The teacher patted her shoulders, “Go back to the classroom, your class will start soon.”
Jasmine lowered her head, gritted her teeth, and strode out of the office. It was as if she was a fish swimming upstream; even though it was hard, she was still swimming with all her might.
The teacher let out a sigh. Jasmine had been excelling in her studies, so someone might be jealous of her. However, this was an order from his superior, and he could not change their decision. Fortunately, she was able to endure this. Every cloud has a silver lining. Hopefully, everything will work out for her in the end.
At the villa.
Cormac went to the villa after he got out of the company so that he could avoid Charles. He thought of bringing his daughter to the pet shop, but they had already gone there in the morning. Since he was free for the rest of the day, he stayed home and accompanied Loredana.
He also talked to her about the wedding.
Loredana was half-laid on the bed, looking lethargic and unenergetic. She half-squinted her eyes and said, “You can just decide on it.”
Cormac moved her head, put it on his lap, and played with the hair beside her ear, “Are you not happy?”
“Then can you make me laugh?” Her eyelashes fluttered, opening her eyes slightly.
Cormac was speechless.
It didn’t seem hard. He reached his hand out and tried to tickle her. Loredana stopped him in time, “You are not allowed to use your hands. You can only tell me some jokes to make me laugh.” Cormac was speechless.
“You’re bullying me.” He pressed his body down on her. Loredana pushed his face away, “You’re not allowed to get so close to me, you haven’t made me laugh yet.”
“You’re making it difficult for me.” Cormac thought hard, but he couldn’t think of any jokes. After thinking for a while, he said seriously, “How about I grab your trouser leg and beg you piteously, can you laugh now?”
“Poof!” Loredana laughed.
Cormac didn’t understand, “Was this funny?”
Loredana wanted to tell him yes. Suddenly, Cormac’s phone, which was in his pocket, rang. He took it out and saw Armand’s name on the screen, “It’s Armand.”
Loredana said, “You can answer it.”
Cormac answered the call. However, Armand’s voice didn’t come from the other side of the phone. It was a woman’s voice, “Hello?” Cormac frowned, “Who are you?”
Why was there another woman beside Armand? Did he not want to win Theresa’s heart back?
Loredana realized something was not right. She got up and put her ear to his phone, trying to hear what the other party was saying.
“Hello, this is the TY Bar. This gentleman is drunk. We saw your number on his phone, so we call you. Can you please come and pick him up?”
Cormac furrowed his eyebrows even deeper. It was hard for him to find time to accompany his wife. Armand really knew how to pick the perfect time to disturb him.
“You should go.” Loredana touched him.
Cormac hung up the phone and looked at her, “Have you asked Theresa? Is there any possibility for her to get back together with Armand?”
Obviously, Armand was drunk because of Theresa.
If there was no hope for Armand, he would try to persuade him to give up on Theresa. There was no point dragging on like this.
Loredana sat up, but she didn’t tell Cormac about how Theresa felt about Armand, “I don’t think there’s anyone at Armand’s house who can take care of him. Why don’t you bring Armand back to the villa and let Theresa talk to him about this?”
Cormac thought it was a good idea. It was not up to them to interfere in their relationship issues, so it was a good idea to let the two of them talk it out among themselves.
“My wife is so clever.” Cormac cupped her face and kissed her forehead, “I’ll leave first.”
Loredana replied to him with an “um”. After Cormac had left, she went downstairs and saw Lucy helped Theresa out of her room.
Seeing Loredana came down, Theresa smiled at her and said, “I feel bored in the room, so I was thinking of coming out and get some air.”
Loredana knew that Cormac would be bringing Armand back to the villa later, so it wouldn’t be good if Theresa could see Armand in that drunken state.
“I’ll accompany you,” Loredana walked downstairs. She took out some fruit from the refrigerator and washed it. After that, Loredana cut it up and put it on a plate. She brought it out on the table and sat next to Theresa. Loredana looked at the scabby wound on Theresa’s foot, “It’s getting well.”
