Chapter 476 The Couple

Jeffrey reacted fast as he lunged over from opposite Melanie and handed her an orange.

She developed a love for the smell of oranges when she previously suffered from severe morning

sickness.

As he had expected, the moment the refreshing citrusy smell of the orange hit Melanie’s nose, her nausea faded. She lifted her head and said with a wave of her hand, “I don’t like it.”

Leo arched his brow as he put down the smoked fish, and surveyed her from head to toe. “You

don’t look very good. Why are you retching? Are you ill?”

Melanie held her breath as she tucked her hair behind her ear, and nodded as calmly as she could.

“I’ve been suffering from gastroenteritis recently,” she said.

“Why don’t you take a rest? I’ll find you later and continue with the proposal?” Leo said with

feigned concern.

“Sure. I’ll go and grab my medicine.”

She stood up, and Jeffrey held her steady as she walked to the washroom.

She knew that there were people keeping close attention to her along the way. She deliberately

retrieved two kinds of pills from her bag and gulped it down with some water. They were in fact

supplements for pregnant ladies.

“Do you feel better?” Jeffrey asked, his heart aching for her.

“Yeah.”

She shut her eyes to compose herself, her nose still filled with the pungent smell of the smoked fish from earlier, although she was slowly getting used to it.

well,”

got what he wanted

and how she stood up had given Leo the answer he was looking for. What’s more, Leo was a very careful and detailed man.

narrowed. “If the Yorks are bent on killing your child, they won’t

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with the professor.” Melanie held the orange in her hand and put it near her nose, slowly recovering from her churning stomach. “I can’t stop the treatment. from my mom and Pamela. I can’t be apart from them, and we have to

had to carefully plan their steps

done with his smoked fish, while

proposal,” Melanie said.

her with his brows furrowed. If he could, he really wanted to shield Melanie from

that all she needed to think about was how to

accompany me. I can go over myself, that will lower Leo’s guard. I’ll be

he tries to test me again.”

“We’ll see.”

“What?”

Just be careful.”

He knew for a long time that she

walked over to Leo, he had finished up the

in his eyes. “Do you feel better? I’m so sorry about that. I didn’t know

of the fish.”

I’ll be fine in a couple of

through the

where he left off. However,

further

found herself puzzled over Leo. Was he certain

or…

it just a coincidence earlier…?

left the couch too. Since the Yorks now knew about her relationship with Jeffrey, she decided to just wear his jacket so that she wouldn’t

a dead–end in a

she stopped in

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before her, about a few meters away, the back view of a couple made her instinctively retreat by a

leaning against the pillar along the corridor and

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