Chapter 974



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Nora returned to Xander’s room.

Thinking about the disgusting conditions Trueman had laid out, she felt like she couldn’t breathe.

She hadn’t expected Trueman to actually say something like that.

Someone knocked on the door at that moment.

Nora turned and looked back to see the new cook, the one Harry had just found, enter.

With her head down, the cook flashed him an ingratiating smile as soon as she entered and said, “I’m here to pick up the dishes, miss.”

It turned out that the dishes from Xander’s meal just now hadn’t been picked up yet.

Nora nodded.

Obviously, the cook had been warned by Harry, so she didn’t dare look down on Nora. She approached and treated Nora as if she were her teacher.

With her head down, she approached the table. After picking up the dishes, she suddenly looked at Nora and asked, “Would you like dessert, miss? I can fix you something.” Nora shook her head. “No need.”

The cook lowered her head and laughed. “That’s okay. Although having something sweet will make you feel better.”

When she said that, Nora was taken aback.

She suddenly looked at the cook.

A while later, she finally stood up and said, “You’re right. Xander had been tense and scared all the way here. Let’s make some dessert in the kitchen so he’ll have something ready when he wakes up.”

“Huh? I can make something myself and bring it up to him.”

“No, that’s okay. Come on.”

Nora took the lead as the cook followed behind her holding the plates and silverware. As soon as the two left the room, they saw Trueman leaning against the wall watching them. A heretical smile hung at the corner of his lips as he said, “Prepare for me too.”

Nora rolled her eyes but didn’t refuse. “All right.”

“My little servant girl sure is gaining more and more self-awareness.” Trueman smiled. Just as he was about to follow them, Nora suddenly stopped and said, “Trueman, if you follow me everywhere like this, you’re going to make a certain impression on me.”

Trueman was taken aback. “What?”

Nora raised her eyebrows. “You’re going to make me think you’re in love with me.”

Trueman was instantly struck dumb. After two seconds, he finally lost his temper and said, “No way! You sure think highly of yourself.”

Nora said nothing more, but merely raised her eyebrows.

A furious Trueman immediately entered her room next door.

Only then did Nora follow the cook downstairs and into the kitchen.

The cook turned on the stoves and put water on to boil. Now that there were some sounds in the background, she suddenly lowered her voice and said, “My name is Winnie. Mr. Hunt has sent me to help you.”

As she spoke, she added some sugar and other ingredients to the pot.

Nora looked down.

That’s right. What the cook had said about taking something sweet would make her feel better had allowed Nora to recognize the identity of the other party.

Those were Cherry’s words.

Only Nora suspected that she was being watched in the room upstairs, so she hadn’t dared to take any action. Now that they were in the kitchen and boiling water, with the steam giving them both cover, as well as the sound of the stove hood working in the kitchen, the two finally dared to converse.

Nora also lowered her voice. “Where is he?”

After Trueman lost his boat, his finances were also frozen by King.

His decision to come all this way had been a last-minute one. Besides, Trueman was also very careful all the way, so Nora had thought Justin wouldn’t be able to find them so soon.

But, unexpectedly, the man was quite efficient.

Winnie replied, “He’s in town. I can go out and buy groceries once a day. Mr. Hunt said that once you are ready, you can raid the place with your men at any time. Is there a message you want me to pass on? Are you safe at the moment?”

“Yes, I am safe.”

Nora was also helping by fetching ingredients like milk and so on. She kept her head down and tried hard to keep her lip movements subtle as she spoke. She said, “Tell him not to act rashly. Don’t alert the enemy before he finds the V16. Both Xander and I are safe, not to worry.”

“Okay, I’ll relay the message to him later.”

Winnie lifted her head and gave Nora a smile. “I can handle the rest on my own, miss. You can come back.”

“Okay. The cooking will take a while, so be sure to keep an eye on the heat.”

“Okay.”

The two conversed normally for a while longer before Nora finally emerged from the kitchen.

As soon as she walked up the stairs, she got a scare: Trueman was standing in front of her and staring at her.

Nora ignored him and prepared to go into the bedroom to sleep with Xander.

However, Trueman grabbed her arm. “Hey, how do you feel about the conditions I mentioned earlier?”.

“… They don’t impress me much.”

Nora looked at him. “I’m a human being, not a machine. Besides, if you want to have children, you shouldn’t be short of women willing to have them, should you?”

“But I don’t want to go to them,” Trueman immediately replied.

Nora frowned.

Trueman, who was embarrassed, became a little angry. “Are you protecting your chastity because of Justin Hunt? Just because you gave him three children? Do you know that the children you gave birth to then should have been mine!”

As soon as he said that, Nora’s head suddenly snapped up and she looked at him in disbelief. “What did you say?”

Trueman sneered, “I said that the children you gave birth to then should have been mine! Your pregnancy then was a conspiracy from the beginning.”

Nora glared at him. “So it was you who hatched that plan against me back then, was it?”

“Yes.”

Trueman spoke without hesitation. He said, “The moment you were born, your mother injected you with an enhanced version of the genetic serum. You had to give birth once you turned eighteen, in order to expel some of the genetic serum, or else you would have suffered her reaction! Old King’s plan at the time was for me to conceive a baby with you. So, in order to save our child, you would have had to do everything I said.”

Nora clenched her fists. “Then why did you switch to Justin?”

Why did she switch to Justin?

Because he didn’t want to, of course.

Leaving aside the fact that Nora had been so fat back then that you couldn’t tell what her facial features looked like at all-so there was no way she’d let such an ugly woman bear her child-she’d also resisted everything arranged by Old King back then!

That was why, when the old steward of the Imperial League had approached him and told him to conceive a child with Nora, Trueman had turned him down immediately. He had raised his chin and said, “No, I won’t do it! It’ll do as long as we find her another man, won’t it? Find her someone better looking! In my opinion, that American named Justin Hunt is the best looking! Make him complement his genes!”

That sentence of his made the Imperial League people secretly take action, which made Justin and Nora spend the night together….

Of course, Trueman didn’t know that by then Justin had already taken up King’s mantle.

When the butler received the news, he thought of Old King’s wishes, and so he agreed as well. Therefore, Justin had actually been deceived by his own men.

Otherwise, how could someone as powerful as Justin be drugged by anyone? And forget what had happened that night?

But all this came later. Trueman’s face reddened in that instant.

He looked at Nora.

Who would have thought Nora would be so attractive after slimming down?

Besides…it was only when he returned to the United States later and deliberately contacted her that he discovered that the woman was no airhead. Apart from being a beauty, she was also really interesting!

But it was too late.

It was all too late.

If he had followed Old King’s plans and conceived a child with her, would their relationship have been any different than it was now?

He had pushed the woman into the arms of another man with his own hands?

But… It wasn’t too late yet either!

If Nora was willing, she could still conceive a child for him now…..

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