Chapter 5
After the two of them divorced in name, Noelle gradually faded out of the public eye.
Tommy explained that this was to reassure Camilla. He thought that Noelle would not agree to it according to her strong personality, but he did not expect Noelle to nod after just a moment of hesitation. Tommy was eager to tell Camilla the news and did not notice the relaxed smile in Noelle’s eyes.
She was worried about how to tell Tommy.
After all, in a few days, she would be a member of Richardson Group.
Noelle enjoyed the life of sleeping until she woke up naturally. Over the years, she had devoted herself to Baldwin Group and could not remember how long she had not had a good rest.
That day, she slept until the sun was high in the sky and just got up, she saw a familiar figure in the living room.
“Noelle, why are you still here? I’m pregnant. If you know what’s good for you, get out of the Baldwin Family!”
When Camilla saw Noelle coming downstairs, she strode up to her. She didn’t have the timidity of a little assistant at all. She only had the majesty of Mrs. Baldwin. “You and Tommy are divorced now. Why are you still here?”
Looking at Camilla’s arrogant look, Noelle couldn’t help laughing out loud.
Only then did she notice the suitcase behind Camilla.
Noelle didn’t say anything, but gently cast her eyes on Camilla’s flat belly.
It turned out that a man could really eat at home with two families.
Two days ago, when she was about to move out, Tommy wanted to kneel down and beg her to stay. The scene was still vivid in her mind. Now the pregnant mistress had come to question her.
“Noelle, don’t you understand what I’m saying to you?!”
Camilla’s face turned red with anger and she raised her hand to step forward, but just before her slap landed on Noelle’s face, she suddenly turned around and fell straight to the ground, tears falling instantly. “Mrs. Stephens, even if you don’t like me, you can’t hit me, right? I’m pregnant now.”
“What are you talking about?” Noelle frowned.
The next moment, Tommy suddenly rushed out.
He pushed Noelle away, picked up Camilla without saying a word and walked out. “I’ll take you to the hospital. Noelle, you’d better pray that Camilla is okay.”
After leaving these words, the door of the Baldwin Family was heavily closed.
Looking at Tommy’s back, Noelle suddenly felt it was ridiculous. They had experienced this kind of drama countless times. When Baldwin Group’s business just gained a firm foothold, there would always be some girls who appeared inexplicably to provoke her and then hurt themselves to wrongly accuse her.
In the past, Tommy would only hold her in his arms and say in a sonorous voice, “My wife will never do such a thing.”
But now, in the same drama, he didn’t even ask and believed another person.
Noelle thought she would not feel heartache for a long time, but she still couldn’t help but feel a sore nose. She suppressed the disappointment rising in her heart and turned back to the room, but more than ten minutes later, she was suddenly pulled out of the quilt.
Tommy was panting, his eyes were scarlet.
“Where’s Camilla?” Noelle looked at Tommy in confusion. “Why are you crazy? Didn’t you take her away?”
“She’s pregnant and you pushed her. She’s in a bad state. Noelle, ask your people to send her back. I beg you…” Tommy said pleading words, but his eyes were full of cruelty.
Chapter 6
Noelle had been married for eight years and knew Tommy. She looked at Tommy and stepped back cautiously. “What if I say it wasn’t me?”
“Noelle, don’t be like this…”
Tommy pressed on step by step, his voice trembling, his eyes reddened and seeing Noelle was reluctant to admit it, he suddenly grabbed Noelle’s neck. “Think about your parents. You don’t want to be an orphan again, do you? I remember they are afraid of the sea, right?”
Tommy raised a strange smile at the corner of his mouth. Looking at the crazy look of the man in front of him, Noelle’s mind was filled with the despair when his parents were drowned in the previous life.
It was like this again. Noelle felt a surge of blood rushing to her head. She kept slapping Tommy’s hands with both hands, trying to steal a breath of fresh air from his palm. Seeing Noelle’s painful appearance, Tommy’s eyes flashed with a trace of pity, but the strength did not decrease. “Tell me where Camilla is. The child is innocent anyway. I know you are the kindest. My people are on the way to find your parents.”
With a whisper, Noelle’s psychological defense line completely collapsed.
Tears instantly overflowed from the corners of her eyes and the warm tears flowed to the back of Tommy’s hand. His hand trembled and the strength also became lighter.
“Okay, I’ll tell you.”
Noelle lied for the first time.
She casually gave a clue and Tommy really let go of her hand and asked the people who went to find her parents to withdraw. Before leaving, he said to the servant beside him, “Take good care of the lady. She is not allowed to go out without my permission.”
The door was closed again. Noelle collapsed on the ground. She covered her neck and gasped.
