Chapter 354: Chapter 354



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The driver changed his route.

Dolores sat quietly, but in her heart she was thinking about the Theresa affair. If she drove Theresa away, Armand would definitely go after her.

But she was very supportive of Theresa. Regardless of what Armand said, she would not betray Theresa.

After what happened this time. They both needed some time to calm down and get a handle on this relationship.

Once he proposed, his resolve to push Theresa away became even firmer.

Before long, the driver arrived at the RO Dessert House.

He paid the driver and got out of the car.

Through the window, Dolores saw Victoria with the two children. They were sitting on a seat near the window and eating their snacks. She pushed open the door and got in.

“Mom.” Samuel greeted her when he saw her enter.

Victoria turned around. Seeing her, he said with a smile, “The pies here are really good, I ordered a set for you.”

Dolores sat down and thanked her.

Victoria smiled, “Why do you have to thank me, you’re being too polite?”.

Dolores smiled in response and spooned a spoonful of cake into her mouth. The fragrance of the milk was strong, but not overpowering. It wasn’t overly sweet either. It had the fragrance of milk and butter, and it tasted quite good.

The desserts here were very famous. There was even a playground in the back, so it was very kid-friendly.

After finishing their desserts, Simona tugged at Samuel, “Samuel, bring me to play.”

Samuel gave an exasperated sigh, as if he had no choice but to agree with his little sister, “Okay.”

Victoria motioned for the driver to follow them, “Keep an eye on both of them.”

The driver nodded and followed the two children to the playground.

Sitting by the window, they were able to watch the children.

Dolores took a sip of the fruit juice and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Can’t I ask you out even if nothing’s wrong?”. Victoria felt it had been a while since they had had a good talk. Taking advantage of the weekend, she had taken the kids out to play. So, she had invited Dolores too.

Dolores smiled, “No.”

Something usually happened when Victoria was looking for her, that’s why she had asked this.

Through the window, Victoria could see the happy faces of the children playing outside. She couldn’t help but raise her lips, “In the past, I never thought this day would come, when I can be together with Matthew, and get along so well with his children. Although I am a mother, but my right to be a mother has been taken away from me. I am so grateful to you.”

Victoria tugged on Dolores’ hands, “Thank you, for letting me be together with Matthew, and together with the two children.”

“This is what I should do.” Dolores was a little wistful, “You’ve missed so much. As much as you have now, it can only serve to fill a hole. But the beautiful memories you’ve missed, how can they be made up for so easily?”.

Victoria shook her head, “I’m already very satisfied now.”

She was satisfied with her current life, she had her whole family with her. She often had the feeling that Matthew had put the past behind him, and let bygones be bygones, he had agreed to get along with her.

“Charles has recently gotten into some trouble.” Victoria said suddenly. She turned to look at Dolores, “Have you talked to Matthew about how it was Charles who caused Jeffery’s car accident?”

Dolores nodded, “I haven’t kept it from him.” It was too sharp.

Dolores knew that once Matthew knew it was Charles who had done that to Jeffery, he wouldn’t let it go so easily.

After all, this was B-town, this was Matthew’s territory. It would be easy to do something to Charles.

In the seat behind theirs, there was a lady sitting with her back to them. This lady was Marina, she was also here to taste their desserts. She had arrived early.

She was about to leave when Victoria brought the two children in.

Because of Jeffery and Victoria’s relationship, she had not wanted to greet them. Just as he was about to sneak past them, he heard Victoria calling Dolores on the phone.

Therefore, he sat back down.

He knew about Matthew and Victoria’s relationship. Dolores was Matthew’s wife, why was she so close to Victoria?

He sat curiously, waiting for Dolores to come over. Now, he had overheard their conversation.

Jeffery’s accident had been caused by someone. Her heart was pounding.

Besides, both Victoria and Dolores knew.

Who was this person named Charles?

Marina felt a lot of anger inside, the car accident had been intentionally caused by someone.

When it happened she was shocked. It was fortunate that she was not in life-threatening danger and had only injured her arm.

She secretly turned to look at Victoria. When she talked about Matthew, they seemed to have a close relationship, she also sounded like a mother talking about her son.

In the past, the reason Victoria had been able to marry Jayden was because she had agreed with Jeffery that she would use the Forbis Family business as a trade. She had also agreed that she would not have children with Jayden.

Could she have treated Matthew as her own son?

Marina was a mother, too. As kind as she was, it was hard to treat other people’s child as her own.

But from Victoria’s tone right now, it was obvious that she had treated Matthew as if he were her own son.

Thinking about it carefully, how much courage would it have taken Victoria in the past, and how much love would she have to have for Jayden, for her to discard her own family heritage, and marry Jayden?

Thinking about it now, with love alone, it didn’t seem to be enough for someone to give up her own family, and give up being a real woman.

If a woman couldn’t give birth all her life, it was definitely a regret.

If Matthew was her son…

She dared not continue with that thought. There must have been a lot of secrets inside her.

She pretended to take a sip of water and continued listening.

After that, they stopped talking about Matthew, and the subject changed to the two children. Marina felt she wouldn’t get any more valuable information, so she went out the back door.

After leaving the dessert store, she quickly phoned Jeffery.

“When are you coming back?” His voice was a little anxious.

The doctor had wanted Jeffery to stay in the hospital to recover, but he didn’t want to stay in the hospital long. He had only injured his arm, it didn’t even affect his movement. Therefore, he had been discharged. He had just finished watching the training and had just arrived at his office when he got the call from Marina. Marina was usually a very calm and collected person, it was rare for her to call him in such an anxious state. She unbuttoned the collar button of her uniform, and glanced at the time before saying, “About five o’clock, did your son get in trouble again?”.

Usually, when Marina was this anxious, it was most likely about her son. Other than her son, there was nothing that caused her so much anxiety.

“No, I’ll wait for you to come back before I tell you. Remember to come back earlier, I’ll wait for you.” Finishing her words, Marina hung up and hailed a cab home.

Jeffery looked at the phone where Marina had already hung up. He hung it up and frowned. If not for her son, what else could make her so nervous?

Jeffery was worried. Before five o’clock in the afternoon he had already arrived home and Marina was waiting for him there.

Seeing him come in, Marina came over and helped him take off his jacket, “The doctor had already asked you to recover. You can’t even stop when you’re hurt.”

Jeffery looked at her, ignoring her words, “What did you want to tell me?”.

“I went to the RO Dessert House today, and I ran into Victoria…”

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