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She simply knew Joel too well. Asking for a drink was just an excuse. She picked up a bottle of mineral water and handed it to him instead.
The thick-skinned Joel said, “Oh, my bad. Can I use the bathroom?”
Tanya: “…”
She couldn’t refuse anymore!
Surely she couldn’t make him hold it in for over an hour, right?
Joel got out of the car casually and followed her into the house. Tanya couldn’t help but complain, “You obviously went to the toilet before we left the amusement park!”
Without batting an eyelid, Joel replied, “Yeah. My kidneys aren’t so good.”
“…”
However, Joel didn’t go to the bathroom after he entered the villa. Instead, he pulled Tanya to the sofa and sat there. Before Tanya could say anything, he leaned in and pushed her down.
Tanya had already realized what he was intending to do the moment he grabbed her. They could feel each other’s breath on their faces at this moment. Tanya was so nervous that her throat went dry. She asked coquettishly, “What are you doing?”
“I’ve already held myself back for a whole day,” replied Joel.
Tanya: “?”
Joel said, “I’ve been wanting to kiss you since I saw you at nine o’clock this morning.”
Tanya’s cheeks turned even redder.
However, the next moment, he asked quietly, “Tanya, will you marry me?”
Tanya was about to reply when he went on. “Are you willing to be Mia’s mom?”
The bashful look on Tanya’s face froze, and her heart suddenly went cold.
‘Mom’…
Her child was still missing, yet she was enjoying bliss and happiness… She wasn’t worthy of having such happiness!
The thought made her suddenly push Joel away. All her shyness from just now disappeared. She looked at him in a panic and said, “I… I need to give it some thought. Why don’t you go for now?”
The suggestive atmosphere disappeared instantly.
Joel knew that it was because he had been too impatient. Even if he wanted Tanya to accept Mia, he had to persuade her bit by bit. He shouldn’t have mentioned that just now.
After all, asking someone to be their child’s stepmother was very impolite behavior.
He lowered his gaze. After spending the day together, he’d thought that Tanya was indeed fond of Mia. That was why he had brought it up.
He nodded, neatened his clothes, and walked out of the house.
As she looked at how lonely he looked from the back, Tanya wanted to explain and tell him that it wasn’t because she disliked Mia. She just… felt that she was not worthy of being happy. However, she couldn’t bring herself to say it.
Elsewhere, Justin took the rest of them back to the Smiths’ manor. Cherry was a little reluctant to part with Nora.
Although Nora was always disciplining her—unlike her father who spoiled her and let her do whatever she wanted—Cherry still missed her Mommy.
However!
Cherry was very sensible. She knew that her brother needed Mommy more because he hadn’t recovered from his illness yet! Thus, no matter how much she missed her mother, she had to go with her father.
Cherry hugged Nora’s leg and said, “Mommy, I will miss you!”
Sensing how clingy her daughter was being, Nora squatted down and gave her a kiss on her forehead. “You can come whenever you want to see me.”
Cherry nodded at once. Only then did she walk over reluctantly to Justin.
Justin reached his arms out toward Nora and suggested, “How about a goodnight hug for the two of us, too?”
Nora rolled her eyes at him. She wanted to refuse, but when she met the man’s bottomless and aggrieved eyes, the words at the tip of her tongue did a U-turn. In the end, the resigned woman stepped forward and gave him a hug.
The man put his arms around her shoulders and hugged her a little tighter as if he wanted to embed her into himself.
His low voice rang out beside her ear. “Goodnight.”
Nora pushed him away without saying anything.
Justin then took Cherry into the car and left the Smiths’.
After the car left, Nora finally whispered, “Tsk. Goodnight.”
She then held Pete’s hand in one hand and Mia’s in the other and led them into the living room.
Mia’s nanny was waiting for her in the living room. When she saw her, she took her hand, took her back to her bedroom, and got ready to clean her up and tuck her in bed.
Nora took Pete upstairs.
As soon as she arrived upstairs, the door to the guest room Lily was staying in opened. Lily was wearing pajamas and looked like she had just finished taking a shower, and was drying her hair with a towel. She said, “You’re back, Anti.”
Nora paused and looked at her. “Are you done with work?”
“Yeah.”
Lily had been busy ever since she returned to the States. She hadn’t even returned to the manor for quite a few days. She had finally finished her work that day and had just reached home and taken a shower. She was planning to have a good night’s sleep later.
