After Reborn, I Become a Billionaire novel Chapter 431

Chapter 431 A Mocking Smile

"It's okay. I don't mean to push you into a quick answer." Said Henry thoughtfully.
Susan let out a breath of relief. Perhaps her feelings for Manuel just now were nothing but a kind of illusion. After all, she had been loving Henry, she believed. What was more, Henry had claimed to love her more than once even after he had been through so much including her marriage, pregnancy and miscarriage. She seemed to have no reason to hesitate about her feelings for Henry.
And, Manuel had agreed to divorce. Perhaps he had lost the last bit of hope for this marriage, she supposed.
She seemed to make up her mind, "You still have a chance."
"Really? Susan, will you return to my side?" Henry sounded thrilled.
"Yes, I will divorce him a few days later. After that, we can be together."
"Great!"
"Alright, you should stop working. Time for bed, okay?" said Susan.
"Okay."
"Don't try to fudge me. Get to bed now."
"Okay."
"Alright, good night."
"Bye."
After Susan hung up the phone, Henry made a call to Martina.
"What have you got? Does Susan wanna fix her relationship with Manuel?" Martina asked anxiously.
During these days, she had been keeping an eye on Manuel and Susan. When she was told that Susan went to Manuel's house tonight, she was burning with anxiety. So she urged Henry to make a call to Susan.
"No," Henry answered.
"Really? Are you sure?" Martina felt much more relieved. She worried that Manuel still attached himself to Susan.
"Susan told me she will divorce him a few days later. And she said she would return to my side." Said Henry frankly.
Hearing that, Martina felt like her heart was stuffed with both joy and irritation, "What a bitch! She wanna cheat on Manuel before they divorce!"
"Martina!" Henry's voice sounded a bit unpleasant.
"To be honest, I think Susan doesn't deserve your affection. But at least she was born rich. That will make up for your efforts."
"Enough! You'd better spend more time figuring out how to earn Manuel's love." Huffed Henry.
"Manuel is much different from her. He won't be likely to betray his marriage before he divorces. I won't start my actions until he divorces. But I am sure I will soon earn his love."
Henry showed no interest in listening to her plan.
"Alright, that's it."
Without saying goodbye out of courtesy, Martina hung up the phone.
After putting down the phone, Henry started contemplating. He wondered what he should do to maintain his relationship with Susan after she divorced. After all, according to the limitation, he couldn't have sex with her. At the thought of that, Henry sulked about it.
Susan took a deep breath after she finished the talk. She somehow felt burdened when facing Henry, for which she couldn't figure out any reasons to explain.
She turned around to walk into Manuel's room to help him put on his pants before she left.
As for the kiss, it must be a whim produced by drunkenness, she reckoned. Commonly speaking, Manuel would never do such a thing if he was sober. If it was a kiss happening in the midst of his trance. She wouldn't care about it.
She grabbed the pants and was about to continue her job. Manuel was lying on the bed with his eyes closed. She thought he had already fallen into sleep again.
While approaching, she suddenly heard his cold voice, "Don't touch me!"
Susan was startled by his gloomy voice.
What an ungrateful man!
"What the hell are you shouting for? I have been tending to you. But you never say thanks to me. And you shout at me! Do you think I wanna touch you? Do you know your kiss just now disgusted me? I wanna puke!" Susan huffed with anger.
Manuel turned annoyed with his fists clenching hard.
So did Susan.
As a result, madness would generate harsh words.
"Fuck off!" his voice sounded terrible.
"Manuel, you ungrateful bastard! I have been taking care of you for hours. How dare you say that to me! You asshole!" Susan went mad.
How dare he be so mean to her!
Her fury grew stronger and stronger. Tears welled up in her eyes.
Why had she gone here to look after him? What an idiot!
Her sight was blurred with tears. Staring at his cold face, she felt like Manuel didn't even wanna waste one more second talking to her.
Susan finally made up her mind to walk away. She swore to God she would never do such stupid things for him. She walked away and slammed the door shut.
A loud noise sounded outside the door. Not until then did Manuel turn to look at the door.
He had caught every sentence in her conversation with Henry just now. Susan didn't close the door while talking on the phone in the living room.
Though Manuel didn't know what Henry had said on the phone, he could clearly hear of what Susan had said-she claimed that she was going to return to Henry as soon as she divorced.
Just a few minutes ago, he tried to muster up the courage to bring about his wish to fix his relationship with Susan while she was talking on the phone. He thought Susan might start to grow feelings for him since she came back to tend him tonight.
He had been sober from the very beginning. He just pretended to be drunk, fearing that she would leave as soon as she noticed that. However, when Susan approached closer, he found himself losing control. What Susan did for him tonight had gone beyond his expectation. Finally, his desire overwhelmed his soberness.
As soon as he kissed her, he was surprised to notice that Susan didn't even struggle, for which his desire grew stronger. Instead, she seemed to be more attached to his kiss and he somewhat felt like she started to respond actively. He thought Susan had grown true feelings for him during the marriage.
Nevertheless, it turned out that he overestimated himself. Perhaps she came to take care of him just because of conscience. After all, she had been kind-hearted. Or perhaps it was Hannah who convinced her, which he could tell as long as he contemplated for a few more seconds.
Manuel suddenly let out a mocking smile for himself.