Gavin's question precipitated Wendy's surging tears. She said in a trembling voice, "No!"

"..."

Gavin didn't expect Wendy to say no so directly, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Wendy had been silently enduring it for a long time. She hysterically added in a hoarse voice as if she was venting her feelings, "Blake is not okay at all!"

"Wendy!"

Gavin's tone was harsh, with a hint of warning in his voice.

"Be quiet!" Wendy flung caution to the winds and rushed to Gavin like an out-of-control lion. "Don't ask me who is okay. Any woman you like is not okay!"

Gavin showed a gloomy look. "Do you know what you're talking about?"

"Of course I know!" Perhaps Wendy was tired of shouting, her voice softened, and she begged carefully, "Gavin, don't marry anyone else..."

What she wanted to say was very obvious.

But Gavin thought that as long as Wendy didn't confess her love, he would continue to pretend that he didn't understand to allow for the remedy for the current situation.

He made up his mind and told Wendy cruelly, "I'll get married sooner or later. Even if it's not Blake, I'll marry someone else..."

"No." Wendy kept shaking her head. "Gavin, don't get married. Don't be with anyone else..."

She was like a lost little animal, helplessly grabbing Gavin's sleeves with both hands, with tears keeping coming out of her eyes.

If it weren't for Gavin, she would always smile like a flower, be inattentive, and live a carefree life.

Gavin endured the heartache and reminded Wendy, "Keep your head clear..."

"I told you I'm very clear-headed!" Wendy burst into tears and suddenly shouted at the top of her voice, "Gavin, I like you!"

"..."

There were confessions from different people every day. Gavin had lived for more than 20 years, and he had received countless confessions.

But only Wendy's confession was like a sharp knife stabbing into his heart, which made him unbearably painful.

Wendy liked him, and he liked Wendy, too.

However, they couldn't be together.

They were siblings. How could he violate the law and ethics and be with his sister?

It was Wendy's secret that she fell in love with Gavin.

This secret had always been stuck in her heart, and it slowly turned into a big stone.

At this moment, the big stone was finally removed. She no longer felt a great weight inside her, and her breathing no longer made her heart painful.

Perhaps, she shouldn't have regarded falling in love with Gavin as a secret, and she shouldn't have tortured herself either.

Wendy felt relaxed now.

She looked at Gavin and blurted out her feelings for him, as well as the grievances she had suffered in the past few days.

"I don't know when I fell in love with you, perhaps on the island, or on the overnight shift when you accompanied me. In short, I fell in love with you a long time ago, and I knew that you were my brother long ago."

Gavin couldn't hide his shock. "When did you find it out?"

"A few days after you accompanied me on the first overnight shift." With that, Wendy burst into tears again. "I was waiting for you to come and confess your love to me, and I saw your information in my mother's study. I accidentally knew that you were my brother. Gavin, do you know that the fact almost drove me crazy? Why would this joke happen to me?"

Wendy asked the final question pitifully and unwillingly.

Gavin wanted to comfort her, but when he thought of what Wendy had suffered alone at that time, he suddenly realized that the overdue comfort was so ridiculously pale.

"Gavin, on the next morning after the night shift, every sentence I said to you was serious," Wendy continued, "I hoped you can confess your love to me and I wanted to be with you. I didn't have a real, romantic relationship with Connell. Mom has always suspected that I like you, and she is afraid that revealing your family background will be a blow to me, so I pretended to be dating Connell. I don't like Connell. I like you. I only like you!"

How much effort did she spend to keep her secret of falling in love with him?

At this moment, she was hell-bent. Obviously, she didn't care about anything.

Gavin was greatly heart-broken. His heart seemed to have been continuously punched by someone, and it became soft little by little.

He narrowly controlled himself. He was almost going to hold Wendy in his arms and tell her that she was not the only one who was suffering.

However, he could not be so selfish.

Ethics and laws did not allow them to be together at all. Otherwise, Wendy would have to bear all kinds of criticism.

Even if the whole world allowed their romantic relationship, his illness would become an obstacle.

He did not know how long he could live and how long he could stay with Wendy.

If he had an accident and left forever, Wendy would be ten thousand times more painful than she was now.

Therefore, it would be better not to give her hope from the very beginning and to let her find true happiness.

She had suffered alone for so many days. As long as he made up his mind to refuse, she would give up and go to live her own life.

He had already hurt her once, and he didn't want to hurt her a second time.

"The person I love is Blake, and I will marry her." Gavin said coldly, "Don't mess around."

"Liar!" Every cell in Wendy's body refused to believe Gavin's words. "You did kiss me before!"

