Cormac was dumbstruck for a moment. He looked down at the woman who was kissing him on his lips and forgot how to react.
Although she was promiscuous, she was quite inexperienced in kissing.
He was inexplicably familiar with the kiss, so he didn’t push her away in the first place. But when he finally pulled himself together, he pushed her away without any hint of hesitation.
Being caught out of the guard, Loredana took two steps backwards because of the force. Her legs buckled as her knees gave out, and she fell onto the ground. The dress was gathered up and her legs were exposed.
The wounds that had been bandaged opened up and blood was seeping through the gauzes, which looked so striking.
She felt the sharp pain from her knees.
And her body trembled slightly.
Cormac was dumbstruck.
Her legs…
Ignoring the pain on her knees, Loredana picked herself up from the ground and continued to beg him not to divorce her. She looked into her with begging eyes. “Don’t divorce me, please.”
She was so afraid that she would lose everything again. She had had a hard time getting Garrett’s attention by taking advantage of the identity as Cormac’s wife, but her efforts would be in vain now.
She was panicked and helpless, which caused her to shed tears.
Cormac walked over, stooped and then tucked up the hemline of her dress. Her knees that were bandaged by white gauzes were exposed, and the red stains on them were so striking.
Did she get hurt?
His voice bore imperceptible distress and pity for her, but maybe he himself hadn’t perceived it. It was really weird that he would feel distressed for her when seeing the wounds, “How did you get hurt?”
Loredana wiped off the tears on her face and took the chance to explain, “Yesterday I hailed a taxi to home after getting off work. But the driver turned out to be hired by someone and tried to set me up. To escape from him, I jumped off the car and got the wounds. I didn’t mean not to come back. The reason why I was together with Sampson was that he had saved me by chance/”
Cormac didn’t want to admit that his heart was softened when he saw the wounds on her legs.
He stood up and maintained a straight and cold voice, “Do you know who set you up?”
“Beulah Shawn and Annabelle Flores. Because I had married you and they were afraid that I would fight against them relying on your powers, so they took the initiative to gain the upper hand.”
There was no need to hide this. Her major concern at present was to persuade Cormac not to divorce her.
It turned out the reason why she was unwilling to divorce him was not that she had feelings for him. It was because she was persecuted by someone.
He inexplicably felt a bit disappointed.
He turned around to face the French windows, leaving her a back that appeared to be lonely, “Is this the reason why you don’t want to divorce me?”
Loredana didn’t deny it, “The term of our transaction is one month. Wait until the deadline, okay?”
Cormac closed his eyes and furrowed his brows, apparently not wanting to go into this topic. He didn’t say YES or No, instead, he just ordered in a cold voice, “Get out!”
“I’ll not stay out all night any longer. Mr. Cormac, during our marriage, I will fulfil the duties that a wife should fulfil. Please rest assured.” Loredana made the promise.
Cormac got impatient and his voice became colder, “Get lost!”
Loredana hesitated for a short while before hobbling out of the room.
When the door of the office was closed, Cormac stroked his forehead and chucked at himself scornfully.
He had lost control of himself because of this lightweight woman!
This had never happened!
He was quite clear that she was not pure or innocent, but he couldn’t help losing control of himself because of her.
Loredana went back to her working position and unwrapped the gauzes. The wounds had opened up and blood was seeping through the gauzes. She took out the medicine given by Sampson before and scattered it over the wounds. But she didn’t bandage them again.
As the working time was impeding, the staffs arrived at the office one after another. During the whole morning, Loredana just concentrated on the translation of the documents quietly. She was so quiet as if there was not such a person in the office. Even Helen didn’t come to make troubles for her.
At noon, they all came out to have lunch.
Loredana didn’t come with them. She bought a boxed meal and scanned through the document while having lunch in her working position. Helen had required her to finish the translation within two days.
But she just finished half of them, so she was quite busy with the rest half today.
To prevent Helen from making things difficult for her, she had to complete the translation within the scheduled time.
Helen went to the canteen of the company for lunch together with Cormac, so naturally, they were now coming back to the office together.
And Cormac didn’t ask about the presence of Loredana.
Thinking of this, Helen felt much better.
She was too emotional back then because she was so nervous when she learnt that Loredana was the girl who spent the night with Cormac and was pregnant with his baby.
At present, when she had calmed down herself and gave it a thorough thought, she thought Cormac would never be able to know the truth about that night since the middle-aged woman, the only person who knew the truth, had died.
She just needed to maintain Cormac’s favor for her. As for Loredana, she thought someone would help her get rid of her…
The nature of Helen and Cormac’s relationship was widely known in the company.
Helen had been sending out signals about their relationship here and there, yet Cormac never objected blatantly or denied the rumours. Therefore, the others would have thought that he had admitted to the rumours.
At the moment, Helen was not only his secretary; she could potentially be the young lady of the Mendelsohn family too. It was only natural that the other employees caught on to the importance of this fact and had tried to suck up to her in the company. This made her feel entitled and proud.
When Cormac was busy with work in his office, there was immediately someone scurried after her and whispered, “Ms. White, what did you have for lunch with Mr. Mendelsohn just now? We are really envious of you guys.”
Helen cast a sideways glance at Loredana who was at one corner of the office and produced a smile,
“Nothing much. We had the typical vegetables, crispy pigeon meat, chicken, some prawns…”
“Wow, these are your favourite food.” Sheryl continued to flatter Helen, “Mr. Mendelsohn has been very thoughtful towards you.”
Helen replied with a faint smile while casually flaunting her freshly-made fingernails. Her silence was interpreted by others as admitting to their relationship.
Sheryl inched even closer, “Ms. White, when are you going to marry Mr. Mendelsohn?”
Helen’s movements paused slightly as her thought began to race upon the notion of marriage. If it was not because of Loredana, she would have already been the young lady of the Mendelsohn family.
It was all because of Loredana who had stood in her way!
Since she still had to keep up her good image in front of Cormac, she couldn’t really do any harm to
Loredana in public. However, she could still inflict pain on herself through the hands of others. She could still manipulate others to make Loredana’ life difficult in the company.
She flashed a friendly smile, “Sheryl.”
“Ms. White, yes?” Sheryl had an expression of flattery.
“Our newest recruit who handles the translation job is really ignorant of the ways of the company.”
Helen pretended to be frustrated slightly as she grumbled.
“Did she offend you in any way?”
“Not exactly, but it’s alright. You should go back to work now.” Helen purposely ended the conversation without answering her directly. She was sure that Sheryl would have understood what she had wanted to say.
Sheryl shot a glance at Loredana and turned over a thought in her mind. Was this recruit not aware of
Helen’s relationship with Mr. Mendelsohn? Did she offend Helen because of that?
That must be it. Since she was new in the company, she might have had innocently went up against
Helen, judging that she didn’t know about the workings of the company yet.
As she returned to her seat, she was thinking to find a chance to teach Loredana a lesson soon.
After finishing her lunch, Loredana got up and disposed of the food packaging. She then headed to the tea area to pour herself some tea.
Sheryl caught sight of her movements and decided to grab this chance to reprimand her. She followed
Loredana to the tea area.
She positioned herself behind Loredana and just as Loredana was turning around with a cup full of tea, she purposely took a step forward and caused Loredana to bump into her, seeing that Loredana couldn’t know that there was someone behind her. The tea in her cup spilt over Sheryl’s skirt as a result.
“Didn’t you know how to walk properly?” Sheryl immediately launched into a scolding.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.
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