Wendy smiled.
“Are you thirsty?” Loredana asked.
Wendy said, “No, I’m not thirsty.”
“This place is decorated in style. I see every ornament in here is tasteful. Did you decorate it?” Wendy admired the layout and decoration of the villa.
“We got someone to design and decorate it.” Although the house was like this when Loredana lived in it, she didn’t think Cormac had that kind of time to get the house himself. He should have paid someone to design and decorate it.
“Mrs. Mendelsohn, dinner is ready.” Coral came over and said.
Loredana nodded, “You take Miss Miller to wash her hands.”
Coral said yes and made an inviting gesture toward Wendy, “Miss Miller, this way please.”
Wendy followed Coral to the bathroom.
Loredana breathed a sigh of relief and headed for the second floor. She pushed open the bedroom door and saw Cormac lying on the bed with Amanda in his arms and reading ‘Peppa Pig’ to her. Amanda’s eyes were open, and her long eyelashes fluttering, and she looked like she was listening very carefully.
Such a quiet picture made Loredana calm down as well. She smiled, “Dinner’s ready.”
Cormac tilted his head and saw Loredana standing in the doorway. He put down the book he was reading and kissed Amanda on the cheek, “We’re going down to dinner.”
Amanda nodded.
Cormac pinched her cheeks, “Do you want to walk by yourself, or should I carry you?”
Amanda reached out, meaning to let him hold her. Cormac picked his daughter up, “I can hold you, but you can’t let Mommy hold you anymore. Can you promise me?”
Amanda wrapped her arms around him and didn’t say anything.
“If you don’t say anything, I’ll take that as a yes.” Cormac walked over with her in his arms, looked down at Loredana’ belly, then reached out and touched it, “In the future, don’t you hold her anymore.” Now Loredana’ belly was getting bigger and bigger. It was easy to press her belly when she was holding Amanda like that.
Loredana hurriedly removed his hand and reminded, “We have a guest at home.”
Cormac frowned, “She didn’t leave?”
Loredana nodded.
A deep frown creased Cormac’s forehead and he asked, “Why she is here?”
“She found out that Armand wasn’t here and seemed to sound me out, saying that she was worried about Boyce, but I don’t think it’s simply because of him,” She said despondently.
In her mind, she was worried that Boyce would have conflicts with her in the future.
Cormac said, “Don’t worry about it.”
During the previous days when Boyce was unaccounted for, they hadn’t had much rest; moreover she had pined away a lot as Amanda suffered from irritability. He didn’t want her to worry about other people’s emotional stuff.
“Boyce is an adult, he can handle it himself, there is no need for us to get involved,” Cormac said indifferently. In fact, he had secretly investigated her.
“By the way, why didn’t Armand let Boyce come back? What did he want to do? And where is Boyce now? Is he injured?” Thinking of Armand who deliberately asked them to conceal the Miller family and didn’t tell the reason back then, they were curious as what he had up his sleeve.
At that time, Cormac had no idea either, but he had received a message from Armand today and knew the current situation of Boyce and his relationship with Jasmine Burke. Armand had told him everything, asked him not to tell Wendy Miller that Boyce was fine and stated that Boyce also knew about this matter.
“I’ll tell you later at night.”
Now was really not the right time to discuss this topic, after all Wendy was downstairs.
Loredana nodded and didn’t pursue the matter. When they walked downstairs, Wendy was already sitting at the dining table. She stood up when she saw them coming down and said, “I’m sorry to bother you today.”
Loredana smiled and said, “It’s okay, have a seat.”
Cormac hugged his daughter and sat down at the main seat while Loredana took a seat next to him.
She smiled and said to Wendy, “Make yourself at home.”
Wendy smiled and said, “Yes.” Then she sat down again and looked at Cormac, “Does Amanda need to see a psychiatrist?”
He didn’t response.
Loredana immediately smoothed things over, “She has seen the doctor. She is in shock, it’ll take some time to recover. Would you like to drink red wine since you like it?”
She smiled and said, “No.”
“Well, it’s my fault too. Now Boyce are unaccounted for, how can we eat and even have a drink at ease.”
Loredana asked Coral, “Is the spirit-quieting decoction that I asked you to cook ready yet?”
Coral said, “It’ll be ready soon.”
She nodded, “Serve Miss. Miller a bowl later, she must not have rested well these few days.”
Coral glanced at Wendy and felt that she didn’t look like she hadn’t rested well either. She felt uncomfortable, “Um.” Then she turned around and went into the kitchen. Wendy suddenly realized that she might have shown too much of her enthusiasm and became less concerned about Boyce. Were Loredana’s words just now on purpose? Soon she tensed up for a moment.
Coral was handy in the kitchen and the dishes she made were flavoursome and attractive.
At this moment, Wendy had lost her appetite.
Coral served a bowl of soup to Loredana first, then served Wendy reluctantly, “Miss. Miller, be careful, it’s hot.”
She was a little awkward and said without looking up, “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” She said coldly.
Loredana felt a headache and didn’t bother to say anything as Wendy who was such a smart person could definitely feel that Coral disliked her.
However, it was difficult to force someone to like a person they disliked.
She placed the soup that Coral had took over in front of Cormac, “I see that you’ve not slept well these few nights.”
Cormac looked up, “Do I wake you up?”
Because of Amanda, he didn’t sleep soundly at night.
He had to wake up several times at night to check on his daughter.
Loredana replied, “No.”
He frowned and thought, ‘Do you think I’m stupid? How do you know that I wake up during night if you’re sleeping?”
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.