He turned his head around and stepped over to the bed when Loredana closed her eyes…000000
He glanced at the phone lying next to his pillow, but he didn’t pick it up to see who she had sent the message to.
Instead, he laid down and hugged her from behind.
Loredana opened her eyes, but she didn’t move, then slowly closed eyes.
In the evening, Abbott’s hired chef cooked a lot of delicious food. The rectangular table in the living room was filled with dishes, and Coral set the plates, chopsticks, and napkins on the table.
Today was not a public holiday, but there were many people in the room. It looked like they were as lively as celebrating a holiday.
Boyce was quiet. He sat on the couch and thought over the message Loredana sent him on his cell phone.
When he received Armand’s call, he had just come out of the morgue and was going to investigate Maria’s death.
The official statement today said that she committed suicide.
In order to make sure that Maria died of suicide, he took a forensic doctor whom he was close to secretly examine Maria’s body. Then he found no injuries on her body and a strangulation mark on her neck was caused by Maria’s hanging.
But the forensic doctor still found something suspicious. He found something like skin tissues from Maria’s fingernails. As for what exactly it was, it had to be tested to determine.
After receiving Armand’s message, he went back and took a shower and changed into clean clothes. When he was about to come to the villa, he received a message from Loredana. His first thought was to call Cormac and ask him what was going on. However, when he thought that Loredana wouldn’t let him talk to anyone, he didn’t call Cormac.
Then he took a wheelchair according to her request, put it in the trunk of the car, and then he came to the villa.
“What are you looking at?” Armand sat next to him. Boyce had been looking at his phone since he had arrived at the villa.
Boyce calmly pressed the phone button, and his phone screen went black. Armand seemed to see him reading a message, then he looked at him, “Who sent you that message? Why are you looking at it so intensely?”
Boyce pocketed his phone and gave him a look, “Can you stop being so gossipy?”
Armand muttered and sat down on the other couch, “You sound as if I want to read that message so badly. I’m not interested in reading messages on the phone of an old virgin like you.” Boyce was speechless.
He really thought Armand was so vicious when he attacked others with words.
Abbott was peeling an orange. When he heard Armand’s words, he looked up at Boyce and asked curiously, “You’re so old, but are you really still a virgin?”
Boyce was speechless.
Armand covered his belly. Although he did not want to laugh at Boyce, he could not help it.
Coral came over and told him, “It’s time to eat dinner! You guys wash your hands. I’ll go upstairs and call them to go downstairs.”
Although neither of them was asleep, they both pretended to be asleep. When they heard Coral’s voice, they pretended to be as if they had just woken up. Although Loredana did not know if Cormac was asleep Cormac knew that Loredana was not asleep.
However, he acted as if he didn’t know anything. He got up to get her a wet towel and wipe her hands. He carefully wiped her hands. Then Loredana looked down at her hands, “I have to be waited on for everything I want to do. I’m like a handicapped person.”
Cormac didn’t look up and continued to wipe her hands with the towel delicately, “You’re much more useful than the disabled. You can at least give birth to my children.”
After wiping her hands, he put the towel away and placed it on the table. Then he pinched her cheeks, “You’re full of nonsense all day long. Put your arm around me.”
Cormac took her arms and wrapped them around his neck. Then he lifted her off the bed in a princess hug.
Loredana had gotten used to him holding her from the time she was pregnant until now.
They were sitting in the living room downstairs. They got up from the couch when they saw Cormac walking downstairs with Loredana in his arms.
Cormac walked down the stairs and toward the dining room, “Have a seat.”
Boyce and the other two sat across from them. The table was large, and there were five people sitting around it. There were still plenty of empty seats left. It was a rectangular table that could allow fifteen people to sit at it.
Armand started off by saying, “It seems quite a feast today. Thank you Loredana for hosting us.”
Loredana smiled and said, “I should be thanking you. You guys helped me out a lot after my accident, too. I’m taking it all to heart.”
“Coral,” she called out to Coral.
“Eh?” Coral quickly walked toward Loredana. Then Loredana told her, “Bring two bottles of wine from the liquor cabinet.” And Loredana made a point of telling her, “The white one please.” Coral replied to her and turned around to get the baijiu.
Although it was common for them to drink at dinner, especially on such occasions, Loredana made a point of asking Coral to bring two bottles of baijiu to the table. So, what did she mean? Did Loredana want them all to get drunk?
Cormac’s eyes drooped as he tried to hide all his thoughts. And he didn’t say anything and let Loredana do what she wanted.
Coral took two 500ml bottles of Moutai which was made in the year of 1980, both 53 vol. And ordinary people couldn’t afford to buy Maotai produced in that year.
Loredana knew that there were many bottles of wine in the wine cabinet. When she lived in the villa, she opened the wine cabinet and looked inside, so she found out that there were several bottles of Moutai with a long age and a high degree of alcohol.
There was only one kind of baijiu, but there were many kinds of red wine. She asked Coral to bring the baijiu, so Coral naturally brought this kind of wine.
She asked Coral to open the bottle of baijiu and said to her, “Pour Armand some wine.”
She opened the other bottle in front of her and went to Cormac, “I’m in a good mood, so is it okay if I serve them a drink?”
Cormac looked up at her. His deep eyes were like a bottomless lake. He and Loredana looked at each other for a few seconds, then he raised the corners of his mouth slightly and smiled softly, gently, and dotingly, “As long as you like it.”
He had no problem with that.00000
Loredana curled her lips. Her eyes were as clear as green waves and had a smile in them, “Since I’ve encountered such an incident, and they’ve been helping me, don’t I have to toast them? But I’m not in a position to drink alcohol right now, so can you drink this glass of wine for me?”
As she spoke, she poured wine into the glass in front of Cormac.
Cormac glanced down at the full glass of white wine and curled his lip. It turned out that this dinner was a trap for him.
Then he smiled, still very dotingly, “I’ll do as you say.”
Armand blinked. It was as if he sensed an unusual atmosphere. And he couldn’t help but wonder what the couple was doing. Were the two of them acting in front of them?
“Cormac, what are you…”
He couldn’t help but wonder what they were planning to do.
“You must have worked very hard to deal with the social media news, so I want to thank you for that. If you don’t want to accept my thanks, then you don’t have to drink this glass of wine.” After she got pregnant, she didn’t look at her phone in the hospital except to answer calls. It was the day when one of the nurses viewed that news while the doctor was checking in. And she was watching that video and peeking at her at the same time. Then she found out the clues.
Then she made an excuse to let Coral go and watched the news on her phone.
Now that Loredana had said that, it was not appropriate for him to turn down her, so he had to lift the glass of wine. Then he still felt a little uneasy and stared at Cormac, wondering if he should drink the wine. Loredana handed Cormac his glass. Then he looked down at her. Although he knew everything, he cooperated with her and took the glass from her hand.
The baijiu was not much milder than the red wine. After he finished the glass of wine, he felt very spicy. Because he hadn’t eaten before, he was more easily drunk after drinking this degree of wine on an empty stomach.
Although Armand only drank a small glass of wine, when he finished it in one gulp, it was probably because he felt spicy, so his eyebrows were knitted together. He then used his chopsticks to pick up the food and stuffed it into his mouth to try to suppress the burning sensation.
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.