"Not really," replied Corinne."Because Anya loves Jeremy more than life itself. She could not and would not live without him. Your existence, however, made Jeremy question the importance of having Anya in his life."Corinne rolled her eyes. "Oh please, they already have a kid together so how can I still be a threat to their relationship? You guys are overthinking about this. Besides, it's not like Mister Jeremy is the only fish in the sea, and no matter how desperate I am for a man, I would never be a homewrecker!"Jason looked at her in shock, which Corinne noticed, so she asked him, "What? Why are you looking at me like that?"That snapped him out of his shock. He then smiled and said, "No reason. Let's go. I'll show you around the company's shopping mall and then we can have lunch together.""No, thank you. I still have work to do."Jason rapped his knuckles on the table and said, "This is one of your jobs. Many of your company's products are sold in the Talbot's Department S
Anya looked happy. She walked up to Corinne and said, "Corinne, what a coincidence to see you here too!""Yeah, I guess you can say that," said Corinne indifferently.Anya turned her attention toward Jason — who still was holding the shopping basket in his hand — and smiled coyly, "Jason, what are you doing here with Corinne?"Jason beamed a smile back at her and said, "Corinne has just been promoted to become the sales manager in Rivera Group today. Meaning to say she'll be in charge of all the products that the company supplies to Talbot's so I brought her here to get herself familiarized with the market."Corinne was relieved that Jason told her the truth instead of giving her an answer that could be taken the wrong way.'Okay, so he does know how to rein it in when there are other people present.'Anya blinked in astonishment. "Congratulations on the promotion, Corinne!"Corinne knew Anya did not mean that so she simply smiled and said, "Thank you.""Jeremy and I were just
'Huh?!' Corinne scoffed inwardly.…At the sushi restaurant, Cherry Blossom.Anya first placed Joey in the baby highchair before passing Corinne the menu and saying warmly, "Corinne, order whatever you want from the menu. There's no need to be shy around us, okay?"Corinne waved her hand and did not take the menu.Jason smiled and took the menu from Anya's hand and put it between himself and Corinne."Thank you, Anya. Corinne and I will share a menu. Corinne, what do you want to have?"Anya smiled and asked coyly, "Jason, you're so nice to Corinne. Could it be?""Oh, so you can tell too!" said Jason with an equally coy smile.The corners of Corinne's mouth began to twitch.'And here I thought he knew how to rein it in. Well, it didn't take long for him to show his true colors.'While she was looking at the menu, Corinne could feel someone giving her the death stare from across the table and this made her extremely uncomfortable. The stare seemed to have come out from eyes so
Anya hurriedly put on an expression that showed she suddenly realized that she made a mistake."Sorry, Corinne! I forgot you wanted to have something lighter. It was my mistake to order so much fried food. Waiter! Take all of these fried foods away. My friend here doesn't like it!"Corinne smiled mockingly at Anya's hypocrisy and waved her hand at the waiter, signaling him to not bother. "It's okay. You all can eat it since the food is already here. It won't be good to waste it.""But," Anya said anxiously."Yeah, it's fine. We can just do this." Jason pushed the plate of fried food away from Corinne before picking up and putting the cold side dish in front of her. "Here, Corinne, try this. It's light and refreshing. You'll have more appetite after eating this.""Okay, thanks." Corinne nodded and grabbed some of the cold side dishes. However, before the food even got close to her mouth, she immediately covered her mouth and stood up because she felt like throwing up again. "Excuse
Afraid that Corinne was going to do something to her, Anya slowly backed away."I have Lucas! And he's willing to do anything for me. He'll never let a shameless woman like you give birth to Jeremy's kid 'cause he knows how sad I'll be if Jeremy leaves me again! Corinne, you should know very well that even if I can't win against you, my brother will help me get rid of you!"Corinne forced Anya to the back of the wall before lifting her fake little face with her fingers."Tsk! How can such vicious words come out of such an angelic little face? I wonder what your beloved brother would think if he was to see you like this."Even though Corinne had the upper hand, Anya still managed to retain some sort of boldness as she snorted confidently. "Hah! Why don't you go and tell him and see if he'll believe you! In fact, not only would he not believe you but it'd just make him dislike you even more and he'll make your life more difficult just to avenge me."Corinne was in total agreement wi
'Forty days ago! That's about the time Jeremy went on that business trip of his. Meaning to say, he was actually with Anya and their kid! I guess him calling me every day to make sure I eat, sleep, and miss him didn't stop him from having the time to make another kid with Anya!' thought Corinne.Corinne suddenly felt like something was stuck in her throat, making her want to throw up. Previously, it was a biological response but now it was an emotional response. She mentally berated herself for ever trusting Jeremy's words. For a moment there, she was looking forward to him coming back so that the two of them could live happily ever after.'He lied straight to my face and like a fool I took it in hook, line, and sinker! What a devious man he is!' thought Corinne and even though all those were going on in her mind, she still managed to maintain a calm facade on her face. 'Oh well, who of us hasn't been young and stupidly in love before? It's all in the past now.'After giving herself
Corinne laughed long and hard before looking at him and said, "Mister Jeremy, what happened that night was an unfortunate emergency. It wasn't like we did it because we love each other. Besides, do you think that I'll get pregnant because of that one time? Why, I might as well buy the lottery with that kind of luck!"Jeremy's suspicious eyes remained fixed on her for a good long while. Seeing that she did not feel guilty or nervous, he slowly puffed out some smoke, and the suspicion in his eyes dissipated — although not completely — along with the smoke into the air.After a few more seconds of silence, he asked again, "Where's your husband?"Corinne was stunned. She completely forgot she had a husband. She blinked awkwardly and replied, "He's, he's at work, of course!"Silence again."Is Jason pursuing you?"Corinne was once again stunned by his question. She did not expect the conversation to veer so quickly to the topic of Jason.What could she say? Jason was indeed pursuing
Jason was nowhere to be seen by the time Corinne got back to the private dining room. She had no idea where he went and since Jeremy did not get back, there was only Anya, who was feeding Joey some soupy rice.They did not have a very good conversation in the restroom. The falling out caused them to shed all pretense of cordiality. Since there was no one else in the room, Anya simply threw a cold glance at Corinne before going back to feeding Joey.Corinne sat down on her seat, picked up a fork with one hand, and took out her phone with another to send a text to Aaron.Suddenly, Anya pressed the bell to summon the waiter to bring in more soup for her. Corinne did not pay too much attention to her behavior as she was too busy replying to the messages on her phone.After a while, a waiter dressed in the restaurant's uniform came in with a bowl of soup."Here's the soup you ordered, ma'am. Please enjoy."The waiter then walked up to Anna when suddenly he tripped and the bowl immedia