Female Novel
Chapter 1808
Queenie looked at Jack and nodded after Luca gave her promise. Then, she said, "I shouldn't bekeeping you any longer. See you later."
"Sure," replied Luca.
Queenie hung up the call first.
Jack asked again, "Should we invite Luke too?"
"You're thinking about figuring out if there's anything suspicious between them, right?" Queenie knewwhat he had in mind, and Jack nodded.
"Actually, it was already very suspicious when they slept in the same bedroom last time. But webelieved in Luke's integrity, so we stopped suspecting him." Queenie grabbed her husband's hand andadded, "I know you believe in Luca. I'd like to believe that she's not that kind of person either. I'm justtrying to get her to talk tonight, so there's no need to ask Luke to come over too."
"Alright." Jack did not say anything knowing that Queenie had her own plans. After all, he wanted tofind out whether or not he was wrong about Luca too.
Queenie stood up when Jack agreed with it. She said, "Then I'll go get ready."
"Wait, did you just come back from the hospital just now?"Jack asked.
"Yes." Queenie nodded. Leia suddenly felt uncomfortable a few days ago, so she was admitted to thehospital again. "I ran into Mrs. Mallory when I walked out of Leia's ward."
Jack nodded.
Then, Queenie asked again, "What's wrong?"novelbin
Jack did not tell her what he was thinking about to prevent her from getting worried again. Therefore,he said, "Nothing. Go back and get ready."
"Okay." Queenie knew he had something else to do, so she turned around and left.
After Jack sent Queenie out of the door, he made a call. "Find out what's going on with the Malloryfamily these days."
Jack hung up the phone after he gave his orders and sat on the office chair, pondering.
His men were quite slow in investigating things, but there was no way he could ask Luke for help now.
He could feel there was a huge mystery shadowing the Crawford and Norman families after things hadcome this far.
Perhaps Luke knew about it, but he chose not to tell him. If that was the case, he must be trying toprotect the Norman family or someone else.
Was it Luca he wanted to protect?
Jack shook his head. It seemed like other than handling his work, he would have to find out what Lukewas up to.
It was six-thirty in the evening. Luca was still working in her office.
She glanced at the time, then at the documents that she had yet to complete. She was not anxiousabout them as she thought that there would be enough time for her.
Luke walked into her office without knocking on the door or making any sound.
Luca was keenly aware that someone had come in. She looked up and realized it was Luke. She wasslightly startled and stood up unconsciously to greet him, “Mr. Crawford."
Luke looked at the documents on her table and nodded. He said with a cold voice with his hands in hispockets, "Still busy?"
"No, there are just some documents left," replied Luca while wondering why he was here.
"There aren't many left. Leave them for tomorrow." Luke glanced at the folders. She had the habit ofkeeping the completed documents on her right-hand side while the unfinished ones were kept on herleft. It was just like how Luke did it.
Now, there was only a white-colored folder on her left. The white-colored folder was not an importantfolder either.
"It'll only take me half an hour to finish it," said Luca. When she sat down and planned to continue withher work, she suddenly thought that Luke might have come to see her because of something else.
She lifted her head and looked at Luke's expressionless face. She had gotten used to his gentlenessback then, so she was still not used to seeing him being cold to her. "Mr. Crawford, are you waiting forme to get off work?"
Luke nodded and reminded her. "Zander has picked up the children and sent them back to the villa."
Previously, when she was still Bianca, she would never work overtime in the office. She would bring herwork back home most of the time. It was because she wanted to prove to the Crawford family that eventhough she had her own career, she would not neglect her children. Her children would still be thecenter of her world.
Luca recalled that she had not told Luke that she was going to meet Queenie, so she quickly said, "Mr.Crawford, Mrs. Norman invited me for dinner at her house tonight, so I probably won't go back home sosoon..."
Did Queenie invite her for dinner?
Luke slightly furrowed his brows. Why did he not know about it?
"Mr. Crawford, is there a problem?" Luca asked again.
"You should leave earlier since you promised to have dinner with them. I'll bring these documents backfor you. You can continue working on them after dinner." Luke came closer and picked up thewhitecolored folder.
Luca was so astonished that her jaw dropped a little as she watched his domineering gestures. She felthelpless.
Well, it was true that she should not let her parents wait for her.
Luca got up and said, "Alright. I'm leaving."
“Do you want me to give you a ride?" Luke asked.
Without a second thought, Luca shook her head and answered immediately, "No, thank you, Mr.Crawford. I don't want Mr. and Mrs. Norman to misunderstand—"
Luke slightly narrowed his eyes as he listened to her. He felt annoyed deep in his heart.
Misunderstood?
She was his wife. It was just that she had changed her appearance and was placed beside him by thepeople behind her. What was there to misunderstand?
If he were not worried that something might happen to her, he would have jumped at the chance toblow her cover.
Luca noticed that he had been keeping silent with an annoyed look on his face. She said carefully, "Mr.Crawford, if there's nothing else, I'm leaving first."
"Off you go." Luke brought the folder along with him and left the office first.
Luca looked at the man's tall figure from behind and let out a sigh. She knew Queenie would not inviteher for dinner without reason.
If it was not about Leia, then it was probably because of Luke's affair.
If Madam Mallory really had nothing better to do, she would definitely secretly plot against her.However, she hoped that the reason Queenie came looking for her was not that Madam Mallory wastalking nonsense about her behind her back.
She had no idea how she was going to explain herself if it was really because of Madam Mallory'sactions.
Could she insist that there was nothing between her and Luke?
However, they were already staying together. Who would believe that? If Jack had sent someone toinvestigate this matter, he would be able to spot loopholes in her words easily...
Luca stood there and waited for five minutes. She only packed and left after assuming that Luke hadleft.
She went downstairs, got out of the office, and hailed a taxi to head to Norman Residence.
It was already ten past seven in the evening when she reached Norman Residence.
Luca glanced at the time and secretly rejoiced that she was not too late for dinner. The Norman familyusually had dinner around this time.
She rang the doorbell.
The maid came to open the door. She was not surprised to see Luca as Queenie had already told herabout it. She greeted her passionately, "Ms. Luca, you're here. Come on in."
Luca smiled at her and entered.
She glanced at the garden on her left habitually. The rose bushes were already hibernating because ofthe weather. Queenie had trimmed them neatly so that they could bloom even more beautifully nextyear.