Bella was calm and could not be seen as lying by anyone, but could not convince the two women in front of her. However, Wilson believed her, not for a father’s trust in a daughter, but because he also did not believe that she had the ability to play them for fools.
So, he chose to believe her.
Pulling his wife and daughter into the study, he closed the door and said in a deep voice, “I know you guys are angry, but I’m more angry than you are. As long as she is the daughter-in-law of the Jones-Sharps, she will be useful to us, so let’s just let this matter go.”
Wilson said helplessly. How could he not be distressed when losing ten million? He was more distressed than anyone else. They didn’t have the evidence, so just let it go.
Pacifying his wife and daughter, he walked out, “Bella, Gillian is also frustrated and has nowhere to vent her anger. Don’t take it seriously, she…”
“Nothing, I get used to it.”
Bella indifferently interrupted his words and looked at the clock, “It’s late. I’ll go home if there’s nothing else.”
“Let’s eat before we go, shall we?”
Wilson just pretended to be polite. Bella was clear. This family had always not welcome her, today, even more so.
Out of the small western-style villa, she felt exceptionally good on her way to the Cloud mansion.
Today was really an extraordinary day. She could rarely saw Kevin in the living room. Bella pleasantly greeted, “Dad, Mom, I’m back.”
The Jones-Sharp couple were quite happy to see their daughter-in-law, and Blanche asked with concern, “Have you eaten dinner?”
She looked askance at Kevin who was ignoring her, smiled and nodded, “Well, I ate at my mother’s house.”
“Your parents are all right, aren’t they?” Patrick then asked.
“Yes, they are good and also asked me to greet you.”
At that moment, Lena asked suddenly, “Bella, what’s wrong with your sister today? She ran out of the house this afternoon with her luggage crazily, and I didn’t even pull back, as if she had been wronged in our house.”
Bella was startled, and looked at Kevin again. He did not seem to intend to say anything, and did not even look up.
“It’s nothing, she’s just like that. She was spoiled by my parents since she was little, and it’s possible that she was upset with what I said to her last night so she went home.”
“At first glance, I felt that she was headstrong. She really doesn’t look like she was born from the same parents as Bella.”
Patrick smiled, “Don’t laugh at others. I’ve spoiled you with your mother either.”
“Ouch, why are you talking about me? I’m not even the same as her, but Kevin is the same as her.”
Kevin looked up rather unhappily and questioned Lena, “Why am I similar with her?”
“You’re all spoiled and bad-tempered, aren’t you? Am I right, Bella?”
Lena was quite annoyed. Bella nodded with a smile and shook her head, and simply pointed, “I still have papers to grade. I gotta go.”
She fled away from the living room, and went to her little secret room. She lay down on the bed, and smiled faintly.
It was still good to be alone to breathe freely.
“You seem to be in a good mood.”
The sudden voice startled her. She sat up sharply and asked in panic, “Why did you come in without knocking?”
Kevin leaned against the door, his arms around his chest, and asked rhetorically, “Did you close the door?”
Did she leave the door open? It did seem she didn’t close it.
“Looking for me for something?”
Awkwardly shifting the subject, he sat squarely and waited for him to explain his intentions.
“I thought you’d have something to say to me.”
She shook her head decisively, “NO, I don’t have anything to say to you. You and I have never had anything in common.”
“Then I’ll make it clear. You did it, didn’t you?”
Although Kevin did not specify which thing, Bella suddenly felt guilty. She began to be confused. He was perspicacious while looking handsome. Why she could fool her father, but not the man in front of her?
Although, without even denying it, she knew that she couldn’t fool him.
“Yes.”
Not wanting to make a vain struggle, she nodded in stride.
“Why?”
Most of their conversations were so concise that all Kevin wanted to hear was the point, so she didn’t need to explain irrelevantly.
“I’m unhappy with being sold so pointlessly, so I want to give the money from the sale to a charity.”
