Chapter 195
Sebastian''s tone was still filled with flirtation. Yasmine Taylor crudely shoved his hand away, hurled
an insult towards him, and walked into her apartment without looking back.
Late at night, Yasminey on her bed and was increasingly bothered by her thoughts. As the next
day was Saturday, Yasmine did not have to go to work. She texted Lily Adams to meet her at a
coffee shop.
Lily did not have Yasmine''s new number saved in her contacts, so she didn''t know who the sender
of the message was. Nheless, Lily still decided to show up on time.
Yasmine wore a white hat, a white neck scarf, and a pair of sunsses. When Yasmine showed up,
it took Lily an entire minute to recognize her.
Yasmine slowly took off her sunsses and pulled her neck scarf halfway down, revealing more
than half of her face. Lily immediately stood up in shock, "Yasmine—"
"Shh," Yasmine shushed her and gave Lily a knowing look, indicating that she did not want to draw
any attention to her.
Lily could not withhold herself and immediately dragged her to a table. Amid her astonishment and
excitement, she asked, "It''s really you! I could not believe in my own eyes. Am I actually dreaming?"
"No, you''re not." Yasmine pinched Lily''s face and said, "It hurts, doesn''t it? Then it proves I''m truly
your best friend, none other than Yasmine Taylor."
Lily could barely contain her excitement. She gave Yasmine a tight hug and was close to sobbing.
She said, "Yasmine, I have missed you so much. You heartless soul, where the h*ll have you been
two for the past two years?"
"It''s a long story. Let go of me first, and I''ll slowly exin everything to you."
Yasmine reminisced her life over the past two years in detail. Lily raised her eyebrows in surprise
and said, "So, does that mean you''ve been living with your Uncle and Aunt all these while?"
"Yes."
"How are they treating you?"
In Lily''s impression, Chuck Lorris and his wife had always treated their niece either as an ATM or a
crisis manager.
"Actually, they have been treating me well. They''ve changed for the better and are no longer the
troublemakers they used to be, which is why I''ve been living a decent life over the past two years."
Lily could feel a spectrum of mixed emotions welling up within her. She held Yasmine by her hand
and nodded, "If that''s the case, then it''s great. As long as you''re okay, I''m happy for you. In fact, you
look so much better now than in the past."
"By the way, I have a question for you."
That question was the main reason behind Yasmine''s appointment with Lily. "What''s the problem?"
"Sebastian... is he married?"
"What do you mean? Who is he married to?" Lily asked in surprise.
"Abigail Tanner."
"Heh, their rtionship was long gone."
Yasmine''s heart skipped a beat, "Why?"
"That woman basically turned their entire family upside down. Ever since you''d left, Sebastian has
resorted to drinking his sorrows away every day and even entangled himself with countless women.
Of course, Abigail could not tolerate it and made a huge fuss at home every single day. Eventually,
she lost her child and hence her only ticket to remain in the Simons family. She then resorted to
pushing herself down the stairs and med her miscarriage on your mother-inw. However, her
scheme waster exposed and she was kicked out of the family."
"Where did you hear this story from?"
"I met your mother-inw on the street once, so I chatted with her and heard it all from her."
Yasmine stared out the window nkly and was speechless for a long time. This story was
completely out of her expectation. She thought that Sebastian and Abigail were still married and
had a lovely child together, but she never would have thought that the child was gone and they were
already long separated. Perhaps she should have felt happy at the news, but why did she feel the
opposite?
She could not help but ask herself, "Are you actually happy seeing him in a worse state than you?"
Evidently, she wasn''t. In fact, she hoped that Sebastian would go on to live a happy life, even if it
was not a life that was spent with her.
"Sebastian has changed a lot over the past two years. I''ve met him on different asions, but he
had always nodded at me without saying a word. By the way, after Abigail left, he moved out soon
too. Rumors had it that his rtionship with his father was strained, and he had even gone on to
establish his ownpany."
"I know."
Yasmine nodded in disappointment.Text ? 2024 N?velDrama.Org.
