Female Novel
Chapter 281 Stefan Is Awake
Chapter 281 Stefan Is Awake
Martha let out a reluctant smile. Then, she turned around and left the restaurant before Louis.
A gentle breeze blew to her face after she left the dining room, which made her a little moreconscious.
Louis quickened his pace to catch up with Martha and looked at her with a worried expression.
"Martha, let me take you home."
"Thank you, Mr. Caesar, but I'm alright."
Martha, with a smile on her face, politely refused Louis' kindness.
The latter, hearing this, slightly frowned. His thin lips parted again and said with a bossy tone.
"You're sick. It's likely for you to have an accident if you drive home alone. Let me take you home."
Martha heard it and found it hard to turn him down.
When Louis' driver pulled up in front of the restaurant, the two of them got into the car and sat in theback.
It hadn't been long before Louis spoke and broke the dreary atmosphere in the car.
"Miss Doyle, can you tell me what you have in mind for the future?"
"What do you mean?"
Martha turned around and looked at the man sitting beside her with a confused face, notunderstanding what he meant.
Louis shrugged and said, "I can see that you have lost your affection for Mr. Harrison. So, I don'tquite understand why you're helping him in this case."
"What do you think I was supposed to do?"
Martha frowned slightly, then smiled and asked.
Louis folded his arms in front of his chest and uttered in a nonchalant way.
"Nothing."
"One thing you may not know is that I have a child, and Stefan is the father."
Martha gave him a glance and retorted.novelbin
Soon, Louis opened his mouth again.
"The child will not be the barrier to your choice. Since you don't have much affection for Mr.Harrison, I don't think you should involve yourself at all."
Martha's heart sank a bit when she heard it, but she managed to banter with him on the surface.
"I didn't realize you are such a gossip."
"I'm not a gossip. I just feel sorry for you."
He looked seriously at Martha. Meanwhile, his words suggested a sense of solemnity.
Martha looked into his eyes with even more confusion. Why did he say that to her?
It had not been long since she and Louis knew each other. Why could he say such a thing, as if hewas aware of all the things happened between her and Stefan.
Louis seemed to understand the doubt in Martha's eyes. He smiled and reached out his hands tohelp Martha sort out the hair in front of her forehead.
"You have better days ahead of you."
You should not stop your steps merely for a man.
Louis looked into her eyes with a complicated expression, but his smile remained gentle.
Martha sensed the deeper meaning in his words, but what she couldn't figure out was why she feltsomething so familiar.
The next day, the photos of Martha and Louis eating together yesterday were uploaded to thenetwork, which made the originally calmed news a hot issue again.
The photos placed on the news were clearly carefully angled.
In one of the photos, it seemed as if Louis was holding Martha in his arms and then reaching out totouch her forehead in a flirting way.
In addition, when Martha and Louis were negotiating, her bright smile was also captured.
After the photos were posted online, articles mocking Martha seemed to be backed with evidence,making the public believe the rumors to be true.
Before long, the Internet was full of negative news about her.
When Martha woke up in the morning and scanned Twitter on her phone, she couldn't help butfrown and turn serious.
The trending on Twitter was basically the same.
While Mr. Harrison was still in a coma, Mrs. Harrison was already busy looking for her nexthusband.
Shock! Just after Martha served as the acting president of the Harrison Group, she starts huntingfor her next husband with this title.
The acting president of the Harrison Group shares dinner with a mysterious man. What's wrong?
According to reliable sources, Stefan Harrison is still in a coma and his wife is already having anaffair.
Martha's brows furrowed even deeper; her hands that were holding the mobile phone clenched.
The pictures on the news were from her dinner last night with Louis.
The angles of those photos were clearly carefully picked. Clearly, they were released now tomislead people.
Why did someone take pictures of her for no apparent reason?
She lowered her eyes, and a familiar figure appeared in her mind.
Her face brightened, but her eyes turned serious.
Giana was the most likely person to have taken those photos, after all, it was she who had beenspying on her recently.
After figuring that out, she did not pay much attention to that. She washed and changed clothes,then went downstairs to eat breakfast.
In the canteen, Bianca could not help but look at Martha with a worried face. She asked out ofconcern.
"It'll be alright. Cyberbullying will fade away in a few days."
"I did nothing that violates my conscience, therefore, I'm afraid of nothing."
Martha answered blandly and continued her breakfast.
Seeing that, Bianca knew that she was going to the Doyle Group today.
However, in this case, she was afraid that before Martha could enter the company, she would beblocked at the doorway.
After thinking twice, she said, "Why don't you take the day off?"
"Why?"
Without overthinking, Martha asked confusedly.
Hearing this, Bianca looked at Martha with more worry, her voice full of concern.
"If you go to the company today, I'm afraid there will be reporters outside the company, and thenyou..."
She could say no more.
Hearing that, Martha naturally understood what Bianca was worried about.
She smiled and said calmly, "I have done nothing to be ashamed of. Why should I be afraid to go?Doesn't that suggest I'm guilty?"
"But... People who believe rumors have lost their minds, and how would they care whether you did itor not?"
Her words silenced Martha.
Bianca was right. Those people would always believe what they want to believe, not the truth.
Just then, a soft voice came from the staircase.
"Mommy."
Martha quickly adjusted her mood and turned to look at the little guy with a smile.
"Jimmy is up."
The little boy nodded gently, stepped down, and threw himself into his mommy's arms.
His little hands grasped Martha's waist tightly. His voice was muffled, but with palpable anticipation.
"Mommy, can I see Daddy after all this time?"
Martha frowned slightly. Her heart sank a bit.
She took him in her arms and asked with a smile, "Why do you want to see your daddy all of asudden?"
"It's been a long time since Jimmy saw Daddy the last time. I want to see him today."
Jimmy was quite clever. It had been an incredibly long time since Stefan fell into a coma. Naturally,he sensed something was wrong for he still did not see his father.
Moreover, his mother had been coming home late and there rarely appeared a smile on her face,so, he could tell that she was hiding something from him.
Martha, who knew her son well just like every other mother did, knew that she could not hide it fromher son anymore.
She glanced at Bianca, who was sitting opposite her, and saw her nodding with difficulty.
Not hearing his mommy's answer for a long time, Jimmy frowned unhappily and acted pettishly,"Mommy, will you let me go to see Daddy today?"
Martha seemed to have made a tough decision. She sorted out the hair on his forehead.
"Jimmy, I want to tell you something important. When you hear this, can you promise that you willnot blame me?"
The little boy looked at her with a confused face, wondering why she asked.
For him, whatever Mommy did was right.
He nodded his head, though puzzled.
"What's Mommy going to say?"
Martha thought for a long time about how to tell him that Stefan was still in a coma.
Just as she was about to speak, the telephone in the hall suddenly rang. Bianca walked to answer itwith a solemn face.
Soon her excited voice resounded in the hall.
"Martha, it's from the hospital. The doctor said Stefan is awake!"