Chapter 3 Marina Newman
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Piper tensed up.
"... Nine o'clock?" The other party seemed to have made an appointment with him. Skyler frowned and thought, but did not hesitate for too long. "Then I'll pick you up at nine o'clock."
The hope and expectation that Piper had just felt suddenly disappeared.
Skyler hung up the phone and looked at Piper again. "What did you just say?"
Piper smiled and said. "Nothing. I just wanted to tell you that it snowed last night."
Skyler knew that it had snowed last night. He felt that what Piper said was simply inexplicable.
But it was almost time for his appointment with Marina. Skyler raised his hand and looked at his watch. He didn't have much patience to discuss anything with Piper. He knew that he was wrong because he missed the date with Piper, so he hurriedly explained, "I will consider the project about the Richard Group you told me last time. I will ask my assistant to send you the document before four o'clock. You can read it."
Things that were too easy to get were often not easy to be cherished. Skyler had lived a smooth life in the past 26 years, and the only accident he might have encountered was a person named Piper, so Piper completely understood why he didn't care about her.
But no matter how many assumptions she made, Piper would still be sad.
She was Skyler's mistress. Everyone knew that when they got married, she needed Skyler to save the Richard family from bankruptcy, and Skyler needed Piper to deal with the elders of the Shaw family, and Skyler's mother happened to like Piper.
Therefore, the two of them were tied together by an agreement.
Even if Piper knew that Skyler didn't really like her.
And the one-year deadline... Piper's eyelashes trembled slightly. Even if the room was heated, the porridge that had been served all night long would become cold and solidified because it had been placed there for too long. Just like Piper, who thought that she could move Skyler with her courage, in fact, she was just ensnaring herself in a cocoon and making him more annoyed.
Skyler stood in the corridor of the hospital. The process of waiting was not long, but he felt extremely depressed. Along the way, Marina kept talking too enthusiastically, which made it difficult for him to get tired of her.
If it was Piper...
Skyler shook his head and found it a little funny. Why did he think of Piper at this time?
But if it was really Piper, she could see his emotions, and she would not annoy him. She was more like a gurgling stream under the moonlight, gently moistening his heart and calming all his anxious emotions.
Skyler found that he had been thinking about Piper more and more frequently recently.
Intuition told him that this was not a good sign, but he did not want to correct it.
Just as Skyler was about to lose his patience, the tightly shut door was finally opened.
"... Ms. Newman's leg is fine now, but her legs were seriously injured in the early years. It may hurt when the weather is bad. She should pay more attention to it."
Because it was a private hospital, Marina didn't have to worry about being seen by fans or reporters. She did not wear her glasses, revealing a little cunning. Unlike the gentleness of Piper, she was hot-tempered and generous. She had always been determined to get what she wanted. Seeing the faint impatience in Skyler's eyes, she knew that Skyler had waited too long this time.
Marina walked over and held Skyler's hand. She said in a sweet voice, "Skyler, are you tired of waiting?"
"It's all my fault," she said in an aggrieved voice. "But it snowed last night, and my leg really hurt. I can only ask you to send me here in the morning. I don't dare to go to other hospitals, for fear of being photographed by reporters again. Ah, by the way..."
She seemed to have just thought of this and showed a slightly shocked expression. Then she carefully observed the expression of Skyler and asked, "Would Piper be angry that I call you over so early?"
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