Listening to Joshua’s telephone conversation with Fiona as he held her in his arms, Luna closed her eyes helplessly. To tell the truth, at that moment, she wished she could push him coldly away, order Lucas to stop the car and leave, slamming the door behind her as she went. But she could not do so. After all, Joshua said a lot of things in front of her that he would not say when she was sober. If she got up now, he would know she had merely been pretending to be drunk…The relationship between them would only become more awkward than before. Joshua would not be able to keep up his ruthless, emotional act and she had no choice but to face his shallow feelings for her. That was why since she had decided to pretend to be drunk, she had to keep up the act all the way until the end. “Come home earlier if you can.” On the other end of the phone, Fiona’s voice was soft and gentle. “I made you some delicious food.” Joshua laughed lightly, “Why would you do that? I should be the o
“When Ms. Luna wakes up, should I tell her you were the one who sent her home?”Joshua lowered his eyes and looked at the red-faced woman lying on the sofa. “No. Just tell her that her colleagues sent her home.” He looked at Luna deeply again. “She’ll get a headache when she’s hungover, prepare some soup for her to help her sober up.” Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he sighed deeply and said, “It’s okay, I’ll do it.” With this, he took off his tie, unbuttoned the two topmost buttons of his shirt, then turned and entered the kitchen.He had never made her soup before. Back then when he made soup for Fiona, Fiona even secretly recorded him with his phone and sent the video to Luna to show off. He wondered how she felt when she watched the video. To tell the truth, that night he only cooked the soup because he remembered that she always suffered from hangovers the next day. Initially, he planned to ask Lucas to send the soup to Luna, but Fiona caught him when he
Reading the two sentences on the screen, an endless variety of possible scenarios immediately exploded in Luna’s mind. Although the message the anonymous sender sent to her had disappeared somehow, she remembered it clearly. The sender said that they were ‘doing well’ and that they were the people she missed dearly. This email address was the one she used when she was working as Moon. Apart from her colleagues overseas, only Nigel and Neil knew about it.She bit her lip and quickly found the photos that Joey sent to her before. Her eyes were fixed intently on the little boy holding Aura’s hand. A ridiculous idea slowly surfaced in her mind.Could it be…? Was the telepathy between triplets that Nellie and Nigel always talked about true after all?Could it be that Neil and Theo were not dead? Could the little boy holding Aura’s hand be Neil? As for the person who sent the emails to her… Could it have been Neil, too?At this thought, she bit her lip, her hands shaking from agita
“I'm just helping you. Didn’t you say a long time ago that you’d leave after finishing your business here in the city? Now that everything has been settled, why aren’t you rushing to leave? Do you have any lingering feelings for anyone or anything here?” Luna narrowed her eyes. She knew what Fiona was trying to imply, but…“Ms. Blake, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed to hear that I don’t plan on leaving today or tomorrow, but please don’t misunderstand, I’m not staying in Banyan City because of you or Joshua. I have my reasons.” She sucked in a deep breath. “Yes, thank you for your kindness, but my children and I have cut all ties with Mr. Lynch a long time ago, and he doesn’t have to prepare a private jet for us. After my issues are settled, we’ll leave.” With that, she hung up the phone. On the other end of the phone, Fiona listened to the beeping tone and clutched the phone tightly in her grasp. She narrowed her eyes, a flash of bitterness streaking across her orbs.Luna, t
After ending the call with Fiona, Luna took a peek at the time. It was already 8.30 a.m. She yawned and glanced at her computer screen again. Not only did she fail to receive a reply from the anonymous sender, but even the anonymous email she received last night had disappeared into thin air. This was what happened with the past two occurrences. The email would be destroyed after a fixed period.Luna sighed wistfully. As soon as she reached out to switch off her laptop, Nigel’s knock rang on the door from outside. “Mommy, are you awake? Nellie and I made breakfast. So you want some?” She paused. Nellie and Neil made breakfast. How could she not eat, then?She sucked in a deep breath, shut her laptop and washed her face, then followed Nigel downstairs.The breakfast that Nigel and Nellie made was very simple: a glass of warm milk and a few slices of toasted bread, with a sunny-side-up in the shape of a heart and a plate of readily cut fruits. Even though the menu was simple,
“You haven’t eaten, have you?”Christian paused, then nodded. He smiled cheekily as he approached them and sat down beside Luna. “When are you leaving?” he asked as he ate.Luna paused. Christian was already the third person to ask her this question today. She furrowed her eyebrows and glanced at him. “Didn’t I tell you that there are still some things I have to take care of? I’ll only leave after they’re done.”Christian looked startled, then he smiled. “I mean, you can leave now. Bonnie and I can help you with whatever you have to do. What’s so important that you can’t entrust it to us, and insist on leaving here to do it yourself?”Luna frowned, sweeping her eyes at him guardedly. “You came all the way here in the morning to tell me this?” She had already told him that she would leave after a week, after she settled everything that she needed to deal with in Banyan City. Why would he rush over to her house early in the morning, without even combing his hair, and pressed her
Luna was stunned to hear Joshua’s words. Fiona was in trouble? She just called her this morning, pressing her to leave Banyan City. She frowned. “What happened to Fiona?” On the other end of the phone, Joshua sighed, a hint of helplessness in his voice. “Fiona got into a fight with me and drove out of the Orchard Manor alone. Then, she…met with an accident.”Luna paused, then pursed her lips. “Then you should be accompanying her instead. You don’t have to inform me about something like this, I can neither take care of her nor—”“Luna.” On the other end of the phone, he sucked in a deep breath and interrupted her faintly. “I already ordered Lucas and Zach to pick you and Nigel up.” Joshua’s words baffled her. Fiona met with an accident and was hospitalized. Why would he tell her this and ask her to go to the hospital? She could still understand if he wanted her to go, but why insist on bringing Nigel along? Nigel was neither a nurse nor was he her relative. Why would Joshua
Luna gnawed on her lip and challenged, “What if I don’t bring Nigel over?”“Then I’ll let Lucas and some of my men kidnap him over,” replied Joshua icily. “You wouldn’t want your son to experience that, would you?“Bring Nigel here immediately. Fiona doesn’t need much blood, so it won’t have any major consequences on his health at all.”With that, he hung up the phone.Luna clutched her phone tightly. She gritted her teeth in anger as the sound of the dial tone rang through the speaker.How naive of her to think that Joshua had a conscience!It was her fault. She was too easily deceived.This man was a selfish, good-for-nothing scumbag! He was willing to help her, send her home, and even pretended to bid her farewell, as long as he and Fiona’s safety were guaranteed.However, if anyone were to threaten his personal interests or hurt his precious Fiona, he would become an entirely different person!Luna should have known how hypocritical this man could get!As soon as she put