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
It had not been a few days since the last similar incident happened and now Corinne had to go through it again? She looked contemptuously at Anya, hating her with every fiber of her being.'There's no limit to how shameless this woman can be! How can she still think of herself when her child is hurt!'Although she did not like Anya, it did not mean she would pass on that hate to her innocent child. 'That poor kid must be in a lot of pain/ He probably doesn't understand why it's hurting so much either.'Instead of calling out on Anya's lies, Corinne quickly called for an ambulance. After giving the operator the address, she hung up the phone, and only then did she say, "The waiter was the one who accidentally tripped, causing the soup to splash all over your kid. I tried to catch the bowl but I was too late. After that, the waiter legged out of the room 'cause he was afraid of what was going to happen to him."Anya looked at her in disbelief. "Corinne, how can you lie like that? I s
In the emergency ward.The doctors tended to Joey's burn and after bandaging up his eye, one of the doctors told Anya and Jeremy to mentally prepare themselves to accept the possibility that Joey would forever have a scar on his left eye since that was where he was the most badly burned.Tears immediately flowed from Anya's eyes when she heard that. "Oh, my poor, poor child! He's so young and yet he has to leave with this disfigurement forever! Jeremy, what should we do?"Jeremy patiently tried to calm her down. "The doctor said it's only a possibility. That means there's a chance it won't happen."Anya kept crying. "But, what if?"Jeremy was losing his patience by then. "He's a boy so a little scar is nothing! We should be glad that he's fine!"Anya could tell Jeremy was not in the mood for her theatrics so she immediately turned off her waterworks and said pitifully, "You're right. Joey is a boy so a little scar will not affect him in any way. It's just that, I can't help but t
Although Corinne only pushed Anya lightly, the latter acted as if the former pushed her very hard. Anya staggered back exaggeratedly and pretended to fall. Her plan worked! She wanted Corinne to raise her hand against her to make it more believable that Corinne would do something as insidious as harming Joey.A hand reached out to grab her just when she was about to fall to the ground. Anya thought it was Jeremy who saved her, which made her secretly happy. However, when she looked up, she discovered it was Lucas who saved her.Lucas put his arm protectively around Anya after he righted her up. He then glared coldly at Corinne and said, "I dare you to push her again.""I didn't push her. I just flung her hand away from my body," said Corinne.Lucas frowned. "I saw everything so there's no use of you denying it!"Corinne was speechless. 'How can he know what happened when he wasn't even here, to begin with? He must be making things up.'Anya was a little disappointed that it was n