Theresa said, “I’m going to die of boredom if it’s not getting well.”
“I don’t think you’re idle either,” Loredana got Theresa a piece of cantaloupe with a fork, “How many orders uncle has taken recently?”
It was not a proper way to close down the store for a long time because they would lose their customers after a long time. The dropping of popularity was a natural part after the exhibition. The store was closed for a long time, and it was normal that customers would forget about the store. So Loredana thought of a solution. They opened the business online during the period that they could not go back to City C. They could design the dress style that the customer wanted according to the customer’s request. After that, they could pass the drawing to Oscar, and he would issue the embroiderers and lathe workers to make the dresses.
“We have three or four orders now,” Theresa ate the fruits while said, “I can handle it alone. I drew two sketches of the design when I was free last time. Then, I showed them to two customers, and it just so happened that they like it. So I have two orders left now. To tell you the truth, this is a good idea. Now that we have resolved the hiatus of the shop, we can keep our customers. Besides, I’ll be bored to death if I were to stay at home all the time. Hence, this is indeed killing two birds with one stone.”
She turned her head to look at Loredana, “Didn’t Cormac come back at noon? Where is he? Didn’t he accompany you? By rights, you should not have time to accompany me.”
Loredana looked a little awkward and avoided Theresa’s gaze by the action of eating fruits. She said indifferently, “He took a phone call and went outside. I don’t know what’s going on.”
Loredana did not directly tell Theresa because she was afraid Theresa was not ready for that. If Theresa still had affections for Armand, she should have had some emotional changes when she saw Armand. Otherwise, she probably did not have any feelings for Armand.
Theresa’s mouth twitched, “Coral purposely took the child to play outside to give you two some time to get along. Cormac was so busy unexpectedly. Money doesn’t grow on trees, sure enough.” Loredana shoved some fruits into Theresa’s mouth, “Shut up.”
Theresa laughed.
After chatting for a while, Theresa asked Lucy to take her sketch of design out of her room, and she showed it to Loredana. According to the customer’s request, she asked to embroider red flowers pattern on green fabric. If the dress style did not look good, it would look oldish with such a color combination. So Theresa wanted to discuss it with Loredana.
“The customer who customized the dress was a lady in her fifties in City C. Do you think it’s appropriate to make a suit or a dress?”
Loredana looked at the two versions of Theresa’s design, and each had its characteristics and shortcomings. She asked, “What’s the identity of the lady?”
“The wife of the business owner. We’ve made a video call earlier, and she’s a lady who looks quite elegant,” Theresa replied.
“Let’s make her a suit,” Loredana pointed at the suit sketch Theresa designed, “Let’s make a three-piece suit with a pure white blazer. The green and red colors create a visual effect. There will be different and complex colors of flowers embroidered. So the suit will look messy if with a fancy blazer.”
Theresa nodded, “I think so too. The lady looked quite good taste in clothes. How come she like green with red flowers? What an odd taste! As the saying goes, green and red, sick the dog. What does she think?”
Loredana did not think it was something odd, “Everyone has their tastes and preferences of something, and don’t judge it. I heard earlier that someone likes to smell nail polish. It’s like a paint smell. How come someone thinks it’s good smelling? Everyone has different looking and also different tastes and preferences.”
Theresa agreed.
The doorbell rang at this time. Loredana got up to open the door, while Theresa turned her head to look at the door because she thought it was Coral who took Andrew and Amanda back home. However, when Loredana opened the door, they saw the driver and Cormac were carrying Armand, who seemed unconscious, instead of seeing Coral and the two children.
Theresa thought, ‘What happened to him?’
‘How come he was carrying by them?’ she pondered.
Loredana turned her head to look at Theresa, and as it turned out to see Theresa’s eyes rolled with worries when she did not hold back.
“He seems to be drunk,” Loredana spoke to Theresa.
Theresa moved her eyes away, “It’s not my business.”
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.