Filed to story: The CEO’s Wife Is a Secret Boss Novel (Allison & Jeremy) Free Online
This situation made Newton fly into a rage. His face flushed with anger as he turned to Jeremy. He jabbed him with his elbow. “Go! Hurry up and go to Alyssa’s side. Hurry up!”
Jeremy gazed deeply at Alyssa and Justin from behind. They looked like such a matching pair.
Jeremy’s muscular arms tensed up slowly. Yet, he remained standing at the same spot.
“You jerk! Your wife is going to be taken away. Why are you still standing here like an idiot?” Newton blurted.
Fury bubbled up inside him, and he was about to spring to his feet and give Jeremy a harsh lesson. “Before, just hearing Alyssa talk to other men would send you into a rage.
“Your father is about to match Alyssa with your older brother. How could you stand here being so unmoved? What is wrong with you? Fucking hell. Even dogs would pee to mark their territories. You’re fucking worse than a dog!”
An immense pain shot through Jeremy’s head. He held himself to the point where he started heaving.
Then, he turned around and exited the banquet hall.
Jeremy stumbled into the hotel’s back garden and stopped by the pond. He panted hard, feeling as if he were drowning. Even so, he could not return to his usual composure.
As he shook all over, he bent down and grabbed a handful of snow. The bone-piercing cold spread through his body, but he still couldn’t suppress the throbbing pain in his temples.
His eyes became bloodshot. He stuffed that handful of snow into his mouth and swallowed all of it.
He couldn’t suppress it. He couldn’t suppress it at all.
The pills. He needed those pills!
“Mr. Jeremy? What are you doing here?” Sheryl’s surprised voice came from behind Jeremy.
He held his breath, his fingers tightening around the snow in his grasp, veins bulging as he clenched his fists. Slowly, he straightened his back and turned to face her.
“I came out for some fresh air,” he answered in an extremely hoarse voice.
Sheryl narrowed her eyes and studied him. “Mr. Jeremy, you look awful. Are you feeling unwell?”
“I’m fine.” A drop of sweat trickled down Jeremy’s face.
“Mr. Jeremy, you must let me know promptly if you have run out of those medications.”
Sheryl stared at his back with a grim look in her eyes. She took another step closer. “The medication has to be taken on time according to the proper dosage. Otherwise, how long will it take for your headaches to be gone? Eventually-
Jeremy closed his reddened eyes and cut her off without warning. “I’m much better now. I don’t need it for now.”
A sinister look flashed across Sheryl’s eyes. Right after that, she put on a gentle smile and gently patted Jeremy on his shoulder.
Jeremy knitted his brows together tightly and tumed around.
As he locked eyes with Sheryl, she tilted her head up, her eyes gleaming with a playful light. She stood so close that the mist from her breath lightly touched his chin.
Coincidentally, Alyssa witnessed this flirtatious scene with her own eyes. Her heart wrenched. Frantically, she avoided them by hiding behind a faux rock. Yet, she couldn’t help but peek at that romantic pair in the snow through the gap in the rocks.
She was surprised to see Sheryl smiling sweetly at Jeremy, just like a young woman would at her first love. After that, she retrieved a delicate-looking gift box from the pocket of her white coat and handed it to Jeremy. “Mr. Jeremy, it’s your birthday tomorrow. Here’s a small gift for you. Happy birthday to you in advance.” Jeremy lowered his eyes and responded in a frigid voice, “I don’t celebrate my birthdays.”
“We’re friends, and it’s just something inexpensive. Why don’t you just accept it?”
Sheryl blinked. She looked at him with an innocent and sad gaze. “I’ve bought the gift. There’s no way that you can return it to me. Just throw it away if you don’t want it. Don’t return it to me.”
As she said that, she arrogantly stuffed the gift box into Jeremy’s arms.
There was a quiver in Jeremy’s eyes. He was surprised to see that Sheryl’s actions reminded him somewhat of Alyssa’s.
When they were still together, Alyssa would throw tantrums and lose her temper at him all the time. Yet, no matter how ridiculous she was in kicking up a fuss, he would accommodate her, pamper her, and dote on her.
He figured that he must have loved her very much in the past.
Nonetheless, why did he suddenly become unable to love her? Why couldn’t he feel that heart-racing, deep affection he had for her and her only?
“Thank you.”