Perhaps it was because the emotions after rebirth had been suppressed for too long, at this moment her tears could not be controlled and fell down. In a moment, she trembled and took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer and lit it for herself with trembling hands.
The smell of cigarettes gradually filled the air.
The smell of nicotine gradually calmed Noelle’s heart.
On the other side, Tommy actually followed Noelle’s clues and found Camilla, to be precise, he found the last place where Camilla appeared.
The seaside.
Almost instantly, Tommy thought of Noelle.
Just because he threatened Noelle to throw her parents into the sea, Noelle did this to Camilla first. He pinched his eyebrows, his eyebrows full of anger and helplessness.
He just wanted a child.
As for Camilla, he was only interested temporarily, but sooner or later he would have to live a good life with Noelle.
He thought she would understand.
When Tommy returned to the Baldwin Family’s house again, Noelle was still sitting by the bed in the bedroom. When he opened the door, a large cloud of smoke came up. Tommy frowned and his eyes passed through the smoke and fell on Noelle.
“Where’s Camilla?”
Noelle was stunned and then laughed out loud.
She extinguished the cigarette butt and asked, “Did she run away again?”
“You really know her whereabouts.” Tommy put the blame on Noelle again without saying anything, but this time he did not force the question, but directly asked someone to take Noelle to the beach.
Noelle couldn’t swim.
There was a little fear in her eyes. “Tommy, what are you doing?”
“Go down and find Camilla. I want to see her alive or dead.”
With Tommy’s order, Noelle was kicked into the sea.
Chapter 7
The cold seawater instantly submerged Noelle.
She struggled, but she sank deeper and deeper.
As she was fading away, she thought of her parents in her last life again. Perhaps they were also so desperate at that time?
Suddenly, a pair of big hands lifted her waist and a warm breath filled her mouth and nose. Noelle opened her eyes with difficulty, but saw an unexpected person–Louie.
On the shore, Tommy looked at the endless, calm sea with a frown. Someone beside him came over to comfort him, “Don’t worry, Mr. Baldwin. Miss Spencer is blessed by heaven and nothing will happen.”
Tommy did not respond to this sentence, but continued to stare at the sea.
Until the person next to him said again, “Madam, can she swim?”
Tommy’s body suddenly stiffened.
He forgot that Noelle could not swim.
He subconsciously wanted to take off his clothes and go to the sea, but he stopped abruptly as soon as he raised his foot. He whispered, “Since she would plot to harm Camilla, she must have left a trick for herself.”
When he said this, Tommy’s eyes flashed with pain.
He never knew that jealousy could make a person change so much.
Noelle used to be a very kind person.
After a night, the sea was still calm.
Tommy felt a little irritated for some reason. He got into the car and took out a cigarette to light for himself. He remembered that when Baldwin Group was just starting out, they almost got home in the early morning every day because of business talks.
If the business talks were successful, they would open a bottle of the cheapest wine to celebrate.
If they failed, they would stay together and smoke the same cigarette.
Noelle always sighed. “I don’t like the smell of cigarettes. I hope we can succeed soon. I don’t want to smoke anymore.”
But now...
Tommy looked at the fireworks flickering at his fingertips and thought of Noelle smoking during the day.
He always felt that Noelle seemed different now.
The phone suddenly rang. It was Tommy’s friend calling.
“Tommy, did you throw sister-in-law into the sea? Even if you have changed your mind, isn’t it a bit too much to do this? After all, sister-in-law has been with you since you started from scratch. It is said that a wife who has been with you for a long time will be a good wife–”
“Stop talking nonsense.”
Tommy interrupted his friend and raised his hand to pinch his forehead. “She cherishes her life very much and will not let herself get hurt. Maybe she has secretly gone ashore and returned home.”
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, but he couldn’t help but persuade, “But you and sister-in-law have been together for so many years. Don’t really play it too much.”
Tommy suddenly sighed and his expression softened. “After eight years of marriage, she has devoted herself to her career. There is no passion between us. I am just pursuing a moment of excitement. When I have enough fun, I will naturally return to my family. What’s more… Noelle drank alcohol in the early years and hurt her body. It is difficult for her to get pregnant. I just want to be with a child.”
After speaking, Tommy hung up the phone.
Little did he know that Noelle was packing her things in the Baldwin Family’s villa. She put the divorce certificate she had just received into her bag and then took out a big iron bucket and threw all the photos of herself and Tommy into it.
After a fire, her past with Tommy was gone.
“Let’s go.”
Noelle glanced at Louie.
The two of them walked past the servants who fainted on the ground and strode out of the Baldwin Family.
Tommy, I hope I will never see you again in this life.