Madeleine cast a glance at Tassach and replied, "She was almost driven to the brink of ruin and flung into prison by your family at that time. If she hadnât met Zachariah, she would have been in jail now. So do you think she was having a hard time?"
Tassachâs eyes turned red. He threw his head back and drank the bottle of the beer in one gulp.
Madeleine patted Tassach on the shoulder and comforted him. "Hey jinx, actually Ophelia has never blamed you, so donât be too hard on yourself."
Tassach gave a wry smile and asked, "You told me that Ophelia used to love me. Is that true?"
Madeleine nodded. "Ophelia did love you, but that was before. Now sheâs married and pregnant. So come on, try your best to find a woman both you and your family love as soon as possible. Otherwise, your family would get in the way and all your efforts would be in vain if you got yourself a Cinderella."
Tassach couldnât tell which was bitterer, his mouth or heart.
Madeleine patted him on the shoulder in a masculine way and consoled him. "Itâs better for you to move on. Your relationship came to an end, so stop whining like a woman."
Tassach took another sip of beer.
"Itâs late now. Let me send you home. If you make headlines tomorrow like 'The Heir of Conduibh Group Drunk Driving at Midnight', Iâm afraid not only your stock, but the corporation you established with your own hands will be hit hard."
Beer bottle in hand, Tassach stared at the surface of the river and said, "Talk with me."
Madeleine buried her head in her arms and said in despair, "Hey bro, come on! Weâre not teenagers anymore, and we donât mourn for our lost love in the middle of the night. When a relationship ends, it ends. The only way to get through this is to let go and start a new one. Even the male supporting role in my novel is less sentimental than you."
"Male supporting role?" Tassach glanced at Madeleine and sighed, "So Iâm just a back-up in your heart."
"Or what else?" Madeleine shrugged and replied in a casual air. Teenage girls loved the macho, while the boy next door was meant for the heroine.
Tassach could do nothing but smile bitterly.
"Come on, jinx, the sun will come out in a few hours. You have to go to work tomorrow."
Tassach got up and threw the bottle in his hand away, saying, "Letâs go."
Madeleine got into the car, fastened her seat beat and asked, "Will it be OK if you park your car here?"
"Iâll ask someone to drive it back tomorrow."
"Rich people indeed have their own ways of handling things. But since you can totally afford a car, it doesnât matter if itâs stolen."
Madeleine sighed while driving, "Hey jinx, in fact, you made a favorable impression on me when I first met you. Youâre handsome. You come from a privileged background. Youâre highly-educated. Youâre Prince Charming to most girls, while Ophelia is also a beautiful girl, so I thought she and you would make a perfect couple. If it werenât for what your family did to Ophelia later, I would have agreed to leave her to your care. But unexpectedly, you shrank back, or else, the one marrying you would have been Ophelia. You two would have made a perfect family of three."
Tassach leaned back in the back seat and closed his eyes, concealing the agony.
Madeleine said no more but focused on driving. It took them almost 40 minutes to arrive at the housing estate Tassach lived in.
"Here you are. Now get off."
Tassach pushed open the car door and said to Madeleine, "Madeleine, donât tell Ophelia that Iâm drunk tonight."
"Donât worry. I wonât do such a stupid thing. Ophelia has her own family and baby now," said Madeleine.
"Good."
When Tassach got off the car, Madeleine drove away at once.
Tassach staggered upstairs. After he got into his apartment, he collapsed on the sofa and fell asleep without taking a shower.
Then nothing happened after that.
The next day, Madeleine called Ophelia at 10 a.m. She said after Ophelia answered the phone, "Honey, are you awake?"
"I am."
"The weather is fantastic today. Come out and go shopping with me. You need to work out more before your belly grows bigger, so that things will go more smoothly when you give birth."
"Alright."
"Then letâs meet at 11 at MZ Plaza. Weâll have lunch together first before we go shopping."
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The two turned up at MZ Plaza on time at 11 a.m.
Madeleine gave Ophelia a warm hug and asked with a smile, "Honey, did the baby behave itself yesterday?"
Ophelia shook her head.
Madeleine studied Ophelia from head to toe. Seeing that she had a ruddy complexion and was in a good mood, Madeleine smirked. "Honey, tell me the truth. Did something good happen yesterday? Look at your ruddy cheeks. Thatâs the sign of a woman in love."
Ophelia poked Madeleine on the forehead with her finger and smiled. "Youâre letting your imagination run wild, Lady Writer."
Madeleine burst into laughter.
"Honey, what do you want to eat for lunch?"
"How about hot pot? I want to have spicy hot pot so bad today. Iâm drooling at the thought of it."
"And I thought you would like to eat in some fancy restaurant. Well, for the sake of the baby, letâs have hot pot today."
Madeleine made a reservation online first before the two went to the restaurant serving hot pot hand in hand.
Hardly had the two sat down than Opheliaâs phone rang. She took out her phone and found that it was a strange number.
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