You Are The Pursuit of My Life

Chapter 59

Lily took the slap without dodging. A bright red weal sprang up on her fair cheek.

A woman happened to come to the restroom and saw Irene slapped Lily. Lily was the daughter of the Secretary and Edric's girlfriend. Irene was just a nobody.

How dare she slapped the Secretary's daughter? The woman shouted out immediately. Lily began to cover her face and cry when she saw the audience.

Someone spread the news to the party right away. Edric heard the commotion. He put out the cigarette and came back from the garden. A group of people were gathering in the hallway. He immediately saw Irene surrounded in the middle. He strove over, his heart tightened. Lily threw herself into Edric's arms as if he was her savior. She cried even more pitifully.

Edric helped her stand straight and asked, "What happened?"

Lily only cried and didn't answer. The woman who watched the scene replied, "I don't know what happened either. I came to the bathroom and saw this woman cursed and slapped Miss Cook."

"That's outrageous? How can she do this?" People who knew Lily started to protest on her behalf at once.

"Exactly. How can she be so ill-mannered? How can she slap people on such an occasion?"

A mocking smile crept on Irene's face. It turned out that Lily had planned all of these. She deliberately provoked Irene so everyone would condemn Irene for attacking Lily. Irene had to admit that Lily came up with a good plan.

There were always troublemakers who were eager to fan the flames. Someone else stood up for Lily and said, "Miss, you must apologize to Miss Cook!"

"Apologize?" Irene sneered, "Why don't you ask her why I slapped her?"

"No matter what happened, it's wrong to hit someone."

"It's not your turn to speak here," Irene snapped back. Her arrogance only made people angrier. "How can you act like this? Apologize! Apologize quickly!"

Irene turned a blind eye to the condemnation from the crowd. She fixed her eyes on Edric and Lily and said, "Miss Cook, are you sure you want me to apologize?"

Lily cried without speaking. She and Deborah were well aware of Irene's high self-esteem. They knew that she would rather endure the humiliation and pain than show her weakness in front of other people.

That was why Irene left the family without asking for any explanation after knowing that Lily was pregnant with Edric's child. She suppressed the news of Edric's betrayal as well as her own pain. Deborah said Irene was just like her mother.

Such a person would never tell the truth about what happened in the past. That was why Lily dared to goad Irene on to attack her in the first place.

to provoke Irene. Second, she wanted

needed to wait to see how Jordan reacted to it. While crying, Lily searched for Jordan in the crowd. Where

he didn't believe that she would hit Lily for no reason. "I want

cursing at Lily furiously at this point, which would only aggravate the situation. But she was no longer the fool she was before and saw through

stay silent. Instead, she looked at Edric with a smile, said, "Mr. Myers, are you sure you

"Yes, I want

know why." Jordan suddenly appeared next to Irene. He reached out to hold Irene's hand and said,

put his arm around Irene's shoulder to

the reason why I

Irene would be willing to tell everyone about their argument. Her body froze when she was crying in Edric's arms. "Will Irene tell everyone I was pregnant before?" Lily would be humiliated if everyone knew that Irene was once Edric's wife and Lily was a surrogate. She would not be able to gain a foothold

were talking about the most popular topic in recent years

didn't expect Irene to have changed so much. She immediately pretended

what happened back then. He and Lily didn't have an affair. How could Lily survive in

held Lily up. "I'll take you to the

Without the leading roles, the audience lost interests as

got in the car

Reed, what do you

a pretty good actress. At first, she was so domineering and immediately fainted when you were about to tell everyone her mother was a homewrecker.

"I don't know!"

Margaret would never let her son marry a woman born to a mistress

that?" Irene was curious. Margaret had always thought highly of Lily. "Because Margaret was a victim of extramarital affairs," Jordan

had

died young. Margaret devoted herself to her son. Her son is everything to her. You can imagine

was born to a mistress. It must be a wonderful drama. Edric helped Lily get in the car. Lily burst into tears. "Edric, I'm fine. I just pretended to faint.

that she was only pretending. It was the only way she could stop Irene

truth of the past. But she wouldn't listen and called me a home-wrecker. She was so emotional that she slapped me. Edric, I'm sorry. I didn't want

thinking of the misunderstanding Lily suffered

that Edric wouldn't believe her. She breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Edric's apology. She must not

went into the house. Deborah was waiting for her in the living room and was

"What's wrong?"

Lily's face. He was surprised as well. "What happened?" "Irene, she slapped me!" Lily burst into tears and recounted the incident with plenty of embellishments. Not only did she say that Irene called her a mistress, but she also didn't forget to mention that Irene called Deborah a mistress as well.

understood what Lily was going for. She reached out to wipe Lily's tears and started to cry herself.