“In mom’s room. She has a lot of books and I accidentally come across this one. Mom doesn’t even know what it means. She looked it up and didn’t close the tab, and so I accidentally saw it on her tablet. That’s why I know the meaning behind it.”
Theresa felt relieved. He had talents with numbers at such a tender age, he would be abnormal if he had talent with ancient poems as well.
He was blessed by the heavens to have such a good brain.
The children finished their breakfast and Theresa sent them to kindergarten. Loredana woke up when Theresa came home. Theresa had a rash guard on when she went out just now, she took it off when she got back. “You must be hungry, I’ll go make you something.”
“No need, I can make something myself.” Loredana took out some rice while Theresa cleaned up the table, “Loredana, I changed my name.”
Loredana looked at her oddly, changed her name?
“Why did you suddenly change your name?”
“Your son said that I reincarnated. My face and my voice changed, and I should change my name too…”
“What nonsense is that child spouting…”
“Loredana, listen.” Theresa interrupted her. Her face and her tone of voice were serious as if she was trying to tell Loredana that she wasn’t joking, “I think Andrew is right. I’m a new me right now, and I really like the name he suggested.”
Loredana grimaced. He was still a child, he wouldn’t know how to name someone.
It would be awful if he suggested a bad name, “Theresa…”
“Does Renee sound good?” Theresa interrupted Loredana again. She knew what Loredana was going to say. Loredana had to think that Andrew was still a child and wouldn’t know how to give someone a name. “It’s nice, isn’t it? Are you surprise as well that your son can give me such a nice name?” Theresa observed the change in Loredana expression. Loredana was surprised, but she regained her normal expression quickly.
“I already promised your son. He would call me Renee from now on.” It was not often that Theresa smiled so brightly. Loredana hugged her and was happy that she was happy.
It was just a name, no big deal.
Loredana finished her breakfast. They then changed and was about to go to the workshop. Oscar gave her an Alphard, a top-grade MPV. The outside and the interior of the car were high quality. Loredana didn’t want to accept the gift initially, she wanted to buy herself a car. An MPV would be convenient to bring her children around. It was spacious and comfortable, the children would have a lot of rooms behind too. But Oscar threatened her to take it, otherwise, he wouldn’t help her anymore in the future.
Loredana had to accept his offer as she still needed his help. She wasn’t familiar with the area and hence she still needed Oscar to help her, especially when it came to buying stuff.
The embroidery masters she needed were also all scouted by Oscar. If she had to do it herself, who knew how long it would take.
Theresa was the driver and Loredana sat in the backseat. She sat by the window. The sun wasn’t too strong and the car window had sunscreen films. It wasn’t too bright and she could look outside. They passed by this road many times and Loredana was familiar with the scenery now. She leaned back and caressed the small bump on her abdomen with her hand. The traffic light turned red and she stared at the pedestrians walking by on the street. She subconsciously glanced at one of the high rise buildings and the news on the large screen caught her attention. More accurately, the word “WY Group” on the large screen caught her attention.0000
The news was talking about how a big company in C city was acquired by WY Group from City B overnight. There was a stir.
The scrolling pictures suddenly showed Cormac getting out of a car in front of the WY Group building. It was only his side profile, but she could see the clear outline of his face. It was three-dimensional and even through the screen, she could feel the wintriness extruding from his.
“This is the first appearance of the president of WY Group after acquiring NL Group. He is currently not accepting any interviews and hence we wouldn’t be able to find out more about this acquisition.” The pictures were all taken in secret. Cormac rejected all interviews and hence there were no pictures of him from the front.
Loredana lowered the car window and tried to listen more carefully to the news and see it more clearly on the screen. Her hands were on the car door and she looked attentively at the screen. The pictures changed very quickly and now the person in charge of NL Group appeared on the screen. He looked dispirited and had stubbles all over his chin. He looked crestfallen.
Theresa was focusing on the traffic light in front of her and didn’t notice that Loredana was looking at something. The red light turned green and she started the car.
