He immediately walked over, maybe he walked so fast that he suddenly slipped, his body tilted in an instant, luckily there’s a tree on his right side, when he was going to fall, he grabbed and got support from that tree so he didn’t fall down, “Oh my God…”
He was still shocked, he heaved a long sigh.
Loredana asked in concern, “Are you okay?”
“Yeah, what are you doing?” Armand stood steadily, he wasn’t sure when he saw the branch she was holding, Loredana smiled, “You must have never climbed a mountain, you must hold on to something when climbing such mountain.”
She handed the branch to him.
When Loredana and Maxina were young and deported overseas to a remote place with no money, they often go up to the nearby mountain to pick ferns, the locals didn’t know that it could be eaten, but Maxina knew, there were many ferns cold dishes and it would also taste good when it was stir-fried with meat.
When you had not much to eat and no money, probably as long as you could eat enough, everything would taste good.
Armand broke the branch like Loredana did and walked with it.
After around half an hour, Armand saw a persimmon tree up front, the tree was very tall and big, it had red fruits that looked like small lanterns hanging on the top of the tree, which were particularly eye-
catching in the woods, Armand saw the persimmon tree, Cormac and the others shouldn’t be far from that place, “Young Mrs.Mendelsohn, see, there’s a persimmon tree.”
The edge of Loredana’ eyes twitched, who was the “Young Mrs. Mendelsohn” that he called?
What was with that tittle?
“They should be near here.” Armand didn’t notice Loredana’ expression.
Only after realizing that Loredana didn’t walk, he noticed her face, seemed like something was wrong, “Young Mrs. Mendelsohn, what’s wrong?”
Armand, Boyce, and Cormac were all at the pretty much same age, Cormac was slightly older than him and Boyce, Loredana was Cormac’s wife, then, they should call her Mrs. Mendelsohn.
Even if that was so, Loredana was 6-7 years younger than him and she seemed so young like an university student that just graduated, she didn’t look like a mother of two at all.
He felt that calling her Mrs. Mendelsohn was a bit unsuitable so he just called her Young Mrs.Mendelsohn.
“Who’s there?” Someone walked up to them at that time.
Armand heard Cormac’s bodyguard come up the mountain, after the bodyguard saw him clearly, he reported, “It’s me, where is Mr. Mendelsohn?”
“Inside.” Reported the bodyguard.
The roads were easier to walk on now since people have already walked past, leaving a narrow and relatively flat road. They followed the bodyguard, walked past a small mountain peak and saw some persimmon trees. At this current season, the trees’ leaves have almost all fallen off, all one can only see are bright red persimmons.
Loredana saw Cormac and his daughter’s shadow underneath a slightly larger persimmon tree. It looked like his daughter ate a persimmon and had juice all over her mouth, Cormac was helping his daughter wipe off excess juice.
Initially, she thought Cormac was lucky because his parents didn’t leave him, he is from a good family, everyone knew that he was born with a silver spoon.
But she felt sorry for him when he was unaware that Victoria was his mother.
“Mommy.” Simona saw Loredana first. “Mommy, are you looking for me?” Simona said excitedly.
Cormac turned his head around and saw a woman standing still, she could attract attention despite how dim the moonlight was that night.
How can she show up when it’s not time yet?
Loredana walked down and stood in front of him, there were a lot less weeds obstructing her path, so it made it easier for her to walk down. She looked at her daughter and wanted to touch her face but remembered that her hands were too dirty, so she took them back and said, “Yes I miss Simona so much, so I took time off to see you.”
Cormac saw dried blood on her hands when she held them out and asked, “Are you hurt?”
“It’s nothing, just a scratch.” Loredana answered after looking at her hands.
“Let’s go.” He held onto Loredana’s hand and carried his daughter with his other hand.
“Mommy, mommy.” Simona ran towards her with two persimmons.
“Slow down, don’t fall.” This road was not good.
“I’m watching my step.” Simona said as she ran in front of her to give her two persimmons. The persimmons were yellowish red, not big but soft. “Mommy, they’re sweet, you can try them.”
These persimmons were unripe and not succulent enough, they will only be juicy and sweet when they are soft and ripe.
Loredana smiled and said, “Let’s go home first and eat it at home.”
She was afraid of getting Victoria worried because they took too long.
Simona nodded and asked, “So Mommy, does this mean that you will stay with me?”
Loredana’s smiled vaguely, she held her head up to look at Cormac, but she was speaking to his son, “Mommy has to deal with something first, I’ll be back as soon as I finish. But we can walk together.”
“Really?” Simona hugged Loredana’s leg happily, she was elated to be able to spend time with Mommy.
“Mommy, can I be with you?” Simona blinked her eyes when she asked.
“Of course.” Simon’s eyes were bright and beautiful, they looked like crescent moons when she smiled.
“How about me?” Cormac held on to her hand with a bit of force, she can take both of these kids, but how about him?
Loredana cast a glance at his direction, she couldn’t look at his eyes directly because she felt guilty, “The master only allows me to bring two people so, so…”
“Do you mean I can’t come along?”
Cormac’s glance fell to the ground, she looked flustered and was unwilling to make any eye contact.
He was sure she was lying but did not expose her.
“Let’s go” Cormac said casually.
They followed the bodyguard and arrived at the bottom of the mountain in no time.
Cormac handed his daughter over to Theresa, and yanked Loredana into the room. Loredana would not be so obedient in the past, but she dared not defy him now. She wanted to hug him. She did what she wanted to and put her hands around his waist after they entered the room.
Her initiative took him by surprise, he froze up like a zombie, has her temperament changed after a few days of learning something new?
However, he was enjoying this. He bent down to kiss her forehead, slowly moving his lips towards her eyes and asked her whether she missed him in his deep musky voice.
His muscular chest felt warm, she had her reservations at first but now she wanted to open up her heart towards this man, love him and accept him for who he is.
“Um” She replied in a low soft voice.
He is the father of her children; they had an arranged marriage when they were young.
She had heard the saying, ‘Fate has a funny way of surfacing, you have walked past each other a thousand times in your past life to be able to look back once in this life, you have looked back a thousand times in this life to meet once.’
Cormac felt that she has changed, no matter how intimate they tried to get before, no matter how much initiative he showed, she was distant.
He liked this new version of Loredana very much, but he was a bit taken back, what caused her to change within a few days?
Who did she meet? What happened? What changed her?
Loredana lifted her head, stood on her tip toes and kissed him without hesitation, it was fleeting, it felt like when a dragonfly flew by the water and touched it for a second. She left before Cormac could enjoy her kiss thoroughly.
“I want to bring Simona and Samuel with me for a couple of days”, She said coyly. “I don’t think that you will object.”
Cormac wanted to say, “Can I say no?”
Obviously not.
Seeing her behaving like a playful woman, Cormac felt his heart burning up, pounding furiously for her, at that moment he wanted to give her a strong hug and make her part of him.
“I can agree to that, but …” He knelt down, swept his lips gently past her ear, lingered around her neck and ear, “kiss me again, and I’ll agree to it.”
He was standing very close and speaking enigmatically.
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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