Wed to the Billionaire Brother of My Spouse by Doris

Chapter 56

Chapter 56 Patience

Henry understood and then leaned back in his seat with a chuckle. "Get in. Don't make me ask a third time."

Jasmine's fingers were almost raw from nervous picking. She looked down at her clothes to make sure they were clean before carefully opening the rear car door.

"Sit in front," Henry motioned.

After a pause, Jasmine decided to sit in the passenger seat.

Henry said nothing as he drove Jasmine

the mall.

"Get out," Henry instructed.

Jasmine stayed seated, unmoving.

After a long moment, she finally spoke. "I...I want to go back."

"You think signing on with me for three years means being a nanny or a housekeeper?" Henry couldn't help but feel amused.

Jasmine still said nothing.

"Get out. Whether I go for the paternity test or not depends on your cooperation," he resorted to a threat, now the only tactic that seemed to work against her

stubbornness.

Reluctantly leaving the car, Jasmine followed Henry.

Taking her into an elevator, Jasmine instinctively retreated to the furthest corner, facing

away from Henry and staring at the elevator walls.

When they stopped on the first floor of the mall, a crowd started to enter.

Henry reached out, pulling Jasmine in front of him with a slight frown.

Jasmine stood rigid amid the crowd, a flicker of terror across her features.

Crowded places had always unnerved her...

During her years behind bars, Jasmine suffered severe psychological trauma. A person, hit with such crushing blows, would inevitably fall prey to stress reactions.

She was claustrophobic and anxious in crowds, afraid of being squeezed among strangers. Her breaths became labored, and sweat began to bead on her forehead. Henry glanced down at Jasmine. Towering over the others, his head and shoulders were easily spotted, while Jasmine could be easily swallowed up by the sea of people.

"Let's go."

much more compliant than she was five years ago.

Once, her eyes sparkled with life; now, they

assist Jasmine, but he hadn't. Part of him... part

on the phone before leading Jasmine into a store filled with

to indulge in shopping,

proved to

know how to use this one?"

up at

said, taking a

touch with smartphones

pointing instead to a simple, more

but Jasmine had always been the

picking up the smartphone

Jasmine wanted to resist.

to get used to

Jasmine fell silent again.

called out, "Hey! Isn't that...

ushered Jasmine into a swanky boutique where the fashion displays were as opulent as they come. The attendant, spotting Henry, broke into

Henry in her early years, was a

ballerina, who after three years with Henry, strutted about with her

expression darkened momentarily, and he glanced instinctively at

met his gaze and swiftly withdrew her wrist from

men of his ilk were all

woman was nothing more than a temporary trinket, a

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hand over her mouth. "Mr. Patrick,

visibly irritated as he massaged his temples and settled

the story with this country girl Mr. Patrick brought in today? He never escorts anyone

"She looks so out of place, like she just rolled in from the sticks. Is Mr. Patrick

changing in the fitting room, the women outside gossiped on. The tailor,

Jasmine stayed silent.

the tailor encouraged with a smile. "Mr. Patrick is drawn to girls with grace; the ones who've danced

lost for

years, and he's dropped that haughty princess for a maid?" The chatter

down on her. What concerned her was whether her presence

a white dress the attendant had chosen, Jasmine caught Henry's attention. He was silent for a while, not

radiance she once held

gaze from her

the person staring back

unfamiliar and

"Okay," Henry finally nodded.

gather more outfits for Jasmine and gestured

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