“Yes.” Baird Lane nodded.
Christine White smiled bitterly, “You’re referring to the fact that they’re either hitting or cursing me, right?”
Baird Lane’s thin lips twitched without answering.
That’s just one of the reasons.
One reason, however, is that The White Family is illegally raising her.
Gates’ investigation, while it hasn’t yet revealed who her biological parents are, has revealed that The White Family couple didn’t raise her the regular way back in the day, which means that it’s very possible that she was stolen from The White Family couple.
“I actually don’t care about what my parents ever did to me anymore, because I decided a long time ago that I’ll just treat them as normal relatives from now on, and emotionally speaking, I don’t really have much feelings for them anymore, but Mick is different.” Christine White lowered her head.
Baird Lane sat down beside her, “What’s different?”
“In fact Mick when I was little was completely different from now, in the past every time I was beaten, Mick would protect me, even when I was put mom and dad locked up and not allowed to eat, he would sneak me food, so we had a good relationship when we were little, but all of a sudden there was a he changed and became the same as mom and dad …”
“From what you’re saying, you’re trying to figure out the reason for Mick White’s sudden change, aren’t you?” Baird Lane’s eyelids flicked up.
Christine White lowered her eyes, “I didn’t know before that he suddenly changed because he felt sorry for me, so naturally I got cold feet when he turned out the way he did, but now that I know, I want to find out.”
“What happens after you figure it out?” Baird Lane asked her as he folded his long, slender legs, “Are you going to continue to be a close sibling to him after that?”
Christine White’s lips twitched without a word.
She really did mean it.
“Stupid.” Baird Lane knocked her on the head.
Christine White covered her head and glared at him in displeasure, “Where am I stupid?”
“Everywhere stupid, and you’re actually thinking of fixing things with him.” Baird Lane snorted, “Have you forgotten how he treated you as his sister all these years.”
“But maybe it’s true that I’m sorry for him?” Christine White twisted the corner of her coat.
Baird Lane coldly hailed, “Even if you’ve wronged him, but he’s oppressed you for so many years, you’ve paid him back a long time ago, and have you thought about it, if there’s really a misunderstanding between you two, after the misunderstanding is cleared up, will your relationship really go back to the way it was before?”
Christine White froze.
Baird Lane looked at her like that and knew, “You didn’t think about it did you?”
Christine White’s head went down again, “I really hadn’t thought about it.”
“So how can you confirm this? Also, Mick White is long gone from the Mick White he was then, he’s devious and vicious and selfish now, so can you guarantee that once you’ve cleared up your misunderstanding, he’ll change back to the old Mick White?” Baird Lane asked her again.
His two consecutive questions had sapped the excitement from her heart, and she couldn’t even say a word to refute them.
After all, what he said made sense.
Mick White, as he is now, is so set in his ways that he simply can’t go back to being the soft and cuddly groupie he once was.
“So what do you think, what should I do?” Christine White covered her face, there was really nothing she could do.
Baird Lane’s heart softened when he saw how upset she was, and he wrapped his arms around her and took her into his arms, “You don’t have to say anything, just pretend that you didn’t hear those words, and since your relationship with The White Family has lasted for so many years, it’s going to continue to last.”
“But …” Christine White was about to say something else.
Baird Lane against her lips, “Listen to me, I’m not going to hurt you, and it won’t hurt you later.”
“Later?” Christine White caught those two words, “Is something going to happen to me later?”
Baird Lane’s eyes flickered slightly and quickly regained their calm impassivity, “It’s fine, it’s late, rest.”
With that, he picked her up in a straight princess hug.
Christine White was startled by the cold and exclaimed, subconsciously wrapping her arms around his neck, “What are you doing, put me down!”
“I’ll carry you to your room.” Baird Lane not only didn’t put him down, but walked straight toward the room, saying as he did so, “Last time I was interrupted in mid-sentence, and this time I’m not going to let you off the hook.”
Hearing this, how could Christine White not understand what he was talking about, her little face instantly turned red.
The last time the kitchen was interrupted, he actually remembered it.
“That …” Christine White kicked both calves.
Baird Lane looked down at her, “What’s wrong?”
“I didn’t take a shower.” She said in a thin whisper.
The corner of Baird Lane’s mouth quirked lightly, “It’s okay, do the wash after.”
“You don’t mind getting dirty?” Christine White looked at him in surprise.
Baird Lane put his foot against the bottom of the door and slammed it shut, “I don’t have a clean slate.”
“But …”
“No more excuses to try to get me to leave you alone, understand?” Baird Lane finished, lowering his head and kissing her, swallowing all the words she had yet to say.
Christine White opened both almond eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling, letting the man weave and plunder her mouth.
The man noticed her wandering off and frowned slightly.
To be able to go off at this hour, should he say, true to form?
Of course, that’s something Baird Lane didn’t end up saying, and he had plenty of ways to teach Christine White a lesson for going off on a tangent at a juncture like this.
With a shrewd glint in his eyes, Baird Lane released her lips, threw her right back on the bed, and took advantage of her panicked disorientation to lean in and press up against her.
“Mmmm …” Christine White stifled a grunt, and had struggled at first, but eventually couldn’t resist the man’s teasing and fell in.
It’s just a matter of letting him be.
Thinking about it, Christine White hooked one hand around the neck of the man on her body, catering to the man’s movements, and slowly moved down with one hand, touching her belly, murmuring in her heart: baby, come to mommy’s belly again …
A charming room.
The next day, Christine White gets up with a sore back and Baird Lane is gone.
She looked at the spot where he had lain and reached out to touch it; it was cold, so she figured he had been gone for a long time.
Buzz!
The cell phone sitting on the bed suddenly vibrated.
Christine White stopped hammering her back and peeked over to bring her cell phone up, stifling a sigh of relief when she saw that the caller ID was Debby York.
She thought it was Mick White again.
“Hello, Debby .” Christine White put the phone to her ear and, when she opened her mouth, was startled by her raspy voice.
Debby York on the other end of the line was shocked too, “Holy shit Christine what happened to your voice? Did you catch a cold?”
Christine White was embarrassed, “No, probably a recent throat infection.”
“An inflamed throat isn’t as hoarse as this, is it?” Debby York said suspiciously.
Christine White coughed twice and hastily changed the subject, “Enough about that, what did you want to see me about this early in the morning?”
“Nothing, asking you out to go clothes shopping with me.”
“Shopping for clothes?” Christine White brought her cell phone to her heel and looked at it, then put it to her ear, “It’s not the weekend, where did you find the time to go shopping, you’re not taking time off again, are you?”
“No, it’s that President Lane gave us, the employees who will be going to the headquarters, a special day off to get ready to go to the headquarters stuff, so I wanted to get a better professional suit for your reference.” Debby York explained.
Christine White drifted off, “So that’s it, but you just said President Lane gave you guys a vacation, so he’s in our company now?”
“Yeah, where else could he be?” Debby York laughs.
Christine White rubbed her nose, “I thought he’d gone back to headquarters.”
“Not yet, he’s supposed to be coming over with us, but I’ve heard in the last couple days that President Lane has been back at headquarters a lot.”
“That’s because something came up at headquarters that he needed to take care of, and that’s why he went back so often.” Christine White said.
Debby York glared, “How do you know?”