could not take any explanations. "I don't want to hear it! Please stop! Please!"

"Okay, okay. I'll shut up!" William firmly closed his mouth right away and sighed silently. Now, he didn't even have a chance to explain.

"Where are you taking me?" asked Mary expressionlessly. This time, she was not freaking out anymore. She figured that struggling at this point would be useless.

"You'll know when we get there," answered William in a tone drenched with gentleness. He then turned to look at Mary and stretched out his arm to hold her hand, but as soon as their skin touched, Mary withdrew her hand as if an electric shock surged through her.

"Don't touch me!" she warned in a voice filled with slight indifference.

And to avoid talking to him further, Mary cocked her head towards the window and decided to busy her eyes with the scenery outside. "L.Okay," replied William defeatedly while both his hands grasped the steering wheel tighter.

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the car became so dull as neither of them ever spoke again. Along the way, the surrounding views outside became more and more desolate, signaling that they were now far away from the buzzing city.

Shortly after some time, the car halted to a stop just outside a cemetery.

It was a dark and windy night, a perfect ambiance and mood to commit a heinous crime.

And just by thinking of that, Mary suddenly felt chills rushing down her spine. "Why did you bring me here?" she asked in fear, obviously creeped out.

Without saying anything, William only unfastened his seat belt, turned around, and took out a box from the back seat.

It was the ebony box!

Soon after, Mary's eyes darkened as she instantly understood the reason why William brought her here.

In the middle of the night, he took his new girlfriend to the cemetery to see the dead girl he had never forgotten. Such a strange and novel act would only be done by a man of William's caliber and personality! "Why did you bring me here? I don't want to be here." Mary sat on the passenger seat and refused to get off the car.

"Mary, please give me another chance. I will prove with my actions that I really love you! Please!" William pleaded. He then got out of the car and opened the door of the passenger's seat.

"I won't get off!" Mary closed her eyes to avoid looking at him. "I can't afford your love! We are over. Please don't come to me again. I don't want to see you!"

Her words left William's heart scathed. Judging from how his chest rose and fell, it was evident that he was furious and anxious. So, he just unfastened Mary's safety belt, pulled her out of the car, and settled her on his broad shoulder.

"William Lan!" Mary yelled, feeling dizzy after being loaded upside down on his shoulder. She slapped William crazily, hitting anywhere on his body that she could reach. "Put me down! William Lan! You jerk! I said, put me down!"

"Yes! I am a jerk!" William yelled back, slowly losing his patience. But although he was pissed, it was not because of Mary, but because what she said was true. "Yes, I'm a jerk. I always hurt you and make you unhappy. You're right! But, I won't let you go this time, Mary. I'll tell you everything..."

"Ah! No! Don't bother! I don't want to hear it! Put me down!" Mary kept punching and kicking him as her cry echoed in the distance.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Suddenly, a blinding flashlight shone on the two, accompanied by the sturdy voice of a man. "Who are you? What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

"Sir! Help me! Please help me!" Hearing the voice, Mary thought she had found a savior. So, she hurried to ask for help, "Help me, sir! Please!

"Uncle Eden, I'm William," said William in a soft and calm tone while walking towards the man. "I'm taking my wife to visit Sansa."

"William Lan! You're out of your mind! Put me down!"

Hearing how William addressed her as his wife made Mary even more frantic and hysterical.

"Ah, it's William!" The old man who was in charge of the cemetery nodded upon recognizing who it was before him. "But why did you guys come here at this ungodly hour? It's so late now."

"Uncle Eden, it doesn't matter. I'm going inside!" Without giving Uncle Eden a chance to say anything else, William carried Mary and walked inside. "We're close," he said while Mary still hung on his shoulders, now seemingly calmer than she was a while ago.

"I said I don't want to come here! Why do you have to force me? Put me down!" At this point, all Mary could do was scream at the top of her lungs, hoping that he would listen. "William Lan, you are selfish and arrogant. I said I didn't want to come here. What else do you want? You never really respect me, don't you?"

"Mary," said William, trying to calm her down while a lump found its way in his throat. "This is the last time I'll force you to do something. Please bear with me, Mary. You'll have plenty of time to do whatever you want with me in the future."

"We have no future!" Mary disagreed in a blaring voice. Then, as if on cue, her tears started rolling down her cheeks. "William Lan, we have no future!" she vented while wiping her eyes dry with her sleeves. Meanwhile, William just clenched his fists and didn't say anything, even though he felt his heart being ripped apart.

"Here we are," he uttered after a moment of silence and settled Mary on the ground.

She pushed away William immediately to keep a safe distance from him.

"Mary," he called, looking at the tombstone in front of him. "This is Sansa's tomb."

Glancing at the new flowers and fresh fruits beside the stone, Mary asked, "Did you come here on the night of the award ceremony?"

"Mary..."

"Archer said you were going to present me the award in person," she continued with a bitter smile. "But then you disappeared that night without any word." Candy Q