"You know about this? How did you know?"
"I''m working in hispany now."
"What?"
Lily''s eyes widened in disbelief.
It was after listening to Yasmine''s exnation that Lily finally understood the context. She carefully
asked, "Now that you know Sebastian is single, are you going to get back with him?"
"No."
Yasmine answered without hesitation.
"Why?"
"Just because Sebastian and Abigail are no longer together, it doesn''t mean that we could just
return to where we were. I had been just as exhausted before Abigail was even involved. I couldn''t
satisfy his family''s demands for me to bear a child for them, and I will still face the same problem if I
return. I only tolerated back then because I was reluctant to ditch our rtionship, but now that I''m
free, I don''t see any need of turning back anymore. Otherwise, I''m basically a person with no
dignity."
Lily understood how Yasmine felt, so she did not probe any further. The duo caught up with each
other''s lives and chatted the entire afternoon away. When they parted, Yasmine made a request to
Lily, "Please don''t tell anyone that I am in B City. After my work is done, I will probably leave this
ce and may never return here again, so please just act as if I was never here in the first ce,
okay?"
"Of course!"
Lily nodded heavily and said, "But please don''t lose contact with me again. After all, we are best
friends and will be forever."
"Okay."
They both embraced each other before they reluctantly parted ways with each other.
Although Yasmine had now known what truly unfolded between Sebastian and Abigail, she decided
to not reveal her feelings and acted as if everything were normal.
On Wednesday, Yasmine''s period came. When the day was about to end, she had terrible cramps
and felt that she was soaked underneath. She could only remain seated and tolerate her own
difort.
Tragically, she had worn a pair of white trousers to work. There was no overtime work on that day. It
was five o''clock when her colleagues began to pack up and get ready to leave. Yasmine did not
move a single inch away from her seat. The project team leader asked, "Are you not getting off
work?"
"Yes I am, I''ll be leaving soon."
Yasmine was about to call out the only female colleague for help. Unfortunately, her female
colleague had immediately vanished into nowhere before Yasmine could even call for her.
''Fine, I''ll just endure it and leave when it turns dark and when everyone had left. No one will be able
to figure what''s wrong by then,'' Yasmine thought.
However, Yasmine''s body was not on her side. As time went by, her pain grew more intense to a
point where her face had turned pale and she was sweating profusely. At some point, her pain was
so intolerable that she felt as if a knife had pierced and twisted around in her stomach.
Yasmine tolerated each passing second with agony. Suddenly, the door to her office opened and
Sebastian stuck his head in. He asked, "Why are you still not off work yet?"
The special project office was just opposite the President''s office. Each time their member got off
work, they would walk past Sebastian''s room. As his room was only separated by a sheet of
transparent ss wall from the hallway, Sebastian could clearly see everyone in the project team
who walked past as they left their office.
On that day, Sebastian noticed that he had not seen Yasmine walking past his office, which was
why he decided to check the special project office when he was about to leave. Indeed, Yasmine
had not left at all. Yasmine wriggled out his hands and said weakly, "I can take care of myself from
here."
Sebastian nodded and drove away without a word.
Yasmine stared as Sebastian''s car slowly disappeared into the distance. She sighed sadly. She
unlocked the door to her apartment, took a warm bath, changed into a clean set of clothes before
copsing onto her bed.
Her stomach was still aching. She curled up and covered herself in a quilt. About ten minutester,
she heard the doorbell ringing.
She got out of bed, opened the door and was shocked by who she saw, "Why didn''t you leave yet?"
Sebastian was carrying a shopping bag in his hand. He went straight into the living room and got an
electric heating pad from the bag, "Go and lie on the bed."
Sebastian slowly supported a dazed Yasmine into her bedroom. After covering her with the quilt, he
powered the heating pad and immediately went into the living room.
Soon, Yasmine could hear the sound of the gas stove being turned on, "Puff, puff, puff..."
Five minutester, Sebastian came in carrying a bowl of chicken soup, "Drink this."
