Louis scoffed. “So you’ve asked me out just to teach me a lesson on behalf of your best friend?”Maisie stopped beating around the bush and asked, “Louis, do you really want to marry Ryleigh?”Louis frowned slightly, but his slender and beautiful slanted eyes did not give off any emotion as they looked extremely calm.Maisie picked up her cup. “I know that both the Hills and Lucases are a great match for each other, and both families are related through previous marriages. That’s the reason the marriage between the two of you is what the elders of both families want to see. But you can’t sacrifice your own happiness because of marriage. Ryleigh is my best friend, and you’re my cousin. You guys are going to be a pain in my *ss whenever you have an argument in the future.“The waiter brought Louis his coffee and put it in front of him.Louis held the cup and looked out the window. “We won’t have any arguments in the future.”Maisie was puzzled.He took a sip of the hot coffee and
Maisie forced a smile. “It seems that I might have to rise from the dead.”She then grabbed her handbag and got up.Ryleigh stared at her. “Are you heading back already?”“Those people will come to my house and snatch the crown from the queen’s head if I choose not to go back now.” Maisie left without looking back.Ryleigh waved at her. “All hail the queen!”At Blackgold…Maisie and Saydie passed by the front desk. When the receptionists who were chatting at the front desk noticed two silhouettes passing by, they raised their heads one after another.The two figures had headed toward the elevator, and the long-haired woman looked quite familiar, but they could not remember where they had seen her before this.“Does that woman look familiar to you?”“That’s weird. Who gave them the courage to use the elevator that’s dedicated to Mr. Goldmann?”“Holy sh*t!”When the two receptionists noticed something, they immediately trotted toward her.Maisie was about to step into the ele
Maizie and Mr. Hannigan were both taken aback for a moment when they saw the intruder.Maisie threw her handbag on the table, and the metal chain made a crisp clank as it slid across the coffee table.The sudden noise scared Maizie.Maisie sashayed around the desk, walked up to Nolan’s side, turned around, and sat down in his arms. Her eyes were bloodshot as she hit him. “Noles, you b*stard! You told me last night when we were in bed that you’d only marry me! You’re already going back on your own words by thinking about dating someone else!?”Nolan grabbed her hands and glanced at the woman in his arms. “There’s no such thing.”“You were just doing it!” Maisie smacked him on the chest, acting exceptionally aggrieved. “Is it because I am not curvy enough, or am I not beautiful enough? You ungrateful liar!”The office became dead silent all of a sudden.Mr. Hannigan and Maizie’s expressions looked slightly stiff, and even Quincy, who was standing outside the door, was astonished.
Saydie gave him a sideways glance.Quincy then asked with a grin, “Are you thirsty, Ms. Saydie? Do you want a drink?”“No.” Saydie crossed her arms, rejecting Quincy’s kindness without any hesitation.Quincy did not ask again.Nolan buttoned Maisie’s clothes for her while she could not even stand up straight and steadily. He hugged her by her waist to support her and laughed. “What a shameless woman.”She scoffed. “You’re the shameless one here! What do I have to be ashamed of?”Nolan was astonished for a moment, then raised his head to look at her as if he had seen this scene somewhere, and he seemed to have said such a sentence in the past too.When Maisie left the company, Nolan sent her out personally. All the employees inside the company witnessed Nolan wrapping his arms around her shoulders with their own eyes, looking extremely intimate!“My God, am I seeing that right?”“Mr. Goldmann has found himself a new lover?”Those people had different expressions. Everyone knew
Maisie burst into laughter. “Yes, he cheated on me. He cheated on me with me.”Ryleigh was quiet for a few seconds. “Oh, so it’s you. What were you two doing at that time?”“What else could I do?” Maisie stopped writing and raised her gaze. “Everyone in Bassburgh knows that he has divorced me, so if I were to reveal my identity to the public swaggeringly while Nolan is still suffering from amnesia, he’d have to face the media while he can’t remember a thing. How troublesome would that be?”Ryleigh clicked her tongue and said, “Why do you care so much about your amnesiac husband’s feelings now?”Maisie did not say much but instead asked, “I wonder, where did you get this gossip? It hasn’t even appeared on the news or the Internet, yet you’ve already heard about it!”“I was added into a celebrities’ WhatsApp group chat by some of my friends a while back. They were gossiping about this, and I’ve been reading their messages without responding to any of them.”After saying so, Ryleigh
Nolan’s face looked softened under the interlacing white lights and shadows—it was flawless, profound, and attractive that no words could describe his perfection.Maisie walked toward him, lifted her hand, rubbed his eyebrows lightly, and slid her finger down the bridge of his well-defined nose.Nolan frowned, raised his hand, grabbed her wrist, dragged her into his arms, and then slowly opened his eyes to look at her. “You’re really a bad woman.”Maisie chuckled, placed her hands on his shoulders, and leaned closer to him. “How am I a bad woman?”He then wrapped his arms around her waist. “You’re finally done with your work. Are you hungry?”“Yes.” She nodded.Nolan hugged her with a smile, pressed his lips and nose against her neck, and gave off a pregnant smirk. “Are you really hungry?”Maisie pushed against his chest feebly. “Stop fooling around already. I’m really hungry, so hungry that I literally have no strength to do anything now.”Nolan stopped messing around, let go
Nolan stared at her. “Daisie is still so young. How can she handle such spicy food?”“Maybe she’s inherited it from me.” Maisie took a few sips of broth. “I could already eat spicy food when I was only five.”Nolan lowered his head to eat the ravioli in his bowl while she could not hide the amusement that was beaming in her eyes. “Is it delicious?”“Not that bad.” Nolan took a few more bites.‘At least the taste isn’t half bad.’After finishing all the ravioli, it was already 9:00 p.m. when they arrived at the Goldmann mansion.Alfred claimed that the two children had just taken their bath and were watching a movie in the room.Maisie opened the door while Daisie and Colton were watching anime while eating snacks in front of the big projector screen.“Mommy, you’re back!” Daisie shoved the snacks over into Colton’s arms, got up, and ran to her.Maisie lifted her hand and rubbed Daisie’s hair. It felt so soft to the touch as she had just washed and dried her hair. “Didn’t your
Nolan crossed his fingers and put them to his lips as he solemnly said, “Help me get the best wedding photographer in Bassburgh.”Quincy was stunned. “Wedding photographer?”Nolan explained with a serious expression, “The walls at home need decoration.”Quincy was quiet. He could have just said that he wanted to get some wedding pictures taken.…Maisie asked Saydie to take a detour to the Vanderbilt manor on their way to Soul Jewelry. There wasn’t much change in the garden except the vegetation had dried off because no one had been taking care of the garden.The door was tightly shut.Saydie parked the car, and Maisie pushed open the car door. She looked at the locked door and could tell that no one lived there anymore. Her eyes were solemn. She stood in front of the door for a long, long time, not wanting to leave.The guard walked over to inform her, “I’m sorry, no one is allowed near this place.”Maisie turned to look at him. “Why not?”The guard sized her up and said,