“Hmm.”
Adriana jawed slightly, took a look at Hayley and said, “You’ve lost a lot of weight lately.”
“Oh, it’s … is it.”
Hayley pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes flickering a bit, “I’m on a diet lately.”
“Mommy?”
At this time, the maid on the stairs came down holding a child, and the little toddler called out to his mommy in a milky voice.
Hayley immediately walked over and took the child in her arms, “Leonidas, this is sister-in-law and uncle.”
The little baby blinked a pair of eyes, grinning, pink carved look very pleasing to the eye.
“Auntie, Uncle …”
Because he was still young, he couldn’t spit out the words, but he knew he was calling out to both of them.
Adriana has a child of her own and is not averse to children, so she walked over and took him in her arms, “Good boy, little baby, my sister bought you a toy.”
The children giggled happily as they handed the transformer toys they were carrying to the children.
“Thanks …”
The child said a thank you.
“Hayley, take the baby aside.”
Brenden said.
Hayley nodded and immediately walked over to Adriana, “Here, let me hold the baby, you guys go sit over there.”
Taking the child from Adriana’s arms, Adriana let go, but pulled the sleeve of Hayley’s housecoat because she was holding the child.
It was an unexpected move, but Adriana caught a glimpse of the bruises on Hayley’s wrist.
The purple marks are clear and appear to be whip marks.
Adriana’s pupils shrink slightly, the heart tightened, but quickly converge on the eyelids, the corners of the lips raised a smile towards the other side.
“Adri, you’re here?”
Peter, sitting on the sofa with a cigarette in his hand, lowered his head and played with his cell phone while smoking a cigarette, oblivious to Adriana’s appearance.
It was Theresa who stood up, her lips slightly white as she raised a light smile and called out politely.
Adriana looked at her, “You’re getting out of the hospital so soon, aren’t you afraid of the after-effects?”
“No, it won’t. It’s just a small birth, it’ll be fine after two days of rest.”
Theresa smiled, “It happens to be Leonidas’ birthday today, so we came over.”
“Leonidas birthday?”
Adriana didn’t think she would come at such a convenient time either.
But counting the time, Leonidas is almost two years old.
Time goes by really fast.
“Yeah, Leonidas’ birthday. old Mr. Alston originally said he was going to come over today, but there was a temporary delay, so it’s just us.”
Theresa added.
“Oh, that’s quite good, quite good.”
Jenkins was relieved and seemed a little scared to meet with Old Mr. Alston.
A few people sat down, Brenden sat next to Peter, looked at Adriana and asked, “Why didn’t you let Luis and Helen come over to play? Leonidas was pretty bored at home alone with the kids and missed them.”
“I thought we were going to school tomorrow, they’re doing their homework at home.”
Adriana pulled a casual reason, his eyes could not help but glance at Peter, only to see the man sitting calmly on the sofa, from time to time two fingers holding a cigarette in the lips, took a puff.
“Ahem …”
It seems that a breath was too hard, Peter could not stop coughing a few times.
He reached out to cover his mouth, an unconscious gesture but a few weaknesses, fell in Adriana’s eyes caused her to laugh.
Acting again?
The result of Giovanny’s previous investigation was that Peter had hoodwinked her by taking another person’s physical examination report as his.
She also had Zac come to her and say that Peter was dying, scaring her for a while, who knew it was all a calculation by Peter.
I can’t help but feel a burst of amusement for Adriana.
“Peter, are you okay?”
Theresa saw that Peter did not look well and immediately went up to him and asked.
Peter glanced at the hand holding the cigarette, that is, the hand just covered the mouth, only a glance will glimpse the blood stains on the heart of the hand.
He quickly clasped his palm and got up and walked towards the bathroom, “I’m going to the bathroom.”
Adriana had her head down, holding her phone and casually swiping through the interface, her mind wondering what was going on.
At that moment, the couch beside her sank and a person sat beside her.
“Adri, it’s early spring and the flowers in Uncle’s yard are blooming nicely, can you go out with me?”
Theresa put her arm around her, pretending to be intimate.
Adriana is as smart as she is, how could she not see what Theresa is saying.
Raising an eyebrow, he put away his phone and said to Jenkins, “Brother, you guys talk, let’s go for a walk.”
Jenkins nodded, “Okay, go ahead.”
The two men got up and walked towards the outside.
“By the way, Mr. Alston, Hayley hasn’t been home for a while, and my mom misses her a little, so could she come back for a couple of days?”
Jenkins spoke up and asked.
Brenden glanced sideways, his meaningful eyes fell on Hayley, who was playing with her child not far away, and said, “Okay, let her go back in a few days.”
The two here just talking, Peter has come out of the bathroom, found the woman missing from the couch, and could not help but look out into the hall.
Followed out as well.
In the courtyard, planted a lot of greenery, the early spring days, everything revives, but seems to be full of life.
Theresa and Adriana both walked side by side, admiring the flowers and plants.
The woman standing next to Adriana looked at her sideways, only to see her gaze fixed on a side of the flowers and plants, as if she was really enjoying the view.
But Theresa had only meant to take her out to talk.
“That … Adri, can I ask you one thing?”
It is difficult to say the words to the mouth, Theresa is very reluctant to say, but have to say.
“Beg me?”
Adriana’s pace was a beat, looked at her, and suddenly smiled, “You are the daughter of Lindsay Group, if you have any requests, you should also go to beg your father, not me. Besides, what you can beg me for, I will certainly not agree.”
The rejection was very decisive.
Although Theresa had not yet said what she had in mind, Adriana had already guessed a few things.
Just now there was a smile piled up on his face, but now he became embarrassed abruptly.
Theresa’s eyebrows narrowed and she held back her anger, “Do you really want to watch Peter get kicked out of the Alston Group?”
“That’s a funny thing to say. Hasn’t he, Peter, been thrown out of the Alston Group, and doesn’t it seem too late to say that now.”
Her cold gaze fell on Theresa and she couldn’t help but ask rhetorically, “You claim that you like Peter, and even if he was kicked out of the Alston Group, he is still your fiancé and will not affect the marriage contract between you. I don’t understand, you are now licking your face to beg me, and why is that?”
The word humiliating words, like a needle, stabbed fiercely at Theresa’s heart, hurting almost spasmodically.
Naturally, it also pissed her off to no end.
The pink fist hanging at her side was clenched, and her angry eyes stared straight at her, “Adriana, are you happy to see me, Theresa, in such a situation? Have you been planning this for a long time?”
Watching the news the other day, and on the video given by Sandra, Adriana was seriously injured.