In the end, the problem lay with her son.
“He was already here at the hospital and on the same floor anyway. Why didn’t he come see you?” Mrs. Lewis asked, pretending to be ignorant.
Liberty smiled and said nothing.
Duncan and her paths crossed frequently, but most of the time, it was because Duncan going to her store for breakfast.
He helped her a lot, but that was only because she was Zack’s sister-in-law.
Mrs. Lewis looked at Sonny, who was eating by himself, and said, “I won’t bother you anymore, Liberty. You should continue feeding Sonny. I have to visit my friend now.”
“Sure.”
Liberty got out of bed and insisted on seeing Mrs. Lewis out.
Mrs. Lewis saw that Liberty could move freely and did not try to stop her anymore. The two walked out of the ward together.
“Take care, Mrs. Lewis.”
Liberty stood at the door and watched Mrs. Lewis leave.
Mrs. Lewis quickly walked away.
“Did Mr. Lewis come by?” Liberty asked the bodyguard.
He answered honestly, “Yes. He came for about twenty minutes but didn’t go in. He also told us not to tell you. He just stood at the door for twenty minutes before leaving.”
Liberty hummed. She did not understand why Duncan came without entering her ward.
Did he really come to the hospital to see her?
Liberty felt a little uneasy when she thought of Mrs. Lewis’s implications.
Mrs. Lewis misunderstood and dropped her a hint because she thought Liberty had a little something with Duncan.
Liberty returned to the room and saw that her son had finished eating. She wanted to clean up the dishes, but Mrs. Lane hurried in to clean up.
Liberty lowered her son to the ground for him to walk around and sat back on the bed. She took out her phone from the drawer of the bedside table and sent a message to her sister.
[Seren, are you on your lunch break?]
Serena replied, [I’m watching the store so I can’t take a break. Have you and Sonny eaten?]
[Sonny just finished eating. He’s a slow eater.]
[It’s fine if children eat slowly. Sonny is already very smart to be able to eat by himself. I’ve seen many three- and four-year-olds who still need their parents to feed them.]
Serena felt that her nephew was exceptional.
[Seren, I have something to tell you. Mr. Lewis came over earlier but didn’t enter the ward. Your bodyguard said that he stood in front of my ward for twenty minutes before leaving, and he happened to meet his mother when he left.
[Mrs. Lewis didn’t come to see me. A friend of hers was hospitalized and happened to be staying on the same floor, so she stopped by to visit me. However, she was actually dropping me a hint. Why do I get the feeling that she thinks I’m pining for her son?]
Liberty confided in her sister, [I’ve never thought of Mr. Lewis in that way. He only helped me because of Zack, but Mrs. Lewis thinks there’s something between us and hinted something at me. She said that Mr. Lewis is very busy and time is precious to him, and that he earns a lot of money every minute.]
Serena looked at the message her sister sent and was silent for a moment before replying, [ Liberty, have you ever thought that Zack isn’t the reason Mr. Lewis is good to you?]
Liberty asked, [What other reasons would he have? He only helped me because of Zack. When I joined his company, he hired me because of Zack. I heard him call Zack.]
[I originally wanted to wait until you recovered and got discharged from the hospital before talking to you about this, but I feel wronged on your behalf at the insinuations that Mrs. Lewis threw at you.]
Serena sent the message and called Liberty.
Liberty swiftly answered the phone.
“Tell me, Seren. What is it that I don’t know? Why did Mrs. Lewis say that?”
“Liberty, you were unconscious for one night when you were injured. It was Duncan who watched over you all night outside the ICU. He was also the one who saw you in tears and called the doctor. He didn’t sleep at all that night. You were still weak when you woke up, so you didn’t notice it.”
Liberty paused.
“He… He watched over me all night? He…”
“Duncan likes you. He realized his feelings when he saw you injured. In the past, he always said that he was just fond of Sonny and had no other thoughts about you. He only realized that he liked you when you were injured.” 1
Liberty was so shocked that she almost dropped her phone.
“Seren… Don’t scare me. H-How is that possible? Mrs. Lewis has chosen a good wife for Mr. Lewis. Ms. Harmon is a great girl who’s a good match for him. I saw them getting along quite well.”
Duncan liked her?
Liberty could not believe it.
When she met Duncan, she was a 200-pound fat woman who was ugly as hell.
She crashed into his car and paid him a sum of money for the repairs.
Although Duncan’s face was scarred, he was a CEO with a net worth of tens of billions. He would be able to restore his handsome face as long as he was willing to get his scar removed.
He was a little old, but he was handsome and rich. There should be many women who wanted to marry him.
How could he possibly like her?
Although she lost weight now, she was a divorced woman. It was not to say that a divorced woman could not find love again, but she felt that men of affluent families had much better choices. There was no need to choose a divorced woman like her. Furthermore, she had a three- year-old son.
“I’m telling you the truth, Liberty. Duncan likes you.”
Liberty was speechless.
“Do you have any feelings for him?” Now that the cat was out of the bag, Serena asked her sister how she felt about Duncan.
Liberty replied without thinking, “Seren, I only think of Mr. Lewis as a friend. There’s nothing going on between us, and I’ve never thought of him that way before. I also said that I don’t want to remarry. I just want to run my breakfast diner well. My dream is to have my own large hotel.
“I’ll raise Sonny till he’s old enough and let him take over the business. After he marries, I’ll lend a hand and take care of my grandchildren if he and his wife need help. If they don’t, I’ll travel around the world without disturbing their lives.”
Liberty suffered under the hands of her mother-in-law before. In the future, she would never be a mother-in-law who interfered with her son and daughter-in-law’s affairs.
She wanted to be a mother-in-law who her daughter-in-law liked, not a nasty one.
“Duncan really likes you, Liberty. Are you really not going to think about it? He looks a little rough, but he’s very honest and sincere. He’s much better than Hank. You’re still young…”
“Seren!”
Liberty said seriously, “I’ve never had such thoughts. I really don’t have any interest in Mr. Lewis, and Mrs. Lewis has already chosen a wife for him. Ms. Harmon is a very good lady.
“Even if I want to remarry, I won’t marry Mr. Lewis. We’re worlds apart. Mrs. Lewis will never choose me to be her daughter-in-law. If I get together with Mr. Lewis, I’ll still have to endure my mother-in-law making things hard for me again.
“Seren, I finally managed to jump out of the Brown family. You can’t expect me to jump into the Lewis family now, right?
“My former mother-in-law was a horrible person, but she doesn’t hurt others. The ladies from affluent families are not that simple. Do you think everyone is like your mother-in-law? It’s hard enough being the missus of a wealthy family. There’s such a large gap between Mr. Lewis and I, and Mrs. Lewis doesn’t like me either. Who knows what she’ll do to me if I become her daughter-in
-Jaw?”
Liberty’s head was crystal clear. She did not become complacent and smug just because an important CEO liked her. She did not try to rush into a relationship with him.
She knew very well that Duncan and she were not suitable, and she did not want to suffer at the hands of her mother-in-law again.
Now, she was raising her son and running her own breakfast diner. She no longer had to serve her family. Liberty felt that was good enough.
It was good to be single.
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