The Bride’s Revenge

Chapter 52 Wasn’t it too Early?

When Marion returned to the Cartier residence, she decided to send Lucas a WhatsApp message to let him know that she had arrived home safely. It did not matter to her that they were not truly a married couple in the conservative sense.

Marion opened WhatsApp, glanced at her contacts, and fell into silence. She had forgotten that she did not have Lucas’s contact!

They truly were not a real couple!

Wait, no, she did have Lucas’s contact! Remembering that, Marion was thankful that she had been slow to react. If she had immediately called Lucas at the office to inform him of her safe return and then casually asked for his WhatsApp contact, their ‘marriage‘ may have come to an end.

Lucas’s WhatsApp was easy to find. His display picture had a black background against the infinity symbol. His WhatsApp name was ‘L‘. They had exchanged messages before, but that was a few days ago, and the conversation had long sunk to the bottom of the messages window.

Marion brought Lucas back into focus. [Mr. Craig, I’ve safely arrived at home.]

Meanwhile, at the office, the speaker giving a presentation in the meeting room noticed that Lucas suddenly took out his phone. His chest tightened, and he stumbled in his presentation.

Lucas glanced at the phone, his thick, black eyelashes obscured his emotions. Lucas disliked people checking their phones during meetings yet every time he did, it signaled his impatience to others and was often seen as a precursor to his anger. The atmosphere in the entire meeting room instantly became stifling.

His long fingers tapped on the phone screen in an intricate pattern. Five seconds later, Lucas lifted his head again.

Suddenly Lucas realized that the presentation had come to a halt. He furrowed his brow but was calm as he asked “Are you waiting for me to say something?”

As he spoke, the speaker hurriedly resumed the presentation.

the piano room, Marion received Lucas’s message:

a bit of attention to us lately] he added, perhaps in an

small sigh of relief. Upon seeing his reply, she had a fleeting sense of a wife returning to her parent’s

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52 Wasn’t it too

was just

with Lucas, Marion picked up her phone and replied: [Is

the morning or afternoon?]

[Afternoon?]

pause on the other end of the chat. Marion thought for a moment and changed her mind. [Let’s make it

at nine!] Wait, was that

[Alright.]

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the conversation. [ You go on with work. If

be in no hurry to end their

going well. The cast is off, and the doctor says I

about what she must look like with crutches, her ears

the conversation. [I’m going to practice the

[Goodbye.]