Christine White gave a slight nod, “Yes.”
“If you go back now, aren’t you afraid that President Lane has brought someone to your villa?” Hugh Dong followed suit and stood up.
Christine White smiled slightly, “I don’t think so, and after the last couple of hours, I’m completely calm in my head, and when I think about it, I think it might have been a misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding?” Hugh Dong looked at her with some subtlety, “Do you think it’s a misunderstanding that they hugged, or that it’s a misunderstanding that President Lane has thoughts of divorce?”
Christine White dropped her eyes, “Maybe both.”
“How?”
Christine White took a breath and briefly explained her thoughts, “The Lane Family is on the cusp lately, someone has joined forces with The Bort Family to try to break into The Lane Family, and Baird did and said that to Molly Bort, perhaps trying to find out about Leo Bort through her, and then find out who’s behind Leo Bort in one fell swoop.”
“You really think so? And what if it turns out not to be?” Hugh Dong asked her.
Christine White’s heart tugged at her heart, but on her face she returned with certainty, “I believe Baird, if he really wanted to be with Molly Bort, then he certainly wouldn’t have waited until now.”
“Alright then, I see what you mean, I’ll take you back.” Hugh Dong turned the car keys.
Christine White smiled gratefully, “Thanks.”
She then fished out her jacket from the back of the chair and walked out of the café side by side with him.
It was already eight o’clock in the evening when he returned to the villa area.
Christine White stood outside the villa, the magnetic card that opened the door in her hand, half swiping it down.
It was Aunt Lucy, who had finally come out to take out the trash, who saw her and rushed over to open the door, “Ma’am?”
“Aunt Lucy,” Christine White responded with a forced smile.
Aunt Lucy was on the verge of tears with joy, “Ma’am you’re finally back, where have you been all afternoon?”
Christine White walks into the villa, “I was just wandering around outside.”
“What’s taking you so long for a casual stroll, do you know how worried I was about you, your sudden departure from the office scared the hell out of me.” Aunt Lucy poured a cup of hot tea for her.
Christine White took it and thanked her, then said, “I’m sorry Aunt Lucy, for worrying you.”
“It’s nothing for me to worry about, it’s Mr. …”
Christine White’s eyes flickered, “What happened to him?”
“He’s been looking for you ma’am, but unfortunately your phone was turned off and he couldn’t locate you, after learning that you got into Hugh Dong’s car, he went to Dong’s Group and hasn’t come back yet.” Aunt Lucy replied.
Christine White pursed her lips, “I know.”
“Then, ma’am, you call Mr. and tell him you’re back.” Aunt Lucy looked at her.
Christine White pretended not to hear and sipped her tea in silence.
Aunt Lucy sighed, understanding that she was still diabolizing the daytime incident in her mind, so she didn’t say anything more and took out her own cell phone, “I’ll call Sir then.”
With that, he actually called Baird Lane.
Baird Lane got the call and flew back.
As soon as he walked into the living room, he opened his mouth to inquire directly, “Where have you been?”
His voice was cold, but it was laced with a hint of concern.
No one knew how anxious he was not to find her.
Now that he saw her back safe and sound, he was both relieved and at the same time quite angry in his heart.
She got into another man’s car without saying a word, didn’t even answer his calls, and came back so late that she didn’t even make a nervous gesture.
“I was casually sitting outside.” Christine White returned casually.
Baird Lane pursed his thin lips, “Why didn’t you answer my call?”
“Don’t want to take it.” Christine White drops her eyes.
She was telling the truth, she was in a rage, her mind was in chaos and she just wanted to get away from him, so how could she have answered his call.
Baird Lane didn’t expect Christine White to answer so directly, there was a pang of anger in his heart, “Don’t want to take it? Christine White you’ve grown up?”
Christine White smiled to herself, “I don’t need you to tell me if I’ve grown or not, but President Lane you came back and questioned me about this and that, do you think you’re right?”
Baird Lane frowned, not just because of her words, but because of her address.
She called him President Lane again.
The last time she called him that was when she made a scene about getting a divorce.
What does she want this time?
“So tell me, what’s wrong with me? Shouldn’t I be asking when you run off suddenly and get into someone else’s car so I can’t find you?” Baird Lane shook his fist.
Christine White took a deep breath, “I’m not saying I shouldn’t ask, but before you ask that, President Lane have you ever wondered why I ran and why I didn’t answer your calls?”
She gazed at him with a grumbling gaze.
Baird Lane sank his handsome face, “Because of my conversation with Molly Bort in my office?”
Christine White’s eyes flashed slightly, “That’s right, don’t you have any explanation for any of this for me? And this!”
She took out her cell phone from her bag and found the photo Hugh Dong sent her, then enlarged it and handed it to him, “How do you explain this? Don’t tell me it’s her falling down and you’re helping her!”
Baird Lane looked at the photo and froze for a split second, then his handsome face went completely dark, “I was indeed holding her up, but how did you get a photo like that?”
“It’s none of your business.” Christine White put down her cell phone, a few wisps of a sneer on her small face, “You said you were holding her up, is this holding up? This is clearly a hug.”
Baird Lane narrowed his eyes, “You don’t believe me?”
Christine White laughed, a mocking laugh, “Believe? You tell me how to believe?”
Baird Lane pursed his lips.
He didn’t say he was panicking, he was indeed helping Molly Bort, and at that time, that Molly Bort woman had somehow gotten into his company, and when she found him, she lunged right at him.
He moved to the side and was trying to avoid her, he didn’t expect her to fall straight towards the ground, he subconsciously reached out and yanked her, only for her to actually backhand him, and as far as him wrapping his arms around Molly Bort, that’s just ridiculous.
That was him pulling Molly Bort away from him, but he was photographed before he pulled away, so people would think that he was hugging Molly Bort, so what the intention of the person who took the photo is already very clear, that is, to make Christine White misunderstand that he is with Molly Bort.
“Why don’t you say anything?” Christine White’s heart sank when she saw that Baird Lane was slow to speak.
Baird Lane rubbed his distended temples, “There’s nothing to say, and I’ve already said what needs to be said, I’m holding Molly Bort up, you’re the one who doesn’t believe me.”
“You …” Christine White was furious.
Nothing to say?
That’s how he explained it to her, just one line about how he was just helping Molly Bort and it was gone, and that she didn’t believe it herself, and that’s how he’s going to gloss over it?
And was it that she didn’t want to believe it? Obviously he was the one who couldn’t explain it properly, but if he had explained it more, she might have believed it.
“Okay, you’re holding Molly Bort up okay, so what about your conversation, and what did you say, you really want to divorce me?” Christine White asked again as she closed her eyes and forced herself to calm down.
Baird Lane poured a glass of water, moistened his dry throat, and then returned, “No thing, that was just me trying to get a word in edgewise, and said that on purpose.”
At those words, Christine White’s eyes darted to snatch a bright light that flew away in a flash, “Lasso? What kind of words are you trying to get?”
“Leo Bort,” Baird Lane spat out three words slowly, not explaining much.
But Christine White had understood, and her restless heart suddenly sank at once, “So, I guessed right?”
She muttered.
Baird Lane didn’t hear her and twisted his head to look at her, “What are you talking about?”
Christine White squirmed and turned her head away from him, “Nothing, I was just wondering why you were chasing me then.”