She got off Boyce’s back and stood up, “I’ll go pack. We need to say goodbye to the children. Ah, I’m actually here to ask to you come to have breakfast.”
Boyce stood up and put his phone in his pocket. He went back to the house with her.
When they got in the house, Jasmine said, “I will miss the children.”
“You can always come back to visit them,” said Boyce.
“Don’t forget that you promised to help them.”
Boyce answered, “I won’t.”
In City B…
Cormac wasn’t there anymore when Loredana woke up. Amanda was still asleep. She got out of bed and went to the bathroom. As she walked down the stairs, she noticed that Cormac was still in the living room. She thought he was at the office already.
She went up to him and hugged his slender waist from behind, “You’re up early.”
Cormac put down the cup of water that he chugged, turned around and looked at her, “Why don’t you sleep more?”
Loredana stuck close to him and said, “I couldn’t sleep.”
Cormac glanced at Coral who was cleaning the drink cabinet. After making sure that she wouldn’t look over, he hugged Loredana in his arms and kissed her on the lips. Loredana backed off, she was afraid that Coral would see them.
Cormac didn’t let her escape; he grabbed the back of her head and pushed her towards himself.
Loredana knew that she couldn’t win against him, and hence she surrendered.
When Cormac finally let her go, she put her arms around his neck and wasn’t going to let go. She bit him on the shoulder through his pyjamas and put quite a bit of force into it. She knew that Coral was around, and Cormac wouldn’t dare to make any noises even when he felt pain.
She was content seeing Cormac’s face in pain while holding in his voice. She let go.
Cormac fixed his shirt and took a look at his shoulder. There was a bite mark and it was almost bleeding.
He blinked his eyes and asked, “Are you trying to kill me?”
Loredana didn’t believe him, “I didn’t bite that hard.”
“You wanted to bite harder than this?” Cormac couldn’t believe his ears, did she really want him to bleed?
Cormac seemed to really be in pain. Loredana reached out her hand and opened his collar. The bite mark on his shoulder was quite deep, and it was slightly bleeding. She didn’t know that she bit this hard. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. I’ll go get some ointment…”
Cormac pulled her, “No need.”
Loredana didn’t intend to bite him that hard, she scolded herself for not controlling her strength, “Does it hurt…”
“Don’t worry, I’ll take it as you are marking me. I will return the favor…”
“I don’t want.” Loredana wasn’t an idiot. She didn’t want any bite marks if it would hurt that much.
“You can’t say no.” Cormac hugged her and acted like he was about to stretch her collar open. He wasn’t planning on biting her; he just wanted to mess with her.
Loredana laughed as it tickled.
Coral looked over as she heard noises. She saw Cormac intimately hugging Loredana. She quickly turned around, but she turned too fast or was nervous. Her hand slipped and an unopened bottle of wine fell onto the ground. A loud noise could be heard, and the bottle shattered on the ground. The red liquid was all over the floor.
The room was soon filled with the scent of red wine.
Cormac and Loredana looked over. Coral tensed up and stood in place. She laughed nervously, “Please continue, I didn’t see anything. I will clean the floor up immediately.”
Loredana flushed and pushed Cormac away. She walked over and saw that the wine that fell onto the ground was the one that Wendy said was good. She sighed, “It was a good wine.” Cormac looked at her, “You can tell?”
He remembered that Loredana wasn’t into wine.
The wines were always there in the cabinet and she never bothered to look at them. She could sometimes recognize local white spirits brands that were popular, but that was it.
“Wendy told me about it. She was quite into wines,” said Loredana. She realized that she always talked about Cormac and felt a bit weird about it.
Cormac scoffed. He obviously didn’t really like Wendy, he probably even despised her.
He hugged Loredana into his firm arms and carried her upstairs, “Just come up with an excuse next time she wants to come by. Don’t let her in and bother you.”
Loredana said, “Okay.”
“But I think she wouldn’t be able to come anymore. I told Boyce and based on his personality, he would come back and talk to Wendy.”
Loredana nodded, she thought that it was right to let Boyce come back and deal with it. It wouldn’t be a good idea to drag it out.
And if Wendy wasn’t friends with Boyce anymore, she wouldn’t have an excuse to come over.
Loredana looked up and stared at Cormac. His jawlines were pronounced and his neck was elegant. His skin was fair and his nose was even more prominent from the side. She was also jealous of his long lashes. She pouted, “Does someone has a crush on your office?”
Cormac looked over and was dumbfounded, “Why do you suddenly ask that?”
Loredana remembered the message she got last night, she said, “Someone said that you’re charming. Keep your distance with the women at your workplace, okay?”
Cormac laughed, “What’s wrong? Are you jealous?”
Loredana glared at him and didn’t say anything.
Cormac stopped smiling and wanted to ask her more about it, but Amanda woke up. She started crying when she noticed there wasn’t anyone next to her. Loredana quickly reached out her hand to grab her, but Cormac said, “Let me do it.”
Amanda just woke up and wasn’t too energetic. She laid her head on her father’s shoulder and rubbed her eyes.
Loredana grabbed some clothes from the closet for her daughter.
Cormac carried Amanda to the washroom to freshen up. Loredana put the clothes that her daughter wanted to wear on the bed. Suddenly, her phone which was by the head of the bed vibrated again. She grabbed her phone.
It was the same unknown number from last night.
Loredana frowned as she opened the message.
The content was “Good morning!”
Loredana stared at these words. She was thinking if the message last night was a prank or a random message sent by somebody.
Then what did this one mean this morning?
After Cormac helped his daughter wash her face, he walked out and saw Loredana standing by the bed while staring at her phone. So, Cormac approached her. Loredana was deeply immersed in her thoughts that she did not notice Cormac was already standing behind her. She was shocked when Cormac asked her who had sent her a message.
“Why are you walking without any sound?” Loredana put her hand over her heart which was still pounding.
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.