An Impossible Marriage

Chapter 23

Margaret drew a sharp breath as she was feeling the pain. She was about to get herself up from the ground when a shiny pair of custom leather shoes appeared in front of her. Then, Christopher‘s cold voice came from above. “You have two minutes.”

She looked up at him and asked carefully, “Can you let them go?”

She did not notice the hint of disappointment that flashed across his eyes when she said that. After all, that was not what he wanted to hear. “You‘re wasting my time if you risked your life chasing after the car just to say this.”

As soon as he finished his sentence, Christopher got into the car without hesitation. He banged the door shut, and Noah jumped in shock. “Cancel next week‘s return ‘flight for me. I‘ll take over the overseas branch office myself.”

Noah hesitated for a moment when he heard that “Mr. Lewis, you won‘t be able to return in at least three years if you do that. Are you sure?”

Christopher lay against the seat with his eyes shut and lips pressed into a thin line. “Just do as I say.”

Meanwhile, Margaret remained where she was the entire time. She was in a daze even after the car was long gone. At that moment, she felt an emptiness inside of her. She had a premonition that she had lost everything from that moment onward.

Three years later, at the branch office of Lewis Corporation in Walund, someone‘s phone rang in the meeting room all of a sudden. Immediately, everyone froze as they carefully turned to look at the man who was sitting at the head of the table.

“Mr. Lewis, it‘s yours,” whispered the assistant.

“Hang up,” replied the man. He was in an important meeting at the moment, and he seemed a liule annoyed with his assistant for not being sensible enough.

However, the assistant explained, “It‘s Mrs. Lewis.”

Of course, Christopher knew who “Mrs. Lewis” was. It was none other than his wife, Margaret.

Thus, he took the phone from his assistant and said, “The meeting is adjourned for now. We‘ll have a meeting at four in the afternoon. You‘re dismissed.”

Everyone was surprised to hear that. They could not believe their workaholic boss would postpone such an important meeting just because of a call from his wife.

Meanwhile, Christopher took the call when he was finally out of the meeting room. A familiar voice came through the phone. “Are you busy? I–I have something to ask

you.”

Margaret spoke very cautiously on the other end of the line. Christopher was curious as to why she was calling him for the first time in the past three years. “Speak up.”

“Jo is getting engaged. She and her fiancé are thinking about returning to the country. Can you let her come back?” Margaret asked nervously.

It turned out that three years ago, Jodie and Jenson had been sent abroad and forbidden from returning to their home country. This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

Margaret knew that Christopher was punishing her by doing that. Thus, she never said anything about it. However, it had been three years. She could not say no to Jodie when the latter asked her to put in a

good word for her so that she could return to her home country. Thus, Margaret had no choice but to make the call.

Christopher stopped in his tracks when he heard what she said. His expression darkened as he was surprised by the reason she called.

Margaret panicked a little when she did not hear a reply. “I went to that party of my own accord back then. It had nothing to do with Jo. There‘s really no need to vent your anger on her. Can‘t you let it slide now that she and Jenson had been sent abroad for three years? I‘m begging you.”

Christopher tried his best to suppress the anger inside of him as he said, “I‘m coming back in three days. I‘ll decide based on the way you behave.” He hung up as soon as he finished his sentence and kicked the wall in the corridor.

At the sight of that, the assistant paled and backed away from Christopher.

Meanwhile, Margaret stared at her phone for a few seconds until realization hit her. He‘s coming back?

She thought that Christopher never wanted to see her again, since he had never returned after he left so abruptly three years ago.

With her thoughts finally sorted, she began to feel more nervous than she was before the call. She rushed downstairs and said to Elizabeth, “Elizabeth, please make sure you clean up the house for the next two days.”

Elizabeth was a little surprised by her words. After all, Margaret never bothered about those things. “What happened, Meg?”

Margaret could not tell if she was happy or scared as she said, “H–He‘s coming back.”