Seeing that his handsome face looked so gentle, she subconsciously frowned and bit her lips. Although it was just a subtle action, he immediately noticed it. Every time she was frustrated, annoyed, flustered, or overwhelmed, such a subtle action will be seen coming from her.
“I don’t want to.” Although her voice trembled a little, she immediately refused and remained determined.
“Was it because I wasn’t by your side during the last time, so now you are afraid of it?” He was understanding but also heartbroken.
She remained silent.
Everyone knew how scary it was to have a baby, it was not at all as simple as laying an egg. She almost died giving birth to Iris. When Iris was born, she remained unresponsive. She finally recovered after being saved by the doctors for almost half a day. She finally finished giving birth to Iris after a day and she did not want to go through the same process ever again.
“Get up, I’m going back to see Iris!” She pushed him away hard.
“Forget it, let’s stop having children, if you don’t want to, let’s just stop it!” He decided not to force her.
When he said that, her heart choked as she raised her eyes to look at him. His eyes were so deep and he was quite easy to compromise. She knew he took pity for her which made her felt warm inside.
He kissed her forehead and spoke with that deep voice of his, “Having Iris with us is already enough!”
Seeing that he already backed off, she felt a little bit uncomfortable.
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A week later.
In the end, Winnie did not visit Hudson. Her feelings were quite complicated as she did not want the relationship between them to become messier.
It was another rainy day.
The exhibition was being held.
Winnie was the host in charge of the trade fair on behalf of the company.
Rio had gone away on a business trip to expand the market.
The staff said that the Ball Group, which had just returned to the country, wanted to order their equipment and was willing to be generous. It was a big deal for them.
After hearing about the Ball Group, she knew it was Hudson, who had come back to start a new company. The headquarter of his company was in New York, and just like GB, he also returned to the country for further development of his company.
She did not expect Hudson to order her equipment. However, she knew that he had a purpose in doing so. She was thinking about what Esther had said to her for an entire week, she wondered if he had any feelings for her at all.
Sometimes she felt sad for herself. She had already married twice, and it was with the same person. However, they were never really in love with each other during both marriages. Thus, they did not know what love was. She took a big loss in this life of hers. Every time she thought about it, she felt unbalanced, extremely unbalanced in her heart, why did she have to experience this?
When she walked into the exhibition hall, her clothes were already half wet. This was because she was in the rain, standing for too long. She was distracted for a while and naturally thought of the culprit who did this to her – Hudson Ball.
And behind Hudson was his personal assistant Neil. Seeing that Winnie had just come in, Neil greeted her from afar. She then gave a brief introduction, “President Winnie, this is President Hudson of Ball Group, he is waiting for you!”
Winnie showed a charming smile and walked in stiffly. Other than looking a bit tired, it seemed that he was fine. As his deep eyes focus on her face, suddenly brighten while dimming down again, calmness could be seen in his eyes as if they never met before. After Winnie smiled at Hudson and gave a nod, she then called out, “Hello, President Hudson!”
She politely stretched out her hand, as if she was facing a regular customer. She was also just being polite like she always did.
After Huston had blinked, he also extended his hand. After the two hands shook, Winnie wanted to pull back her hand, but Huston kept tightening his grip. As she was a little embarrassed and was afraid that Neil could see it, she quietly drew her hand back again. However, his grip on her was still very tight. After she gave up on struggling, he only decided to let go.
Her face was getting hot, but she still pretended not to recognize him. Fortunately, Hudson was very cooperative and did not say anything.
“President Winnie, we have already introduced the equipment to President Hudson, are you going to discuss it here? Or are you going back to the company?” Neil asked.
“President Winnie, why don’t you go to my company, it just so happens that there are still some details that I need to discuss with you, and I hope that President Winnie can personally go to the factory when the equipment is installed!”
“Well…”
Before Winnie could say anything, Hudson quickly interrupted her, not giving her a chance to refuse. “It’s settled, I’m not sure about others. However, because I’ve heard that President Winnie is very responsible in her work, so I want to ask President Winnie to personally give me a hand!”
After talking to this point, Winnie also put aside her concerns, “Alright! Then let’s go to your company to have a discussion!”
In this way, Winnie and Hudson walked out together, and for a long-distance, both of them were silent.
When they arrived at the door, Winnie wanted to walk towards her car, but she was pulled back by him. He remained silent. He immediately borrowed an umbrella from the guard, held her hand, and got into his car. “I can give you a ride!”
“No need, I have my ride!” Winnie arrived here by driving.
However, Hudson just smiled and said, “Even if we are divorced, are we still friends?”
Winnie was stunned. She also felt no need to be too petty so she nodded her head and replied. “Yes!”
“Okay then!” Winnie drew back her hand, not wanting him to continue pulling her hand.
The two of them shared an umbrella and walked out of the exhibition area. The parking lot was huge, the place where the exhibition was held was quite environmentally friendly with a pond-like design. As she entered the curved stone paved path with him, the rain was still falling. They were walking under the same umbrella. This umbrella, this person, this rain, this path, gave her an illusion that she seemed to be in love.
