The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 410

Even though Charles knew that Autumn didn't do that on purpose, he could not help but feel a pinch of disappointment with her.

"Never mind, it was just a simple meal." Leila said with a rather assuring smile, "Please do help yourself."

Leila wasn't hungry but she kept persuading and urging Charles to eat more.

"Mr. Lu, can you... please tell me what happened?" Leila encouraged him to open up, "Maybe you will feel better once you speak it out. And you can trust that whatever you tell me will remain between us."

"I am fine." Charles let out a bitter smile as he simply could not even think of troubling anyone else with his burden.

"Then... you can just tell me whenever you decide to talk about it with others." Leila drew the line there and stopped nudging him to open up as she knew how Charles didn't like the women who were too enthusiastic around him. She cleaned up the table carefully after dinner and said to Charles, "I need to leave now, Mr. Lu."

"Hold on." Charles put on his jacket as he offered, "I'll drop you back home. It's the least I can do."

Charles wanted to express his gratitude for Leila in a way that he could.

Leila nodded her head in approval. This had presented itself as a perfect opportunity to draw closer to him and she had absolutely no reason to refuse it.

On their way to Leila's home, she didn't say anything because Charles wasn't in a good mood. When his car pulled over outside her home, Leila said, "Would you join me upstairs for a cup of tea?"

"No, thank you. I have troubled you enough for one night." Charles didn't want to go home but that did not mean he would brazenly head to another woman's house and betray Autumn.

He finally decided to go home. Once he reached, the living room was pitch dark and he saw Autumn perched on the sofa with a sad expression as switched on the light. Autumn stared back at him and asked, "Where did you go? Why have you come home so late?"

"I was occupied with quite a lot of work in the office." Then he added, "It is quite late. Why didn't you just go to sleep?"

"You are lying!" Autumn yelled at Charles with hatred and disgust, "I called you on your personal extention number in the office. You were not there! So I ask you again where did you go?"

"I told you I was working in the company. What is it that you want to hear?" Charles got impatient. Her interrogation and accusations did not annoy him, but... instead he was confused as to why Autumn refused to go to hospital and get treatment.

Charles felt like he was about to go insane after such a long time. So, when he returned and had to face Autumn's vexatious inquiry, he almost lost his temper.

"I just want to know where you went. If you didn't do anything wrong, then why are you hesitating to tell me the truth?" Autumn walked up towards Charles and said, "Just tell me if you have a mistress outside the bounds of this house."

"No! No! No!" Charles felt so weak from her attacks. He looked into her eyes and said, "Everyday you ask me these same questions. When will this maddness stop? You are sick and you need to receive treatment in hospital. I can't bear to handle you any more."

"I'm not sick!" Autumn flashed an angry stare at Charles, almost as though the man standing in front of her was not her husband but an enemy.

"What are you arguing about?" Their angry and loud exchanges woke Chris up. She came out of her bedroom and persuaded Autumn, "Autumn, you are the only woman my brother loves. I can assure you that until my last breath. He will never have any mistress. He could not bear to disappoint you. Please trust him."

"You are lying!" Autumn didn't believe what Chris was saying either. She sneered as she responded, "You two sibblings have united to cheat me. You don't understand me at all and just don't want me to know the truth."

Autumn had the same maddening dream everyday. It had convinced her and gripped her stronger than reality itself.

In her dream, Charles dated different women almost every day without even looking in her direction.