Chapter 2
Britney giggled all the time and I didn’t know how Douglas’ words could make her so happy.
After arriving at her house, Douglas personally helped her upstairs.
He stayed upstairs for half an hour before coming down but forgot to wipe off the lipstick marks on the corners of his mouth.
“Why do you keep looking at me?”
Seeing that I was looking at the corners of his mouth, he subconsciously reached out and touched my head to cover up his embarrassment.
When he turned around, he pretended to be an inadvertent action and quietly wiped off the lipstick marks.
I didn’t ask and he didn’t explain.
Just pretend nothing happened.
After arriving home, I thought he would leave.
But he followed me upstairs.
“I’m not going home today. I’ll stay with you,” he said gently.
It seemed that staying with me was a gift and alms to me.
I shook my head tiredly and said, “No, I’m a little tired today. I want to rest early.”
“Then I’ll hug you to sleep.”
After that, he ignored my objection, took off his coat, put down his phone and walked into the bathroom.
Soon, there was a sound of water splashing inside.
But I was upset.
At this time, his phone on the coffee table rang.
It was a message from Britney.
Before, I had never looked at his phone and I felt that even if we became husband and wife, we should respect each other’s privacy.
Moreover, I always believed that he would never do anything to let me down.
But now it seemed that I was just too naive.
After hesitating for a moment, I opened his phone screen.
The message from Britney soon hurt my eyes.
[Douglas, I just have a little morning sickness today, don’t worry. The baby is very healthy. In seven months, you can be a father. Love you.]
I learned from a friend that Britney was pregnant with Douglas’ child. I couldn’t believe it for a while.
I didn’t think he would do such a thing.
But at this moment, looking at the message sent by Britney, my heart finally died completely.
The child was indeed his.
Otherwise, he couldn’t take care of Britney for others.
I couldn’t hold back my tears, which slowly flowed from the corners of my eyes.
Douglas, I would completely cut off our relationship.
No thoughts for you. No thoughts for myself! We would just hurt ourselves in the most painful way, so we had to leave each other!
Coming out of the bathroom, Douglas just wrapped a bath towel around his lower body, came up and hugged me, wanting to kiss me.
“Vanessa, let’s have a child tonight. My mother is very anxious, urging me every day, wanting to hold her grandson as soon as possible,” he said gently in my ear.
The gentle tone made me feel sick.
Child! You obviously already had a child!
I turned my face away, avoiding his kiss and then broke his hand around my waist.
“I said, I’m very tired today, I just want to rest early.”
His face suddenly became gloomy and there was a hint of displeasure in his eyes.
“I’ve been busy with work recently and I haven’t been with you for a long time. I want you.”
He resisted being angry and came forward to hug me again, wanting to kiss me and get my body, with a hint of pleading in his tone.
But I couldn’t help but sneer.
Originally, I thought that during this period, he had been busy with the listing of the subsidiary.
Chapter 3
But just now, I saw the content of his chat with Britney.
I learned that during this period, he took a lot of time to accompany Britney for prenatal checkups and pregnancy care.
Even several nights were spent at Britney’s house.
Now, was there any truth in his mouth?
“What do you mean by your sneer? Vanessa, don’t you feel weird recently?! What are you sulking about? If you have something to say, just say it. It’s as if I’m sorry for you!”
Finally, he got angry, frowned and looked at me gloomily.
But he still didn’t mention Britney’s pregnancy at all.
“No, I’m just tired.”
Looking at his righteous look, I didn’t even have the mood to argue with him.
The child was there.
If we argued now, we couldn’t get married and I was the only one who got hurt.
Since he still wanted to pretend, let’s just wait until the day of marriage.
I couldn’t be the only one in pain.
I also wanted him to be in pain like I was now, with my whole heart twitching.
I ignored him and lay down on the sofa.
He still stood, with a hint of powerlessness in his eyes. He was silent for a long time before sitting down beside me.
He gently hugged me.
“Then I’ll accompany you for a while before leaving. Vanessa, in short, you must remember that the woman I love most in this world is only you. No one can replace you.”
His words seemed to be hinting that even though Britney was pregnant with his child, he still only had me in his heart.
But, didn’t you think it was ironic?
***
The next morning, Douglas came to my house early.
