A Moment in Destiny
Chapter 616 Mind Is Made Up

The other end had said something, Elijah hung up the phone and looked down at her.

Esther said with a blush, "Help me get dressed!"

He went to the bedroom, got her a nightgown and helped her put it on, then told her with a smile. "Hudson and Winnie are remarried!"

Esther paused for a moment and smiled, "Hudson finally got it right!"

"He has registered a new company in the United States to fully acquire the shares of Ball Group!" Elijah added.

"What does it mean?"

"He wants to destroy Ball Group!"

"Ah-" Esther was stunned.

"It's all because of you!" Elijah let out a sigh. "I don't know if it's right or wrong for Winnie to remarry him!"

Elijah put on his pyjamas, walked to the coach, lit a cigarette, and took a drag.

For a moment, Esther understood what was going on and looked gloomy. Hudson couldn't accept the fact that Christ had cheated them. She went to knead the dough and remained silent. Some sadness lingered in her heart and she thought, 'Hudson, let it go, we really can never go back, can't we just live happily ever after?'

The cake was baked in no time.

Esther served two pieces on the plate and handed them to Elijah.

As Esther was about to eat the cake, her phone rang again. This phone was recently bought for her by Elijah. During this period, her phone kept getting broken and she didn't know how many phones she had replaced.

Esther went to get her phone and glanced at the screen, on which was an unfamiliar number she didn't recognize. When she picked up, she heard Christ's voice. "It's you?"

Why did he suddenly call her? Esther was suspicious and confused.

Since she knew that she wasn't his daughter, Esther was relieved. For some reason, she didn't like Christ at all and always rejected him inexplicably.

"What's the matter?"

"Esther, I'm so sorry, I want to apologize to you face to face!" Christ's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"I don't need your apology, and I don't want to see you!" Esther said sternly, "I don't want to see a man as unscrupulous as you. Sorry, please don't make me lose my appetite before my meal!" With that, she hung up the phone decisively.

"Christ?" Elijah raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah!" Esther frowned and lost her appetite. After a while, Esther said, "I'd like to meet Hudson, can I?"

Elijah raised his dashing eyebrows, "You want to stop him?"

"I don't know, I'm just a little uneasy!" Esther said honestly.

"Okay! After we finish eating, I'll drive you there!"

Elijah drove Esther to Ball Group.

He didn't get out of the car with her, but waited for her in the car.

Esther walked into Ball Group and suddenly, a deep voice rang out behind her. "Esther?"

Esther stopped in her tracks instantly, turned her head around and saw Hudson walking towards her.

"Hudson!" She hadn't seen Hudson for a few days, yet she hadn't expected him to become so haggard. Beneath his bloodshot eyes were thick dark circles, unkempt clothes crumpled on him, while his deeply concave cheeks were full of stubble. What worried her, however, were his eyes, which were hollow and cold, seemingly had lost their eternal lustre.

"Hudson." Walking quickly over to him, Esther looked at him with distress.

Hudson gave her a reassuring smile wearily. "Esther, I'm fine."

Esther knew Hudson was heartbroken, but any words were futile at this point, and she could only sigh silently, hoping that time would heal the wounds in his heart.

"Why are you here?" With a bitter smile, Hudson suddenly wrapped his arms tightly around Esther's body and buried his face deeply between her shoulders. In the silence, his tall body twitched vaguely, and Esther felt there were warm tears penetrating her clothes and falling on her skin.

"Hudson!" Her hand also tightened around Hudson's body until he seemed to have calmed down, and Esther then said, "I'm here to see you! Shall we go to your office?"

"Okay." Suppressing his emotions, he returned to his usual indifferent face, but his crimson bloodshot eyes were hollow and appalling as Hudson embraced Esther.

There was a complicated light in his eyes, as if he hadn't expected her to come, but also as if he had thought of the purpose of her coming. Nevertheless, he still said in a deep voice without hurry, "Let's go to my office!"

This was the first time they had seen each other since that day. Both of them acted as if that incident had never happened. She smiled brightly, but when he saw her again, he shed tears! "Okay!" Esther nodded.

Both of them took the elevator.

Hudson said to his secretary, "Give me a glass of juice and a cup of coffee!"

He hadn't forgotten that Esther liked to drink juice.

Soon, the juice was served and the secretary retreated from the office.

"Esther..."

"Hudson..."

They opened their mouths almost simultaneously.

Then, they froze spontaneously and then laughed.

Their ten years of silent understanding made their hearts sore at this time.

"Hudson!" Esther's eyes went red before she could say anything.

In the old days, they were deeply in love with each other! But at this moment, they could only look at each other like this, and there was no longer any deep affection in their eyes! Only intense concern was left. Ten years of love had long been integrated into their bones and blood, and he would always be her most beloved elder brother!

Looking at his haggard face, the rims of Esther's eyes reddened before she opened her mouth.

"Esther, I'm fine." His voice was so hoarse that it almost scraped her eardrums. Hudson looked at Esther quietly with his face full of doting. "Promise me that you will be happy."

"You too!" Esther said thoughtfully, "Forgive him, you won't be happy either if you ruin Ball Group."

