Kevin’s words made Hayden’s heart stop for a second.
“Why are you asking this all of a sudden?” She looked at him warily.
Kevin looked relaxed, “Actually, I really don’t know much about the outside world recently. So, I only found out that you broke up with Joseph a few days ago. If the information from Joseph is correct, it means that you haven’t divorced yet, right?”
Hearing this, Hayden sighed in relief, but she frowned, “Yeah.”
“Superb.”
Kevin’s reaction was beyond her expectations. He actually gave her a thumbs up, “Only you have the ability to make Joseph willingly become the other man. I truly admire that.”
Was this a compliment? Hayden could not bear to hear it. She said fiercely, “There is no such thing as Joseph is the other man. I married Edison because of the green card. I did this in order to apply a legal identity for Stella and myself in the United States. That time, Edison needed money and I needed a legal identity, so it was just a deal.”
“So… Stella’s father is not Edison either?”
Kevin touched his chin and reacted with hindsight, “A deal? You said that your marriage with Edison was only a deal? Why didn’t you tell this to Joseph?”
“He told you I didn’t?”
Hayden became even more annoyed, “He is the one who has nasty things going on inside his head and he assumed that everyone was the same as him. what else is there to say?"
She had told Joseph that she married Edison was all because of getting the green card. However, he was so stubborn and treated her like a materialistic woman that would do anything to get what she wanted. What else could she say?
Kevin was stunned. As a bystander, neither of them was wrong. They were just mad at each other and led to more conflicts, causing things to become more and more out of control.
“I don’t understand what you mean, can you explain more about it?” Kevin looked at Hayden with a puzzled expression, “Why is your marriage with Edison only a deal? I’m curious about that.”
“It’s a long story.”
Hayden started reminiscing.
That was five years ago, when she just gave birth to Stella and Noah. She brought Stella with her and escaped to the United States. Stella was not born in the United States, so her visa expired after staying there for a while. Hence, there was only two choices for her to choose from. The first one was to return to her country and apply the visa again, the other choice was to go back to the Downey family and tell them the truth.
Either way she chose would need her to return to her country. At that time, Hayden was very insecure. She was afraid that she would step back into the place filled with sad memories and she would be targeted by the man who forced her to bear a child for him. Hence, she would rather stay illegally in United States than to return to China.
“At that time, I was a cleaner at Edison’s company.”
“A cleaner?” Kevin was taken aback.
Who would have thought that a girl from a wealthy family could be a cleaner?
However, Hayden did not explain much about why she chose this job.
“Edison encountered a bottleneck in his business. He was short of 10 million yuan. I had the amount of money. When I talked to him about lending him the money, he did not trust me at all. He thought that I am a lunatic. How could anyone lend money without interest?”
Hayden still remembered that she wore a brown cleaner’s uniform at that time. She ran into Edison’s office abruptly. At that time, Edison was not this calm and domineering, He swept all the things on his table to the ground in rage. He was the general manager of the company, but his office was like a pigsty.
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