The Bride’s Revenge

Chapter 118 No Escaping Now

While he answered the phone, Marion silently mouthed the question, “Should I leave?” She had

noticed that the call was from Lucas’s father.

It did not take much guessing to know that it was a call to ‘reprimand‘ Lucas, and as the supposed‘ culprit‘, Marion felt it was appropriate to give them some space.

Lucas glanced at her, and as she prepared to get up, he leaned forward and took hold of her wrist. The grip was not too strong, but the warmth emanating from his palm onto her wrist was constant.

Marion instinctively curled her fingers and attempted to withdraw her hand, but as soon as she moved, the pressure from his hand increased slightly.

Lucas tilted his head to look at her, and feeling embarrassed, Marion blushed and refrained from moving any further.

The spacious room became quiet, and Marion stood just half a meter away from Lucas.

On the other end of the call, Arthur’s anger was palpable, and his voice resonated with escalating fury.

Marion listened awkwardly as the conversation unfolded.

“Within a month, you have to divorce that woman!”

“That’s my wife.”

have is nothing more than a base connection without any

what about you and Mrs. Roy?”

then chuckled. “Adulterer and adulteress?”

bolder than she

insist on not divorcing

should remind you, my mother owns thirty percent of

that case, step down from your position as chairman! Whoever marries Alice, between you and Phillip, one of you will get my shares

“Whatever you say.”

was abruptly

no longer hear the rest of the conversation. Lucas

hanging up the phone, Lucas glanced at her.

guilty. “I didn’t hear anything.”

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said it, she regretted the words. What was

matter even if you heard it,” he

her wrist, and his gaze fell on the noodles. “Did

breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that he

could she have done?

his head to

the intense phone call between Lucas