Unexpectedly, Nora took out two familiar-looking bags from her pocket the next moment.
Lily: “!!!”
The corners of her lips spasmed as she said, “Boss, this is exploitation. You know that, right?”
Nora coughed. Even she herself knew that she was being a little too much, so she offered, “How does a 20% pay increment sound?”
She paid Lily a very high salary. Her annual salary reached as high as several hundred thousands of dollars. A 20% increment would mean at least 150,000 dollars!
Lily immediately beamed at her and took the two bags from her. “No problem! Boss, what are you checking for?”
Nora yawned. “Mother-daughter relationship.”
Lily looked at Nora in surprise. “You found yourself another mom, Boss?”
Nora: “…”
Lily also felt that she must be mistaken. She glanced at Pete and asked, “You have another daughter? You gave birth to triplets back then?”
Nora: “…”
She coughed and said gently, “Get lost.”
“Okie-Dokie! I’ll get changed and work overtime right away! I’ll let you know the results tomorrow morning.”
Lily went back to her room, changed, and went out in a hurry.
She had only just reached the car park and was about to open the car door when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a shadow in the distance. Startled, she exclaimed, “Ahh! It’s a ghost!”
Quentin: “…”
The corners of his lips spasmed. He walked into the open leisurely and said like the person afflicted with eighth-grader syndrome he was, “You’re calling me a ghost when I was obviously standing there like the live human I am? Are your eyes bad?”
Lily, who was bolder than a lot of girls, took a close look at Quentin, upon which her eyes immediately lit up. She asked, “… Who are you? Why did you become a thief when you’re so good-looking? Why aren’t you being a good person instead? This is the Smiths’ manor, you know!”
“… Who do you think you’re calling a thief?” Quentin retorted.
Lily’s eyes widened. The tall girl was not afraid of the man at all. “You, of course! If you are not a thief, then why are you hiding in the shadows so sneakily? I’ll tell you this—I can take out weaklings like you three at a time by myself!”
Quentin: “??”
Who was she calling a goddamn weakling?
There must really be a problem with the woman’s eyes!
He was about to speak when Lily took a good look at Quentin with the help of the car lights. Her eyes immediately brightened and she asked, “Say, why are you straying from the right path when you’re such a good-looking man? Shall I help you out? ”
Quentin: “?”
Lily coughed and asked, “Do you have a girlfriend?”
Quentin: “??”
Wasn’t the topic of their conversation changing a little too quickly?
How did they suddenly start talking about whether he had a girlfriend or not?
His brows drew together and he answered, “No, I don’t.”
Lily said excitedly, “I don’t have a boyfriend, either!”
Quentin: “…”
The corners of his lips spasmed as Lily asked, “Do you earn a lot from stealing?”
Quentin: “??”
“It definitely isn’t a lot, right? How about this, why don’t you date me? I can give you money and a place to live in. I can even buy you a house in New York. I have an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars! That’s nearly a million dollars, you know!”
Quentin: “!!!!”
The corners of his lips spasmed again. He felt a little like the conversation was getting more and more far-fetched.
Was she hitting on him???
He stared at Lily. If she weren’t Big Sister’s assistant, Quentin would have punched her and given her a taste of his martial arts prowess a long time ago!
He sneered, “Do you think I would be tempted by that bit of money you have?”
Lily thought for a moment. “Well, that’s true. Someone like you who specializes in stealing from wealthy families must be a master thief, right? I guess that bit of money I have won’t attract you, after all. By the way, I’m a doctor. If you get beaten up during a heist, you can come to me. Of course, if you ever decide to pull back and repent, and don’t feel like working hard anymore, you can come to me then too~~”
Lily took out a business card from her pocket. When she looked back up to pass it to Quentin, the man was already gone!
Lily: “?”
He ran away so quickly?
What a shame! He was so handsome!
Lily sighed and got into her car.
Quentin was someone who belonged in the shadows.
Apart from a few of the Smiths, very few outsiders knew of him, even fewer had ever met him. Therefore, Lily had never seen Quentin before, despite having lived in the Smiths’ manor for so long.
Quentin entered the living room. As he watched Lily drive off, he couldn’t help but hold his forehead.
Never mind that his cousin was a weirdo… uh, a genius, but why was everyone around her also so weird?
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