Contract Marriage: Abusive Love with Mr.CEO-Chapter 760 - 394: Extra Story: Daughter’s Birthday 1
Seeing her daughter so happy, she felt her own mood lightened significantly.
For a moment, her gaze inadvertently fell on his handsome profile, and she saw his most genuine fatherly love.
Thinking back, she indeed acted a bit impulsively just now. He has always loved Marie very much.
Christine Quinn took a deep breath.
Finally, something that brought her comfort...
She thought that even if she were no longer in this world, she could safely leave the child to him. Today, at least, proved that he cares for Marie, even more than Jennifer Douglas.
In a rather good mood, she returned to her room and walked out onto the balcony.
The wind tonight didn’t seem as chilly as usual. It brushed over her, cool but with a refreshing feeling.
Leaning against the Roman column on the balcony, she accidentally overheard the laughter and joyous conversation between father and daughter from the first floor, and she couldn’t help but smile sweetly along.
Suddenly, she walked into the room and pulled out a diary from the drawer of the bedside cabinet.
It was a diary she had only started writing recently... Not sure if it’s something everyone nearing death feels compelled to do, leaving something behind for this world after all.
She took out a pen, lay on the bed, and scribbled in the diary.
Today is October sixteenth. I suddenly felt like recording today...
When Skyler Jones returned to the room, it was already midnight. He had evidently stayed to lull Marie to sleep before coming back.
She wasn’t asleep, but was sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for him.
When he closed the door, he asked her, "Why aren’t you asleep yet?"
She stood up and calmly said to him, "I have something I want to talk to you about."
He flung himself onto the soft sofa in the room, "Go ahead!"
Christine Quinn turned around to stand in front of him and slowly began, "First, regarding calling you tonight... I’m sorry."
He lit a cigarette, took a puff, resting his hand on the table where the ashtray was, "I don’t blame you."
For the first time in so long, his words took her by surprise.
She thought that if there was an opportunity, he would never give up belittling her.
"You..."
Suddenly, she didn’t know what to say.
Skyler Jones flicked the ash from his cigarette, "Say what you want to say!"
Christine Quinn snapped back to reality, bit her lip gently, and slowly said, "I want to discuss something with you."
"Let’s hear it."
"I have something to do two months from now; I need to go abroad... Can you come back to Y City to take care of Marie?"
"What’s the matter?"
"It’s personal business." In other words, inconvenient to tell him.
He replied briskly, "No problem."
Christine Quinn nodded, "Thank you."
"No need, Marie is my daughter too."
"I hope that when I’m not around, you can take more time to care for Marie."
Her slightly hoarse voice made him furrow his brows slightly, "Are you going away for long?"
For long... and will never come back, but you wouldn’t care anyway.
Christine Quinn smiled and replied, "Just a few days!"
"Hmm." Skyler Jones extinguished his cigarette and stood up, "I’m tired... If there’s anything else, let’s talk about it tomorrow."
Christine Quinn nodded lightly.
Since this room was his, ever since she moved into this villa to live with him, she had been sleeping on the sofa in this room and had never slept in his bed.
It wasn’t because he lacked chivalry, but because she didn’t want to sleep in his bed.
Therefore, after Skyler Jones went into the bathroom to shower, she took her blanket and fell asleep on the sofa.
When Skyler Jones came out of the bathroom, Christine Quinn was already asleep on the sofa.
Her hands were crossed over her chest, breathing steadily, her cheeks slightly flushed from the warmth of her body, appearing serene.
She wasn’t actually asleep; she could even feel his gaze passing over her, then hearing him pour himself a glass of wine.
"Jonathon Gibson contacted me."
He suddenly spoke.
She abruptly opened her eyes, realizing then that he knew she wasn’t really asleep.
Skyler Jones was unsurprised by her reaction, lightly swirling the red wine on the table between his thumb and forefinger.
Christine Quinn sat up, looking at him with slight panic in her eyes, "What... What did he say to you?" Jonathon wouldn’t break his promise, right?
"Why are you so nervous?"
"No... I’m not!"
"Feeling guilty?"
"What do you mean by feeling guilty?"
Skyler Jones gazed at the swirling liquid in the glass and said flatly, "While we are in a legally binding marriage, you accepted another man’s advances."
Hearing Skyler Jones say this, Christine Quinn exhaled an immense sigh of relief inwardly, and retorted, "Are you blaming me now?"
