Chapter 44 Have you ever had any regrets?
Hugo Hodges sized up Scarlett Adler. “I’ll take you home. Even if Grandpa Adler finds out, he won’t say
anything. Aren’t you overreacting a bit?”
Was she really overreacting? It wasn’t just her grandfather at home, but also the three little ones.
Whether she’d see them or not was uncertain, but Scarlett didn’t want to take the risk.
Scarlett looked at him, trying to appear calm. “I’m fine now and can go back on my own. Besides, don’t you have things to do? Just focus on your own stuff. It’s better if we avoid each other as much as possible.”
The more Scarlett refused, the more Hugo wanted to take her.
“Are you thinking of me, or are you afraid your boyfriend will misunderstand?” Hugo asked, squinting at her.
Uh…
“It’s the same thing,” Scarlett said.
“Simple. Either have hime pick you up, or I’ll take you home. Your choice,” Hugo said.
He wanted to see just what kind of person Scarlett was protecting so fiercely.
Scarlett was speechless.
If there were a man, Scarlett Adler would have asked him to pick her up.
Unfortunately, where could she find a man?
Looking at Hugo Hodges, she smiled slightly, “Then I’ll have to trouble youter.”
Hugo Hodges was speechless.
This woman changed her face faster than flipping a book.
Even though he had agreed, Hugo Hodges still felt a bit uneasy.
He leaned in close to her, “Scarlett Adler, who is this man that you’re so afraid to bring him out?”
Since he insisted on believing there was such a person, Scarlett Adler had to invent one.
She thought for a moment and said, “It’s not that he’s someone I’m ashamed of, it’s that he’s too good.”
“How good?”
“He’s low-key, sincere, caring, and verymitted in rtionships. In short, he’s not like you. You wouldn’t
understand,” Scarlett Adler said.
Thinking of her three little ones, she was truly proud of how she had raised them. They hadn’t turned out like
Hugo Hodges at all, which was a great relief.
Hugo Hodges was speechless.
So all that was just to put him down.
Hugo Hodges sneered, “Really? Does such a man even exist in this world?”
“Of course, don’t be surprised. There are many people like that. But in your case… you probably don’t have
anyone like that around you, so you wouldn’t think they exist.” Scarlett Adler said, noticing that Hugo Hodges
didn’t look too happy.
Scarlett Adler felt strangely pleased.
After so many years, being able to say these things to Hugo Hodges without cursing was a rare relief.
Hugo Hodges stared at her. “The more you talk, the more interested I am in meeting him.”
“No chance. Don’t even think about it,” Scarlett Adler immediately rejected his idea.
“Are
you so afraid of me meeting him? Or were you just making things up?”
Scarlett Adler shook her head. “No, he’s just too good. I’m afraid you’ll steal him away.”
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Hugo Hodges was speechless.
She was talking nonsense.
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Hugo Hodges didn’t know what to believe, but he looked at her and said, “It doesn’t matter. One day, I’ll meet
him.”
Scarlett Adler acted like she didn’t care. “You’ll meet him? Yeah, right!”
Seeing that she was almost done eating, Hugo Hodges picked up the bag that was ced aside. “Let’s go
now that you’re done.”
Scarlett Adler didn’t think much of him walking ahead. She got out of bed, put on her shoes, and followed.
Even though she was a bit of a mess, she was still beautiful.
As she stepped outside, she ran into Henry Fallon.
“Boss, everything’s arranged.”
“You can head back to the office. I have an errand to run.”
“Are you taking Ms. Adler?” Henry Fallon asked. “Should I go instead?”
“That would be great,” Scarlett Adler immediately chimed in.
Henry Fallon was about to say something, but Hugo Hodges shot him a look, and he immediately
understood. He wanted to p himself. Was this something he should be volunteering for?
Why couldn’t he be a mature and sensible assistant?
“I suddenly remembered I have something to do… something very important. Ms. Adler, it’s best if the boss
takes you.” He gave a sheepish smile, and before Hugo Hodges could say anything, he added, “Boss, I’m off.
It’s urgent.” With that, he scurried away.
Scarlett Adler frowned slightly. “That guy’s acting is so awkward.”
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In the car, Scarlett Adler settled into afortable position, not caring about beingdylike.
You see, many women in Scarlett Adler’s presence would try to show their best side, but Scarlett Adler was
the type to do whatever she pleased.
In the past, Hugo Hodges might have found her like this, but now, looking at her, he found it quite charming.
At that moment, Scarlett Adler remembered something and looked at him. “Oh, right, how much was the
medical bill? I’ll transfer the money to you.”
Hugo Hodges subtly averted his gaze and said, “It’s okay, it wasn’t much.”
“Even if it wasn’t much, it’s still your money. I should pay you back.” As she spoke, Scarlett Adler took out her
phone. “How much?”
Hugo Hodges nced at her. “Just consider that I have money to burn, okay?”
Scarlett Adler was speechless.
She nced at him out of the corner of her eye and nodded. “If that’s how you want it, then fine.”
Hugo Hodges drove on, his expression slightly displeased.
Scarlett Adler pretended not to notice, found afortable position, and nned to take a nap.
“Scarlett Adler.”
“Hmm?”
“After the divorce, where did you go?” Hugo Hodges suddenly asked.
Scarlett Adler turned her head to look at him. “Why are you asking?”
“I looked for you, checked all your information, but couldn’t find you,” he said.
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Scarlett Adler was taken aback. She had been afraid that Hugo Hodges would find out, so she had erased all
traces of her existence after she left.
“I didn’t expect he actually looked…”
She never imagined that one day she would be sitting calmly with Hugo Hodges, discussing this matter.
It was a little… hard to exin.
“Really? How could that be?” Scarlett Adler asked absentmindedly.
Hugo Hodges looked at her, “I also want to know, why couldn’t I find any information about you?”
“Maybe… it’s fate?”
Fate?
Hugo Hodges had never believed in fate!
However, Hugo Hodges didn’t press further, and Scarlett Adler didn’t say anything more.
The car drove smoothly on the road, and the inside of the car was quiet.
Scarlett Adler was no longer sleepy, looking out the window, her mind echoing with memories of the past few
years.
From the first time she met Hugo Hodges, to marrying him, being disliked by him, to getting divorced, it only
took a little over a year.
That year was very long and profound for her.
When she left, the most unexpected thing was that she could still sit with Hugo Hodges like this, talking.
The amount of words they exchanged during this time was more than they had spoken in the entire year they
were married.
Thinking of this, Scarlett Adler couldn’t help but curl up a mocking smile at the corner of her mouth.
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Huge Hedges nced at her. “What are you smiling about?”
Oh, nothing. Ljust suddenly realized the meaning of ‘things change, people change’,” Scarlett Adler said.
After a few seconds of silence, Flugo Hodges suddenly asked, “Have you ever regretted it?”
“Regretted what?”
“Regretted giving up those two children?”