Chapter 9
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Anna Nolan did not know what Wendy Lincoln was about to do. She only watched as Wendy, completely at ease as if this were her own home, walked into the kitchen.
Wendy took several disposable lunch boxes, filled them with rice, added some dishes, poured in a little soup, and then handed them to Anna Nolan.
“Jason hasn’t had dinner yet. Please bring this to him, alright?”
Anna Nolan laughed coldly in anger.
“Aunt Wendy, if you really consider this place your own home, then tomorrow go with my father to the civil registry office and register your marriage.”
“If you ask me to do this as my stepmother, then for the sake of my father’s dignity, I’ll be kind enough—and reluctantly deliver this dinner to Jason Lincoln.”
“Anna…”
“Since you cannot set an example through your own actions, don’t expect me to do anything.”
“Besides, the food I cooked—I'd rather give it to stray cats and dogs outside than give it to that bastard Jason Lincoln!”
Bang.
Anna Nolan slammed the door shut.
The sound made Wendy Lincoln freeze in place.
“Daniel…” she cried again. “What on earth is wrong with Anna today?”
That girl—before that, for Jason’s three meals a day, even if he wanted steamed buns from the shop at the end of the bridge, she would wake up before dawn to line up and buy them.
And now she was only asked to bring a ready-made dinner—yet would she rather feed it to dogs than deliver it to Jason?
Were these two children really trying to torment her to death?
Mr. Nolan frowned.
He had never seen his daughter refuse Jason so firmly and harshly before.
Something must have happened between the two of them.
“You eat first. After that, I’ll take the food to him myself. I also want to ask him what exactly happened between him and Anna.”
Hearing this, Wendy Lincoln immediately smiled through her tears.
“Daniel, thank you. Fortunately, I still have you.”
Mr. Nolan looked at Wendy Lincoln, who deliberately gave him a flirtatious glance.
The heavy weight that had been pressing on his chest since he left the breakfast stall finally made him ask,
“Wendy, I know marrying me would feel like a great sacrifice for you. But our two families have been connected for years.”
“Anna’s words may have offended you, but they are also the truth.”
“Do you really not want to marry me and live together?”
Wendy Lincoln’s mood instantly sank to the bottom of an icy abyss.
“Daniel… are you trying to force me too?”
She put down her bowl and chopsticks as tears began to fall one by one.
“I’m not forcing you. I just want to know…”
“If I say yes, will all the problems be solved?”
“Daniel, you understand the situation of our two families very well, don’t you?”
“I’ll speak honestly. If I register a marriage with you, where will we live? And where will Anna and Jason live?”
“Do you think I want outsiders gossiping about me?”
“I’m doing this for the good of all four of us.”
“The children are about to take the college entrance examination, yet you’re still talking about marriage now.”
“You know very well that after all these years, can I still go anywhere else?”
Wendy Lincoln moved her chair closer to Mr. Nolan.
Her voice softened as she gently held his hand.
“Is that piece of paper really so important?”
“Isn’t our current situation already good enough?”
“The children will soon go to university. Have we even saved enough for their expenses?”
“Didn’t we agree before? Before the children entered university, we wouldn’t discuss these matters.”
“What Anna said is true, and I don’t deny it.”
“But the children are the children, and we are us.”
“The first marriage has already passed. Does a second marriage still have to follow so many rules?”
“Daniel… don’t you trust me?”
Wendy Lincoln rested her head against Mr. Nolan’s chest, her eyes shifting rapidly.
In her heart, she was already thinking:
Once Jason receives his overseas university acceptance letter, I will pack up immediately and leave the country with him for a while.
She had absolutely no intention of registering a marriage with a laborer.
If she were to remarry, even if the man wasn’t a corporate president, he at least had to be wealthy.
“Alright. I’ll listen to you,” Mr. Nolan finally said.
His heart softened again.
Coincidentally, he also wanted to use this time to carefully reflect on the words Anna had spoken earlier.
“Daniel, that’s more like it.”
“Oh, right. Hurry and bring that dinner to Jason. Evening study will start soon—he’ll be hungry.”
“Being hungry isn’t good for studying.”
“I’ll rest after I finish eating. I still need to wake up early tomorrow morning to sell breakfast,” Wendy Lincoln said weakly.
“Daniel, thank you for your hard work.”
Mr. Nolan looked at the dishes Anna Nolan had cooked—he had not even taken a single bite.
He frowned and handed them directly to Wendy Lincoln.
“Alright, you eat first. Then go rest.”
“I’ll take care of washing the dishes when I come back.”
When Mr. Nolan rode his bicycle to bring dinner to Jason Lincoln, the security guard informed him that Jason Lincoln had not attended evening study.
He had gone shopping with Jessica Cole.
After leaving home with his backpack, Jason Lincoln had noticed that Jessica Cole had not replied to any of his w******p messages.
So he called her and asked where she was.
Jessica told him she was on a popular street in the city center. It was too noisy there, so she hadn’t seen his messages.
When Jason arrived, he saw Jessica Cole trying on a leather skirt in a luxury boutique.
Jessica Cole was very beautiful, with a distinctive aura and temperament.
The leather skirt she was trying on not only perfectly emphasized her long legs, but also highlighted her sensual charm.
The moment she saw Jason arrive, Jessica Cole smiled sweetly.
She posed and asked,
“Jason, what do you think? Does this leather skirt look good on me?”
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