He brought a bag of rich breakfast and placed it on the dining table.
“Lazy pig, get up, I specially asked the chef to cook you the salty soy milk you like.”
He came to the bed and kissed me gently on the forehead.
Looking at him like this, I realized that perhaps my abnormality yesterday made him begin to suspect that I already knew about him and Britney.
But he didn’t choose to explain.
Instead, I felt that as long as he spoiled me enough, I would never be willing to leave him.
Influenced by the big family since childhood, he always handled things in this way.
Even if someone offended him, he was always calm in front of others.
But the means behind him were more cruel than anyone else.
I saw with my own eyes that a downstream supplier who offended him was ruined by him!
Just because the other party mocked him a few times at the cocktail party.
And now, was he going to use this method on me?
I smiled at him, got up and went to the dining table, taking a few sips of soy milk.
He kept holding his mobile phone, replying to messages, looking at me from time to time and giving me a smile.
“It’s the weekend today. Where do you want to go to play? I’ll accompany you later.”
“No need. Your subsidiary is about to go public. You should be busy with work,” I smiled lightly and replied.
He put down his mobile phone, grabbed my hand and his tone became more gentle.
“The subsidiary’s business is not as important as you. I see you’re tired lately. Why don’t I go camping with you by the lake and relax?”
I didn’t refuse again. I got into his car and went to a beautiful lake in the suburbs.
In the past, whenever I was in a bad mood, I would come here to relax. The lush Metasequoia always made me feel relaxed and happy.
Chapter 4
But this time, they lost this effect.
Looking at Douglas, who was sitting next to me, but his attention was all on the mobile phone chat interface.
I just felt annoyed.
“If you have something to do, let’s go back. I see you’re busy.” Finally, I spoke.
He put down his phone.
“It’s okay. I promised to accompany you today.”
But just a few minutes later, his phone rang.
“Okay, don’t be afraid, I’ll be there right away!”
In an instant, his face changed drastically and he stood up excitedly.
“Vanessa, there’s something urgent at the company, I have to go back and deal with it right away. I’ll send a driver to pick you up later!”
Without giving me time to reply, he had already got into the car anxiously, stepped on the accelerator and left quickly.
He left me in this deserted suburb.
I waited there for two hours, but his driver didn’t come to pick me up.
I had to turn on my phone and ask my bestie to pick me up, but I accidentally saw an Instagram story posted by Britney.
[It was a false alarm, fortunately, the baby was fine, but I almost scared my husband, but seeing him so anxious for the baby, I felt only happiness.]
Looking at Britney’s Instagram story, tears blurred my vision.
For Britney, Douglas could leave me in this wilderness without hesitation.
His driver never came to pick me up and when my bestie arrived, I was soaked by the sudden heavy rain.
When I got home, I had a fever and lay in bed, shivering.
Douglas finally came.
“Why are you soaked like this? It’s raining, can’t you find a place to hide first? Are you so stupid?”
His subconscious reaction was to blame me.
I didn’t say anything, just looked at him coldly.
He finally reacted, then took out his mobile phone and scolded his driver.
But it was obviously him who forgot to tell the driver.
However, he had always been like this and would never admit his mistakes.
He would only use various ways to shift the responsibility to others.
Just because he was the young master of the Jenning Family and the president of the company, no one dared to refute him.
No one dared to disobey him.
“How do you feel now? Do you want me to take you to the hospital?”
He calmed down and became gentle again.
But for some reason, his gentleness now made me more and more uncomfortable.
I felt more and more uncomfortable.
“No, just sleep.”
I lay at home for three days and he never came again.
He didn’t even go to the company, as if he disappeared.
Britney also disappeared at the same time.
It was not until the eve of the wedding that I saw Britney’s Instagram story again and I knew where he had gone.
Britney posted a photo of her wearing a wedding dress and at the beach in her Instagram story.
[My life is complete if I can have a wedding at the beach.]
Although she was just holding a man’s hand in the photo, the watch I gave to Douglas was particularly eye-catching.
The address shown in this Instagram story was Futmont.
This made me realize that before the wedding with me in Maison, he first married Britney in Futmont.
After all, the marriage certificates of the two countries were not interchangeable.
In this way, he would not commit bigamy.