After that, the poker-faced Lucas—with his suit jacket flung over his shoulder— walked past Maxwell.Maxwell was used to Lucas' indifferent behavior toward him and thus did not blame him or was provoked. Lucas was unwilling to speak to him ever since Emily and Corinne left the family.Maxwell sat on the bench, narrowed his eyes, and looked toward the parking lot.Jeremy twisted open the cap of the yogurt drink and passed it to Corinne to drink. After taking a big mouthful, she put the bottle near Jeremy's lips, but she cheekily pulled it away again and burst out in laughter when he opened his mouth.The look in Maxwell's eyes softened. 'She really does look like Emily when she was younger. It's been ten years… I wonder how Emily is doing?'…Jeremy went up to shower after getting home. Corinne told him she wanted to watch the TV in the living room for a while, so she did not follow him upstairs. However, what she really did was to go into the kitchen.'Mister mustn't have eaten
Francine loved nothing more than to go shopping for bags, but she could not do that since her grandmother had canceled her card. Understandably, her eyes lit up when Corinne offered to buy her 10 Hermes bags.That was until she remembered how poor Corinne was. She looked at Corinne suspiciously and scoffed, "Are you sure you have the money to uphold your end of the deal?"Corinne smiled. "I'm sure your brother has even more if I don't have the means to. Or have you forgotten that your brother has given all his money to me?"'Oh, that's right. Hermes bags, here I come!' she thought happily."You better keep your word, Corinne. Don't you dare go back on your promise after I finish doing the practice book!"Corinne smiled. "Don't worry, you have my word. By the way, are you sure you don't want to have some noodles?"Francine glanced at the beaten egg in disgust and rolled her eyes. "Pfft! I don't want any of your stinky noodles. Even my dog wouldn't eat poor people's food like that.
Corinne's eyebrows shot up. "Mister, you know she didn't become like that in a day or two, right? No, she got like this because you and your family have been spoiling her rotten since she was little. Due to the nature of your relationship, you can't kick her out of the house, so we might as well slowly teach her how to be a decent human being and give her the space to figure things out for herself."Jeremy was a little taken aback. 'So she's doing all this for me?' Determined as he was to teach Francine a lesson, he could not bear to kick her out of the house. 'Where can she go? It'll be worse if she goes back to live with that wanton mother of hers!'Jeremy and Francine might be step-siblings, but she was the only sister he had, so he actually cherished her very much. Previously, he was too busy with work to guide her to be a decent human being. Not to mention, he would try to shower her with whatever she wanted out of guilt of leaving her all alone in the house.However, once she
Corinne came out of the kitchen and placed the bowl of noodles in front of Jeremy, who was sitting at the dining table and scrolling through his phone.He immediately put down his phone when he saw the steaming bowl of noodles with a boiled egg in front of him. He turned to her and said, "That was fast."Corinne untied her apron, pulled out the chair beside him, and sat. "It would've been faster if you didn't get in my way just now. Eat up while it's still hot."Jeremy smiled faintly, picked up his fork, and took a bite. "Not bad! But you don't have to cook for me anymore. We have servants for that, y'know."Corinne raised her eyebrow. "Is this your way of telling me my cooking is awful?"Jeremy pinched her cheek. "You little rascal. Is that how you see me? I was just worried that you'll tire yourself out."Corinne's face was all bent out of shape with all the pinching Jeremy was doing. She pouted and said, "It's just a bowl of noodles. How tiring can it be?""You're pregnant ri
Corinne wound her arms around Jeremy's neck and kissed him fiercely. The movement caused Jeremy's bathrobe to come undone and revealed his toned chest, which made Corinne's heart beat even faster than it did.Jeremy was ecstatic to see Corinne taking the initiative to kiss him first. He smiled and kissed her back just as hard as she did to regain control. 'Oh, I could just eat her up!' he thought.Just when their passion nearly boiled over, Corinne pinched Jeremy's arm and looked at him lustily. "Not here. Let's go back to our room.""Okay," replied Jeremy huskily. He lifted her in his arms and went up the stairs, all while he stole kisses from her. He then kicked open the door, gently put her on the bed, and took off his bathrobe.Seeing his naked body reminded Corinne of something. She sat up and said, "Mister, I… I haven't taken a shower yet."Jeremy pressed her down the bed once more. "No worries. I'll wash you up after we're done."Corinne's ears turned red. "Mister…"Jerem
"Here, I've finished the practice questions. Now go buy me the ten Hermes bags you've promised me."Corinne took the practice book and flipped through the pages. All the answers were correct. "How can you prove that you did this yourself?"Francine frowned. "How can I prove it, you say? Well, you'll find the handwriting is mine if you just compare the handwriting in this book with all my other books."Corinne scoffed. "I'm not asking you whether you wrote it. What I'm asking is how can you prove that you didn't cheat? You could've gotten these answers somewhere else."Francine blinked unnaturally. "Who—me, cheat? How can I cheat when there was no one in the room for me to copy answers off of?""Tsk! You could've copied the answers off online!"Francine looked away guiltily. "I don't even have a computer, so how can I do that?""You could've used your phone!""Are you trying to back out of your promise, Corinne?"Corinne smacked Francine with the practice book. "I'm not trying
"Don't worry, she won't dare do anything to me. Though, I'm afraid I need to keep an eye on her, so can you please ask the servant to bring my breakfast to me?" said Corinne softly.Bowen nodded. "Certainly. I'll ask the servant to bring it right away. And umm… Ma'am? Let me know if Miss Francine is acting up again."Corinne gave him an OK hand gesture before closing the door.Francine had just completed a few pages of the questions by the time Corinne finished her breakfast. Instead of rushing her, Corinne simply sat on the other end of the sofa and played on her phone.It was noon in the blink of an eye, and Francine finished the questions on the last page before she handed the practice book to Corinne to check. "I've finished! Let's see how you try to back out of your promise now."Corinne put down her phone and took the practice book. A smile quickly appeared on her face while she flipped through the pages.Francine frowned unhappily. "What are you smiling about?"Corinne sh
Francine skipped her lunch just so she could redo the questions. After painstakingly going through the questions again, she passed the book to Corinne."Here. All done."Corinne took a look at it and chuckled softly. "Not bad. You've got ten questions right. Quite an improvement."Francine felt a little humiliated. 'I only got ten questions right after listening to the lesson for an hour?'"I'm hungry! I'm going to have my lunch now." She could not stand to be humiliated by the one person she looked down at the most, so she chose to run away."Wait," ordered Corinne softly.Francine stopped in her tracks and turned back to glare at her. "What? I can't even have my lunch? Do you want me to starve to death?"Corinne put down the practice book, stood up, and put on her jacket. "I'm hungry too, so let's go out and eat together."Francine was a little surprised. 'She's inviting me out to lunch? Is this another one of her tricks?'"Heh! I wouldn't be caught dead with you out in publ