Nora was also dumbfounded. She did not expect Derek would be so good at this.
Of course, they won. After receiving the prize, they returned to the hotel.
As soon as she entered the room, her cell phone rang. It was a call from her good friend Penelope. She picked it up without hesitation and heard a familiar voice.
"Nora, where are you?"
"Penelope, what's wrong?"
"Nothing. Sheldon couldn't find you, so he called me."
Sheldon?
Nora was stunned. She completely forgot about it. Before she left the country, Sheldon told her that he would be back soon. So he must arrive by now.
Her phone's volume was a bit high, so Derek and Easton heard this too.
Derek narrowed his eyes and a dangerous light flashed across them. He naturally had investigated the woman who was on the phone with Nora.
He didn't expect that Sheldon would try to call Nora's friend. What a mistake.
After Nora hung up the phone, she thought of something and immediately looked at Derek. A feeling of guilt flashed through her heart. She was stunned and then angry.
Although she had a son with Derek, she had nothing to do with him now. Why should she feel guilty?
Thinking of this, she was a little annoyed. "Mr. Xavier, it looks like I have to go back tomorrow. If you still have something to deal with, I can leave myself."
He just smiled and said lightly, "Nothing to deal with. We'll leave together tomorrow."
She was relieved that he did not refuse.
Easton pursed his lips and was unhappy. He was having a good time, but now his trip was ended because of that guy Sheldon. "I hate him," Easton thought.
Nora opened the contacts on her phone and muttered to herself in confusion, "He can call me. Why did he say he could not find me..."
Derek's eyes flickered and he stopped her from calling Sheldon. "It's very late now. We're going back tomorrow. You can have a better talk with him after you see him."
If she called Sheldon, she would know what he had done. He had to find a chance to remove his number from the blacklist later.
The next day, they took the earliest flight back.
Nora called Sheldon and made an appointment.
After Sheldon returned from abroad, his mother began to complain about Nora in front of him in tears. And this time, he couldn't smooth things over with just a few words.
No matter what he comforted his mother calmly, his mother insisted to ask him to break up with Nora, which made him very unhappy.
His mother even scolded him and gave him an ultimatum. She said if he didn't break up with Nora, she would disown him.
Sheldon naturally wouldn't let that happen, so he really didn't know what to do.
He felt that he couldn't hesitate any longer. Now that he was back, he should get married to Nora as soon as possible. But the wedding might be off the table because it would upset his mother.
He would explain to Nora, or deceive her by saying that the wedding could wait and that they should get their marriage licenses first.
When he got what he wanted, he would divorce her, which was not a big deal.
He had made up his mind, but he couldn't get through to Nora's number, and nor could he find her, so he called Penelope.
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