Contract Marriage: Abusive Love with Mr.CEO-Chapter 845 - 436: Extra Story: The Engagement Ring He Replaced for Her 1_2
"What reward are you giving me?"
"Not telling you."
"I’ve got a reward but don’t know how I earned it; isn’t that a bit too bizarre?"
Christine Quinn smiled meaningfully, "Anyway, I’m in a good mood now, so here’s a kiss for you."
"Did going out instantly improve your mood... perhaps you met some handsome young guy outside?"
Christine Quinn laughed, cupping Skyler Jones’ face and pretended to admire him, "President Jones, you guessed it exactly right!"
Slap...
A swift slap landed on Christine Quinn’s raised behind.
Christine Quinn cried out in pain, grumbling, "What are you doing... that really hurt!"
"Who told you to go out and ogle at handsome guys?"
"I was just joking with you, yet you actually had to hit me."
Skyler Jones said very seriously, "I’m having a midlife crisis now, you know?"
"What? Midlife crisis?"
"You always complain I’m old, making me lament every day in front of the mirror that if only I were ten years younger..."
"You’ve kept up with yourself well, you look just over forty."
"Hmm?"
"Did I say that wrong, I meant just over thirty."
"That’s more like it..."
Christine Quinn kept rubbing her behind, "You really hit me hard, it still hurts." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
"Does it really hurt? Let me take a look..."
"Whoa..." Christine Quinn yelped, "Don’t take advantage of me..."
"Am I that shameless?"
"Your decency shattered long ago."
"..."
A knock on the door came at this moment.
Christine Quinn leapt off Skyler Jones’ lap upon hearing it.
Skyler Jones was surprised at Christine Quinn’s quick reaction, and said to the person outside the door, "Come in."
The butler walked in from outside the study door, respectfully saying, "Mr. Jones, I’ve completed the task you gave me."
"Good, you may leave now!"
"Yes."
The butler silently exited the study.
Christine Quinn sat back onto Skyler Jones’ lap, and asked, "What did you ask the butler to do?"
"I can’t tell you yet, you’ll know in due time."
"Oh... could it be some sort of surprise?"
"No spoilers."
"Hm, you’re being all mysterious."
Skyler Jones buried his head in Christine Quinn’s neck, and in a deep, magnetic voice, asked, "What time is it now?"
Christine Quinn glanced at the old European clock in the study, "Hm, it’s almost five o’clock, Marie should be back soon..."
"Mm."
"Why do you suddenly care about the time?"
He kissed her back, muttering indistinctly, "Time feels so slow."
"Not at all, I find the day passes quickly..."
"Really?"
"Yeah, see in the morning..." Christine Quinn deliberately omitted, "see noon just flew by."
"I’ve been tormented by you all day."
"Huh?"
"I won’t let you off tonight."
Turns out he was asking about the time for this reason, no wonder he thought time passed slowly.
Sigh, a man in his forties, indeed... still in his prime!
At night.
In the dreamy pink room of the little girl, Marie, after her bath, was lying in bed asking her mom, "Mommy, you won’t leave daddy and me again, right?"
Christine Quinn leaned against the bedhead, puzzled, and asked, "Why do you suddenly ask this question?"
Marie reached out and hugged Christine Quinn, "Because I don’t want you to leave us again."
Christine Quinn leaned down and kissed her daughter, "Mommy won’t leave again."
"Do you still love daddy?"
At that moment, without a second thought, Christine Quinn nodded, "Yes."
Marie happily hugged Christine Quinn, "I know daddy loves mommy too."
Seeing her daughter so easily satisfied, Christine Quinn laughed, "So you dragged me back to your room right after dinner just to ask me this question!"
"Yes, yes."
"Silly, don’t think about these adult things, focus on your studies."
"I’m just scared you might suddenly leave daddy and me one day..."
"Marie, was mommy leaving last time a disappointment for you?"
Marie shook her head, her innocent eyes looking at Christine Quinn, "Daddy was more disappointed than I was."
"Really?" Christine Quinn curiously asked, "How was your dad disappointed?"
Marie answered, "After you left, daddy was never happy."
Christine Quinn snorted, "He didn’t know how to cherish me back then."
"Daddy knows he was wrong, mommy, please don’t leave daddy again."
Christine Quinn held her daughter close, apologetically saying, "It’s mommy’s fault for making you sad, and also causing your dad to be like this..."
"Mommy, will daddy’s leg get better?"
"It definitely will."
"If daddy’s leg never gets better, will you take care of him all your life?"
"Yes."
"Did you come back to daddy because of his leg injury?"
"Hey little girl, why so many questions tonight?"
Marilyn playfully said, "Mommy, answer me!"
Christine Quinn smiled, "The most important reason mommy chose to be with your daddy is not his leg injury, it’s because..."
"Because of what?"
Christine Quinn suddenly fell silent.
"Mommy, why did you stop talking?" Marie asked again.
In Christine Quinn’s clear eyes, there was a hint of somberness, "It’s nothing... just mommy wanting to be with your daddy."
If it weren’t for her health relapsing, she might not have made this decision, because, after all those years, the disconnect couldn’t suddenly vanish...
He says he loves her, and even if this love is profound, it can’t match the intensity from over ten years ago.
She couldn’t fully understand him, but she wanted to believe every word he said to her...
In these last times, she only wished they could start with happiness and end with happiness.
Years later, whether someone else stands by his side, she believed a place in his heart would always hold her...
For her, that was enough.
When the time is right, she’ll be honest with him about her illness, hoping they cherish each other in their final days.
Only after Marie fell asleep did Christine Quinn return to Skyler Jones’ room.
