Chapter 100
Sylvia was shocked when she found out. "He's not eating?"
Odell did not answer. The stony expression on his face was basically telling her to stop her pretense.
Sylvia recalled how Tristan looked when he had come to her yesterday. He seemed slimmer and rather weak, and it was a surprise to her that starvation was the reason for that.
She had no idea he could go down the extreme path, and neither would she have instigated him to do so.
She looked at Odell and said, "I've rejected him many times now. I don't care whether you believe me or not, but I never instigated him to stop eating so that he could convince his parents."
Her eyes widened in determination.
Odell was surprised for a moment. Then, he regained his stern face and said, "If you really rejected him, he wouldn't have gone on a hunger strike against his parents."
Sylvia did not know why Tristan chose to be stubborn and extreme. It even confused her feelings for him.
Feeling helpless, she insisted, "Odell, I'm telling the truth."
"Hmph. When you crawled into my bed back then, you said that you were framed as well," he recalled with a scoff. "If you were framed, as you claimed, why would you have been so happy to marry me?"
She claimed that she had rejected Tristan, but with his parents agreeing to them being together, given her past endeavors, she would probably be happily married to Tristan in a matter of days.
Sylvia was silenced.
A while later, she stared into his eyes and said, "I was blind to have fallen for you back then. If I didn't have those blinkers on, even if I were framed ten times over, I would never have married you."
Odell reacted grimly to her words. He glared at her with a blade-like gaze.
Refusing to back away, Sylvia returned a stern gaze.
The room went quiet for several seconds.
"Get out," he said.
"I want to see the kids. If you don't let me see them today, I won't leave." Sylvia then sat herself down on the couch.
"Don't you get ahead of yourself!"
She raised a brow. "If you let me see the kids, I'll leave right away."
He stared at her. "I will call security to throw you out."
"Yeah, and if you do that, I'll tell them you had an affair in your past marriage. You slept with another woman while your ex-wife was pregnant. Now that you have a girlfriend, you still go to your ex-wife's place to be a freeloader. I want your company to know you are a piece of garbage!"Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.
Sylvia grinned. She acted like she was not afraid of him at all.
Odell pursed his lips coldly. He would have sliced her ten times over if his eyes could kill.
Sylvia quivered at his cold glare. She could not help but say, "You made me do this!"
Her patience was limited. Her children were her bottom line, and yet he used them against her multiple times, and now he forbade her to see them because of a picture. Sylvia could not tolerate him anymore.
Odell went silent.
She felt the chills from his gaze but bit the bullet and sat there firmly.
A few seconds later, he got up. His tall and rigid figure closed in on her.
He reached out and grabbed her by the collar, seemingly wanting to pick her up.
Sylvia quickly clung to the couch.
Odell tried to pull her away from the couch but failed after multiple tries.
The surly look on his face put a grin on hers. "If you let me see the kids, I'll go. If not, don't even think about it."
Her grin seemed cunning and also provocative.
Odell grunted. He grabbed her hands and pulled her off the couch.
Due to the sudden momentum, she lost her balance. With a quick glance, she used the loss of balance and threw herself onto him and clung to him tightly.
Odell froze. He looked down at his chest and saw Sylvia hugging him tightly.
She did not notice how inappropriate the posture was. Instead, she made faces and provoked him, "Odell, if you don't let me see the kids, don't even think about throwing me out!" Her face was blushing while her eyes glimmered and her lips looked extra luscious.