Jeremy accepted Sheryl’s gift and opened the box in front of her. Inside was a delicately designed tie bar. Alyssa’s eyes turned red as she watched the interaction between them from afar.
As she drew a deep breath, it seemed like she’d taken in all the coldness the world could offer. The chill wrapped around her heart, which began to ache as if it were fracturing. She felt as though her heart might shatter any moment.
She was also about to shatter as a person.
“Mr. Jeremy, do you like it?” Sheryl twirled her hair by her ear and tapped her toes on the ground. She had a gentle and flirty look in her eyes. It had been a while since she had long hair, but her old habits would still show inadvertently.
In addition to feeling sad, Alyssa’s heart skipped a beat while she looked fixedly at Sheryl.
Something about Sheryl’s actions had stirred an intense feeling within her. She hardly knew Sheryl-they were strangers. Yet, strangely, she kept feeling as though they’d crossed paths in the past.
Alyssa balled her hands into fists as she pressed them against the faux rock. All her focus was now directed onto Sheryl instead of Jeremy.
At this moment, Sheryl picked up the tie bar from its box. While Jeremy was distracted, she clipped it onto his tie.
Jeremy was taken aback. He quickly stepped back, but Sheryl was quicker, and the tie bar was clipped on.
“Mr. Jeremy, it suits you really well.
Sheryl’s eyes were captivating, and her voice was sultry. If she were speaking with any other man, they would be easily captivated by her. “It looks like I made the right choice.”
Jeremy’s eyes dimmed. Yet, out of courtesy and because Sheryl worked for Justin, he did not react in any way that would put her in a difficult spot.
Alyssa’s eyes reflected a deep sorrow as she watched them, her gaze carrying the silent desolation of a snowstorm beginning to overtake her heart. Even so, she forced herself to stay rational.
She pulled out her cell phone, wanting to record Sheryl’s every move. However, her vision was blocked, and all she could see was darkness.
A hand with slender fingers gently covered her eyes. Then, she heard Justin’s husky and gentle voice say, “Don’t watch them anymore.”
Alyssa’s chest tightened. She spun around in a panic. Her pupils constricted as she stared at Justin’s face.
Just as she was almost about to lean back against the faux rock behind her, Justin wrapped his arms around her and put his palms against the rock. The back of his hand prevented her shoulders from brushing up against the hard rock.
He was attentive, gentlemanly, and caring.
No matter how one looked at it, he was the perfect gentleman. Yet, he sent chills throughout Alyssa’s entire being. “Have you been standing here for a long time? Your face has turned red from the cold.”
With depth in his eyes, Justin pulled open his coat to cover Alyssa’s thin frame, shielding her from the cold. “Let’s go back. You’re going to catch a cold.”
Alyssa’s back stiffened up. She avoided his deep gaze and said, “I don’t feel cold.”
The cold barely registered with her, as her heart had grown almost entirely numb.
Justin leaned forward a little and uttered in a deep voice, “You’re sad.”
Alyssa stubbornly denied it, even though her eyes were red. “I’m not.”
“I’m talented in identifying what others feel.” In a gentle voice, Justin added, “But only if that’s someone I truly care about.”
*Justin, if you truly care about me as you say, you wouldn’t put me in this position,” Alyssa said, meeting his gaze with a mocking smirk. “I have no intention of becoming a woman tangled up with her ex’s older brother.”
Justin had never seen her smile like that. She was like a thorny red rose and a coneflower standing fearlessly in a storm.
‘Don’t listen to those chatter. They are just envious of you,” he said in a raspy voice.
Alyssa’s smile was dazzling. “Oh, they’re envious that I can toy with the older brother after finishing with the younger? That I might just bring down all the men in the Walsh family at once?”
“Are you afraid of me?” Justin asked out of the blue.
Alyssa’s heart raced even though she appeared calm. “We bear no grudges against one another. Why would I be afraid of you?”
“All’s good as long as you’re not afraid of me.” Justin let out a long sigh of relief. Then, he removed his coat and wrapped it tightly around Alyssa.
Alyssa widened her eyes. She wanted to take his coat off, but his grip on the lapel kept her constrained.
‘Ms. Alyssa, I’m not physically fit. I do not have any power in Walsh Group, nor do I possess business acumen. At the same time, Grandpa is not fond of me.
“I admit that I am lacking in many ways compared to Jeremy. But there’s one thing you can trust me on-no matter when and what happens, I will not break your heart.”