"You know all about it?" He wasn't overly surprised. Hudson knew that the acquisition of Ball Group would be exposed sooner or later, and in these short days, he had almost done everything. As long as he put in more effort, the Ball Group would be completely bankrupt in less than a week, and there would be no more Ball Group since then. He had already transferred a lot of funds, so he predicted that Christ would know about it soon!

"Yes! I know it all!" Esther nodded. "I want you to be happy, no matter what, you're part of the Ball family! He did it for the Ball family too. I know it's hard to ask you to forgive him, but we can never go back, so why do we dwell on the past and make ourselves unhappy?"

"He has ruined more than my happiness!" Hudson only felt as though he had lost something. His chest was hollow and numb, brimming with his love for Esther as well as his resentment for himself. If he had ever suspected it, he wouldn't have lost Esther, and that intense affection for Esther had led to the fact that no other woman could ever enter his heart again.

His love was just so persistent!

Foolishly and persistently loving a woman who was the angel he had been guarding since childhood, but in the end...

If it wasn't his dad, he was afraid that he might want to kill him! He felt nothing but sorrow that he was the most sorrowful man in the world! He had long been damned to perdition, so it didn't matter if he suffered this doom or not!

"Hudson!" Esther said heartbreakingly, looking up at him. This face was what she used to love most deeply and most fondly. But thanks to fate, they had missed each other! Now when she saw him unhappy, her heart was as sad as his. "I hope you are happy, life is an adventure, in which you will always encounter different sceneries, and how do you know that the scenery in front of you is actually beautiful if you don't keep moving? Only when you let go of the beauty of the past can you continue to enjoy the beautiful scenery ahead. Hudson, can you understand?"

"I understand!" Hudson smiled self-deprecatingly, but he couldn't do it. His face looked like it was covered with a layer of unmelting ice and snow, his grey eyes were empty and devoid of any emotional fluctuations and had lost their former sharpness and colour. His eyes were so dejected and lonely, and his face was hopelessly grieved. "But I can't do it! Esther, don't try to convince me, I know what I'm doing!" "But after all, it's his painstaking effort. Anyway, he has put his heart and soul into Ball Group, and I think he did that just because he wanted Ball Group to flourish!"

"Just destroy it! No one will be plagued anymore if it's destroyed!" Hudson said calmly, but with an unusual determination. "My mind is made up, Esther, don't persuade me anymore!"

"I'm afraid that you will regret and be sad someday!"

"You can go back, as long as you're happy and as long as you let me know you're happy, that's fine!" Looking at Esther, who was sincere and worried for him, Hudson felt a sudden pang of heartache. He could no longer hug her whenever he wanted, never again! "In a week, I'll leave with Winnie!"

Esther wanted to say something else, but her phone suddenly rang.

Hudson glanced at her bag as the crisp ringing of a piano interrupted the conversation between them.

"You may go downstairs, he must be looking for you!" He said.

Esther looked at the phone and it was indeed Elijah calling. She didn't answer but hung up the phone. Looking up at Hudson, she said, "Hudson, think it over, okay?"

"Don't persuade me! I have made up my mind!" He was determined.

He had made the decision and wouldn't be hesitant anymore!

"Okay then! I'm leaving!" Esther sighed and arose from her seat to leave.

"Esther!" He suddenly called out to her.

"Hmm?" She turned around.

He took a box out of the drawer, "Happy birthday!"

Esther was stunned as a lump came into her throat. By this time, he still remembered her birthday, and Esther just felt somewhat sorry about Hudson. She accepted it and choked back a sob, "Hudson, thank you!"

"You can go now."

Esther took the gift, turned around and strode away with red eyes!

Hudson looked greedily at her departing back. Until the door was closed and his body slumped into the chair, lonely and mournfully! He only felt a sharp pain from the wound in his heart. It was also a good ending that she had Elijah take care of her and pamper her, and she could live a life without worries in the future. In this way, he was also relieved!

Esther left Ball Group with Hudson's gift. Having failed to convince him to give up his plan to destroy Ball Group, her heart was still not at ease, and she was afraid that Hudson would regret and be sad someday.

When Elijah saw her walk out with that look, he knew she hadn't succeeded.

Seeing the box in her hand, he took it and placed it on the backseat.

The car pulled away from Ball Group and Esther leaned against the car window. The wind blew a little cold, but it also brought her a breath of fresh air, and she just leaned against the window, looking back at the memories between her and Hudson.

"Stop thinking about it! There's no way he'll change his mind!" Elijah gave her a look. "If it were me, I'll do the same thing!"

"Ah-" Esther was startled. "You will do the same?"

"Being torn apart like this, every man will not be convinced, not to mention that Hudson is unusually infatuated!" Elijah said calmly, "Ball Group will end up like this today, Christ have only himself to blame!" Esther quietly digested Elijah's words as her heart grew restless.

Elijah took Esther back to Perry Group.

Unexpectedly, at the door of the president's office, she saw Kattie in a professional outfit with a smile on her face. Esther was stunned, and then she heard Kattie say, "Mr. President, you're back?" "Kattie?" Elijah froze for a moment. "You've recovered? Ready to work?"