Contract Marriage: Abusive Love with Mr.CEO-Chapter 816 - 422: Extra Story: He Loves Her, What Should He Do? (Part 2)
Christine Quinn took a deep breath and said, "I’m sorry, was my tone a bit too harsh?"
Skyler Jones shook his head, "I’m just regretful that you made such a decision."
Christine Quinn smiled, "Let the past be the past, you and I can both start over."
The relief and calmness in her eyes revealed no pretense, so real that it surprised him.
The next second, she turned around, "I’m going upstairs to check on Marie."
Christine Quinn spent the whole afternoon with Marie, the mother and daughter happily chatting about the events that occurred around them these past few months.
Skyler Jones stayed in the study all afternoon, yet through the thick walls of the study, he could still hear the laughter and joy of the mother and daughter.
His mood was inevitably affected, a slight smile appeared on his handsome face, as he spun a glass ornament by his hand, his slightly squinted dark eyes exuding a deep and unfathomable look.
At dinner time, the conversation between Christine Quinn and Marie was still full of endless mother-daughter topics.
Skyler Jones didn’t join in the conversation, remaining silent while eating dinner.
Suddenly, Marie asked Christine Quinn, "Mommy, you won’t leave tonight, right?"
Christine Quinn seemed caught off guard by Marie’s question, pausing for a second before replying, "Uh, mommy won’t be staying here tonight."
Marie immediately drooped her head in disappointment, "Why not?"
Skyler Jones also looked at Christine Quinn at this moment.
Christine Quinn truthfully told Marie, "Mommy and daddy are not suitable to live together anymore, so mommy will stay in a hotel for the next few days and then decide what to do."
"No..." Marie clung to Christine Quinn reluctantly, "You can sleep with me, daddy won’t mind."
"But mommy’s luggage has already been sent to the hotel."
"There are also things and clothes mommy needs to use here at home!"
"Marie... you’re a sensible child, you know that after daddy and mommy divorce, it’s not suitable for mommy to live with your daddy here, right?"
"But the divorce hasn’t happened yet..." Marie said with a pout.
"Marie..."
Christine Quinn wanted to persuade further, but Marie already turned her back to Christine Quinn, sourly complaining, "Mommy and daddy got divorced, and even Marie was abandoned too..."
Christine Quinn reached out to hug Marie, but Marie broke free forcefully.
"Marie..."
"I hate mommy, mommy doesn’t want daddy, so she doesn’t want Marie either."
"Mommy doesn’t..."
"You do... you just don’t want Marie anymore..." Marie cried out.
"Marie!!" Skyler Jones’s gentle voice suddenly came.
Marie looked at her father with tear-filled, aggrieved eyes.
Skyler Jones said softly, "Come here."
Marie left her chair, walked over to her father’s side with her head down.
Skyler Jones embraced Marie gently beside him, softly reprimanding, "How could you talk to your mommy like that? Didn’t I tell you that your mommy is not well, you shouldn’t upset her, hmm?"
Marie’s tearful eyes looked very aggrieved at Christine Quinn, she released her gently bitten lip, apologetically said, "Mommy, I’m sorry..."
Christine Quinn had already come over to Marie’s side by now, she reached out to wipe away the tears at the corner of Marie’s eyes, and lovingly embraced Marie, "Mommy is not angry... it’s mommy’s fault for being away from Marie for so long."
Marie reached out to hug Christine Quinn tightly, sobbing, "Mommy, I just don’t want to be separated from you..."
At nine o’clock in the evening, Christine Quinn sat on the edge of the bed, staring absentmindedly at Marie, who was already asleep.
The sound of the door twisting came.
Christine Quinn turned around and saw Skyler Jones walking in.
"Is she asleep?" Skyler Jones asked.
Christine Quinn nodded, her gaze still on Marie.
"You don’t have to worry too much about her... about the divorce, she can rationally understand it, it’s just that emotionally she can’t accept it yet."
"I know."
"The maid said there’s been a car parked outside the gate for a while, I think, it must be Jonathon Gibson, right?"
Christine Quinn quickly lifted her face, glanced at Skyler Jones.
Skyler Jones’s expression was calm, showing no emotion.
Christine Quinn slowly said, "He came to take me to the hotel."
Skyler Jones nodded lightly, "If you need to stay at the hotel, you should go earlier, it’s not too safe if it’s too late..."
Christine Quinn looked at Marie reluctantly.
Skyler Jones comforted her, "Don’t take to heart what she said today, both of us know she’s always hoped we wouldn’t separate, maybe she’s just deliberately throwing a little tantrum in front of us."
