Cormac carried Loredana into the room and placed her on the bed. Just as he was standing up, Loredana suddenly held him down by the collar.
“Mom, I’m sorry, don’t abandon me…”
Cormac was stunned; he looked down at her hands which were holding onto his collar. His tender gaze fell on her face and she looked very much in pain and was close to hysterical.
Cormac frowned, “Loredana?”
Loredana could not hear him. She appeared to be in a daze. She looked very troubled but then very quickly she came to her senses and let go of Cormac and then fell into a deep sleep. Cormac slowly straightened up, looked at her for a couple of seconds before turning around, and left the room.
Helen was seated on the sofa and holding tightly onto a glass. Every second that Cormac was in the room was torture for her. Didn’t this woman need to take care of her mother in the hospital? Why did she have time to come back?
Helen knew about Abbott going to investigate Loredana and that was why Helen sent someone to A
country ahead of Abbott’s man. She managed to kill the woman who gave Loredana the business. She was able to fake that the woman jumped to her death. This was also the reason why Abbott was unable to find out the truth of what happened that night.
She spent all her effort to prevent Cormac and Loredana from having time together. She paid all the people in Loredana’ mother’s apartment complex to gossip and slander against Maxina resulting in her hospitalization. With Maxina’s hospitalization, Loredana will have less time with Cormac. But little did she expect this woman to not remain at the hospital.
She was even carried by Cormac. Helen became distraught when she thought about this. As a result, she forgot to control her expression. When Cormac came out of the room, he could see Helen’s expression and he walked over to her silently.
Helen stood up and blurted out a question, “Is Ms. Flores ill?”
Cormac didn’t answer immediately but sat on the sofa. He crossed his slender legs and slowly looked up indifferently at Helen, not revealing his thoughts.
Helen was gripped with anxiety as she was fearful of Cormac in that manner. She cautiously asked,
“Cormac…”
“What?” He grinned, “What’s up?”
It didn’t seem like something was amiss. Helen composed herself and sat beside him. Since he did not mind her presence, her anxiety eased considerably.
“This is the contract for the land at Repulse Bay.” Abbott handed the file over to Cormac.
The reason why Helen came with Abbott was that she heard that Cormac wanted the contract of this parcel of land.
The parcel of land at Repulse Bay was prime as it was waterfront with a hill next to it. It was ideal for tourist and resort development which was the reason why it was highly sought after.
But she became worried when Cormac suddenly wanted to see the contract. Garrett once went to the office because he wanted this piece of land but Cormac ignored him and didn’t grant him a meeting.
Loredana was Garrett’s daughter so Helen was worried that Cormac would give it to the Flores Group because of their relationship. She didn’t care for the parcel of land but she was concerned about how
Cormac treated Loredana.
“Didn’t you decide to have an auction for this piece of land?” Helen asked.
Although her question was straightforward, how could Cormac not detect her motive with such a simple question?
But instead of exposing her, he placed his arm over her shoulders, “Helen, you’ve changed.”
Helen was stunned. What did he mean?
“I… What changed?” Helen was puzzled.
Cormac pinched her chin and looked at her, “You won’t ask this in the past.”
Helen paused as she looked into his eyes. She had never seen the coldness in his eyes and felt increasingly anxious, “I…”
Suddenly she lost control of her usual obedient and sensible self, “I’m afraid because I’m afraid!”
She struggled out of Cormac’s embrace and covered her face with both her hands and said painfully,
“I’m afraid that you will give this parcel of land to Ms. Flores. I am afraid that you will love her because she is your wife. I’m afraid that you don’t want me anymore…”
Helen began to cry bitterly! Cormac had never seen her behaving this way. He closed his eyes and frowned deeply with a very profound expression that no one could understand. After a while, Helen’s cry became sobs. She knew that she needed to tolerate but there were also times that she needed to use her tears and pity to secure a man’s heart.
Cormac opened his eyes and composed himself. He stretched out his hands to bring her into his embrace again. “Do you feel so insecure?”
Helen leaned into him and sobbed, “I’m just afraid of losing you.”
Cormac sighed, “You won’t.”
She may have some motives and ploys and wasn’t as pure as she seemed. But she was with him for many years and he wasn’t ready to look deeply into it.
In the room.
Loredana was awakened by the ringing of her cell phone.
It was a message from Sampson. The message contained a photo of the neighbor in her mother’s apartment complex. From the photo, it appeared to be talking to a woman.
This back view…
Loredana found the back of that woman to be rather familiar but she couldn’t recognize it immediately.
Then suddenly something erupted from her stomach, “Urgh…”
She ran out of the bedroom and into the bathroom. She leaned over the washbasin and dry wrenched.
In the sitting room, Abbott was stunned by Loredana’ sudden appearance. She went to the bathroom but didn’t close the door and was vomiting in agony.
“Ms. Flores is pregnant.” Helen looked at Loredana’ non-stop vomiting. She thought that Cormac wasn’t aware of it and said it intentionally.
“It must be that man who she was hugging with that day.” Helen purposely named a ‘father’ for the child inside Loredana. In that way, Cormac will hate her.
Abbott was stunned. Did Cormac marry a woman who was pregnant with someone else’s baby? Didn’t that mean that he was cuckolded by marrying her? He slowly raised his head to look at Cormac and thought that Cormac would be furious but he was surprisingly and strangely calm.
Even Helen was in disbelief. Isn’t he angry and didn’t he hate her?
“Cormac…”
Cormac leaned back onto the sofa and he clearly didn’t want her to speak and Helen could only shut her mouth. Although Loredana wanted to vomit, each time there wasn’t anything to vomit and she could only dry heave.
After that wave of nausea, Loredana rinsed her mouth and walked out of the bathroom. Only then did she realize that people were sitting in the living room and Helen was in Cormac’s embrace. She didn’t want to interfere and turned to go back into the room.
But in her mind, Helen’s image flashed by. She turned to look at Helen and then looked at the picture on her phone. Chestnut colored curls, similar height. Her eyes suddenly glared. The person who paid her neighbors was Helen?
She thought about how she was framed and harmed and suddenly Loredana understood what had happened! She must have hated Loredana for marrying Cormac and taking what was hers. That must be the reason why she paid for her neighbors to hurt her intentionally and ended up causing her mother to become mentally ill!
The more Loredana thought, the more the pain inside her churned…
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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