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
Anya immediately started to panic when she heard Jeremy asked Corinne to talk in private. She turned around and looked tearfully at him, "Jeremy, where are you going with Corinne?"Jeremy threw her a glance and said, "Go in and watch over Joey for a minute. I promise I'll settle this matter with Corinne as soon as possible."'Does he mean that he's going to make Corinne pay for what she did? I mean, of course, he would. I didn't put up all that act for nothing. He must have believed my story over Corinne's and is now itching to punish her!' thought Anya.Thinking of this, Anya nodded her head docilely and said, "Okay. I'll go tend to Joey first and wait for you to come back."Jeremy did not say anything to Anya after that. Instead, he looked coldly at Corinne and barked out an order, "You, come with me!"Corinne did not want to talk to him but knew with Jeremy's character, he would not stop until he got to the bottom of who did that to his son. Therefore, she had no choice but to
In any case, Corinne might as well apply the ointment on her burn wounds since Jeremy so kindly gave it to her."Thanks," said Corinne coolly. She decided to forgo delving into how Jeremy knew her hand was burned.While opening and packaging and applying the ointment on her throbbing hand, she said, "In any case, "The bottom line is I didn't hurt that kid. It was the waiter who accidentally threw the hot soup on him."At that moment, Jeremy's eyes seemed to have lost their focus. He looked at her through the haze of cigarette smoke and asked emotionlessly, "Did I ask you that?"Corinne frowned. "Then why did you ask me to follow you here? Don't tell me you did that just to give me this ointment."Jeremy did not answer her. He narrowed his eyes and fixed his gaze on the sparkling diamond ring on her ring finger. "Miss Carew, why are you still wearing the wedding ring my family gave you when you're remarried to another man?"Corinne was speechless. She thought it was not accurate f
Anya stayed in the ward to watch over Joey but her mind kept anxiously drifting back to Jeremy. She was not that worried about Joey since the doctor already told her his condition already stabilized and this would not affect his health in any other way. The reason he was hospitalized was because the doctor was worried Joey's wound would get infected from improper caring so it was best to monitor him for a few days in the hospital. No, what Anya was worried about was why Jeremy asked to have a word with Corinne in private.'Why isn't he back yet? What the h*ll are they talking about that it needs them to take so long?' thought Anya.Joey fell asleep on the bed due to the overwhelming pain. From time to time, he would make a whimpering noise.'Poor child. He's not even at the age where he can talk yet,' thought Lucas, who was standing over the bed and looking down at him with a serious expression on his face. How could he, Joey's uncle, not be angered when he saw how much pain his n