Chapter 83: As You Wish
The development of this kind of her character was probably thanks to the physical and mental abuse from someone in all those years. She even thought she should write a letter to thank him.
She felt that she was like a psychopath for thinking of Travis Cooper at such a time. She dug a spoonful of pears from the fruit salad and chewed it in her mouth as if, by doing so, she could swallow her ridiculous thoughts into the belly too.
When she was having a good time eating, Charles slowly came in from the outside, looked around, and found her. Then he came over and sat opposite her and said, “It’s the first time I see a woman eat a lot at night without worrying about weight. I have seen many women not eating anything at night.”
“Will you break up with me if I become a really fat woman?”
“That would be even nicer. You can’t run away from me anymore if you are fat.” Charles handed the tissue to her, “But it’s good for you to put on a little weight. You are too thin now.”
“From where did you learn such flirting language?”
“A man is born with this gift.”
“What do you want to eat? I thought you wouldn’t come, so I ordered all my dishes.”
“Don’t worry about me. I have already eaten. You look good. What good things are you doing today?” Charles was still very precise about her emotional changes.
“I found out that you are very handsome.” Arianna looked at him for a while, smiling.
“I have always been very handsome. Since childhood, many female students have been chasing after me. I am too annoyed. You just broke my heart! Didn’t you find out about it until today?” Charles made the expression “I’m hurt.”
“Are you bothered with every female classmate who is going after you? No wonder people often say that men don’t always cherish the women who voluntarily deliver themselves to their door.”
“You are suggesting that I also voluntarily delivered myself to your door, so you are not going to cherish me?”
“Oh, I am too flattered. How dare I not cherish you?” Arianna imitated his strange and funny tone.
Arianna did not talk about Irene. Charles once said that everyone had a past. She also believed that everyone had the right to protect their privacy.
However, her past life did exist, even if she did not want to recall it. Although Travis Cooper kept his promise and would not disclose it, it did not mean that nobody really knew about their past.
On a certain day, Arianna received a call from a strange number. She said, “Hello,” after she connected. A hoarse male voice said softly on the other end, “How are you, dear Arian? Do you still remember me?”NôvelDrama.Org holds this content.
Although the voice had changed a lot over the years, Arianna still remembered the owner of that voice. Very few people knew or called her nickname “Arian” after she went to high school, so the one who called her this nickname must be a person very close to her family, once.
The caller was Chester Luke, her father’s classmate, friend, and the most effective assistant to her grandfather.
Chester was convicted of a long list of crimes and locked in prison a few months after her grandfather was sent to the hospital. Arianna had been uneasy for quite a long time after she heard it.
In the beginning, Chester was a kind and friendly elder to Arianna and one of the core figures with a high reputation in Sanchez Group.
At that time, she stared at the newspaper and was in a daze. Travis said, “As you wish,” and astounded her like thunder.
It was her who asked Travis to punish those who betrayed her grandfather. She only mentioned it once. She only remembered that she said, “I want them to pay double of what they got,” but she did not wish to destroy their lives totally.
Moreover, even though she assumed everyone was a traitor at the time, she never really thought that Chester would be the mastermind. In her impression, Chester treated her grandfather as his father and treated her father like his brother and Arianna like her daughter.
At that time, her world was once again subverted.
While Arianna was still in memories, the familiar male voice was laughing on the phone, “I have been released from prison for a while. Don’t you congratulate me on that?”
“Congratulations, Uncle Luke.”
“Dear Arian, I can still remember once when you were a child, your father and I took you with us on a business trip. We met a fortune-teller who said, ‘this child is blessed, and she will prosper no matter how big a setback she will meet in the future’. He was so accurate, right?”
Arianna waited for him to continue.
“You don’t have to do anything. You got everything when you were born. While the company almost went bankrupt and liquidated, you just sat there, and you could wait for the company to rise again, and then you could continue your life as a noble lady. After you sold yourself to Travis Cooper for a couple of years, you still can catch a good man and get married into a renowned family. But I worked harder than you by one hundred times, and I ended up in prison. I also worked hard in prison so as to get out sooner, but what’s waiting for me outside is that my wife has had a pimp, and my daughter is falling. My little Arian, can you tell me why nobody has the luck that you have?” Although his tone was light, his wording was bleeding.
“What do you want?”
“I heard that the youngest grandson of the Christopher family loves you so much, and your would-be mother-in-law is quite satisfied with you. And the status of both of your families is matching.” Chester paused for a while and then continued, “But I think the Christopher family would surely reconsider the candidate of a daughter-in-law if they knew you had sold your body to the foe of your family for several years, right? And at the same time, that man you had such an infamous affair with is so rich and famous.” Chester laughed happily.