Chapter 791
Cedric left the café with his secretary, leaving Melanie with the copy of the contract and the report sheet in front of her.
She looked down at the two items. After a long time, she closed her eyes, her lips opening and closing as she breathed rapidly.
After a long while, she slowly opened her eyes and looked at the contract.
Cedric was right. With the loopholes and traps in this contract, she really could not defend herself if LeapCo wanted to sue her.
She was also the one who signed the document. However, this contract was clearly-
Melanie felt as if her chest was stuffed with cotton. The dull suffocating pain made it impossible for
her to get up.
It was a call from Yvonne that brought her back to the present.
Yvonne’s voice was very cheerful. “Are you done? I’ll come and pick you up now. Oh, we can go for the checkup after dinner.”
Melanie looked at the report on the table. Her eyes were blank. When she heard Yvonne’s words, she shook her head and said nothing.
After a while, she remembered that Yvonne could not see her shaking her head. She finally opened her mouth and replied hoarsely, “No need. I don’t want to go.
“Huh? Why? What’s with the sudden change of heart? Mel, what’s wrong? Did something happen? Is it him -7”
Melanie cut Yvonne off before she could finish. “I’m sorry,” she said before ending the call.
Meanwhile, at LeapCo, Lee led Simon into the office. Simon’s expression was no longer as nonchalant as before. He held a docu in his hand, and his expression was strangely hesitant.
In the end, he chose to place the document in front of Eugene. “I won’t say anything else. Take a look
for yourself.”
Eugene’s hand paused in the middle of signing a contract. He looked up at the document.
He stayed calm from the beginning to the end. His expression did not change at all.
Simon waited for a while, but when he did not get a reply, he could not help but say, “Eugene, tell me the truth. Is Melanie’s baby yours?”
Eugene finally moved. He looked at Simon.
Simon leaned back on the sofa. “If it’s yours, I can’t blame your father for doing that. After all, it would be humiliating for you to have a disabled child.
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“But if it wasn’t yours, Melanie would have gone and aborted the baby herself by now. After all, raising a kid like that would be torture. She’ll have to suffer jeers and stares for the rest of her life.”
“That’s why it was necessary to use your name-
Before Simon could finish that sentence, Eugene glared at him, sharp and cold.
In the end, Yvonne went to fetch Melanie, who had already stowed both items in her bag. All she told Yvonne was that she was too tired.
She had yet to recover from her encounter with Cedric. The contract he had taken out was ancient. If it were not for her stellar memory, she would have forgotten all about it.
Before Melanie followed Eugene to the branch company after Cedric kicked him out of the headquarters, she had first joined LeapCo. Cedric had been managing the company at the time.
She tried to recall the circumstances around the contract on the way back. She closed her eyes to focus, so Yvonne thought that she really was tired and resting.
It was not unusual for her. After all, expectant mothers often felt drowsy.
When the car arrived back at the villa, however, she saw two figures loitering nearby.
