You Are The Pursuit of My Life

Chapter 171

Finally, Lily decided to meet Joanne at a cafe near the Cook family home. Joanne rushed to the cafe and found that Lily had yet to arrive. Slightly infuriated, she thought, "What's wrong with her? I'd already agreed to meet her near her place, and yet she's making me wait?" While she was holding in her dissatisfaction, Lily walked in and urged her the moment she sat down, "Hurry up and speak, I'm in a rush."

"Miss Cook, why are you so busy?" Joanne sneered. "If that's the case, I'm not gonna talk about it. You'd better go and attend to your business."

"Miss White, what do you mean? It was not easy for me to take the time to meet you. How can you fool me like this?" Lily was annoyed.

"I'm not fooling around with you. The things I want to tell you, they're crucial. You have to show your sincerity," Joanne said as she ordered the waiter to serve the drinks. She picked the cup and took a sip. However, Lily did not budge. Joanne found her acting even weirder. However, she wasn't aware that Lily was feeling anxious as she watched Joanne sip her tea languidly. Not wanting to dillydally any further, she asked, "What kind of sincerity do you want me to prove?"

"Miss Cook, you must answer a few questions of mine with honesty." Joanne stared at Lily. "Have you given up on Edric or not?"

"I-" To Lily, Joanne was just an outsider. How could she tell an outsider that she still harbored feelings for Edric?

Lily's reaction was only natural. Although Joanne was young, she was cunning. She didn't need Lily to answer this question but rather make use of the question to judge her sentiments. If Lily replied decisively, then her reaction proved that she had indeed moved on from Edric. However, Lily's hesitation at that moment cleared the air for her.

"Miss Cook, you don't have to answer anymore. It's clear to me now." Joanne set down the cup.

"Miss Cook, you're in a dither because you have yet to trust me. That's understandable. Since that's the case, allow me to be frank with you too. I dislike your half-sister, Irene, very much. I reckon you must have heard some rumors about that, Miss Cook. So, I won't share the reasons, and I'll be blunt with you. I'm here to seek your cooperation."

"How are we going to have a cooperation?" "I want to face Irene head-on and make her stay away from Nathan and Jordan. I believe, Miss Cook, we share the same goals. It wouldn't be easy to face her individually, so I purposely came to you to show my sincerity. So, I hope you would do the same for me, Miss Cook."

Lily lowered her guard at this point. "Miss White, what plans do you have in mind?"

This was an indication that she had agreed to cooperate with her, which was entirely within Joanne's expectations. "I suppose you know that Irene's son is Edric's?"

At Lily's nod, Joanne probed further, "So, do you also know about Irene's pregnancy, Miss Cook?"

"Pregnant? Irene is pregnant?" Lily was stumped. Margaret hadn't told Marie about this matter, so naturally, she wouldn't know.

Joanne had always thought that Lily knew about Irene's pregnancy. When she saw how astonished she was, she knew that Lily had been kept in the dark. She lowered her voice.

"To save her son, Irene is bearing Edric's child again. If this child is born, she and Edric will have two children. By that time, it would be difficult for you to turn the tables, Miss Cook. Do you understand what I mean?"

could not

the news, she failed to digest the information. Joanne added as she stared at her, "I think we should come up with a solid plan together. Miss Cook,

lost in

the faint smile on Joanne's face. She felt her face flush warm. She had just lost her composure. Her mother was right. She needed more experience to improve herself. She was much

with her mother. Lily controlled herself and tried to chuckle, as if she was shrugging off the matter. "Thank you for letting me know about this, Miss White. I've been out for too long, and I'm afraid that my mother would be worried

knew her intentions and did not stop her. She passed Lily a name card and said, "This is my personal number. You can call me for anything, Miss Cook. I hope I can have more tea time with you in the future,

in the future." Lily received the name card and tried her best to maintain her

doubted Rowane. However, he felt stirred up after hearing that Rowane had made up

were to do so, Edric would suspect that the

been uncontactable ever since she had gone abroad to study. Her previous number had been cut off a long time ago, and she never gave Edric her new number. Edric

a hunch that he must have discovered something after investigating and replied, "I'll reach the office in twenty minutes. We'll talk about it

filled with Rowane's whereabouts. He asked before John could say anything, "Is there any news about Rowane?" John shook his head. "Ever since Rowane left the country, her number had been unreachable. She hasn't reached out to us as well. I've checked

is getting stranger." Edric frowned and thought, "Unless Rowane had been lying to me all this while and she had never gone

Edric's heart, and his face became stoic. "Go and find

Marie

that Marie was Rowane's mother. However, Rowane had denied it eventually. Since

felt a strong discomfort surge in his heart, but he controlled his composure. Then, he

for some time, so he had

have called her. Say, what ulterior motive do you think

by Madam?" John asked

Irene and make

he would not have passed out with a mere few drinks.

a few glasses of wine that night and had not been drunk to the point of compromising his consciousness. However, that night, he had

want to recreate the birthday party scenario again?" John

words, Edric dredged up the dirty things that

Margaret. Had they bribed Rowane? Had Rowane drugged him and staged

that he did not happened that night. Eric didn't dare to think about what could have happened. He felt his heart slam against his chest. "Lily hasn't

checkup before this. I asked someone to tail her and saw her entering the Gynecology department. Later, I asked someone to inquire about what she did, but we found