A Beautiful Misunderstanding

"Okay, I'll get to the point," Mary said in a serious tone. "I don't want this accident to happen again, and it doesn't matter to me whether you did it intentionally or not. Valery's baby is the eldest grandson of our family. If anyone dares to hurt him, I will not spare that person."

"Don't worry. I won't do anything for her anymore." With a soft voice, Essie said these words in a neither overbearing nor servile manner.

There was a muscle on Mary's face that twitched a little. Last night, she asked Essie to take care of Valery but she didn't do it, and today she even said such words to block her. She wouldn't have dared to challenge the authority of her mother-in-law if she wasn't under the protection of Zac.

"Valery is pregnant. You are responsible for taking care of her. To be the lady of our family, you have to be tolerant and generous. If you are not mature yet and can't do this, you'd better not interfere in the affairs of our family for the meantime."

Mary's voice was slow and low, but full of threats.

Essie understood that Mary was quite unhappy about the fact that Albert had asked her to help his wife with running the household.

But she actually had no intention of taking part in the affairs of the family. In fact, she had even been thinking about how to refuse Albert. What Mary said caught her interest because she hated doing anything that would please her opponents. Apparently, her rejection of that responsibility was exactly what her mother-in-law and Valery wanted.

"Mommy, you're just overthinking things. That kid will be born from a concubine's belly, so he can't inherit the properties of the family. He won't be a threat to me at all. I will only end up destroying the relationship between me and Zac if I hurt him, and I am not that stupid. As for running this household, since daddy asked me to help you, I will do my best to live up to his expectations." Her tone was casual, as if she was just talking about some insignificant game.

Mary's face darkened. The word 'concubine' pierced her eardrums. "If you can't give birth to a son, then he wouldn't be just a concubine's son."

"Mommy, with all the advanced technology now, it's not difficult to have a son. And even if I don't want to have a son, there is always a way. I'm sure you'll be able to have a grandson." Essie smiled.

"Okay, I'll wait." Mary gritted her teeth and left.

Essie closed the door and a mocking smile appeared on her face.

Her mother-in-law was just like Vicki. The only different was Mary was arrogant and domineering, while Vicki was insidious and cunning.

Luckily, ice guy was born with indomitable spirit. He was a pretty unruly son and was not as blind and obedient as Baron. Otherwise, she would have left him at once.

By the time Zac came to their room, Essie had just finished taking a shower and was lying on the bed, ready to go to sleep.

He went over to her and said, "Honey, you smell good."

She raised her tired eyes and looked at him. "Is she feeling better now?"

"It's nothing serious. She'll be fine in a few days." He lay down beside her and added, "I really hope that her baby could be born as soon as possible." Just thinking of that happening, he heaved a sigh of relief. He would be free from all of this then.

But Essie didn't think so. She said, "It's your fault that you slept with Valery."

replied with nothing but a helpless and

had an impulse to tell her all his

couldn't. He had

wallowing in self-pity, so she changed her attitude and tried to comfort him. "Don't worry.

turned over and said, "My dear wife, you only have to be responsible for

green light once, and Zac became totally unreasonable and started breaking all

She pulled the quilt towards her to cover her body and pretended

will still do what

woman felt stiff after hearing

didn't seem like she

for me to come back," he said. With

The next day...

cover the love marks that he left on her neck

made matters worse, she had a

close-up shot of me by accident, it will certainly cause a scandal,' she

mark on my neck too. I don't mind letting everyone in the company see it," he said with a wicked smile. Before he could say another word, Essie turned around and bit his neck out of

of you." She gave him a

the house, she crossed paths with Valery who was just coming back from a

at first

probably become pregnant in

had decided to wait until the baby was born. If Essie had a baby too, she would lose her only trump card. How would she

way she could let such a thing happen. She had

suddenly occurred to her that she would have to join an alliance to win the battle quicker. All she had to do was to find another person who could help her kick out that

ask her to have tea with her. After all, they had known each other for more than ten years and they

thought you were pregnant and Zac would marry you. I didn't

and noticed how calm Leila looked. She sneered in her heart and thought, 'You really are a good actress, but I

her and couldn't figure out why she had asked her out. So she decided not to beat around the bush and asked, "What

each other overtly and covertly for so many years, but neither of us were able to get Zac. Should we sympathize with each other?" Valery asked in a gentle voice as she thought about why she

"I don't think we share the same

don't you? Maybe he loved you in the past, but Essie is the only one in his mind now. He has totally forgotten about you," Valery said

the most important person in his heart. The reason he got married to Essie is that—" Realizing that she was about to blurt out the secret, Leila stopped talking at once. If Valery found out the real reason behind Essie and Zac's marriage, Zac's

is it?" Valery asked quickly for fear that there were some secrets

a quizzical answer to reassure her. Not buying her alibi, Valery rolled her eyes at Leila and said, "I don't think so. Zac treats her like she's his treasure. I'm guessing that he hasn't been visiting you these days,