“No problem.” Aunt Lucy shook her head, “It’s only right that The Bort Family people make it up to the Mrs., but I just don’t think the Mrs. would want it.”
“Aunt Lucy, what wouldn’t I want?” Christine White’s voice came up the stairs.
Baird Lane took the check and hurried over to Christine White before Aunt Lucy could answer, “This is for you.”
Christine White coldly swept the check from his hand without taking it, “What do you mean?”
“This is The Bort Family’s way of making it up to you.” Baird Lane explained.
Christine White’s hand on the railing tightened violently, “Compensation?”
“Yes.”
“How very generous, five million dollars!” Christine White sneered.
Baird Lane took her other hand and placed the check in it, “Take it.”
“I don’t want it!” Christine White dropped the check on the stairs without giving the slightest thought.
Baird Lane looked down at the check that floated to his feet and frowned, “Why not?”
“Why should I?” Christine White asked him back.
Baird Lane pursed his lips, “As I just said, this is The Bort Family’s way of compensating you.”
“Compensation?” Christine White let out a mocking laugh, “It’s the buyout money, isn’t it, the money to buy out my bone marrow and my children’s lives, it just happens to ko an excuse to make it up to me, after all, it sounds so much better that way doesn’t it?”
Baird Lane was getting a little upset, “Christine White, will you stop speculating like that? I asked Leo Bort for compensation for you, nothing more?”
“You claimed it?” Christine White looked at him more subtly.
Somehow Baird Lane was a little uneasy inside, but nodded, “It’s me.”
“I see.” Christine White bent down and picked up the check, sarcasm on her face, “You asked The Bort Family for this, which means that if you hadn’t mentioned it, then The Bort Family wouldn’t have compensated me right?”
Baird Lane looked startled, thought of something, and his face became extremely ugly.
Yeah, well, a month ago, when he went to The Bort Family to pick up, Leo Bort said he’d make it up to Christine White.
But in this month, Leo Bort has made no real move to make amends at all.
Maybe it’s true what Christine White said, as long as he doesn’t open his mouth, then Leo Bort will muddle through.
Thinking about it, Baird Lane’s fists clenched, “It’s something that I didn’t think through, and I’m sorry.”
“I don’t accept your apology, so what do you mean by asking Leo Bort for the check now?” Christine White held up the check and looked at him coldly, “Is the plan to buy me off with this five million dollars and then get me to let all this go so I can let go of my hatred for you guys and end it all?”
Hearing this, Baird Lane frowned, “You misunderstand, I didn’t mean that.”
“But it seems to me that’s what you mean, otherwise why would you be claiming damages on my behalf for no good reason? Much ado about nothing Mr. Lane can’t be ignorant of the fact that I don’t trust you anymore, so what you’re doing to me now seems premeditated to me.” With that said, Christine White snapped the check and slapped it on his chest, then crossed to him and slowly descended the stairs.
Baird Lane caught the check that was about to fall and turned to look at her thin back, “Christine White, you don’t want the check?”
“I said, this is the money that bought out my bone marrow and my child’s life, I will never take it, ask Mr. Lane, would you take a piece of money that is stained with your own blood, not to mention, your so-called compensation is not something that the other party gave willingly!” Christine White twisted her head and asked him back in a cold and scanty voice.
Baird Lane’s eyes shifted and changed, then slowly tightened the check in his hand, a little lump in his throat, “I know, I’ll keep this check for you for now, and if you need it, you’ll ask me for it.”
“Suit yourself.” Christine White turned her head back and ignored him, walking slowly toward the foyer.
Baird Lane, seeing that she seemed to be going out, immediately spoke up and asked, “Where are you going?”
Christine White just pretends she didn’t hear it and keeps going.
Baird Lane’s eyes sank as he casually slipped the check into his pants pocket before catching up with her in two or three strides on his two long legs, “I asked you where you were going.”
“None of your business.” Christine White returned with an expressionless face.
Baird Lane grabbed her arm in one hand, “I’ll send you there if you make it clear.”
“No need, I can do it myself.” She flung her arms vigorously, trying to wrench them out of the man’s grasp.
But the man seemed to have expected her to be like this, and the strength in his hands slowly tightened, so that she couldn’t shake it off no matter how hard she tried.
Christine White was a little angry, and her sickly waxy little face was colored with a faint red from her anger, and she looked a lot more spirited than the cold look she had just had.
“You let go!” She lifted her head and glared at the man in mild anger.
The man didn’t let go, lowering his head slightly and bringing his face very close, “Say, where are you going?”
Christine White kept her head away, “I’m going out to run some errands.”
“On what errand?” Baird Lane pursued.
Christine White closed her eyes, a little impatient, “What’s that got to do with you?”
“I’m your husband!” Baird Lane stared her in the eye and answered word for word.
Christine White laughed and sneered, “Husband? Mr. Lane, are you sure you are my husband? What kind of husband leaves his wife here for three years, what kind of husband lets his wife donate bone marrow to his ex-girlfriend, what kind of husband doesn’t avenge the death of his child!”
Three questions in a row left Baird Lane speechless.
But Christine White didn’t let him off the hook so easily, and after taking a deep breath continued, “You haven’t cared about anything about me for the past three years, and you’ve never asked me anything, and now you’re just coming to ask me and to care about me, don’t you think it’s too late? And I don’t need it, so be it!”
She used all her strength to push him away, changed her shoes and headed out the door.
Baird Lane didn’t go after her this time, but just looked at the door where she had left in a bit of a daze.
Seeing him like this, Aunt Lucy helplessly said, “Sir, in fact, the wife is right, you are indeed not a qualified husband, now that the wife is determined to divorce you and you are not ready to do so, are you going to live like a pair of spiteful spouses?”
The question, which took Baird Lane for a moment, “Spiteful spouse?”
“Yeah, the wife doesn’t even want to look at you much now, let alone pay attention to you, but you, you don’t care much about the wife either, so it’s not normal for you to be a couple like that.”
Being a wife and being disappointed in her husband.
And when the husband’s, know that his wife to their own disappointment, but did not think of the past to correct to restore, this can go on how to do ah.
Thinking of this, Aunt Lucy sighed worriedly, “Sir, I think you should take a good look at your relationship with your wife, and treat her as your wife truly, not as a dispensable person, if you can’t do that, then there’s really no need for your marriage to last.”
With that, Aunt Lucy went off to do her own thing, leaving the place to Baird Lane and wishing him well in his reflections.
Baird Lane stood in place for perhaps a few minutes, suddenly pursed his lips, and then pulled open the cottage door.
He felt that he and Christine White, had to have a talk.
This time, he wouldn’t give up and not talk about it like he did last time when she said no.
Thinking, Baird Lane chased towards the nearest gate of the villa area, Christine White was not well enough to walk fast, he should still be able to catch up!
But it doesn’t work out that way, and by the time he chases him to the front door, he’s just in time to see Christine White get into a limousine and leave.