Chapter 769 Your Lips Make Me Feel Sick
In the end, Amelia climbed into bed and slept with Tony. It wasn’t until she was fast asleep that Oscar came in to bring her back to their bedroom. Perhaps because he was troubled, Oscar didn’t fall asleep until three o’clock in the morning.
After breakfast the next day, Amelia had someone send Tony to the Clinton residence before saying to Oscar, “Oscar, since you’ll be busy with work, I’ll ask Jolin to send me to the office. It’s too tiring to go to Clinton Corporations after bringing me to work. I don’t want to trouble you.”
Oscar merely stared at her with a gloomy expression. None of them mentioned the fact that both of them had woken up in the same room in the morning. Avoiding his probing gaze subconsciously, Amelia continued, “That’s it then. I’ll be heading to work now. You should depart early too.”
Before she could leave, Oscar grabbed her hand and took out his phone to show the photo to her, getting straight to the point. “Do you really plan to give me the cold shoulder forever just because of this?”
That was the first time he had spoken to her with such a darkened countenance since she returned from Beshya.
When Amelia saw the man and woman in the photo, the look on her face changed drastically. Staring at the culprit who was looking at her as though she was the one at fault, she gently pulled away her hand from Oscar and uttered, “So, you have these photos too. Are you going to tell me that you and Isabella have gotten together and you’re planning to divorce me now?”
Frustrated, Oscar tugged at his hair. “Amelia, will you believe me if I say I had no idea why I kissed her?”
The smile on Amelia’s face turned even more bitter. “Oscar, although you were domineering in the past, you would never lie because you found it disdainful. I didn’t expect you to have learned to lie to me now. You have all the photos, and yet, you’re telling me that you have no idea why you kissed her? If I were the one who was kissed by another man while looking captivated, would you believe me?” she answered him with a similar question.
Oscar pursed his lips. In truth, even he himself had a hard time believing what he had said just now. Nonetheless, he was truly the victim this time.
Naturally, there was no way he would let Isabella continue staying in Clinton Corporations. After all, the woman was like a bomb that would detonate at any time and make his marriage with Amelia turbulent. However, the most important thing to do at the moment was for him to explain clearly to Amelia. As for Isabella, he would deal with her with his own means.
“Amelia, I’ve never lied to you from the very beginning of our contract marriage. What’s more, we love each other now. I really don’t know why I kissed her. By the time I snapped back to my senses, I was already on the rooftop with her. I have no memory of how I got there, but I will investigate this matter thoroughly. Please believe in me. We have gone through so many ups and downs. If I really love Isabella, I wouldn’t have stayed with you,” Oscar confessed earnestly. “You know my character. I’ve always been open and aboveboard when it comes to relationships.”
After hearing that, Amelia calmed down.
She had known the man for eight years, and she knew him inside out. She understood him because he was her financial backer in the past, but now, it was out of habit. Hence, when she heard his reply, her logical reasoning that she couldn’t get hold of because of her anger and jealousy slowly returned.
“Oscar, what do you mean you have no memory of how you got there?” Amelia couldn’t hide her worry and anxiousness as she asked, “Is your body okay?”
Oscar immediately used his health to gain sympathy from her.
He replied solemnly, “Well, when I was driving back yesterday, my head was already aching faintly. After that, Jolin called me to tell me that she found a photo of me and… you know who, kissing on your phone. I was worried that you would overthink it, so I rushed home as fast as I could. I was thinking about how to explain it to you, but you ignored me last night. I didn’t sleep much all night. When I woke up today, my head hurts even more. I think I need to go to the hospital.”
Even though Amelia knew that he was probably pretending to be pitiful, she loved him too much to expose him. Both of them had been through so many hurdles, so they wouldn’t part ways just because of a photo. Besides, she had made up her mind that as long as he didn’t mention divorcing her, she would choose to turn a blind eye to it.
Having experienced life and death, blindness, and so much more, she knew that they were nothing to be afraid of.
As long as a cheating husband’s heart is still with you, he can be forgiven if he has the intention of repenting instead of pretending nothing had happened.
“Okay, I’ll accompany you to the hospital for a check-up,” Amelia said.
When Oscar heard her words, he knew that she had chosen to forgive him.
Breathing a sigh of relief, he pulled her into his embrace and whispered, “Silly woman, I was really scared that you would no longer care about me, and that the misunderstanding between us would worsen, effectively letting other people take advantage of that.”
Amelia hammered at his chest twice angrily and said, “If you didn’t insist on keeping Isabella in the company, would there be so many conflicts between us?”
Breathing in her scent, he replied, “Amelia, to tell you the truth, keeping her in the company was my mom’s intention, and this is also the condition for her to agree to our remarriage. I think Mom also wanted to make some compensation for her. After all, when you left for Beshya without saying goodbye, Mom wanted to match me and Isabella, and she also sincerely regarded Isabella as her future daughter-in-law. In the end, I didn’t marry her but remarried you instead. Mom felt sorry for Isabella, so she forced me to promise her to let Isabella stay in the company and not make any excuses to drive her away.”
