Chapter 43 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

By the time Anthony and Joe hurried in, they saw Rylee lying on the ground in a disheveled state with blood on her forehead.

Meanwhile, I remained intact and stood condescendingly in front of Rylee.

D*mn it! What a waste of talent that she didn’t become an actress!

“Rylee, are you all right?” Joe immediately helped her up and scolded me, “Sienna, you’ve gone too far!”

Did I?

I could not be bothered with him and turned toward Anthony, whose face was expressionless at that moment. “I didn’t push her. Do you believe me?”

He then looked at the bloodstains on Rylee’s forehead and warned me with a cold-eyed stare, “Sienna, know your boundaries!”

Those few words stamped out my trust in him. As I stared at him in disbelief, I let out a chuckle. “I’m so naive!”

He had fooled me into believing he was the right one with his change in attitude for the past few days.

How ridiculous!

Suppressing my sorrow, I walked toward Rylee and sneered in disdain. “Ms. Lorraine, you need to improve your acting skills! Have you seen anyone, not to mention a pregnant woman, capable of pushing someone so far away?”

Right after finishing my sentence, I planted a slap on her cheek without giving her the chance to respond. The slap was so hard that my hand hurt as well.

As Rylee covered her face in shock, I gave her a faint smile. “This is payback! Do practice the code of ethics for mistresses. Don’t make a joke out of yourself!”

With the turn of events, the atmosphere in the office had become unbearably awkward, and I desperately wanted to flee the scene.

After shooting them one last glare, I stomped out of the office. Anthony grabbed my wrist when I passed him. Immediately, I retracted my hand from his grasp and said sarcastically, “Mr. Featherstone, you’d better cheer your sweetheart up!”

Upon leaving the office, I headed straight to Glenwood Apartments but soon recalled that Macy was resting at that hour, so I made a detour to the supermarket to buy some groceries.

As she was away from home for the past few days, some of the groceries had expired and needed to be replaced. Besides, I had some spare time on my hands.

Unexpectedly, I bumped into Nick, who was being pestered by a young beauty on the street. It seemed like he had offended that girl and got himself into trouble.

Initially, I had no intention to interfere since I was in a grim mood.

However, Nick noticed my presence and came over, tugging at me helplessly. “Help me!”

Without waiting for my response, he quickly told that beauty, “Sarah, this is the lady whom I talked about. I have admired her for almost ten years. I’m really not interested in you. Could you please stop pestering me?”

Sarah looked pitiful after being rejected. “Nick, just because you fancy her doesn’t mean she feels the same way about you. Besides, she should have been married at this age. What do you like about her?”

What? Do I look that old?

I did not want to be involved in their fight, but Nick was holding onto my hand tightly. With a stern expression, he explained to Sarah, “During our junior year, you once asked me about the picture of a girl in my wallet. Look at her carefully. She’s the one. It’s true that I’ve admired her since ten years ago.”

The girl scrutinized me with her big brown eyes for some time before bursting into tears.

I was starting to get a headache seeing them bickering over such a trivial matter. “Nick, what are you doing?”

He gave me a helpless look. “I just want her to give up. It’s really annoying that she won’t stop pestering me all these years.”

Give up? This is a waste of time.

I rolled my eyes at him, then turned around and walked away. Sarah’s crying could still be heard behind me. However, Nick ignored her and ran up to me. “Sienna, I really like you. Besides, I’m rich and powerful. Anthony doesn’t have feelings for you, so why don’t you leave him and consider me?”

I was in no mood for his gibberish, so I stopped abruptly and glared at him coldly.

Stunned, he paused in his tracks but soon regained his composure and asked again, beaming, “Could you please consider me?”

I warned him, “I’m not interested in you. Stay away from me!”

Nick was unlucky for bumping into me that day as I was still feeling indignant about the misunderstanding that happened earlier.

I suppressed my anger and headed straight toward the apartment.

Unbeknownst to me, Nick was trailing behind me the entire time. All of a sudden, he grabbed my hand and asked with rage written all over his face, “Are you still treating me like a kid?”

D*mn it! I can’t get rid of him!

“Yes! You’re really annoying. I… Ahh!” Right then, he wrapped his arms around my thighs and threw me over his shoulder before I could finish my words.

“Oh really? This kid will show you what he’s capable of!” he growled as he became increasingly flustered. After that, he raised his hand and slapped my buttocks twice.

I was rendered speechless.

Due to my pregnancy and the pressure exerted on my belly by his broad shoulder, I started feeling dizzy.

As he hurried away, I could not bear it anymore and shouted at him, “Nick, put me down! This is dangerous because I’m pregnant.”

Hearing that, he came to an abrupt halt and let me down. He then stared at me with intense curiosity. “Since when?”

Still feeling dizzy, I looked at him helplessly. “I’m two months pregnant, so keep your antics to yourself and stay away from me!”

D*mn it!

“Is Anthony the baby’s father?”

I tried to hold my anger in and looked at him solemnly. “Of course! I’m his wife. Who else could it be? Please leave me alone!”

However, the man lost his temper and blocked me in. He then asked while gazing at me intently, “Does he know?”

Exasperated by his question, I replied, “Duh, he’s the father of the baby.”

He became deflated upon hearing that, but I was really upset and exhausted, so I ended the conversation and entered the apartment.

As expected, Macy was sleeping soundly in the bedroom. I supposed she did not get to sleep well in the lock-up.

It had been quite a while since my last visit here, and her place was in a mess. After cleaning it up, I prepared some fruits and swiped my phone in the living room while waiting for Macy to wake up.

Unexpectedly, I fell asleep as well. When I woke up, I realized that Macy had left a note on the coffee table, saying that she went out to buy some stuff.

It was almost midnight at that time. Thus, I decided to go home since my apartment was just next to hers.

When I got home, it was already eleven at night. At that moment, my phone vibrated a couple of times. Its screen displayed a string of unfamiliar numbers, and I did not want to answer the call.

However, that person kept calling and left me no choice but to answer, “Hello!”

“Sienna!” It sounded like Joe.

Why is he calling me at this hour?

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