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Emma paused as she left. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the gold bracelet on her wrist. She took it off and held it tightly in her hand. The hard metal hurt her palm.
When Marcus caught up, Emma had already turned into the restroom. Within two minutes, she heard the sound of his phone ringing outside- but it only rang once before it was quickly picked up.
“Wait for me in the garden.” The next second, footsteps were heard again, gradually fading away.
Emma had attended numerous dinners here and was very familiar with
the layout. When she heard about the g
the layout. When she heard about the garden, she knew where Marcus.
was going.
She left the restroom and walked around to the storeroom at the end of the hallway. Through a gap in the window, she saw Marcus hurrying over. Claire, who had been waiting there, flew into Marcus‘ arms.
He didn’t resist at all. He held her waist intimately, tightly as if he wanted to rub her into his own body. “You’re seducing me again. Have you forgotten so quickly about not being able to get out of bed a few days ago?”
For the past few days, he had been with Emma all the time. So she knew instantly which days he was talking about.
The night they left the Donovan family’s old house, Marcus did not return all night, staying out until morning. He came back with kiss marks and ambiguous scratches on his body.
Claire held Marcus’s waist and raised her head while still in his arms.
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Marcus stared at her for two seconds, lowered his head, and kissed her fiercely. The two hugged each other as they wiggled about. The sound of their lips entangling sounded particularly loud in the quiet little garden.
Claire deliberately bit his mouth. Marcus suddenly pulled himself out of lust, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.
“Are you looking for trouble? I warned you not to leave any marks in obvious places.
“Emma will give me hell if she sees it.”
Claire was not afraid of his ferocious appearance at all, and deliberately rubbed her chest against him.
“Why don’t you just make up an excuse for it? She won’t doubt you.
“I prefer you being so fierce to me in bed. Did you like the maid outfit last time? Come to my place again tonight, okay? I have prepared new tricks this time…”
She rose onto her toes and whispered something in his ear. Marcus pursed his dry lips impatiently, pinched Claire’s chin, and kissed her fiercely again!
Emma stood behind the window, watching everything that happened through the crack. Her whole body went cold.
Although she already knew that Marcus and Claire were together, she was shocked to see it with her own eyes. She felt as if someone had wrenched her heart. Emma held onto the window frame, almost losing her balance.
By the time she calmed down and left the storeroom, Marcus had already left Claire and was looking for her.
When he spotted Emma, he rushed toward her, forehead dotted with
sweat. “Where did you go just now? I was so worried when I couldn’t find
you.”
Emma’s eyes deliberately locked onto the corner of his bitten lip. “You were not there when I came out of the bathroom, so I went for a walk in the garden. What happened to your lip?”
Marcus suddenly became flustered. A layer of cold sweat appeared on hist forehead again. “Which garden did you go to?”
Emma pulled up a mocking smile and turned away, no longer looking at
him.
“It’s the garden at the back. A lot of people are there. Why do you look so nervous?” She saw him sigh in relief.
“No, I was just worried that I couldn’t find you after you ran off on your
own.”
Claire was standing on the stage at this moment, talking about the help the Donovan family had given her over the years. But her eyes were always looking over to Marcus.
Marcus looked across the crowd at Claire on the stage, thinking about the gift she said she would give him later that night in the garden.
His muscles tensed up, and when he unconsciously pursed his lips, the wound at the corner of his mouth was pulled open. Then, he remembered that he had not answered Emma’s question.
“It must have been the weather. I got a blister on my lip–it was
accidentally broken, but it’s no big deal.”
Emma sneered inaudibly, turned around, and walked away. “I’m tired, I’m going home.”
Marcus suddenly felt inexplicably flustered. He grabbed Emma’s wrist
tightly and said, “I’ll tell my parents, and then I’ll go back with you.”
A few minutes later, Marcus took Emma away from the dinner and headed towards the old house.
“Mom said she wanted us to stay at the old house for one night. We will go back tomorrow.”
Emma did not protest.
She returned to the house, washed up, and lay down on the bed. After days of physical and emotional exhaustion, she drifted into a light sleep. Beside her, she could hear the faint tapping of a phone screen–and Marcus’s quiet chuckle.
After quite a while, there was a noise beside him. Marcus gently woke her up, kissed her lightly, and said, “Mom wants to talk to me. Call me if you need anything.”
Emma nodded and turned around, pretending to fall asleep again.
After Marcus tiptoed away, Emma sat up. She heard the faint sound of footsteps heading toward the study. After a moment’s hesitation, she quietly followed.
There was light coming through the crack under the study door. Kate’s voice, suppressed in anger, was heard.
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“How many times have I told you that Emma is a good girl? Now that have her, you should have gotten rid of all the dirty women around you. Instead, you are tangled up with Claire, and you let other people find out about it.
“Have you ever thought about what would happen if someone told Emma about what you did?
“Marcus, you are an adult. I don’t want to lecture you. But I can’t watch
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you do something you will regret later just for the sake of excitement!”
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