Evan leveled a suspicious gaze on Nicole, not knowing how much she had heard.
In response, Nicole shot him a small smile as she pretended like she had not heard a thing. Her tone was calm as she urged, “Let’s get to bed.”
So she really didn’t hear anything?
He nodded, not saying anything more.
Turning around so that her back was facing him, a bitter smile curled Nicole’s lips.
Is it fate that we’ll never be able to be husband and wife?
In truth, she had vaguely made out some of Sophia’s words.
She could understand the Seet family members’ attitudes.
After all, this was an incident where a person’s life had been cut down prematurely.
Sophia had always been rather supportive of Nicole and Evan being together. Yet, this time, even she was advising her son to stop being so stubborn.
Will Evan really breakup with me?
A terrible sadness flashed through her eyes. After a moment, she pushed aside her raging emotions and walked toward their bedroom.
Evan followed her into the room, a small frown twisting his mouth. When he had called her earlier, she had said that she was out buying something.
Yet, she appeared to have returned empty-handed.
“Nicole, you were lying when you said that you’d gone out to buy something, weren’t you?” Evan’s deep voice rang out from behind her.
She stuck her tongue out at him, replying, “Oops, you’ve caught me! I just remembered that I still had some data that I didn’t finish compiling for a proposal. Hence, I made a trip to the company.”
Since he did not want to let her know about the car accident, she would pretend that she was oblivious to it.
This way, their interactions would not be so tense.
The way her tongue stuck out adorably reminded Evan of Maya doing the same.
“Maya most definitely inherited her cuteness from you,” he blurted out.
“Oh really? Then Nina’s arrogant, little princess attitude must have been inherited from you.”
“Is that so?”
Nicole nodded solemnly. “Yup. That was not a question. Rather, it was a statement of fact.”
They bantered a little while longer before taking a shower together. After that, they curled up on the large bed.
Both had something important on their minds as unease swirled inside them.
Nicole’s eyes glinted in the dark of the night.
The heavyweight of Evan’s grandmother’s death hung between them. She was certain that things would not be as carefree between them as now if they had actually brought this topic to light and discussed it.
The pressure would be stifling, contaminating the atmosphere in the house. Even the children would be affected then.
That was not something that she had wanted to happen!
Thus, she knew what she had to do next.
Even now, she got the feeling that her mother would not have done something as brutal as a hit and run.
That was the reason that she had to get to the bottom of this.
I need to get in contact with Sylvia and Sylphiette as soon as possible.
At the same time, Evan was dealing with his own worries and frustrations. His grandfather’s attitude and his mother’s words were all causing him a lot of stress.
If he were to be forced to give up on the Seet family and his position as heir, he would gladly do so. After all, he was Evan Seet! Starting everything from scratch was not that daunting to him!
However, he knew Nicole well. She would definitely take into account his family members’ feelings and sacrifice herself instead.
As a man, not to mention the father to four kids, he could not allow his woman to suffer through that!
He would never have forced her to go through the pain of losing her children. Hence, he would have to do everything that he could to obtain his grandfather and father’s forgiveness and understanding.
“Are you asleep yet?” Nicole’s voice whispered from the other side of the bed. She was finding it hard to get to sleep.
Flipping around, he extended a hand to stroke her smooth cheek tenderly. “What is it?”
“Lane Corporation has been doing very well recently all because of you. That’s why I-”
“How are you going to thank me?”
She paused before huffing out, “Let me finish! As I was saying, Lane Corporation has been doing quite well so I might need to leave the country on a business trip.”
