Chapter 96

“She seemed to be just a distant relative fostered by the Greene family, right? The Greene family treated her well and spent so much money to help her get into Ventura University. Bessie was usually so good to her, yet she actually criticized Bessie for having poor character?”

“She was the one with bad character, right? I heard that she shamelessly told others that she was the legitimate daughter of the Greene family!”

“That was hilarious. It seemed that the Greene family only had one legitimate daughter at Ventura University, right? She was the legitimate daughter of the Greene family, so what was Bessie?”

Stella was still in the classroom and naturally heard those discussions. She knew the truth, but she never spoke up to defend Ophelia from beginning to end. She was only thinking about the necklace she hadn’t received yet, and she was extremely angry!

Ophelia did not know about the comments made in the classroom. She rushed to the school gate as quickly as she could and immediately spotted that familiar car. Her eyes lit up, and she ran over joyfully. From the half-lowered car window, she immediately recognized the handsome man in the back seat; it was Winford!

“Honey!”

Hearing the sound, Winford turned his head to look, and the moment his deep gaze met Ophelia’s, her heart inexplicably lost its balance for a moment. As soon as she got into the car, she directly fell into the man’s arms.

“Honey, why were you still here?”

The eyes sparkled as they looked at him. Winford instinctively reached out to catch her, preventing her from falling, while calmly saying, “Just passing by.”

Passed by? What a coincidence!

Ophelia’s mind was filled with question marks, and then she sighed without a hint of doubt: “It seems that even heaven couldn’t bear to let us part like this. I get to see my husband again today, how happy!”

The little head rubbed against him, and there was complete trust and security in the eyes and brows. Graham, sitting in the passenger seat, quietly glanced at the rearview mirror and saw that Mr. Winford, who had been in a bad mood since leaving the school, finally had a somewhat relaxed expression on his face.

How should I tell the new lady that it wasn’t the heavens being merciless, but rather Mr. Winford who couldn’t bear to part with her?

On the way back, the man’s mood was visibly unpleasant, and by the time they returned to Sunset Vista, his expression was even more frighteningly gloomy. At dinner, seeing the empty spot beside me at the table made the gloom on my brow even more terrifying.

She didn’t finish the last bite of her meal, directly threw down her chopsticks, and coldly instructed the driver—

Chapter 10

Returned to Ventura University.

Graham was somewhat shocked. He didn’t expect that Mr. Winford cared so much about his new wife; it had only been a few hours apart, and he couldn’t stand it!

Ophelia knew nothing. She had stayed in the car for half an hour, and unable to hold back her reluctance, she said, “Honey, shouldn’t you be going back?”

She knew that Winford was usually very busy and that time was precious. So, even though she was reluctant, she still had to be understanding. However, Winford’s brows and eyes suddenly darkened, which was somewhat frightening.

“Did you not want to stay with me?”

He looked down at her, his hand on her waist, gripping her tightly enough that it made her bones ache.

“I didn’t…” Ophelia said with a sense of grievance. She did not know why he was unhappy again, but she still clearly remembered their past life and understood that he was very sensitive due to his illness. At that moment, what she should do was not to question whether he was right or wrong, but to comfort him.

So she hurriedly said, “I was afraid of wasting your time; after all, you still had so many things to do.”

She raised her hand to hug him and said, “If only I didn’t have to go to school, I wanted to be with my husband every day!”

The sentence stirred something in Winford’s heart, and for a moment, dark thoughts began to take root, making him want to really keep her from going to school and spend every day with him instead…

Fortunately, there was still some rationality, which forcibly suppressed those thoughts.

“I’m not busy, I can stay a little longer,” he said.

Ophelia obediently said, “Oh.”

After waiting for more than an hour, when it was already dark outside, the man finally restrained himself and let go.

“Go,” he said.