“Spy?” “If he wasn’t trying to search you, then he must have gotten interested in you because of your looks and body. When he took off all your clothes, he realized that your body was flat and skinny. He must have thought to himself, ah, how boring!”
Hearing that, Selena glanced at her own chest and let out an awkward cough.
“Or perhaps he saw the scar from your C-section and lost all interest. A man like him wouldn’t want to touch a woman who has given birth before. Now, the second possibility sounds more plausible to me—he suspected that you were spying on him, so he took off your clothes for a thorough ‘body search’.”
Selena agreed with Jude’s reasoning, but she could not shake off a vague feeling of disappointment. Believing falsely that she had slept with him once, she thought that it would not matter to do it with him for the second time. That was also the main reason that she had agreed to sleep with him to save JNS Corporation. When she found out about the truth now, she suddenly felt uneasy and nervous.
“Hey, you look a little disappointed.” Jude could instantly read her friend’s mind.
“That’s not true! Are you having breakfast here? I’ll make some food for you.” Selena denied the truth and changed the topic before heading to the kitchen.
Meanwhile, at Fowler Residence, Jameson’s fever had gone down the day before, but it came back with a vengeance after he threw up all over Meredith in the morning. At one point, his body temperature reached a high of 40 degrees Celsius, much to everyone’s horror.
Among all of them, Meredith was the one who was the most badly shocked. During the doctor’s visit, she stole out of Jameson’s room and took out her phone with trembling hands.
“Hey! What’s wrong with that substance you gave me?” Hiding in a corner, Meredith made a call to someone while keeping an eye out for the people in Fowler Residence.
The Fowlers had too many servants around, and if she was overheard, the secret would easily be leaked. Therefore, she had to constantly keep her guard up.
“Didn’t you promise me that the substance was safe? And that the kid would only run a fever with no major issues? Last night, we gave him some paracetamol and his fever went down, but this morning, he started throwing up and running a high fever again!”
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