After attending a short meeting at the office, Lucian rushed home immediately. He had undergone formal antenatal training and knew all the procedures of taking care of at pregnant woman like the back of his hand. As such, he was determined to do everything himself. Upon his arrival at the manor, he was surprised to see Jonathan and Madilyn there.
“You just brought health supplements yesterday, so what do you plan on giving today?” Lucian teased. Yet he could sense Madilyn glaring at him, while Jonathan was also wearing a gloomy expression.
Only Roxanne was full of smiles. She was well aware that the two of them, upon listening to her story, resented Lucian for how he treated her during those three years of marriage back then.
“What’s wrong, Jonathan? Say something!”
Madilyn’s frosty gaze caused Lucian’s hair to stand on end. Without hesitation, he tried to recall if he had gotten on Roxanne’s nerves, as that was the likely reason for Madilyn’s hostility.
“Lucian, do you still remember this wish bottle?” Roxanne showed him the wish bottle in her hand. As if remembering something, she refolded the piece of purple paper and stuffed it back into the bottle. A single glance was all it took for Lucian tor remember what it was.
“Isn’t this the wish bottle I gave you back then? Looks like Jonathan has dug it out. What about it? Are you guys talking about the past?” Jonathan asked, shooting a careful glance at Madilyn.
However, his nonchalance intensified Madilyn’s anger, and she snapped, “Mr. Farwell, since you’ve known Roxanne a long time ago, why did you treat her that way after getting married to her back then?”
“Lucian, you should’ve been able to recognize Roxanne. She’s the high school girl that you mentioned before!” Jonathan remembered Lucian telling him about his encounter with a mysterious girl.
At that moment, it dawned upon Lucian what was going on. When he shifted his gaze to Roxanne, the latter grinned back at him.
“I haven’t had the opportunity to explain, so why don’t you do the honors yourself, Mr. Farwell?” Lucian didn’t know how to react. He had long expressed his remorse to Roxanne over what happened.
“Actually, the reason was simple. I couldn’t accept the fact that the girl I was once in love with married me because of money. You can blame me for what happened, but that was how I saw it back then. This was all my parent’s fault, or you can say that fate had brought us together. If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t have wanted it to happen that way.”
That year, Lucian had just taken charge of Farwell Group. He was weathering all sorts of difficulties in the business world and suffered all kinds of plots to undermine him.
His experience made him realize that all the theoretical business knowledge he had was irrelevant. Fortunately, he didn’t panic in the face of adversity. Steeling himself, he struck back at his enemies with a vengeance as he swiftly made investments in many industries he saw potential in.
His exposure to the business world consequently made it difficult for him to trust anyone. It was under such circumstances that Roxanne became his wife. In order to bring good luck to his grandfather, his parents found him a bride and paid a pretty sum for it.
Little did he expect his bride to be the girl whom he had a good impression of in school. The change in Roxanne wasn’t something that he welcomed.
A studious girl who spent all her time reading in the library wasn’t supposed to walk down such a path-marrying indiscriminately for money. It made him wonder if she was also willing to marry another random rich heir for the same reason.
Therefore, there was no way he would develop feelings for Roxanne, whom he perceived as materialistic in the past.