Yasmine was stunned for a moment before she got up and received the bowl from Sebastian. She
drank the soup in small sips and could feel that her body was gradually recovering its energy. It was
unclear whether she felt that way because it was a nutritious soup or because it was a soup made
by Sebastian himself.
When the heating pad was fully charged, Sebastian wrapped the pad in a towel, lifted the quilt and
ced it on Yasmine''s abdomen.
His care for her made Yasmine feel a strange sense of familiarity. The chicken soup tasted more
delicious.
"What did you put in there?"
"I''ve included celeries, carrots and some onions."
Ah, she smiled bitterly and said, "You really know how to take care of a woman."
She finished the remaining soup in one gulp and handed the bowl to him, "Thank you."
After Sebastian cleaned the bowl in the kitchen, he turned back to Yasmine''s bedroom and said,
"I''m leaving now. You can call me if you need anything."
Just when he was about to leave, Yasmine suddenly grabbed his wrist and said pitifully, "Can you
stay for a while? Maybe leave after I fall asleep."
Sebastian looked at her for a while before he nodded his head, "Okay."
He sat down on the sofa and read a magazine. Yasmine stared at him as shey on her bed. She
was still wrestling with the mixed emotions in her heart.
"If you keep looking at me like this, how are you going to fall asleep?"
Sebastian did not raise his head, but he knew that Yasmine was looking at him as if he had a pair of
eyes behind his head. Yasmine turned over, closed her eyes, and shed a single tear...
Half an hourter, Yasmine''s stomach was feeling better. She saw that Sebastian was still on the
sofa and she cast her quilt aside.
"What are you doing?" Sebastian asked in surprise.
"My stomach is no longer in pain, but I''m a little hungry. I guess you''re hungry too, let me make
something for the both of us."
Sebastian did not decline. Yasmine went to the kitchen and made two tes of carbonara pasta.
She wanted to remind him of something with the pasta. When Sebastian came to the living room
and saw the pasta, a fit of sadness appeared in his eyes.
Sebastian would never forget that wintry day that year, Yasmine had said the happiest moment she
could have was to enjoy a te of carbonara pasta with the person she loved most.
"There''s not much left in the refrigerator, so I thought to just prepare some instant pasta. Let''s eat
together."
"Okay."
They sat across each other. Sebastian took a bite of the pasta. Indeed, it was exactly how he
remembered it to be. Like Yasmine, some things never changed throughout the years.
"I already know," Yasmine paused for a moment, "...about you and Abigail."
All of a sudden, Sebastian''s hand froze. He was about to take another bite before he stopped
himself, "So what?"
"Why didn''t you tell me the truth when I asked about it?"
"Because I don''t intend to get back together with you, so why should I tell you this?"
It was heart- wrenching for Yasmine. She said, "Neither do I. Even if you had that intention, an
infertile woman like me have had enough of the way your family had treated me."
"That''s great then. We shall go our separate ways."
He got up and said with a side nce, "Gabriel is a good man, and he has a brother in his family. If
you''re interested in him, you probably won''t receive the same treatment in their family."
"You don''t have to worry about that. I''m considering it!"
Yasmine''s tears swirled in her eyes, but she was stubborn and refused to let it out. She insisted that
she would not shed another tear for a heartless man ever again.
"I''m leaving. You should rest early."
Watching Sebastian slowly leaving her sight, Yasmine suddenly lost control and cried, "Why? Why
did you name yourpany Yaslor Corporation?"
Sebastian stopped, but he did not look back. "Maybe I had loved you at that time, but it''s no longer
the case. I''m already used to the freedom I now enjoy and no longer crave to be restricted by any
person."
"Since you don''t love me, why do you still care so much about me?" "I would do the same for any
employees under my care. What''s more, you''re my partner''s
representative, I have an obligation to make sure you''re cared well for in my territory."
Yasmine was fuming. She rushed towards Sebastian, squeezed his arm, and roared, "Look into my
eyes and tell me the truth. Tell me that you did so much only because I''m your partner''s
representative and not because I am Yasmine Taylor!"