Upon seeing Melanie arrive, Yelena approached her and said, “They told me they had a surprise for me. I didn’t know the party was going to be held outdoors.”Yelena knew Melanie was pregnant, as they stayed in the research base together.She was smart enough to guess that Melanie was hiding her pregnancy from the Yorks for a particular reason.Although Yelena was a member of the Yorks, she hadn’t yet regained her memories. She wasn’t as close to the Yorks as she was to Melanie, and she therefore sided with Melanie whenever something happened.“It’s fine. My skirt hem is thickened. See, this is made of leather. Even if the wind blows my way, it’ll still remain poofy and conceal my stomach,” Melanie said.Yelena heaved a sigh of relief and nodded. “I’ll have them bring out more air-conditioning units. This dress looks too thick.”Very soon, Melanie saw Yelena instructing the servants on-site. “I feel rather warm. Bring in a few more air-conditioning units and cool down the place.”
Just then, another hand reached out to pull her aside.“Harlow, today is Yelena’s birthday banquet. There’s no need to blow things out of proportion and make everyone upset, is there?” Leo stepped forward to intervene.All the relatives of the York family quietened down as they focused their attention on the commotion.Leo never openly opposed Harlow in front of others. To think he stepped forward to challenge Harlow for Melanie Jones! What an exciting turn of events this was!“I was just inviting her to an opening dance. How am I making everyone upset?” Harlow said as he straightened out his suit.“If Melanie is upset about it, others will naturally be upset. How about letting me dance the opening dance with her and you take a break, Harlow?” Leo said.Everyone was mumbling under their breaths. Melanie looked on with her brows furrowed.She thought Leo had come to save her from the situation. As it turned out, he was here to invite her to dance as well. That surprised her.Har
Jeffrey looked over lazily and saw Leo walking toward them and sitting down unceremoniously with a glass of wine in hand.“This is between the two of us. There’s no need for you to fret over it, Mr. York,” Jeffrey said coldly.“Melanie and I have known each other for a while. I admire her talent, appreciate her personality, and even see her as my sister. I do fret over some of her affairs,” Leo retorted.Melanie blinked in confusion. See her as a sister?Did Leo say that carelessly or deliberately?“In that case, Mr. York, how did you know that I don’t have all that prepared?” Jeffrey replied, unperturbed. “Melanie has been staying overseas recently. I’ll give her everything she wants the moment she returns home.”“I don’t really care about status,” Melanie said. “After all, I didn’t give him an official status, too.”Melanie and Jeffrey exchanged smiles.Leo pushed his glasses up his nose bridge to hide his awkwardness. He knew that there was no way to push his agenda with thi
Jeffrey reacted fast as he lunged over from opposite Melanie and handed her an orange.She developed a love for the smell of oranges when she previously suffered from severe morning sickness.As he had expected, the moment the refreshing citrusy smell of the orange hit Melanie’s nose, her nausea faded. She lifted her head and said with a wave of her hand, “I don’t like it.”Leo arched his brow as he put down the smoked fish, and surveyed her from head to toe. “You don’t look very good. Why are you retching? Are you ill?”Melanie held her breath as she tucked her hair behind her ear, and nodded as calmly as she could. “I’ve been suffering from gastroenteritis recently,” she said.“Why don’t you take a rest? I’ll find you later and continue with the proposal?” Leo said with feigned concern.“Sure. I’ll go and grab my medicine.”She stood up, and Jeffrey held her steady as she walked to the washroom.She knew that there were people keeping close attention to her along the way. S
“Silence her?”Linda sneered. “Harlow York, what else are you capable of aside from murdering women and children? Weren’t you trying to propose to her just a second ago? Don’t think you can do anything you please just because I’m not making a move on you now! I remember every single wrong and foolish thing you’ve done!” Linda then pointed at her heart before turning her head away in disgust and walking off.-Yelena’s birthday banquet ended in three hours after she claimed to be tired.Right now, Joseph hung to her every word.However, Melanie knew Yelena was in fact worried that she would be too tired, which made the banquet end early.She sat in Jeffrey's car, and left the York estate.In a secluded spot in the York estate, someone’s phone rang.“Melanie left. How did the testing go?” Nathan asked darkly through the phone.“I can almost confirm that she’s pregnant. Help me get rid of her as planned!”Nathan paused for a moment before saying, “As long as you agree to my
“I can’t bear to see her like a sitting duck, either.”Professor Turner smacked the couch, and stood up. “I’m talking about another research base of mine, which is even more hidden and secluded than this one. Do you understand now?”“Pardon me, I was too anxious.”Jeffrey’s knitted brows relaxed as he apologized to the professor.It was rare of Jeffrey to apologize to someone else. Melanie looked at him, amazed that the savior effect was strong enough for Jeffrey to behave like this.“Since things have come to this point, let’s not delay things any further and move out tomorrow morning!”Professor Turner turned around, and pressed a button. Very soon, his research assistant appeared. The professor relayed his instructions to prepare for the move overnight while keeping everything a secret.The next morning, before the sun was up, everyone in the research base started moving their things out. They split themselves up into three groups, and the first two groups of people had suc
“We have instructions to protect both her and the baby!” the chief yelled fiercely at the doctor.”“Her heart isn’t in a good condition. If we forcefully keep the baby, we might lose her instead…” the doctor said, clearly in a difficult spot.The masked man next to him started to panic, and asked anxiously, “Chief, what should we do?”“We’ve been told that the key is her heart. The priority is to protect the woman, then the baby!” the chief eventually said.The baby…Melanie’s heart pounded hard in her chest before she went out cold.-Jeffrey took a flight to attend an important finance meeting. After the meeting ended, he hopped on another flight back to Medonia almost immediately. He promised her that he would be back tonight.But when his plane landed, he received a call from a bodyguard from Morgan Group that the island where the research base was located caught fire. A group of armed men had abducted them all amidst the chaos.Jeffrey’s breath caught in his chest as the
When Melanie regained consciousness, her first instinct was to touch her belly. That was when she realized that both her arms were cuffed to the sides of the bed. She was unable to move.She tried hard to lift her head; she saw the bulge in her stomach, and subconsciously heaved a sigh of relief.She decided not to struggle so vehemently again; firstly for the safety of her baby, and secondly, her struggle seemed to be in vain anyway.She felt subtle tugs of pain in her stomach, and forced herself to calm down to think.Melanie could hear waves crashing against the boat from inside the room. Before she fainted, she heard the masked men talking about taking her into a boat. She must be in one right now.The masked men seized the professor, her mother, and Yelena and even claimed to want to kill them all except her. They even said that they received instructions to leave her and her baby alive.Who would care so much for her and her baby?It couldn’t possibly be the Yorks, nor cou