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Chapter 10：Choosing Sides
At last, Charles revealed why he had truly come.He had not become the Martin family’s primary heir by being a spoiled fool.After his men pulled him from the water, he had quickly regained his composure and begun assessing their situation. On a deserted island, food, medicine, tools, and anything else salvaged from the wreckage would determine who survived.But by the time Charles sent his men to gather supplies, almost everything useful was already gone.Then he learned that Joseph had taken it.Charles did not know exactly what Joseph had found. It did not matter.Anything valuable had to be under his control.Once he possessed the supplies, he would possess something far more important—the power to decide who ate, who received medicine, and who was left with nothing.He could force every survivor on the island to obey him.Heather had only given him an excuse to confront Joseph.Even if she had never been involved, Charles would have come for the supplies eventually.“So that’s wh
Chapter 9: The Real Matter
“How dare you hit my brother!”Heather rushed forward and threw her arms around Charles, helping him sit up.Then she turned and glared at Joseph.“He was asking for it.”Joseph was already tired of dealing with the Martin siblings.“Since you’re here, you can clear this up yourself.”He pointed at Charles.“Tell your brother exactly when I kidnapped you.”Charles stared at Heather.“You’re all right?”He looked her over as if unable to believe she was standing there unharmed.Then his gaze shifted toward one of his men.The lackey stiffened.“S-Sir, I saw it myself!”He hurriedly pointed at Joseph.“I saw that worthless bastard carry Miss Heather away with my own eyes!”“With your own eyes?”Joseph narrowed his gaze and slowly looked the man up and down.“When I found Heather last night, a man was about to assault her.”“There was no one else nearby.”“So tell me—if you saw me take her away, where exactly were you hiding?”The lackey’s face changed.“What are you trying to say?”Jose
Chapter 8: The Tables Have Turned
The island was filled with resources. One only needed to know where to look.For the first time in years, Joseph felt as though the chains around him had been broken.When he returned to the traps, he took only the larger fish. Plenty of smaller fish and shrimp remained.He had already caught enough for three people, yet Alice wanted him to feed everyone else as well.Were these people capable of doing anything besides waiting to be fed?Fortunately, with a fire already burning, preparing another one on the beach was easy.Joseph gathered more dry wood, built up the flames, and began roasting the fish. Before long, their rich aroma drifted across the shore.After the terror of the shipwreck and a freezing night without food, the stranded passengers were starving.These men and women might have belonged to high society, but hunger did not care about wealth or status.One by one, their eyes turned toward the fire.Some swallowed openly. Others tried to pretend they were not staring.Yet
Chapter 7：A Thankless Rescue
Joseph’s expression darkened.For a moment, he considered turning away.After everything Charles had done to him, why should he care what happened to Charles’s sister?He took one step, then stopped.Charles’s crimes belonged to Charles.Heather had not been the one who humiliated him, threatened Alice, or ordered him thrown into the sea.No matter how much Joseph hated her brother, Heather did not deserve this.He bent down, picked up a stone, and hurled it.“Argh!”The rock struck the man hard.He spun around, clearly having believed they were alone.The moment he saw someone watching, all the color drained from his face. He scrambled to his feet and fled through the trees without even bothering to pull his trousers up properly.Joseph waited until the man had disappeared before stepping out of hiding.“You have no idea how much trouble you almost ended up in.”He crouched and lifted Heather over his shoulder.Perhaps it was only his imagination, but she seemed considerably heavier
Chapter 6：Wrongly Accused
Joseph’s mouth went dry.He and Alice might have been married in name, but she had never allowed him to touch her. In all their years together, he had never seen so much of her body.Whatever affection they once shared belonged to their childhood.Everything after that had been little more than his own unspoken devotion.Joseph quickly turned his eyes away.“Get a grip,” he muttered to himself.He carried Alice’s wet clothes to the fire and laid them out to dry, doing his best to ignore the effect she was having on him.She might legally be his wife, but that gave him no right to take advantage of her while she was unconscious.If he lost control now, he would never forgive himself.By the time her clothes were nearly dry, the fire had filled the cave with a gentle warmth.Joseph picked them up and returned to her side. He carefully helped Alice sit upright, supporting her against his chest as he tried to dress her.Then the very thing he had been dreading happened.Alice’s eyes opene
Chapter 5: Stranded Together
Pain.That was the first thing Joseph felt.Seawater closed over him, icy enough to cut straight to the bone. His entire body ached, and the pressure in his skull was so intense it felt as though his head might split apart.Then the memories came.They poured into his mind in broken fragments—memories that did not belong to him.How to find food in the wilderness.How to identify medicinal plants.How to build a shelter.How to treat wounds and illness...The flood of knowledge churned violently through his head, threatening to tear him apart from within. Joseph struggled to make sense of it, but every time he tried to focus, the fragments slipped away.He had no idea how long the agony lasted.Eventually, a strange warmth spread through his body, slowly driving back the cold.Joseph’s eyes fluttered open.With great effort, he pushed himself upright.The luxury liner was gone.Before him lay a long, desolate beach strewn with jagged rocks, driftwood, and pieces of wreckage. A bitter
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