Chapter 476 The Couple
Jeffrey reacted fast as he lunged over from opposite Melanie and handed her an orange.
She developed a love for the smell of oranges when she previously suffered from severe morning
sickness.
As he had expected, the moment the refreshing citrusy smell of the orange hit Melanie’s nose, her nausea faded. She lifted her head and said with a wave of her hand, “I don’t like it.”
Leo arched his brow as he put down the smoked fish, and surveyed her from head to toe. “You
don’t look very good. Why are you retching? Are you ill?”
Melanie held her breath as she tucked her hair behind her ear, and nodded as calmly as she could.
“I’ve been suffering from gastroenteritis recently,” she said.
“Why don’t you take a rest? I’ll find you later and continue with the proposal?” Leo said with
feigned concern.
“Sure. I’ll go and grab my medicine.”
She stood up, and Jeffrey held her steady as she walked to the washroom.
She knew that there were people keeping close attention to her along the way. She deliberately
retrieved two kinds of pills from her bag and gulped it down with some water. They were in fact
supplements for pregnant ladies.
“Do you feel better?” Jeffrey asked, his heart aching for her.
“Yeah.”
She shut her eyes to compose herself, her nose still filled with the pungent smell of the smoked fish from earlier, although she was slowly getting used to it.
“Leo’s putting you to the test as well,” Jeffrey said in a low voice.
Melanie nodded grimly. “He got what he wanted just now.”
Although she made up the excuse of suffering from gastroenteritis, her retching and how she stood up had given Leo the answer he was looking for. What’s more, Leo was a very careful and detailed man.
“You can no longer stay in the base,” Jeffrey went on coldly as his eyes narrowed. “If the Yorks are bent on killing your child, they won’t spare you either.”
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“Let’s go back and discuss things with the professor.” Melanie held the orange in her hand and put it near her nose, slowly recovering from her churning stomach. “I can’t stop the treatment. from my mom and Pamela. I can’t be apart from them, and we have to leave together.”
Jeffrey nodded. They had to carefully plan their steps from here on.
“Let’s go back. Leo’s probably done with his smoked fish, while I’m not yet done going through
the proposal,” Melanie said.
Jeffrey looked at her with his brows furrowed. If he could, he really wanted to shield Melanie from
all dangers so that all she needed to think about was how to be his woman.
“You don’t need to accompany me. I can go over myself, that will lower Leo’s guard. I’ll be able to
sense it if he tries to test me again.” Melanie said to Jeffrey.
“We’ll see.”
“What?”
“Nothing. Just be careful.”
Jeffrey wrapped his jacket over her shoulders tighter as a sense of helplessness overwhelmed him. He knew for a long time that she would never be satisfied being a flower in a greenhouse.
By the time Melanie walked over to Leo, he had finished up the smoked fish. He asked her with
concern in his eyes. “Do you feel better? I’m so sorry about that. I didn’t know you weren’t used to
the smell of the fish.”
“It’s fine. I just took my medicine, and I’ll be fine in a couple of days,” Melanie said. “Let’s
continue going through the proposal.”
Leo nodded and continued from where he left off. However, for the next ten minutes, he didn’t do
anything to further test Melanie.
When they parted, Melanie found herself puzzled over Leo. Was he certain that she was pregnant
or…
Was it just a coincidence earlier…?
Melanie left the couch too. Since the Yorks now knew about her relationship with Jeffrey, she decided to just wear his jacket so that she wouldn’t need to worry about exposing her pregnant belly.
She circled around the area and came to a dead–end in a bid to avoid the crowded areas.
Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks.
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Right before her, about a few meters away, the back view of a couple made her instinctively retreat by a few steps and hide behind a corner.
Someone had set up a barbecue grill and guests who enjoyed eating barbecued meat were eating and chatting nearby. This couple was leaning against the pillar along the corridor and about two meters apart from each other. However, Melanie could sense that they were talking to each other.
In fact, it wasn’t a pleasant discourse.
It was Harlow and Linda.
Melanie felt surprised, but also not so surprised at the same
From a distance, she couldn’t make out what they were saying to each other. She was about to turn and leave, when Linda suddenly turned around and called out her name. Linda’s eyes were shining.
“Melanie? Is that you?”
alk over.
Melanie found no way to hide, and could only bite the bullet and walk
Viciousness flashed past the depths of Harlow’s eyes when he saw her near, and he immediately turned around to leave.
“Miss Yancey, you’re here too! Leo and I were just chatting about promotional efforts for the perfume, and thought you weren’t around…” Melanie said. She pretended not to have noticed anything just now.
Linda smiled, her exquisite makeup drawing Melanie’s attention to her red, lush lips.
“The Yorks sent me an invitation, so I came. I was in the study all along and just came down here. Did you two agree on everything in the proposal?”
“The proposal you drew up is flawless, Miss Yancey,” Melanie praised.
Linda smiled brightly. “My team is the one responsible. You praised the wrong person.”
“Your team members are all very professional. I just need to sit back and wait for profits to roll in when working with you,” Melanie added with a smile, not feeling any awkwardness at all. “Miss York asked me to look for her just now, and I accidentally walked in here. I’ll be off, if there’s nothing else.”
“Sure,” Linda said with a nod as she watched Melanie walk off.
The moment Melanie left, Harlow returned to Linda’s side, still keeping to a two–meter distance between them. He asked darkly, “She saw us just now!”
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“They saw us too.” Linda turned to look at the people enjoying the barbecue.
“They’re different. Melanie suspects something is going on between us!” Harlow said viciously. “If you can’t bear to do it. I’ll silence her!”
