Chapter 1415
Vanessa's silence gave Julien the wrong impression that she was guilty.
It proved that she would still do it with another man, which made Julien furious. He looked at her coldly, hoping to see something through her expression. Unfortunately, Vanessa had always hid herself well in front of him. No matter how carefully he studied her, he could only see an indifferent look on her face.
Under Julien's gaze, Vanessa smiled and said, "Well, I'm just a secret lover that you've spent money on. As long as I can make you feel good, why do you care about other things?"
Julien's face darkened, not uttering a word.
"It's not that you didn't know that I've done it before I got together with you. I don't think there's a need for us to get to the bottom of things. As long as we're both happy, nothing else will matter. Remember, I'm just a lover, not your wife."
Julien's face darkened. "Who said that your first time wasn't with me?"
Julien raised his voice out of a sudden, which made Vanessa shook. Could it be that he didn't know she was not a virgin? Perhaps, he knew but he was not willing to admit it.
In the past, it was said that many men cared if their other half was a virgin, but as society developed, there were fewer men who thought that way. Most of them didn't care about the past and only looked forward. However, there were still men who did care.
It seemed like Julien was one of them. Otherwise, he would not have reacted like this... At that instant, Vanessa was glad that she had hidden Lawrie's existence from him.
Vanessa didn't want to think about it anymore, so she asked, "Do you want me to continue? If not, I'll go take a shower now."
Based on Vanessa's attitude, her tone and her expression when she answered his question made Julien feel like she did not care about him at all.
Julien stared at her furiously and hugged her before rolling over and pressing her under his body...
Because of Julien's lack of selfcontrol, Vanessa got up late again. It was almost time for her to go to work, so she took a quick shower and went out.
Just as she had expected, the traffic was bad.
Vanessa squeezed through the crowd and finally entered the subway station. She got onto a train which was packed with people. It was so packed that it was suffocating. However, it did not matter to her at all. The only thing that mattered was for her to arrive at the office on time. If she was late, there would surely be someone talking behind her back again
Vanessa made sure that she would turn on her alarm during the weekdays, but she was sure that she did not hear it that morning. Julien must have turned it off when she was still sleeping. He deliberately wanted her to be late, so he did not wake her up when he got up.
Vanessa didn't know what had she done to provoke Julien. She could feel that he was getting mad much easily nowadays. He was so moody that Vanessa couldn't figure out why he was behaving like this. In fact, there was not much change in Julien's expression whether he was angry or not. But whenever he was angry, he would do her incontinently. Hence, Vanessa had a feeling that Julien was doing this to gain her attention.
In fact, it was completely unnecessary for Julien to do so. He was her benefactor, and her greatest source of income. He was the reason why she had enough money to treat Lawrie's illness. She had been thinking of countless ways to please him, so why would he need to do that to garner her attention?
Thinking of the money he had given her, Vanessa once again felt relieved. If Julien had not given her a sum of money a year ago, perhaps, Lawrie wouldn't be around anymore. Therefore, no matter how their relationship had turned out now, she still thought that what she did was worth it.
The subway soon arrived at the station nearest to the company. Vanessa tried to run all the way to the company after getting off the subway, but the station was too crowded. To avoid the risk of being trampled on, everyone listened to the staff's guidance and slowly exited the station.
After exiting the station, Vanessa rushed to the company as fast as she could. However, she was still late.
As soon as Queenie saw Vanessa, she smiled and greeted her, "Good morning, Vanessa!"
Queenie's voice was relatively loud, as if she wanted everyone to hear it.
"Morning!" Vanessa greeted Queenie sportingly.
No one could guarantee that they would always be on time for work, so Vanessa did not think that there was anything too embarrassed about it. It was not a big deal that she was late for work once a year. She did her job well and never failed to meet the deadlines that were given to her.
"Vanessa, you can please pause whatever you're doing and go make Director Julien a cup of coffee?" Joel Skylar told Vanessa. His expression didn't look that great, so Vanessa asked softly, "What happened, Joel?"
Joel shrugged his shoulders, looking as if he didn't know what had happened. "Director Julien isn't in a good mood. He's a bit cranky today. Although he doesn't speak much, I feel like he will explode at any time."
Vanessa nodded in agreement. "That's what I thought."
Joel said, "Well, let's stop chatting already. You should go make the coffee now. I'm afraid that you'll get scolded if you keep dawdling here."
Vanessa did not dare to delay any longer and hurriedly went to the pantry to make coffee. After she was done, she brought it to Julien's office. Seeing that he was buried in his work, Vanessa unconsciously said, "It's not that good to drink too much coffee, especially with an empty stomach."
After saying that, Vanessa saw that Julien had lifted his head and stared at her. His gaze was different from usual, which terrified her. Vanessa thought that Julien was dissatisfied because of her nosiness so she said, "I'm sorry, Director Julien. I shouldn't have said anything about you, but you should know better than me that drinking too much coffee is indeed harmful to the body. You should really try cutting down on it."
Julien continued to look at her without saying a word.
Vanessa knew that she had said too much, so she kept quiet. However, Julien was still staring at her, as if she was a stranger, making her feel scared. What on earth did this person want?
If she had talked too much, she would just refrain from saying anything the next time then. Why was he staring at her like this and not saying a word?
At that moment, Vanessa really felt that her life would probably shorten by a few years having to face such a person every single day.