Chapter 1183

Theo gave strangers the cold shoulder most of the time.

The issue now was that she was eight months pregnant, and if she went out and about, she would stick out like a sore thumb. She was a walking billboard!

If she didn’t go, the Blanchet Corporation wouldn’t cough up the final payment, and Crescent Society would be up shit creek without a paddle; they would even be on the brink of going belly up.

This was the company she had busted her hump to build from the ground up. How could she bear to watch it crash and burn?

Besides, she had a kid on the way now and needed the company so she could bring home the bacon.

The more she thought about it, the more worried she became. She couldn’t figure out a perfect solution for love or money

Just then, the doorbell rang at the villa.

to reality and was immediately on high alert. Who could that be?

was usually no one coming here except for the supply truck sent

they just dropped off supplies yesterday. There was no way they’d send someone again today

a furrowed brow as the servant went to answer

respectfully to the visitor, Ellinor finally breathed a sigh

It was Bartlett!

heck was he doing here?

stone’s throw from the city. It took two hours to drive here and another two to drive back. Didn’t he find the drive annoying?

she didn’t need him to check up

if it was Bartlett, if he started showing up more often

under lock and key, waiting to nab

here to stir

in with a friendly grin, holding a takeout box. “Ellinor,

bonnet about the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and now she had to deal with Bartlett making a mountain out of a molehill. She

mean ‘why am I here again? I haven’t been here since last month! I thought you might be craving something to eat, so I got you your

want to risk being found

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