Female Novel
Chapter 194
Chapter 194 Bring Bianca Back For Me!
After the explanation, the colleague went downstairs.
On the second floor, Bianca opened the door with the key. It was a room of about three hundred squarefeet.
The floor was covered in light-colored wooden tiles. In the apartment were a single bed and a simplecloset.
Before she managed to unpack her luggage, another colleague from another department appeared atthe door.
It was a young male colleague in his late twenties. He stood outside of the apartment without going in."You're Bianca Rayne from the design department, right? Nice to meet you. I'm Joe Carlson."
"Nice to meet you. I'm Bianca Rayne." She greeted the colleague.
Joe pointed downstairs and said courteously, "Everyone hasn't had lunch yet. We went to therestaurants in town, and the conditions were... less than ideal. Some of the girls who are used to livingin the big city could not accept it. I heard from my department lead that you grew up here, so I thoughtI'd ask if you could bring everyone around to familiarize themselves with the place. We can also getsome ingredients and make lunch ourselves."
Bianca understood what he was saying. She placed her trunk down and nodded. "No problem. I'll godown now."
"There's no rush. You should settle down first." Joe nodded and went downstairs.
She looked at the watch and saw that it was almost two o'clock.
'Oh no, I'll have to rush!
'Otherwise, we might as well be making dinner!’
She opened her trunk, took out her power bank, and plugged it into her phone. She did not have timeto unpack everything else. Instead, she took the key and her purse, then followed Joe downstairs.
Several messages came in.
The first few were missed call notifications from Luke. Then, it was a text message.
The message read, [Call me back when you turn on your phone.]
She was out with her colleagues, and it was inconvenient to call him, so she replied to his message.[Well talk later. I'm going to get food ingredients with my colleagues.] 1novelbin
As she chatted with her colleagues, she received another message.
[Don't let me find out that you're cooking for other men!]
That was Luke's reply.
A City.
After Allison left the hospital, she went to her elder brother's house.
Daniel was surprised to see his sister suddenly showing up. "What happened? You look like you're in arush."
Allison glanced at Lacey, her sister-in-law who was walking down the stairs, then at her brother, "Whatelse could it be if not for something among the young ones? Bianca might be your daughter-in-law, butshe has a... relationship with my son."
Daniel and Lacey could hear the implications in Allison's words. Their expressions became unpleasant.
No parent would want to hear their daughter-in-law having an affair with another man, even though itmight be the truth.
Allison knew very well that her brother and sister-in-law did not desire to hear that, but she had to sayit!
"Last year, the company received the full development rights to a town next to A City, and developmenthad just started. Your daughter-in-law is part of the company's design department, and she went to thetown too." Allison smirked. "If not that I stopped my son with all my might, he might be there now too!"
Daniel lifted his head. "What?"
Lacey was not fond of Allison, and so she was thinking from a different angle. "Bianca is my daughter-in-law. He should know that! Yet he still..." She said angrily.
"Sister-in-law, you should understand it's not my son who wants to go along with her!" Allisoninterjected. "It's your daughter-in-law that's been throwing hints to my son. Would you expect a youngman in his prime to reject a seductress's advances?"
They were about to argue when Xavier woke up after a long sleep.
"What are you bickering about? Who's the seductress?"
Allison, sitting on the sofa, looked at her nephew who was walking down the stairs. "Who else, if not foryour wife? No other woman would have that much charm!" She said gently.
The caretaker poured a glass of water for Xavier.
Xavier took the glass, downed a big gulp to quench his thirst, and handed the glass back to thecaretaker. "You're also a woman, Aunt Allison. Why are you labeling every charming woman as aseductress?"
Allison was aggrieved. "I'm not wrong in calling her a seductress! She's born in a poor family, her fatherand grandfather are chronically sick, and she manages to survive by flirting with other men. If that’s nota seductress, what is?"
"By your logic, you've seduced my wealthy uncle-in-law who had died. Shouldn't you be a biggerseductress then? I think you've done much worse than what Bianca is doing to Luke and me." It wasthe first time that Xavier had talked back to his aunt.
Allison's expression darkened at that instant!
However, Xavier was smiling as he spoke. She could not tell if he was joking!
Daniel was not experienced in dealing with private household matters, especially those that concernedhis son. He did not wish to meddle, and there were words that a father-in-law ought not to speak.
He turned to look at his wife.
Lacey understood what Daniel meant and turned to look at her son. "You should keep a close eye onyour wife, Xavier. The two of you have a legal marriage certificate, and we've already announced yourmarriage to all the relatives. Your father and I had indeed hoped that the two of you would divorce andsever all ties, but now we tolerate her because of the baby in her womb!"
"Wait, do you mean that Bianca... is pregnant?" Allison had never heard about that before. She had herdoubts.
Lacey turned to look at her sister-in-law and nodded. "That's right, she's pregnant. That was why yourbrother and I accepted her. We don't mind an heir to the Tanner family."
Allison tried to process the information. She did not know if it was good news or bad news.
Lacey spoke to her son, "Bianca is your wife. If you're not concerned about her, it's also not ourposition to be concerned about her. You know that she's not close to us, and she doesn't even comehome. I wouldn't care as much if not that she's bearing a child. What is she doing in that small town?Does she intend to abort it in an accident?"
Daniel was getting old. He was worried that his son might get himself in trouble again. He would besatisfied if he could have a grandson.
He was immediately furious when he heard that his daughter-in-law was out working in a small townwhile pregnant. He slapped his thigh and pointed at Xavier, "Go now and get her back! I don't carewhere she goes after she gives birth, but I wont agree to what she's doing now!"