He wouldn’t allow anyone to ruin their family.
Charles wanted to talk with Samuel, “Samuel…”
Plop!
“What’s that sound?”
Suddenly, the sound of something falling into the water was heard.
Samuel raised his head, “Why hasn’t mummy come back after so long?”
Cormac raised his head and cast a thoughtful glance at Charles. He took his son, “Let’s go take a look.”
Charles followed them as well.
On their way, they noticed that the fish food scattered all over the ground. There was more than one footprint on the lawn, and they were not large. They were, without a doubt, women’s footprints.
There were a lot of big ripples spreading on the water surface.
“Help…”
Cormac took a look at the water. Perhaps because the lake was too deep, the person inside the lake sometimes had her head outside, sometimes sank in the water.
He couldn’t see her face, but he was sure that the person who had fallen into the lake was Loredana.
He put down his daughter without hesitation. It was bitingly cold in December. The water in the lake was even colder, piercingly cold.
He had no time to care about how cold the water was, he only wanted to swim to her side as soon as possible.
Heaven and earth seemed to be upside down, and Loredana seemed to see Cormac swimming towards her. She wanted to wave her hands, wanted to scream his name, but her body couldn’t be controlled by herself. Her leg was as if being tripped over by something, pulling her down.
Cormac, Cormac…
Big gulps of water filled her mouth, drowning her words.
“Loredana ——”
He came out from the water to take a breath of air, then dived underwater to look for her.
Very quickly, he saw her legs being entangled by seaweed. She was struggling for her life, but still couldn’t get rid of them. He swam over quickly and hugged her. He pinned her head down and pressed down on her lips, trying to give her some air.
Loredana widened her eyes, as if finding the last straw that can save her life, and she hugged him tightly.
Cormac pushed her away and shook his head at her. He dived deeper underwater, to pull apart the seaweed that was entangling her legs.
When he hugged her in his arms once again, she had already lost consciousness.
She had been out of oxygen for too long, the breath of oxygen that Cormac had given her just now, was not sufficient to sustain her for long.
Very quickly, Cormac carried her back on shore.
“Daddy, Mummy.” Samuel and Simona were craning their necks on shore. Seeing Cormac carry Loredana back up, they yelled in excitement. Cormac instructed them to go back together, and the two children followed him obediently back onto the car.
Charles had wanted to come forward, but Cormac ignored him.
The traces on the shore had been obvious that Loredana hadn’t fell into the water by accident.
This place was suggested by Charles, and Cormac was now suspicious towards him.
Naturally, he didn’t want to continue talking to him. He hadn’t clarified this incident with him yet, and so Charles was also a suspect.
“Tom, go check on the CCTVs in the surrounding area.” Charles’ expression was also terrible.
This place was suggested by him, and now that Loredana had accidentally fell into the water, he had a responsibility to explain to Cormac about this.
Tom lowered his head, “I’ll do that now.”
In the car, following Cormac’s repeated resuscitation and chest-pressing, Loredana slowly woke up. In her eyes were a blurry watery trace, she couldn’t see clearly. The blurry face in front of her, was obviously Cormac.
She hugged him, she had been afraid just now.
This was her second time experiencing drowning, at the time she fell under the water, she was so close to death. She was so afraid that she would leave them just like that, and leave her two children.
“I, I’m so scared.”
Cormac hugged her, and kissed her wet forehead, “It’s alright, it’s alright.”
Both of them were thoroughly wet, Loredana was trembling in his arms. She was so cold, so cold.
“Turn up the heater!”
His breath, his anger, his angry growl, all felt as if charged with electricity, transmitted to her body. She could feel his fear, his self-blame. Loredana hugged him tight, this wasn’t his fault.
She had been too careless, she hadn’t let the bodyguards follow along, hence why this had happened.
Thinking back about what happened, when she had come back from buying fish feed and had bumped into Lacey. Loredana fell into his arms, and said softly, “It was not an accident, it was Lacey.”
Lacey had appeared in front of her then.
“Ms. Flores, can I trouble you to speak for a while?” Lacey still h ad the same honest-looking expression.
Although she didn’t know much about her matters, but Loredana was wary towards this woman. She smiled and said, “There is no one here, if you have anything you can just tell me here, I have something coming up.”
Lacey looked at the fish feed in her hands, and gave a laugh, “Great.” She raised her head to look into the skies, “The weather today is great, suitable to come out to play.”
Her expression changed very quickly, so quick that before Loredana even managed to react, Lacey had rushed in front of her and grabbed her shoulder. Her gaze was dark and creepy, “Why are you so shameless? You already have a husband but you’re still seducing Charles?”
At that moment, Loredana understood where her hatred had come from.
It was really because of Charles.
“You are not compatible with him, not compatible, you bitch!” She raised her hand, her palms directing towards Loredana’ face. Loredana was not dumb to stand there to be slapped.
She ducked, and Lacey’s hand didn’t reach anything, she became even more angry.
Loredana realized that things are turning sour. Lacey was very aggressive, and she was very crazy.
Loredana wanted to leave, she had only taken a step before Lacey clutched her, “Don’t even think about leaving, don’t think that I don’t know you’re going to get someone!”
Loredana remained calm, “I think you’ve misunderstood, I have no relationship with him, if you don’t believe you can go and ask Charles.”
“Do you think I’m dumb? Charles has already been infatuated with you. He is so protective of you, why would he even listen to me?!” Lacey snarled. Seeing the fish feed in Loredana’ hands, she gave a cold laugh, “Why not you go feed the fishes yourself. Go to hell, if you’re dead, you wouldn’t be seducing Charles anymore.”
“Corm…”
Loredana wanted to shout for Cormac, but her mouth was clamped shut once she opened them. She dragged her towards the lake, if a person became crazy, her energy would become extraordinarily large. Loredana couldn’t get rid of Lacey’s hands, the rocks by the shore were also slippery, and she fell in.
Cormac hugged her tight, “I know.”
“Are you cold?” On Loredana’ hands were water, she touched his face, and it was cold.
Cormac covered her hands and shook his head, “I’m not cold.”
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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