Oh my God! She was thinking nonsense again! She could not help but frown while feeling a bit frustrated.
“Where did you park your car?” After walking for a long time and not arriving anywhere, Winnie was getting a bit anxious.
“Almost there!” He said in a deep voice, but he then quickly changed the topic. “It’s been raining a lot lately, with this kind of rain, it sets up a nice scenery!”
“Uh!” She was stunned, why did he tell her about this?
He did not care about her silence and continued saying, “I’ve been sick for a week.”
“Ah…” she got startled and suddenly went silent again, feeling as if she had overreacted, “So, are you well now? What kind of sickness did you get?”
“My stomach was aching!” He replied.
Her heart suddenly ached, and her two small hands suddenly twisted together to calm herself.
Hudson could no longer control his emotions, his voice was hoarse as he asked, “Are you okay? Does your stomach still hurt?”
“Uh!” Her face flushed red, it had been a week, if she still felt pain, she might as well be dead. Whose period does not finish within a week? If it took that long, there was a high chance that she was already sick!
Hudson also realized that he was being too over-intimate, so he decided to shut up and stop talking. Everything he wanted to say, he decided not to say at that moment.
Winnie was also shocked and continue remaining silent. The two of them walked around to his car, but when Winnie subconsciously looked back, she realized they only need to walk about thirty steps after turning right from the showroom. However, he pulled her and walked the long way, they almost circled the garden path and walked past most of the showroom floor.
She shuddered in her heart; did he like to take a long way around?
When he got into the car, Hudson waved at the guard. After the guard immediately came over to get the umbrella, he entered the car. When he saw her clothes were drenched, he did not say anything and just took off his suit jacket to help drape over her.
“No, it’s not necessary!” She shook her head.
“Put it on, you are wet!” He spoke.
Seeing him do this to herself, it was as if something had suddenly hit Winnie’s heart. “Have you always had stomach aches? What happened to your stomach?”
“Nothing, the doctor said I did not eat my meals on schedule, so I had to suffer the consequences for not taking good care of her!” These words he said had a deeper meaning, and the “her” at the end was him talking about Winnie. However, Winnie did not understand, or rather, after her heart trembled, she felt that she should not think too much, so she did not think too much about what he said.
“Take care of yourself!” Her voice was gentle.
As he was driving, he took a look at her, with a thousand words in his eyes and faint sadness in his heart. “One doesn’t want to eat when one has little appetite, that’s the reason, but I’ll try to eat on time in the future!”
Winnie felt her emotions becoming soft, her voice was also much gentle, “Then have you eaten lunch?”
A slight silence, “No!”
“Let’s go eat first!” She spoke.
Hudson was stunned, and his gaze suddenly deepened. “Okay!”
“Where is the location of the factory?” She asked.
“It is at the development area, it is a bit far away!” He replied.
“How’s the preparation?”
“Once the equipment is installed, we can start working. The staff is all ready to work, they are just waiting for the equipment!”
The car drove to a restaurant and stopped.
Winnie took the menu and ordered some light food. She even helped him by ordering a seafood porridge.
“Have you eaten?” He asked.
“I’ve eaten!” Winnie said. “You should eat all these by yourself, don’t eat anything too stimulating, your stomach is not well so don’t even drink in the future!”
Hudson was touched, but he remained silent.
He was eating quickly as he was afraid that she was anxious to wait.
“Do not eat too fast, eating fast is not good for the stomach!” She suddenly took pity on him. All these years, how did he live through it? Could it be that even a big man like him could not take care of himself?
He looked up while his heart was moved. He then lowered his head but slowed down his eating speed.
After eating, she said, “No need to go to your company, if you still have any details that you are not clear with, I tell you now!”
He was suddenly a little embarrassed, “Actually … it’s nothing, we can immediately have an agreement, I fully believe in your ability and professional conduct!”
Her heart suddenly felt a lot of emotions, but she did not know what to say. Did he do this, just to see her? Could she think like that?
“I came by, just to see you!” He said again.
She was shocked.
She did not expect him to say that.
“Working is not as simple as believing or not believing. Working is also not based on friendship, I shouldn’t give you good equipment just because I know you, you should go and study it properly to see if our company’s equipment is suitable for your factory, so how can you be so careless? I don’t know how your company works!” She replied.
A very sad feeling surged in Hudson’s heart. He felt that as if he had never really understood her. As he listened to her reprimand, he felt sad and remorseful, why did not he take a good look at her in the first place?
Esther said that all these years, Winnie loved him, it was always him, since he liked Winnie, why did not he let go and chase after her?
However, he said that Winnie had a live-in partner, which was Rio.
However, Esther said, “Did you see it with your own eyes? Are you sure they are sleeping in the same room, in the same bed? Not to mention that there are so many residents in that apartment?”
He was dumbfounded and at a loss for words, realizing that he had always been so retarded in the path of dealing with relationships. He was always letting the girl he liked slip away so easily!
There had never been any woman that made him felt pain like this in his heart. It hurt when he thought about it, it hurt when he touched it. Even including Esther, there had never been anyone who could make him feel pain like this…