"..." Gavin felt a sharp pain in his head. He frowned and looked at Wendy. "I thought we had reached a tacit agreement that we wouldn't mention that thing."

"Even if you don't mention it, you can't deny that it really happened!" Wendy forced Gavin to look straight into her eyes. "Gavin, you like me too. At least, you liked me, didn't you?"

"Stop it!" Gavin growled. "We're siblings!"

"Don't mention that!" Wendy almost jumped up and shouted louder than Gavin did. "I'm asking you, have you ever liked me?"

She wore a firm and determined look. It was obvious that she didn't care about anything else.

Gavin knew that if he didn't give her an answer, it wouldn't be over today.

"I don't hate you, never." Gavin emphasized it word by word. "But I have never had a crush on you. Are you clear?"

"Liar!" Wendy didn't believe Gavin's words. She stared at him and asked, "Why don't you dare to look into my eyes?"

Gavin felt a sharper pain in his head.

This damned girl, who usually seemed to be a pushover, turned out to save up all her strength for today's outbreak.

He looked at Wendy as if she was an unreasonable person. "You can't force me to admit that I like you."

Wendy laughed and said, "If you don't dare to admit it, I really cannot force you."

Gavin frowned even more and emphasized. "I mean, I don't like you."

"I don't care!" Wendy began to act shamelessly. "You kissed me! If you dare to say that it doesn't mean that you like me, you are a jerk, a super jerk!"

Gavin,"..."

He would rather Wendy continue to cry. He was overwhelmed by Wendy when she was full of fighting energy.

"Gavin." Wendy began to goad him. "I'm a girl, and I've already been brave enough. Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Gavin glanced at Wendy and replied, "Yes."

Wendy had thought that he was going to confess his love, and her beautiful almond-shaped eyes lit up. "Then tell me!"

Gavin knew what Wendy was looking forward to, but unfortunately, he had to keep calm.

He warned Wendy coldly, "If you keep messing around, I'll send you abroad tomorrow."

"..."

Wendy only felt a chill down her spine, and she instantly felt cold from head to toe.

At the moment she revealed her feelings for Gavin, she was indeed impulsive.

But she did not regret it.

She didn't want to suffer alone; she didn't want to be sleepless in the middle of the night; she didn't want to see Gavin and Blake be a couple.

That was why she had to throw caution to the wind.

Now, she needed a result.

But-Gavin actually threatened her?

Wendy was unhappy, very unhappy. She pouted like a child who didn't get candy.

Gavin was amused, but before he could laugh out loud, he saw Wendy throw her bag on the sofa.

He had a very bad feeling. "What do you want..."

Wendy arbitrarily interrupted Gavin. "I want you! If you don't agree, I'll live in your house!"

Gavin felt a burst of pain in the temples. "Wendy..."

"Don't ask more. I told you that my Mandarin teacher didn't teach me how to be reserved!" Wendy sat down on the sofa. "I won't leave your house unless you tell me the truth!"

Gavin was almost going to be driven mad. "You..."

"You'd better not say anything to my cousin." Wendy was fearless and added, "She has always suspected that I like you. If you dare to ask her to stop me, she will easily guess that I have confessed my love to you. How embarrassed you will be then!"

"..."

Gavin had never thought that he would have no way to deal with Wendy like today.

He stared at Wendy and asked, "What about you? Don't you feel embarrassed?"

It was embarrassing enough to just hear of a girl's confessing to her brother.

In fact, Wendy also knew that such a thing should not have happened.

However, compared with Gavin, everything was insignificant in her heart.

Wendy smiled and looked at Gavin fearlessly. "For you, I have already lost my face. Gavin, no matter what you think of me, I won't allow you to propose to Blake!"

Gavin suddenly had a premonition. When he reacted, Wendy had already taken away the ring on the tea table.

He was not angry, but just sneered and said, "Do you think I have no other choices?"

"Of course you do." Wendy said, "You don't lack money. You can buy another one."

Gavin looked at Wendy in disbelief. "Then why did you still do such a useless thing?"

"I just want to tell you," Wendy walked to Gavin and added to threaten him, "that if you dare to propose to Blake, I will eat this ring!"

Gavin,"..."

"Don't think that I'm just trying to scare you," Wendy continued, "Gavin, I even dared to say that I like you, so I'm not afraid of anything. If you don't believe it, you can try."

Wendy was currently like a lion that had eaten a ton of courage.

To achieve the goal in her heart, she could risk everything, including her life.

Gavin had no doubt that Wendy would really court death if he proposed to Blake.

"Wendy," Gavin ground his teeth and said, "how can you threaten me with your life?"

"Oh, are you threatened?" Wendy lifted the corner of her mouth. "Then why did you still say that you don't like me?"