Chapter 17 Jinx
Tim back now. Since we’re husband and wife, even if it’s just on the surface, we shouldn’t live apart, right?”
Bert thought he was being perfectly reasonable.
Laura nodded generously, “You’re night.‘
Heaning this, Bert was about assure her that even if they were in the same bed, he would behave himself and not overstep any boundaries, but Laura spoke first.
“We’ll sleep in separate rooms. I’m used to the master bedroom, so you can have the quest room,
Bert almost bit his tone.
Laura noticed his expression and frowned slightly. “What? You don’t want to sleep in the same room as me, do you?”
As she spoke, she looked cautious and jumped back a meter.
some kind of pervert.
She looked at him ikke he was some
Bert was extremely frustrated and retorted. “Of course not! I was planning on separate rooms anyway.”
“That’s for the best then”
Laura shrugged and turned back to lean on the railing, not wanting to pay him any more attention.
Looking at her slender back, Bert felt a strange tightness in his chest.
He knew that Laura really
really wanted to get a divorce and leave. The reason she agreed to the six–month arrangement was probably because of Old Master Higgins’s illness.
Although he wanted to re
renew the contract, he hesitated because it might be selfish.
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was staring blankly at the camphor tree across from her when she suddenly heard a hesitant volor behind her,
at the c
She blinked twice and slowly turned her head.
Linder her expressionless pere. Bert’s scalp tingled, and the already embarrassing words became even harder to say.
Laura simply finished the sentence for him
Bert raised his eyebrows in surprise. “You know?”
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“Heh, I also know…..
Laura continued with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “Aher meeting you, I only want to become one type of person… your person.”
Bert was speechless
“Bert, aren’t you bored? You tell these cheesy lines to everyone you meet”
Laura rolled her eyes. Winnie falls for that, but I don’t”
Heining her say that, Bert’s eyebrows furrowed deeply.
He finally realized that Laura had clearly misunderstood.
7 didn’t”
He explained, “It was my sister–in–law who said you’d like to hear it, so I had my assistant collect them I was just practicing when Winnie suddenly popped up and got all
sentimental.”
“Huh? Laura pointed at herself.
i like hearing it?”
Bet asked, “What, you don’t like hearing it?”
bout to de
Laura was about to deny it, but suddenly changed her mind. She smiled and nodded, “That’s right, I do like hearing it.”
“Not only do I like hearing it, but also love hearing it in front of many people.”
Bent was led to Old Master Higgins’s hospital room
Beside the doctors and nurses, there were many patients and their families, making it a
“Since you want to me, tell me now. I’m listening.”
Laura leaned against the white wall, acting as if she was all ears.
Bestemples throbbed.
This woman was definitely doing it on purpose.
with so many people around, did she not care about his reputation?
| it a busy place.
mere woman like me to
What, were you lying to me? Laura widened her eyes exaggeratedly. “I didn’t expect Young Master Higgins to break his word. Then it’s normal for a me
not keep her promises About the six months we agreed on…….”
actually only think of you once a day. because when I do, it lasts all day…”
“) suspect you’re a book because the more I look at you, the more I want to sleep with you…..”
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Passersby tumed their heads in unison
Bent, with his tall stature, long legs, and a face so handsome it was blinding, along with a body that could rival any male model, was already eye–catching. Now, adding
those cheesy pick up lines…
The scene was explosive.
The mention rate was easily two hundred percet
The more people gathered around the darker Bet’s face became
Laura had been fouling down, but watching Bert, surrounded by layers of people, his face dark and sour as he stiffly delivered those embarrassing lines….
She couldn’t help but burst out laughing
Behind the greenery i
the corner, his sister–in–law stared in disbeliet, her eyes nearly popping out of their sockets..
newer thought Fifth Brother…
She turned to the tall, sturdy man behind her and exclaimed, “Laura is amazing. No wonder Dad said that only Laura could keep Fifth Brother in check.
Ban also looked like he’d s
he’d seen a ghost.
Was that really his fifth brother, the one who feared neither gods nor demona?
“By the way, didn’t the others come?” his sister in law suckdenly asked
Brian scratched his head. “Big Brother and Third Brother are busy with work, Fourth Brother is too far away to make it back. They pat couldn’t get away.”
“Heh, too busy to come, as if you’re the only one with free time,” the second sister–in–law couldn’t help but complain, especially since she was speaking to her husband and
in front of others. Stully all about harmony,
brian was out of town on assignment, and even he had managed to come back. The other three were inthe city and couldn’t make it?
But she didn’t say much more.
Just then, Laura suddenly exclaimed, “Dad’s awake!”
Her position was directly fading the only window of the hospital room
The nurses and doctors rushed over in time
Although the patient.adi
the family had to wait for the doctors to examine him and adjust the medication before they could visit
i and the others were waiting, Wendy and the others hurled over
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“Thank goodness, that was really scary
They panted their chests, looking like they were in shock
The second sister–in–law didnt say anything, but Bert was blunt and retorted, “You were so scared that you stayed home for so long. Seems like you were really terrified
ry hadn’t heard that Old Master Higgins had woken up they probably wouldn’t have shown up
Wendy and the others looked embarrassed
“Something came up.
1 rushed over as soon as finished, but the traffic was temible.”
As they were explaining. Winnie suddenly interjected, “Old Master Higgins has always been in good health, How did he suddenly fall 17
“I heard the pot sick from anger
She tilted her head, her brow furrowed in a wormed expression. It seems Laura was demanding a divorce, and Old Master Higgins got so angry
Realizing she might have said too much, she quickly covered her mouth with her hand, looking innocently at Laura with wide, round eyes.
“Oh dear, I dicht mean 10
y
mean to say you made Grandpa sick. I was just too womed and spoke without thinking Laurs, you’re not angry, are you?”
Before Laura could respond. Wendy and the others exploded.
“It’s you again, you jind
Wendy, furious, pointed at Laura’s nose and began to shout. “It was bad enough that you made our fifth brother afraid to come home, and now you’ve made the old man and up in the hospital. Are you just incompatible with our Higgins Family?”
The fourth sister in law chimed in coldly. “If you wanted a divorce, you should have done sooner. Why wait until now to make a scene in front of the old man? Were you deliberately trying to germ
his sisterinlaw stood nearby, watching with a look of reproach, though she didn’t say a word.
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