Chapter 81When she hung up the phone, her body was still trembling.Oprah stood in the rain for a long time before calming herself.She walked back to the villa.Tall and lean, Burgess stood not far away, holding a glass of wine in his hand."I said only five minutes."He looked at Oprah and noticed that she was drenched, looking like she had lost her soul.Alfred must have told her about the child.Burgess downed the contents of the glass and set it down casually. Then, he picked up a towel and approached Oprah."You don't know how to take cover from the rain? How did you survive abroad for the last six years?"As he spoke, he wiped her hair with the towel.Even he couldn't believe he was acting this way.Oprah's face was pale, and she clenched her fists slightly. "Where is my child?"Burgess said, "A very safe place."In her breakdown, Oprah said with red eyes, "Give him back to me!"Burgess's hand paused."Before I give him back, I have a question."He felt a lump in his throat, an
Chapter 82After a prolonged silence, Burgess came to the balcony alone and lit a cigarette again.He couldn't suppress his coughing in the cold wind, and his eyes had turned red without him noticing.He didn't know why he chose to keep Oprah in this way.Perhaps it was because he didn't want to give up.He couldn't believe she was dead. He couldn't accept that he had spent six years searching for her, only to find out she was with another man.He couldn't accept that the girl he had loved for over a decade was choosing to leave him.Thinking about all this, Burgess extinguished his cigarette and walked back into the ward, his body emanating a cold aura."Let's go back home."Home...Oprah felt somewhat bewildered. Did she even have a home anymore?They got into the car.As Burgess drove, he couldn't stop coughing.Oprah paid no attention and stared out the window as raindrops slid down.Perhaps genuine indifference is what it feels like now when you don't love.Burgess looked at the r
Chapter 83As he spoke, Burgess's gaze fell on Oprah inside the room.Hardy couldn't help but offer a reminder, "Mr. Burgess, if you like Miss Oprah, you should let her know and do things that make her happy. Otherwise, she might drift further away from you.""That's none of your business."Hardy knew he had overstepped, and his eyes beneath the gold-rimmed glasses dimmed slightly."I apologize."Hardy always had a sense of decency. He had reminded Burgess because he didn't want him to regret it later.He knew best about Burgess's changes during the six years Oprah was absent.Burgess didn't blame him. After he left, Burgess returned to the room.At this moment, Oprah had just received a call from Angela, telling her she had been released late last night."Oprah, did you go to find Burgess?" Angela felt something was off. She had called Oprah last night, but no one answered."Yes, I told him about it yesterday." Oprah didn't hide anything."Did he give you a hard time?" Angela sounded
Chapter 84"Yes, she said she would come to pick me up. She wants to play up to the Harrison family and my great-grandfather. What an annoying woman!"Jimmy rolled up his sleeves and said, "Great! She bullied my aunt yesterday. I want to teach her a lesson.""I'll help you."Elvis had become good friends with the two other kids. And he did not like Zoey either.It might be because his mother often told him Zoey wanted to give birth to Burgess’s child, who would compete with him for the head of the Harrison family.Kaleb put down the book in his hand and looked over with his beautiful eyes, asking, "What are you going to do?"Hearing this, the two kids looked at each other in confusion.Elvis approached him, pouted, and asked, "Kaleb, what do you think we should do?"Kaleb knew they had no plans. However, he had long had one. So, he secretly told them his plan.The other two kids became excited to hear it.A little girl came over and asked, "Kaleb, what are you talking about?"Elvis pus
Chapter 85Oprah felt a little worried.Kaleb immediately said, "You turned out to refer to this matter. She came to pick up a boy in our class. We were cleaning the classroom just now. She was wearing high heels, so she slipped and accidentally knocked over the bucket."Angela asked, "Really?"She secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, her nephew had not offended the fake woman.Kaleb nodded, "Really! What else do you think happened to her?"He had fully prepared, so Zoey would not have any clue.After she had slipped by herself, they had pretended to knock the bucket over accidentally. And their acting skills were even better than hers.Angela remained silent for a while and said, "OK! Forget about my question. But I’m happy to see her make a show of herself."When the assistant carefully wiped Zoey's face and treated the wound on her leg, the latter's phone suddenly rang.As soon as Zoey answered the call, Roxanne cursed, "What's the matter with you? You said you wanted to
Chapter 86Burgess's mind was a mess when he asked, "Where did you go? Why did you come back so late?""I went to my best friend's house for dinner."Oprah changed into slippers, walked in, passed Burgess, and went upstairs toward her room. She wondered why he had asked such an unnecessary question. After all, he always sent people to follow her.Burgess couldn't hold it any longer, so he stood before her and asked, "Why don't you ask me where I went or what I did?""Because there is no need to ask. Didn't you go to work?"Burgess always worked on weekends and holidays, so she didn't need to ask. And she felt a little puzzled, wondering what was wrong with him.Meeting her clear eyes, he somehow could not lose his temper despite his anger.He approached her, handed her the gift box, and said, "It's from a customer."Oprah stared at the box in his hand but didn't accept it. After all, she had heard him say, "Only a few expensive gifts can make her happy for a long time. She is as greedy
Chapter 87Oprah was stunned, angry, and ashamed, so she looked at him in disbelief, thinking he was playing a trick on her again.Burgess sobered up, silently glanced at her, got up, went to the bathroom, and took a long cold shower. Then, he returned to the bed, hugged her, and fell asleep.Oprah couldn't fall asleep because of what had happened and what he had said tonight.She clenched her fists for a long time and did not get up until he slightly loosened his hug.She didn't know where to go, so she walked to the balcony to enjoy the cold wind and the sound of rain.After a while, Burgess said in his dream, "Oprah, I'm feeling unwell. It would be best if you didn't come back. You don't have a conscience."When Oprah walked back into the bedroom, she heard him scolding her. She suddenly felt he did not deserve her love and wanted to drink much.Standing by the bed, she looked at his face in the dim light and wanted to strike him. But she held the urge back."Yes, I have no conscien
Chapter 88Oprah looked calm, "Just when Zoey asked you to marry her. Congratulations."Burgess's heart suddenly trembled.He froze for a few seconds.He looked at her intensely, "If you have any opinions, you can tell me now."As long as she didn't allow him to marry Zoey, he would agree.But unexpectedly, Oprah shook her head and said the same thing as before, "Congratulations. If you need my cooperation to handle the divorce, I will. But the premise is that you give Shaun back to me."Burgess's heart sank.He found that Oprah, indeed, no longer cared about him. She didn't care that he was with other women or marrying another woman.Burgess somehow felt very annoyed.He cleared his throat heavily and threw the breakfast brought by Zoey directly into the trash can."Whatever you want to eat, order it yourself." He walked past Oprah and went all the way to the study.Oprah found that he was naive now. Could it be that he thought she would eat the food brought by Zoey?She went to the k