My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Gemma was insanely captivating, plus she also had an aura of natural elegance and nobleness, hence when she had started to weep like this, her sorrowful look could move people’s hearts and rouse their sympathy for her.

However, all kinds of suspicions and doubts had already piled up in Florence’s heart, so she would not easily trust her words and actions anymore.

Although she was still in the dark about the truth of the relationship between Gemma and Ernest, she had a feeling that it was not as what Gemma had depicted.

Even if Gemma and Ernest were indeed lovers, she was certain that they were not a loving pair of couple.

“You have said it yourself as well that the love between two persons is selfish, Ms. Marlon. How many women could actually resist Ernest’s charm and not fall for him when he is such an attractive and outstanding man? You may well ask. I’m just an ordinary person, so it’s normal that I will fall for him as well. If I were to marry him, I would be like all the other women too as I would not allow you to hang around him anymore. Therefore, you should try to talk him into breaking off the engagement with me before it’s too late.”

“But…” Gemma knitted her brows deeply as her heart was overwhelmed by mixed emotions.

It was not her place to ask Ernest to break off his engagement with Florence as she had no right to do that.

Florence raised her eyebrows and stared at Gemma as she added, “Don’t tell me that you couldn’t talk him out of marrying me as well, Ms. Marlon?”

“Surely I can!” Gemma retorted without any hesitation with a resolute look on her face.

She had already sensed that Florence was starting to doubt her words, hence if she were to give the game away now, Florence would definitely catch on and corroborate her suspicions.

She had to continue her play-acting no matter what for now.

“The Hawkins family is City N’s utmost wealthy and powerful clan, so Ernest’s wedding is naturally a great deal to them. If you were to break off your engagement with him suddenly, it would cause a rippling effect on his family, so you have to give him more time to handle this complex issue. Furthermore, Ernest has always been stubborn, so it would also require a few rounds of persuasion for him to call off the wedding even if it’s coming from me.”

“Alright then, sorry to have to trouble you, and I hope to hear the good news soon.”

Florence smiled politely and broke off her hand from Gemma’s grip, and she proceeded to walk over to the bar counter to pour some fruit juice into a glass.

She handed it over to Gemma in the next moment, “Do you want some?”

“No thanks. Have a good rest then, I’ll take my leave now.”

As soon as Gemma had finished her sentence, she marched out of the room in a hurry without even looking back, and it seemed like she was unwilling to stay in this room for any longer.

extremely flustered while her heart was trembling with fear when she had

the necessary steps and was fully prepared to deceive Florence, but her plans had gone

fallen for Ernest instead, so she was actually declaring

bad news for Gemma, so she had to find a way to tackle this tricky situation with all her means. She would

and he was the love of her life, so she would rather him not getting married for

steadfastly rose to his feet

company, so all of them had appropriately taken their leave

them off, Ernest had returned to the bedroom without

finish in her hand, so it was much to her surprise that he had come right up in such a short period

and asked thoughtfully, “Why have you come

Ernest replied in a

you and stay behind? I thought you would have a word with

to take a seat by the bed, and he promptly reached out his arm to

his actions had come naturally to him after their interaction for the past few

had almost familiarized herself with his touch, but a sense of uneasiness suddenly swept past her when Gemma whom had just stopped by had

doubts, she was still unenlightened about the truth between the two of them,

as she uttered, “Gemma has informed me that she would persuade you

darkened in a swift, and he stared at her deeply while replying in an upset tone, “Are you still thinking to call off the

even asked for Gemma’s help to persuade him on this matter? Did she really

and started right back at him as she said in a serious tone, “Gemma has agreed to

it or not. In fact, everyone else’s opinion does not matter to me at all. I’m going to marry you, Florence.” His

“Um!”

surprise as the tenderness and warmth that had manifested on her lips had caused her mind to

force a kiss on her

instinctively struggled to push him away, but her shoulders were instantly

past everything violently, and his domineering manner was as if he was declaring that this was

her body had become limp as a result.

tore himself apart from her and finally let her go after sucking all the energy out from her

her his promise in a husky and compelling tone,

and not even Florence herself could