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She looked exceptionally thin and weary.
Seeing Cecilia, tears welled in her eyes–helpless and heartbroken.
“Ci.”
Cecilia, eyes red, hugged her. “Silly girl.”
Corrine choked back sobs. After a long moment, she released her. “Thank you.”
Her gaze drifted to Wesley nearby, heart heavy with sorrow.
“What condition did you agree to with him?”
Cecilia said calmly, “Remarriage.“;
Corrine’s lips trembled. “I’m sorry.”
Cecilia helped her into the car./”Hmm. If you know you’ve wronged me, then live well. Don’t do anything foolish.”
Corrine remained silent, gazing out the window.
Cecilia took Corrine to her home, urging her to bathe and rest.
After settling Corrine, Cecilia returned to the living room where Wesley remained. Hezily toyed with Gwendolyn’s ything, his gaze deep.
The housekeeper, flustered by the presence of such an imposing man, stood awkwardly nearby.
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Spotting Cecilia, she exhaled in relief. “Ms. Zamora.”
“Prepare dinner,” Cecilia instructed.
“Yes,”
Cecilia approached Wesley, quietly gathering Gwendolyn’s toys as the child napped.
“I want to stay with Corrine for two days.”
She couldn’t feel at ease about Corrine’s state.
Wesleyzily lifted his eyes. “Need a contract?”
Wesley asked pointedly, mocking Cecilia for going back on her word
now.
Cecilia’s expression remained impassive, calm as still water. “Dare I go back on my word with Mr. Carlton’s methods?”
If she did, Corrine would be thrown back into police custody within seconds.
She knew this well.
After a brief silence, Wesley agreed. “Larissa and Johan’s wedding is in three days. I’ll pick you up.”
Cecilia acquiesced, her tone softening slightly as she invited him to stay for dinner.
Wesley recognized the empty courtesy. Her asional impatient nces betrayed that without Corrine’s predicament, she’d never willingly face him.
“Seeking contract manufacturers, I hear?”
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Cecilia paused. “Yes.”
Her studio remained just a studio. Mass–producing perfume required outsourcing.
Yet reputable factories rejected her small initial batches. Smaller operations had either subpar conditions or inadequate equipment- neither meeting her standards.
A month of searching yielded nothing.
She’d even considered expanding her search to other provinces.
“I’ll allocate one Holiday Series perfume production line for you.”
Wesley already held his overcoat, his tone devoid of inflection.
All business.
Cecilia immediately wanted to refuse.
She had built the perfume division of the Carlton Group, so she knew exactly how excellent and powerful the equipment on that production line was.
But giving it to her would be a waste.
“No…”
“Consider it a dowry for you.”
Wesley left after saying that.
Cecilia was a bit shocked. Dowry?
If they remarried, it would be a second marriage. Did they need a dowry?
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Besides, she had long lost feelings for him and didn’t need a dowry.
But she couldn’t seem to find anything more suitable than that production line.
She had a headache.
“Ci.”
Corrine walked out.
She had really lost a lot of weight. Cecilia’s clothes hung loosely on
her.
“Aren’t you going to sleep for a while?”
Cecilia pulled her to sit beside her.
Corrine shook her head. She gently held Cecilia’s hand and asked in a low voice, “Do you still like him?”
Cecilia shook her head, her voice cold. “I stopped liking him a long time ago.”
Corrine felt guilty, her eyes turning red.
Cecilia handed her a tissue. “Now can you tell me? What exactly happened?”
Corrine closed her eyes. Actually, if she were to say it, it would only take a few words.
After Johan took her away, she was just sent back from abroad and locked in the old Johnson residence–where his parents had lived before their passing. After they died, Johan went overseas, leaving the ce vacant
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His exact words were: “Stay there and pay for what she did,”
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But the staff knew Johan despised her, treating her poorly–from withholding meals to outright beatings.
Later, when she fell ill and they brought her to the hospital, she encountered Larissa in the lobby. Provoked by Larissa’s taunts, she lost control andshed out.
At that moment, she even considered prison as an escape from Johan.
She had lost all hope.
Cecilia listened, her slight fondness for Johan vanishing like smoke.
He was no different from Wesley.
“It’s alright. You’re back now–that’s what matters. We’ll face this together.”
Ceciliaforted her.
Corrine covered her face, sobbing violently as years of pent–up anguish poured out.
She couldn’t fathom how they’d be this.
And now, she’d dragged Cecilia down too.
“You’ll stay with me.”
Cecilia nned ahead, “As for your studio, if you want to…”
“Never.”
Corrine shook her head, voice trembling with intensity, “I’m never going back.”
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“Alright, alright, Corrine. We won’t.”
Corrine’s fingers trembled slightly. “Ci, I need some time off.”
“Alright.”
Cecilia respected her decision.
Three dayster came Larissa’s long–awaited wedding.
Wesley personally came to pick up Cecilia.
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