Unexpected Blessing After Divorce

Chapter 223

Chapter 223

Chapter 223 Go To Highfield Manor

That evening, after Yuliana had her dinner at the Solace residence, Joyce arranged for a car to send her and Hailey back home.

When Joyce saw Yuliana and Hailey out, Annabelle came over and asked with a smile, *Joyce, Yuliana, do you mind letting the driver give me a ride?”

Joyce shifted her gaze at her. “Are you leaving tonight too?”

Annabelle replied, “I’ve been staying in the Solace residence for days. It’s time for me to leave. What’s more, after Yuliana came here, Mrs. Solace’s emotions are much better now. I think she doesn’t need me anymore.” After a pause, she added, “I don’t live in the same direction as Yuliana. The driver just needs to drop me off somewhere so that I can take a taxi home.”

Hearing that, there was nothing much Joyce could say. She shot a glance at Yuliana and saw the latter nod gently.

Joyce then replied, “Okay. Yuliana is pregnant. I’ll ask the driver to send her home first, and then only he’ll send you back.”

Hailey sat in the front passenger seat, while Yuliana and Annabelle sat in the backseat.

They didn’t speak along the way.

It was nearly an hour’s drive from the Solace residence to Celestial Garden, and it was also nearly an hour’s drive from Celestial Garden to Grand Island Mansion as the two locations were in opposite directions. Halfway through the road, Annabelle suddenly said, “I didn’t expect that. You’re quite good at pleasing people.”

There was a slight sarcasm in her voice.

Yuliana glanced at her and said nothing.

Annabelle looked into her eyes and said, “Even the doctors say that the chances of Mr. Solace waking up are slim. You’re just a teacher. Are you more skilled than the doctors? You gave hope to Mrs. Solace, but what if Mr. Solace doesn’t wake up?”

Yuliana averted her gaze and ignored Annabelle.

Indeed, she gave hope to Winnie, but she didn’t think it was something bad. Winnie needed hope, and she didn’t just say it casually. Instead, she arrived at the result after researching many case materials and consulting experts in this field.

Moreover, Zachary is a man with strong willpower. She always felt that he shouldn’t have ended up like this. In the end, neither of them talked anymore.

The driver first sent Yuliana and Hailey back to Celestial Garden, and then only he sent Annabelle back to Grand Island Mansion.

Annabelle stared out of the window silently for a while. Suddenly, she asked the driver to park the car on the roadside. She opened the car door and got out of the car. She stood by the roadside as she watched the Solace family’s car leave, and then she hailed a taxi.

The taxi stopped in front of her. She opened the car door and got in the car. “Go to Highfield Manor.”

Highfield Manor was not far from here, and it only took about 20 minutes to get there.

In the mansion, the first floor was pitch-black, and the study on the second floor was brightly lit. Harry was at home.

It wasn’t even 10 p.m., and he was home at this hour. It was really rare.

Annabelle wanted to ring the doorbell, but she hesitated for a moment and tried to open it with the password instead. Unexpectedly, the door opened all of a sudden. She took off her shoes and went upstairs quietly. Instead of looking for Harry in the study, she went directly to the bedroom.

Without turning on the light, she took a bath in the bathroom by the light outside the window. After that, she wrapped herself in a bath towel and lay down on the bed, waiting quietly for Harry to return to the room.

A few hours passed.

In the end, Annabelle couldn’t bear it anymore and fell asleep.

After some time, she could feel one side of the bed sink in.

Annabelle groaned habitually and opened her eyes suddenly. Before she could figure out the situation, she felt suffocated.

She was stunned for a few seconds. As she sniffed the familiar scent, she put her arms around the man’s neck and responded enthusiastically.

After a while, she grunted in agony.

Harry bit her.

She opened her eyes and glared at the man above her. “What are you doing?”

Harry tugged her hair and scalp, forcing her to look up at him. “I should be the one asking you that question. Annabelle, don’t you know that I already have a fiancée? Do you like to secretly seduce men who are already taken?”

Feeling hurt by the man’s contemptuous gaze, Annabelle didn’t say anything. Instead, she took the initiative to kiss him on the lips.

However, the man was unmoved.

Annabelle felt her heart aching. As she thought about everything that had happened recently, a sense of emptiness and desolation overwhelmed her, and tears uncontrollably rolled down her cheeks.

Harry sat up on the bed, turned on the light in the room, and ignored her. He caught a glimpse of the cigarette box on the bedside table. He took one out and smoked quietly. His gaze was distant and unfocused. He heard the sound of a woman’s suppressed sobbing in his ears.

Harry’s eyebrows gradually frowned, and his face was full of impatience.

He said coldly, “Annabelle, this is not the place for you to heal your wounds. Get out of here if you keep crying.”

Upon hearing that, Annabelle’s sobs instantly ceased. However, she had been crying so hard before that, so it was hard to control herself.

She turned around and curled up into a ball.

Harry glanced at the small figure out of the corner of his eye, feeling extremely annoyed.

After a while, he put out the cigarette, lifted the quilt, and pulled Annabelle up from the bed. He held her chin- and kissed her deeply.

After a passionate session, Harry lit another cigarette and leaned back on the bed to smoke.

Annabelle lay in bed for a while before she went to the bathroom to take a shower again. She then put on her clothes and left as soon as she opened the door.

Harry sat on the bed motionlessly. He didn’t even spare her a single glance when she left.

After Annabelle left, he got up and took a shower, then he went to the study again.

The next afternoon, Scarlett came to Highfield Manor.

She promised Harry that she would cook tonight, and they would have dinner together.

The ingredients were purchased online and delivered on time by the delivery person.

Scarlett arrived at about 3 p.m. It was three or four hours before Harry got home from work. Since it was still early, she could prepare the dinner a bit later.

She wandered around downstairs and saw the spiral staircase leading to the second floor. She stopped and looked up.

She had been to Highfield Manor several times, but she had never been to the second floor.

I wondered what Harry’s bedroom looked like and what color his quilt was.

Given her current relationship with Harry, she assumed that he wouldn’t mind if she went upstairs and took a look.

With that thought in her mind, Scarlett went upstairs.

There were several rooms on the second floor. The first room she opened should be the master bedroom. Apart from furniture, there was nothing else inside, and it didn’t look like anyone had been living there.

She stood at the door for some time. She then thought of something and decided to go in and take a look.

She guessed Harry and Yuliana used to live in that room before their divorce.

She couldn’t help but fantasize about what might have happened between Harry and Yuliana in the room. Eventually, her gaze inevitably fell upon the huge bed.

She was a little jealous at first, but then she thought of something else. Her face couldn’t help but flush. The Lynch family had a very strict family tradition. Even though she had lived abroad for a long time, she was still very conservative. She was already 22 years old this year, and she had never had a boyfriend before meeting Harry.