When Connor plotted the Brown Group to purchase the inferior agent, he was afraid that other people may turn his back on him, so he trusted his brother-in-law, Andrei Lowe to achieve this.
Though Andrei was not biologically related to Annie, he practically would listen to Annie’s every order.
Andrei would never betray him as long as Annie told him not to.
Thinking about this, Connor was even more anxious.
He then reached out his arms and hugged Annie, “My baby, you must be scared, right? Let’s go home.”
But Annie didn’t even move a muscle.
Connor turned around in bewilderment then and landed his eyes on Annie’s delicate face, “Honey?”
Honey?
So he just remembered that she was his wife, right?
How come that he pretended that he didn’t hear her crying before when Ralph that bastard humiliated her?
Huh, how hilarious!
She actually was willing to sacrifice herself to Ralph for Connor before she was abandoned ruthlessly!
“Well, you abandoned me.”
Noticing Annie’s strings of tears, Connor hurriedly pulled her into his arms and explained, “I didn’t. I was just...”
But Connor struggled to come up with a good excuse.
Annie let out a wry smile, “You were just hesitating, right?”
There weren’t any emotions in Annie’s voice, so Connor foolishly thought that she was just trying to justify him as usual.
Annie obviously still loved him.
He then blinked and nodded heavily, “Yes. I was just hesitating.”
“I was almost ruined because your hesitation!” Annie pushed Connor away frantically and stepped back.
Connor’s face darkened because of Annie’s outburst.
Feeling that he can’t soothe Annie anymore, Connor slapped himself right on the face, “I’m sorry, Annie. I was a douchebag. I really ought to kill myself.”
Connor would always use this trick to pacify Annie whenever they fought before and Annie would always fall for this.
But today, Annie remained undisturbed.
She wiped away tears on her face and said, “I always feel that I’m quite happy all these years because I have a husband who love me and cherish me, but today, I realized that you only love yourself the most.”
“Annie, I...”
“You know, I really wanted to sacrifice myself to Ralph for you before.” Annie sobbed and didn’t recover for a while. “But it’s not the same thing as he just pushed her to Ralph for his future.”
The former was love and the latter was hate.
When she saw Connor just abandoned her herself before, Annie was really in despair and from that moment, all her love for Connor had transformed into hatred and resentment.
It had been ten years since she started dating Connor since college.
But cruel reality just triumphed over ten years of love.
She really learned this lesson the hard way.
Annie took a deep breath and made an important decision in her mind.
She retracted her look from Connor and turned to Rita, “Hey, how should I call you?”
“Rita.”
“Miss Brown, I would be happy to be your witness and expose Connor’s crime of purchasing shoddy coloring agent to the public.”
Rita froze because of Annie’s straightforwardness. She then looked at her gratefully, “Thank you.”
“No worries. You saved me. I owe you this.”
Connor directly passed out because of Annie’s words.
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