Loredana sent him out of the door.
It was cold outside, so Cormac asked her to go back.
After seeing that the car had left the courtyard, Loredana closed the door and entered the house.
“You went to the Harris family?” Victoria was standing behind Loredana when she turned around.
She answered according to the fact, “Yes.”
“He didn’t give you a hard time, did he?”
“No, he didn’t know it was me. Cormac had helped me, so I don’t think he will know in the near future.” If he did not know, he would not do anything.
If he did know, Loredana thought that Jeffrey might not be as cruel as before on the fact that she was Cormac’s wife.
She could see that he cared for Cormac.
Regarding the surnames of the two children, what Jeffrey cared about was not to not take the surname of the Mendelsohn family, but to not take Cormac’s surname. Since Jayden had married Victoria, Jeffrey might not have much affection towards this former brother-in-law.
Victoria let out a slight sigh of relief, “That’s good.”
She was afraid that she might cause trouble for Loredana.
Victoria waved at Loredana and asked her to sit on the sofa.
She asked the maid to pour two cups of hot tea and brought them over.
“Today we went to Jolene’s grave.” They went there every year, “At first I wanted to ask you to go together, but there are two children, so I didn’t ask you.”
No matter what, Jolene had helped her to take care of Cormac for six years. It was true that Jeffrey had gone too far with her, but Jolene did not do anything wrong. After all, in the beginning, it was all of her voluntariness.
Victoria drank some water and asked, “What do you want to eat tonight? I’ll prepare it.”
Loredana did not have much appetite, so she said, “Anything.”
Victoria smiled, “Alright. I’ll prepare anything that I can prepare.”
“I see that you don’t look very well, go and rest,” Victoria said.
Loredana did feel a little bit tired.
There was still some time before evening, so she said, “I’ll go and take a nap then.”
“Yea, sure.” Victoria waved her hand.
Loredana lay down on her bed. She did not know when she fell asleep and did not wake up even when the sun set. It was the knock on the door that made her awake. “Mummy, it’s dinner time,” Samuel called her.
She got up, washed her face and went downstairs. Everyone was already in the dining room except Cormac.
At first, she wanted to sleep for a while and then help Victoria to prepare dinner. However, she had slept soundly.
It was really inappropriate for her to sleep while the elders were cooking.
“Why don’t you call me earlier?”
“There are no outsiders and you were out a while ago, now that you are back, you need to rest.” Victoria served her a bowl of nourishing soup, “This soup is suitable for winter.”
Loredana brought it over with both her hands. It was still steaming. She took a sip. It was still a little hot. There was a ginseng taste in the soup.
“I put red ginseng in, it’s good for women to eat, drink some more if you’re still not full later,” Victoria said.
Loredana nodded, “Thank you, mum.”
Victoria responded with a heavy “eh”. It was comforting for her to have her daughter-in-law’s acknowledgement even though his son did not call her mum.
After dinner, the maid cleaned up the table while Victoria took the initiative to take over the work of bathing the two children and making them sleep. She wanted to take care of them in person. The two children did not treat her as a stranger as they had met before and they were willing to spend time with her.
Loredana was also happy as they had some time to get along since Cormac was away.
She watched TV with the two children downstairs for a while and then she went upstairs.
She looked at the time, it was not yet nine o’clock. As she had taken a nap, she did not feel sleepy. She took a shower and wore a white velvet robe. She found one of the books that she liked better among those she had brought with her and sat on the bed to read it.
Unaware that it had already passed twelve, she got drowsy and yawned. She put the bookmark to the page she stopped reading, closed the book, put it on the table, pulled the quilt and turned off the bedside lamp. When she was ready for bed, she heard a door opening sound coming from downstairs.
It was late at night, so a little movement could be heard.
She turned the bedside lamp back on.
After a while, she heard footsteps sound coming up the stairs, one at a time…
Then, the door of the room was pushed open.
Under the pale yellow light, he saw the woman lying on the bed. He opened his eyes and looked right at her, “Still awake?”
“Waiting for you.”
Loredana saw the white colour on his shoulders and asked, “Is it snowing?”
Cormac realized he had come up in his coat. He glanced sideways and saw a few snowflakes had fallen on his shoulders. They fell on his shoulder when he walked to the house from the car.
He responded with a “hmm”. Afraid of bringing the cold inside, he hung his coat downstairs before coming back upstairs.
He closed the door of the room and walked in.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, he looked at her. Her long black hair was like being splashed by ink. Her pale, flawless skin revealed some light red. Her pink lips were like rose petals. He had an urge to taste them.
He approached Loredana and leant against her closer and closer. Loredana could smell his breath. There was a faint smell of alcohol. It was not very strong.
“You’ve been drinking?”
“A little.” The general managers of several branches had toasted him, he had to drink.
He got even closer, the hot air from his words sprayed next to her face, tingling and itching. Loredana slightly turned her head sideways. Cormac pinched her face to make her upright and looked at him. He asked, “Does it smell bad?”
Loredana nodded, “It’s all the smell of alcohol, what do you think?”
“Then I’ll go bathing.” He smothered a laugh, “Do you want to bathe with me?”
Loredana blushed in shame and pushed him, “Don’t be silly.”
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