Chapter 451

Chapter 451

Jeremy checked the time on his wristwatch. “Yes.”

Lucas lifted Anya off him, stood up gracefully, and put on his suit jacket. “That settles it then. The threeof us will go over the details of the engagement over lunch.”

“Okay,” said Jeremy.

Corinne

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who was still hiding behind the bookshelf and two months pregnant touched her belly subconsciously.Her eyes were filled with coldness and irony.

‘So they’re going to talk about Jeremy’s and Anya’s engagement eh? I’m sure their parents would notobject to them being together since they already have a kid together. Maybe this will be the start ofthem putting away their differences and coming together as a real family,’ thought Corinne.

Lucas put his arm around Anya’s shoulders and the three of them walked over to the door whensuddenly Lucas paused in his tracks and said, “Jeremy, might I trouble you to bring Anya to therestaurant first? I just remember I have urgent matters to attend to. I’ll ask Edmund to make areservation for the restaurant. You two go ahead first and start without me. I promise I won’t take longand will go there as soon as I’ve finished my work.”

“Okay,” said Jeremy emotionlessly. He did not care one way or another.

“Okay, Lucas. We’ll make a move first. Please come to the restaurant as soon as you’re done with yourwork,” said Anya sweetly.

Lucas beamed a smile back at her. “You got

it!”

Corinne heaved a sigh of relief when she heard Jeremy and Anya walking out of the office.’ Phew, I’msafe.’

Suddenly, she felt a wave of nausea. She instinctively covered her mouth with her hand and forced thevomit back down. ‘Don’t make a sound, Corinne. Don’t make a sound,’ she told

herself.

Her morning sickness got worse lately, which she attributed to the stress and not getting enough rest.‘Gah! No! I can’t keep it in any longer.’

Corinne took a step back as the bile rose in her throat, causing her to cough uncontrollably.

Cough! Cough!

Jeremy was just about to walk out of the door when he heard Corinne’s coughing. His eyesimmediately shrank to pinpoint size and his hand froze in mid-air. He then turned around and lookedsharply at the bookshelf.

‘That voice! It sounded like hers!’ he thought.

Anya heard Corinne coughing as well. She, too, stopped walking and turned around. “Lucas, who wascoughing just now? Is there someone else in your office?” she asked curiously.

Lucas averted his gaze from hers. He scanned the bookshelf nonchalantly and lied with a straight face,“I didn’t hear anything. You must have heard wrong, Anya.”

“No! I’m sure I heard it just now. It sounded like a woman’s coughing. Lucas, are you hiding a woman inhere? Oooh, I’m going to look for her!”

She could not wait to get revenge on Lucas for embarrassing her just now. This time, it would be Lucasblushing. All she had to do was replace out where he hid the woman.

A frown appeared on Lucas’ face when he saw Anya making a beeline for the bookshelf. However, hechose to remain silent. He was not trying to hide Corinne from Anya just now; it was just that it wouldbe hard for him to explain what she was doing behind the bookshelf if Anya were to replace out.

Now, it did not matter. There was no outsider here anyway.

‘Sh*t!’ said Corinne inwardly when she heard Anya’s footsteps nearing. There was nowhere to hideanymore. Her face was pale from all that retching and she started to hyperventilate.

Anya stuck her head behind the bookshelf and her cheeky smile immediately froze on her face. Sheremained like that for one whole minute as her innocent doe eyes went from shock to

hatred.

‘What the h*ll is she doing here?”

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