“It’s a very compelling reason, but it seems to me that it’s more or less all about revenge.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Doesn’t it? A child born to a mistress will hate the man who abandoned her mother.”
Bella laughed with no distractions, “That’s a very reasonable analysis, but unfortunately that’s not the case. A child born to a mistress has no reason to hold a grudge against someone else. Intervening in someone else’s marriage is wrong.”
Provided they hadn’t committed such an unforgivable sin against her mother.
“Very well, I hope it’s true what you say. I’ve been divorced six times, but it doesn’t mean I can tolerate a woman who achieves her goal through me.”
She knew his position and had been expected it when she knew he’d been hurt.
So she was left to be so helpless, living in the chaos of telling one lie to round out another.
As she watched him turn away, she suddenly asked, “How did you know? Why are you so sure that I did it?”
“Do I have a second person I can suspect besides you?”
When Kevin looked back, she was silent.
“I suppose Gillian also told you that I hinted that she entered the study?”
“Yes.”
He glanced at her meaningfully, “She was going to get even with you, but I stopped her.”
“Why did you help me?”
Bella asked humbly.
“Legally, you’re my woman, and when people suspect you, I’m supposed to stand up for you.”
“… Thank you.”
She sincerely thanked. His reason of she being his woman was so fanciful, making her quite nervous.
In the middle of the night, Bella woke up with a feeling of hunger. She rubbed her shriveled belly, which reminded her that dinner hadn’t been eaten yet.
She had some stomach troubles, and if she had an unhealthy diet, she would not be far from death.
Groping to her feet, she pulled the door open a crack and found the room silent, only the sound of the man’s steady and even breathing.
She crept out of the secret room, creeping forward, ready to go to the downstairs kitchen to find something to eat. For fear of waking up Kevin, she walked cautiously, afraid of making a sound.
When she got to the kitchen downstairs, she opened the refrigerator and saw that it was full of cold foods. She could not eat these cold things. She looked around and saw a box of instant noodles. Then she took like a treasure, poured hot water and waited patiently.
When people were most hungry, the most blissful thing was to have a bowl of hot noodles, and right now, the smell of instant noodles made her feel so happy.
As she waited for the noodles to be cooked, she nodded off over the table, unaware that someone was standing in front of her, looking at her leisurely.
The noodles were about to be cooked, so she picked up a fork and shoved it in her mouth. At this time, she found Kevin standing in front of her, and felt so embarrassed. She stopped eating and just froze in place.
Kevin smilingly walked over, skimming the hot instant noodles in her hand, and asked teasingly, “It tastes not bad, right?”
She chewed the bite of noodles quickly and and swallowed it hard, nodding awkwardly, “Fine, do you want to taste it?”
“Do you think I would eat that?”
She didn’t think he’d eat such a thing, so she asked casually.
“You’re here for a drink of water, aren’t you?”
Bella stood up to help him pour a glass of water but he said meaningfully, “I’m here to see you.”
“Me.” With a frozen smile, “I came to get some supper.”
“Didn’t you have dinner?”
“I have had dinner.” As soon as she finished, her stomach was growling very badly, and she explained, “I ate little.”
“Do you want to go out and eat something nice?”
Bella thought that she had heard wrongly and didn’t dare to respond, nor did she dare to let him say it again, so she just stood there so stupidly.
Kevin waited impatiently and raised his eyebrow, “Go or not?”
“What? Oh, let’s go.”
She cleaned up the instant noodles briefly and chased him out. It was not dark outside. He walked in front, and she followed behind. The moonlight fell on them, reflecting two lonely shadows.
Perhaps because of the time, Kevin did not intend to go far, picking a restaurant close to home.
The restaurant was not big, but the environment was good, clean and elegant, with warm yellow chandeliers emitting a soft light, decoration style of North American, with slow music. People suddenly had the illusion of walking into not a restaurant, but a warm home.