Chapter 9
The young man chuckled. “I guess you are waiting for the car behind.”
“Sorry.”
Utterly awkward, Mira unbuckled her seat belt and got out of the car at once.
As Mira got into the Honda, the young man tapped on the window and gently reminded her, “You forgot your suitcase.”
Then he easily opened the back seat door and put her suitcase inside.
After that, he waved his hand, smiled, and said to Mira, “I’ve got the license plate already. Don’t forget to text when you get there.”
Mira was stunned, and then she quickly understood.
He was worried that something might happen to her, as she took a car driven by a stranger at night, so he deliberately said these in front of the driver.
She quickly pretended to be familiar with him and nodded. “OK. Go back.”
Her heart was still pounding after he drove off.
She thought, “Gosh!
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“How can a man be so handsome, sweet, and considerate?
“How come Hugh can’t be like him?
“I guess people are greatly different after all.”
There was something she didn’t know.
Shortly after she left, the Maserati drove directly into the Leopold’s villa.
Hugh just got out of the shower. Hearing a knock at the door, he went to it impatiently. “What…”
He stopped when he saw his friend standing at the door.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were coming?” Hugh punched Chad Alfred’s chest.
Chad chuckled with interest. “Who did you think I was? You sounded so impatient.”
Ignoring his question, Hugh turned around and said, “Come in.”
“Is it a good time?” Chad had a half–smile. “I heard that you got married. Is your wife inside?”
“Piss off.”
At the mention of Mira, Hugh was irritated. “I sent her to the other room.”
“That’s a bit too much, isn’t it? You’re newlyweds after all.”
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Chad walked inside and looked around. He clicked his tongue and said, “It’s not at all like the place of a married man.”
“She and I are going to divorce sooner or later.”
Hugh took the towel and wiped his wet hair.
“To be honest, are you still thinking about Jacey?”
Chad found a sofa and sat down, said with his legs up, “One of them is an orchestra musician with national and
international fame, both talented and beautiful, and the other is the daughter of the unknown Boyle family. The comparison is so huge that no man can take it easily.”
At the mention of Jacey Tyler, Hugh glanced at Chad. “Has Jacey reached out to any of you these days?”
“No.” Chad shook his head. “I heard that your family has reached out to the Tyler family when choosing your bride, yet they said no, and no one has seen Jacey these days. Presumably, she didn’t want to become a widow. To think I used to figure that she loved you so much.”
Hugh frowned gloomily. “Forget it. It’s all over now. People are all selfish, so it makes sense that she refused.”
“Since when did you become so understanding?” Chad was surprised. “Don’t tell me that you want to divorce your wife and marry Jacey.”
“Get lost!”
A wet towel was thrown in Chad’s face.
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“I was just joking. By the way, something funny happened near your villa when I was on my way here.”
Chad changed the subject and said, “A girl mistook me for a ride–hailing driver. You know what? She looked so innocent and cute. I saw her carrying her luggage at night alone. She wasn’t kicked out by some rich family nearby, was she? Poor thing.”
Hearing the words “innocent and cute“, Hugh somehow thought of Mira.
She had sharp teeth, and his arm was still aching.
Damn!
Chad was still talking to himself, “If I had such a lovely girl in my family, I would never kick her out at night. How ruthless!”
“It’s not too late to go after her,” Hugh reminded him coldly.
“It’s fine. I’ve got the license plate of the car that took her away. Nothing can go wrong,” Chad said confidently.
Hugh said nothing.
He was completely speechless.
He thought, “How does a cold–hearted guy like me get mixed up with someone like Chad?”
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It was 8:30 p.m.
Mira’s car arrived at the entrance of the community near the school.
Paige had been waiting there for a while. She was wearing a light–brown sweater and had a slim figure.
Unlike Mira, Paige was more coquettish and more gentle.
“The Leopold family shows no concern seeing you being kicked out by Hugh?”
Paige complained as she took the suitcase from Mira, “They forced the marriage before, and once he woke up, they abandoned you. How can they be so ungrateful?”
“The Leopold family doesn’t know I’m gone. There, there. Don’t get mad. I don’t care at all. The quicker Hugh
recovers, the better I will be. I hope we can get divorced as soon as possible.”
Mira wasn’t mad at all.
She had not seen Paige for half a month and could not help but size up Paige playfully. “It seems that you have been enjoying yourself these days. Even your face is nourished.”
Paige blushed and glared at Mira, feeling awkward. “You can never be serious for a second, can you?”
Then she paused and asked, “Is Dad still mad at me?”
Mira nodded. “You left with your ID card without telling anyone and got married to Allen, putting Dad in a bad
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mood these days.”
Paige sighed, “What else can I do? He was determined to get me to marry into the Leopold family in exchange for the money. It was like he was obsessed. To be honest, I’ll be happy with money enough to make ends meet at home. I just want to be with someone I love.”
Mira knew Odin very well.
Odin was eager to see Paige and Hugh getting married and having babies, and then he got to strive because of Hugh’s identity.
Yet he was disappointed, and what was more, he had to be cautious all the time, or Hugh would find out about marrying the wrong woman.
Odin probably wanted to strangle Paige now.
“Paige, it’s one thing for you not to marry Hugh, and it’s another for you to take the ID card away and marry Allen,” Mira said helplessly. “Let alone Dad, I’m afraid that even your mom is so pissed off.”
“My mother said she wished she hadn’t had me.” Paige looked upset. Yet she quickly smiled again, “Allen is so wonderful. I’m sure they’ll accept him sooner or later.”
Mira nodded. Allen was the youngest a**ociate professor at her university.
In fact, Allen was once a myth.
He went to the world’s best university as a top exchange
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student and later earned a double doctorate abroad.
Several of his papers had been published in international academic journals, and when he was at school, he led his team to participate in a program competition and won the Arstforth regional championship.
In the eyes of everyone at school, he was out of reach.
To students like Mira, he was omnipotent.
Mira admired him a lot. But when he, the myth, became her brother–in–law, she would feel sorry.