Amelia fell silent.
At the end of the day, she was the one who had given Isabella the chance and brought about the messy relationship between Isabella and Oscar. After all, it was only after she and Oscar divorced that Isabella pursued him for two years. Just when Isabella thought she had a chance, Amelia came back and killed her hopes.
I guess in a way, Isabella did nothing wrong to me.
“Let’s go to the hospital first,” Amelia said, changing the topic.
With that, they went to the hospital in silence and let the doctor examine Oscar. Soon, the doctor came to the conclusion that Oscar had been working too hard recently and not getting enough sleep. Aside from that, there was nothing wrong with him.
Amelia asked the doctor, “My husband said he had a brief amnesia yesterday, and his head still hurts. Is he really okay?”
If he’s in good health, that means he lied to me.
The doctor was holding a pen as he responded, “Mr. Clinton is fine. It’s impossible for someone to have short-term memory loss for no reason unless that person has Alzheimer’s disease. Plus, we can’t find any traces of Mr. Clinton being drugged, and his brain is fine with no abnormalities. So don’t worry.”
Amelia nodded.
The two then came out of the hospital with the examination results that showed that Oscar didn’t have any problems. Amelia walked ahead in silence while Oscar looked at the results in his hand with a deep gaze.
Previously, evidence of me being drugged could be found, but now, there is no trace of me being drugged. Is the person who set me up too cautious, or is the medical equipment in this hospital not particularly good?
Countless thoughts raced through his mind.
Amelia halted in her tracks abruptly, and Oscar, who was looking at the papers and thinking about various things, almost bumped into her.
“Amelia, why did you stop?” Oscar inquired.
Calmly, she turned to face him. “Oscar, the doctor said there’s nothing wrong with your body. Do you really have nothing to explain to me?”
Knowing what she was trying to say, he sighed and said, “Amelia, I didn’t lie to you. I will investigate this matter clearly. I love you. You’re the only one I love right from the start.”
She nodded. “Okay, I trust you.”
It was because she trusted him so much that when she saw Oscar and Isabella together that day, she found it extremely unbearable.
Oscar said, “Amelia, thank you.”
“We are husband and wife. As I said, as long as you don’t betray me without remorse, I will choose to trust you three times, so don’t betray my trust, okay?” She gazed at him with a sincere look in her clear eyes.
“Okay.”
Oscar put his arm around her as they walked down the stairs. After they got into the car, Amelia asked, “Oscar, you should send me to the office. I’ve applied for a leave in the morning. I can’t keep requesting a leave.”
He stared at her, keeping mum.
Confused, she asked, “What’s the matter? Why are you looking at me like that?”
“You can vent your anger on me, all right? Don’t hold it back.”
“I’m not angry anymore. Don’t you worry.” What Amelia didn’t tell Oscar was that she found that photo of him kissing Isabella disgusting, and when she saw his lips, she felt sick and even had the thought of disinfecting those lips with sanitizer. He had kissed another woman with the lips he used to kiss her. No matter how open-minded she was on the surface, she was still very uncomfortable.
“Really?”
“Yeah. Why would I lie to you?” Amelia asked back with a smile.
“Amelia, I don’t like how you’re acting distant. We were intimate until yesterday, but in just one day, I feel that you’ve built a wall between us. Of course, I’m aware that I was the one who shattered the trust between us.” Glumness flashed across Oscar’s eyes as he sighed bitterly.
Keeping her head down, Amelia kept quiet for a while before saying, “Oscar, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do this to you. It’s just that the photo is really affecting me. I still feel bothered by it, and whenever I see you speak, I can’t help but think of you kissing other women with that mouth. I feel… disgusted.”
Oscar’s countenance changed.
As the two sat in the car, they felt the emotional distance between them for the first time.
The atmosphere in the car became awkward.
Amelia unfastened her seat belt and uttered, “Oscar, why don’t I ask Jolin to send me while you go to your office?”
“Sit tight,” Oscar ordered.
Thus, Amelia could do only as he said.
“Fasten your seat belt. I’ll take you there,” he added.
Obediently, she buckled her seat belt, and with that, they reached her office without saying anything more.
Hanging her head low, Amelia unfastened her seat belt and spoke. “Oscar, I’m sorry. Don’t take what I said just now to heart. I didn’t mean anything else.”
“Go to work. I didn’t take your words to heart. I’ll talk to you after I get back to the office and deal with work matters.” Oscar reached out his hand but froze in mid-air. He was afraid that Amelia would find his touch repulsive.
When the matter is really resolved, I’ll find time to have a deep and honest talk with Amelia. I won’t let the misunderstanding between us deepen and hurt us.
After glancing at Oscar, Amelia finally entered the office without saying anything with Jolin following behind her.
