Corinne paused what she was doing for a second and simply said, "I know."Edmund was stunned. "If you knew, why didn't you come back to talk to him? Surely any misunderstanding could be cleared up if you just talked to Mister Jeremy face-to-face."In the time he worked for Jeremy, Corinne was the first woman Edmund had met who never took Jeremy seriously. It was only after getting to know her that he realized she was not the type of girl whose mission in life was to marry into a wealthy family, nor did she intend to gain fame and status with the help of a man. In fact, marrying into the Holden family held no allure to her at all.Simply put, Corinne was a straightforward, down-to-earth, independent, and mysterious girl. She knew what she wanted and was not afraid to go after it. In the three months she lived in Holden's estate, she never once overstepped her boundary.She did her part in pretending to be Jeremy's wife and did not attempt to use the Holden family's influence or powe
Edmund swallowed back what he was about to say to greet Jeremy."Welcome back, Mister Jeremy.""Thank you. Take us out of here now," Jeremy said coldly."Wait," said Corinne. She turned to look at Jeremy and said angrily, "Mister Jeremy, why did you drag me into your car? I'm going to get out if you can't give me a good reason!"Jeremy did not look at her. Instead, he lowered his eyes and took out an exquisite metal cigarette holder from the inner pocket of his suit jacket. He opened the holder with his slender fingers, plucked out a cigarette, and tapped it on the holder out of habit."Why? Do you find yourself disgusted to be sitting in my car?" Jeremy asked mockingly. The way he spoke made it obvious to Corinne that he was itching for a fight.She frowned unhappily and said, "I didn't mean it that way. It's just I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea. It's not like we're close enough to share the same car."'We're. Not. Close. Enough. Man, this girl really knows where to
Corinne immediately understood what Jeremy implied, causing her to instinctively avert her eyes away from his."What nonsense are you talking about? Why would I take anything that belongs to your family?"After saying that, she quickly opened the door in a bid to get out of the car. However, just like the first time, she failed to do that because the door was locked again.Jeremy moved closer to her, so close that she could feel his warm breath on her neck. "Why are you panicking if you said you didn't steal anything?"Corinne was shocked by his closeness that she suddenly went limp with numbness. "What do you think you're doing? Get away from me!"Her instinct caused her to push him away, but instead of doing that, she accidentally punched his left eye, exactly where he was bleeding.Jeremy let out a muffled groan, and his hand immediately shot up to cover his left eye. The pain was so intense that his brows became tightly drawn.Seeing that made Corinne panic even more. "I'm s
Corinne blinked awkwardly and quickly moved her eyes away. She then sat back down in her seat."Umm… Please bear with the pain a little if your eye still hurts. We should be arriving at the hospital soon."Jeremy did not say anything. Instead, he leaned back against the seat and looked at her.At that moment, Corinne felt conflicted. On the one hand, she did not want to have anything to do with Jeremy, but on the other, she was very worried that she had caused him to go blind.She dug her fingers anxiously into her palm when Jeremy suddenly called out her name."Corinne."She thought his eye was hurting again, so she quickly turned toward him and asked, "What's the matter? Did the pain come back again?"Jeremy narrowed his eyes and looked probingly at her. "What's your real relationship with Aaron of Newmoon Group?"The sudden question caught her off guard. There she was, worrying about his eye, and he asked her something like that."It's like I told you. He's my husband, and
Jeremy was probably in a lot of pain since he did not even light up his cigarette, which he held between his fingers throughout the entire car ride. After the car stopped, he casually threw the cigarette into the trash can before getting out of the car.Corinne looked at him getting out of the car while a multitude of emotions fought to dominate her heart.Hesitating a little, she said, "Umm… I won't be getting out of the car with you. I'll wait here for your results to come out, and I'm willing to pay whatever medical fees you've incurred because of me."Jeremy paused in his movement and turned his head slightly to look unhappily at her.Seeing that, Edmund quickly cleared his throat and said, "Miss Corinne, I think it's best you accompany Mister Jeremy to see the doctor. It won't be safe for him to walk around alone with his eye hurt, and I can't park the car here since it's the emergency lane for the ambulance. I have to park the car somewhere else."Corinne looked outside the
"What?" asked Jeremy indifferently as if he did not think he did anything wrong.Corinne glared at him and said, "You're a guy so why did you ask for the OB-GYN's number? Aren't you embarrassed at all?"Jeremy looked down at her condescendingly and smirked. "The OB-GYN is for you."She knew what he was getting at and an alarm bell instantly went off in her head. She frowned and took a deep breath to compose herself. After squeezing out a smile on her face, she said, "Thank you but I don't need to see an OB-GYN specialist. I've always made sure to keep my s*x life clean so I have no problem down there."Jeremy narrowed his eyes. "Are you sure about that?"Although Edmund did not find any record of Corinne having visited any OB-GYN specialist, Jeremy was suspicious of her ever since he saw her retching for no good reason. The fact that she was trying to avoid the whole conversation made him even sure she was pregnant.'She's pregnant huh and it's mine.' He was going to get to the b
"Please stop joking around, Mister Jeremy. Why do I need to go for a check-up when I'm not sick?" Corinne mustered all her strength to pull her hand away from his grip but failed to do so. She was on the brink of exhaustion.'Where's that Edmund? Why isn't he back here yet?' she thought."Just what are you afraid of, Corinne?"Jeremy stood up and pulled her to him. He looked straight into her eyes condescendingly as though he was trying to read her mind.Feeling guilty, Corinne subconsciously shifted her gaze away from his."You're reading too much into this, Mister Jeremy. I'm just worried that I might bump into someone I know. Imagine what my husband would think then? Me; A married woman, going to see an OB-GYN specialist with someone else other than my husband! Why, that would ruin both of our reputations!"Jeremy scoffed. "Why should we worry about what our husbands or others think of us when we have done nothing wrong? Let's go, Miss Corinne.""Let go of me! I'm not going
Twenty days.'That means she got pregnant after leaving me! The baby in her tummy belongs to her and her husband!' Jeremy was gripping the paper so hard that his knuckles started to make popping sounds. He gritted his teeth and flung the paper coldly toward Corinne's face."You know how to play it close huh, Corinne! It didn't take you long to get pregnant with another man after leaving me, did it!"'How rude of him!' Corinne was angry at the way he was talking to her. She picked up the blood test result and looked at it quizzically. 'Why does it say I'm pregnant for twenty days only? What's going on here?'She was as confused as anyone else because she should be two and a half months pregnant by then. Plus, she was with any other man apart from Jeremy so how could she get pregnant again?All of this happened so unexpectedly but after thinking about it, she thought it might just as well since she could use this to end things with Jeremy once and for all. She took a breath to colle