Chapter 9


    The question took Yasmin aback. She looked at Giselle. “What?”


    “You like ke, right? I heard about it from some other people.” Giselle nced at ke, seemingly


    observing his reaction.


    He ate calmly while Yasmin smiled self–deprecatingly. Yasmin said, “Nope.”


    “No?” Giselle didn’t really believe her. Over the past few days, she’d heard many things about their


    rtionship. She’d heard about how Yasmin had pursued ke like mad in the past. She would go


    everywhere he went.


    ke’s friends had mockingly called her ke’s littlepdog. It bothered Giselle.


    “I was young back then and didn’t know any better. I was just messing around.” Yasmin smiled


    faintly.


    It was as if she’d been under a spell at the time. She wasn’t satisfied with just being married to


    ke on paper. She would deliberately wander around before calling ke and telling him she was


    lost. She would ask him to take her home.


    Sometimes, ke woulde in person. Sometimes, he wouldn’t. But if he didn’te, he would


    send his assistant to pick her up. At the time, Yasmin had been hopeful. At least he was responding


    to her.


    “Oh, I see.” Giselle smiled at Yasmin’s answer. She turned to ke. “Yasmin was only joking with


    you in the past. You didn’t take her seriously, did you?”


    ke snorted. “I’m not that dumb.”


    Yasmin was stunned. Then again, ke had always thought she’d been lying to him. After Stuart


    had gone to jail, her uncle had taken over thepany. He would always make her suck up to


    ke, but it turned out to have the opposite effect.


    It only made ke think she’d seduced him for the sake of money. That was why he never believed


    anything she said.


    Yasmin felt a little dejected. She put her utensils down and said, “I’m done. You guys go


    ahead.”


    She went upstairs to take her medication. Giselle followed her and watched her gently.


    “Did you need something, Ms. O’Shea?” Yasmin kept a hand on the doorknob while looking


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    Giselle asked, “Is this the room for you and ke?”


    Yasmin frowned before regaining herposure and looking at Giselle’s belly. “Is ke really the


    father of your child, Ms. O’Shea?”


    A trace of diffidence shed across Giselle’s face before she nodded. “Yes, he is.”


    Yasmin’s eyes


    dimmed. Now that the dust had settled, there was no point in her troubling herself over the matter. “I


    hope you two will have a happy life together. You make a great pair.”


    “You and ke-”


    “There’s nothing between us. We’re probably getting divorced soon,” Yasmin interjected. Even if


    ke refused to go through with it, she would insist. It wasn’t up to ke to decide.


    Giselle’s eyes lit up. “Really?”


    “Yeah. You don’t have to mind me. I’m just an unimportant character in this debacle.” After all, ke


    had already told her he would never fall in love with her. Her heart was a grave now.


    Yasmin entered the bedroom and shut the door. She took her medication and then


    downloaded a divorce agreement off the Inte. She wanted to print it out.


    After getting her identification and the necessary documents, she headed downstairs. Giselle was


    already gone, but ke was still around. He stood before the window as he answered a call. His tall


    stature gave him a rather domineering, regal air.


    Yasmin pretended not to see him as she headed to the entrance.


    “Stop right there!” ke growled.


    Yasmin turned to look at him in confusion. “What do you want?”


    “Aren’t you supposed to be having acute gastritis? Why are you still going out?”


    “I’m going to work.”


    “You’re not allowed to go anywhere.”


    “Don’t boss me around,” Yasmin snapped. “From today onward, I’m not going to obey you anymore.


    I’m moving out. I won’t live here anymore.”