The Bride’s Revenge

Chapter 41 Is Returning to Your Own Home an Inconvenience?

Jameson had not fully recovered from the slap Marion gave him when he saw the Bentley getting farther away. He kept watching until the car turned a corner and disappeared. Only then did Jameson regain his senses and hurriedly turned back to his car.

He had known Marion for twelve years and had never heard about her connection with Lucas. There was no friendship between Richard and Lucas, so Jameson could not believe that Marion had any real involvement with the man. Their sudden marriage was perplexing to him.

The Bentley had not traveled far from the mansion when it was stopped by a red light. The car came to a smooth halt, and Lucas glanced at the rearview mirror. His thick lashes were lowered, casting shadows that concealed the coldness in his eyes.

Then the light turned green, and the stationary Bentley gradually started moving again. After about ten minutes, the car came to another stop.

“Mrs. Craig?”

Marion pretended to be asleep. She was unable to face Lucas after the incident with his throat. She was not sure what had come over her to make her touch him like that. Although Lucas did not blame her, Marion still felt embarrassed.

Hearing him call her name, Marion’s heart skipped a beat. She slowly opened her eyes and rubbed them as if she had been sleeping. “Did you call me?”

Lucas looked at her, and in his dark eyes, Marion found a hint of emotions that were hard to read. Feeling tired?” he asked.

guilty and instinctively sat up, as if

my eyes for a bit,” she mumbled, trying to divert the conversation.” What’s up? Do you have

to his hand that casually

the steering wheel, his index and middle fingers interweaved and created

he raised his hand and pointed to the rearview mirror outside her car. ” We probably won’t

cars behind her. At first, she had

lips. “If I head over to your place now, will it be an inconvenience?”

is returning to your own home an inconvenience?”

Returning to Your Own Home

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the red light that had just turned green, and

car.

persistent, Marion’s strategy of ‘eating supper‘ was not going to work.

even more skeptical of their charade. Marion and

had always been a matter between two people, and with Sally in the picture, everything had changed. Jameson knew Marion