The screen was quickly covered up by the other large buildings, and Loredana couldn’t see it anymore.
She pulled her hand back and rolled up her body into a small ball. She bit her lips and her sharp teeth poked through her lips. It was going to bleed but it seemed like she couldn’t feel any pain. She just wanted to suppress her longing which was roaring inside of her, but she wasn’t able to control her emotions well.
The feeling of loneliness. She wanted to cry but he wasn’t by her side to comfort her. She could only swallow her emotions.
She opened her eyes and tried to hold back the tears that were going to fall.
After a while, the car stopped in front of the building. The workshop was on the third floor.
Oscar’s car was parked on the side. Theresa peeked at it when she got out of the car. She reached out her hand and opened the door to the backseat. She said, “He sure is diligent, coming here every day.” Loredana managed to calm herself down, but the stormy emotions in her hadn’t completely disappeared yet. She felt more complicated hearing about his news right now than when she left one month ago. Who said that time would heal everything?
Why was she missing him more than before?
Time wasn’t able to heal all wounds.
“Loredana?” Theresa called out to her seeing that she wasn’t getting out of the car.
Loredana snapped out of it and looked up, she smiled awkwardly, “I’m getting old, it’s easy to lose myself in my thoughts nowadays.”
Theresa smiled and didn’t say anything. She knew why Loredana was spacing out.
Loredana got out of the car and they walked into the building together. They got into the lift and arrived on the third floor. Everyone was at work already. 11 embroidery masters, they all lived in this building. The building had 4 floors, the third floor was a workshop, the second was for weaving and the fourth floor was for accommodation. The first floor was left empty.
Oscar was the one who got her the place. The environment was nice and the rent wasn’t too high, it was still affordable for her.
Oscar seemed to have a growing interest in embroidery. When they walked in, he was sitting in front of one of the masters, watching him as he used a golden thread to embroider a phoenix and a peony. This master was one of the special ones amongst the 11 of them. Talented embroiders were usually older women, but he was a twenty-something years old young man. His face was fair and his facial features were refined. His hands were as delicate as women’s, they were slender and nimble. His embroideries always looked alive, his needles were always accurate and he could produce an exquisite work of art. Oscar stared at his fingers as he worked, he clicked his tongue, “It’s unfortunate.”
He didn’t realize that those two were behind him.
Therese glanced at him, “What’s so unfortunate?”
Indeed, what was so unfortunate?”
Oscar was lost in his thoughts and jumped in surprised upon hearing Theresa. He looked up and was frantic, “You, when did you get here? Why did you walk so quietly?”
Theresa clicked her tongue, “It’s not that I walked quietly, you were just deaf. Also, what’s so unfortunate?”
She immediately thought that something was embroidered incorrectly, and hence she lowered her head to look at the embroidery. The blooming peony was embroidered with golden threads, the man was making a breast wrap and if something went wrong he had to redo everything.
Time and money would be wasted.
Oscar sighed, “It’s unfortunate that he’s a man.”
Such elegance, he would’ve been a graceful woman.
Theresa was speechless.
“Say that again and I won’t work for you again no matter how much you’ll pay me,” said Ashton Howard coldly. He didn’t even look up.
Because of his looks and his profession, people tended to talk bad about him. People often called him a sissy. He hated people like that and wasn’t good at building a relationship with other people. He didn’t have many friends and was often alone.
“Sorry, there’s no next time,” Oscar quickly apologized. Loredana liked this master a lot. The twelve pieces in the grand finale were embroidered by him, he couldn’t afford to say something that would make him leave.
Theresa looked at Oscar all amused. He was older than her, but he would always act like a child. He was always smiling and liked to dress fashionably as well.
“Where’s Loredana?” Oscar glanced at the car. He asked Theresa as Loredana wasn’t around.
She would come every day without fail.
Theresa walked to the table and tidied up the papers, she said, “She might be on the second floor.”
She didn’t see where Loredana went.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.