Chapter 281
Currently, Teri despised Enmalie as much as she flattered her back then,
Emmalie's eyes turned red as she asked timidly. "Are you still mad at my brother? Duncan told me everything. At that time, he was pressed by the situation.
"He also wanted to protect the woman he loved, but he just couldn't. That's why he joined forces with me to establi
Dreamedia."
Dreamedia was the company they just registered. This fledgling om hadn't even taken on a big project, yet they even dared to come here for bidding. The siblings were quite ambitious but also naive.
Teri kept a distance from Emmalie. She was afraid that she wou throw up because of her fake tears. "Thank you, but there's no need. I don't deserve Mr. Rowland's love, and I don't need anyone to protect me. Miss Rowland, not everyone is as weak as you. I can do it myself."
This was making a clean break. Duncan even felt this Teri was so strange. When they were abroad, she couldn't wait to be glued to him every day and got him annoyed. But now, things ran to the opposite.
Teri, how can you talk to Emmalie like that?" Duncan's unconditional protection came again.
Previously, both Thea and Teri just thought that he might have a special complex about protecting his sister. But now, they started to understand what was true behind it.
Peri sneered. "Emmalie is your sister. She is not related to me by blood, nor do we have any feelings or interests. Should treat her like a sacred God?" She was exceptionally aggressive now when she was not blind in love anymore. Duncan's face was livid. He could feel the invisible gazes around him and couldn't stand the humiliation right in public. "Thea, what did you say to Teri? Do you really want to destroy everyone in our family? You even want to ruin my marriage!"
Thea understood. Duncan was too greedy. He was not willing to give up on his "deep love" with Emmalie, the sister who had grown up with him. At the same time, he wanted to seize the Langstaff family's power and to make himself qualified to compete with Max. Thea's eyebrows were cold. "Mr. Rowland, how did your marriage end? You know it better than me. I don't have to add a word."
"How's Sadi's apple?" No one understood what Teri was implying
However, Emmalie and Duncan broke out in cold sweat at the same time. That day, when they came out of the hospital bathroom, they saw fruit scattered all over the ground. It was a poor harvest this year, and even apples have become rare varieties.
They had guessed that someone had discovered the secret, but the surveillance cameras in the hospital corridor had malfunctioned that day. After that, no one exposed the adultery, so they just acted like nothing had happened. Now, they felt terrified that the witness might be no one else but Teri.
Emmalie's expression changed drastically and her palms were sweating. "Ever since I donated my bone marrow to Thea, I'm always under the weather, Duncan, I'm so tired. Can you help me to the lounge?"
Duncan could not possibly reject Emmalie, but he also wanted to escape from Teri's teasing and provocation. However, they had forgotten that this was the Langstaff family, the place where Teri had grown up.
Teri had been interested in business since she was young. When her parents were still on good terms, her dad had specially built a secret door for her in the reception room, which allowed her to hide behind and listen to their lips' war.
Teri hadn't expected it to be still effective today. There was not much space in the secret door, difficult to house two people.
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However, the conversion tu the lounge could be heard word for word by Teri and Thea
"Duncan, does she know about the things between you and me? Emmalie was still sweating. She even had flames in her mind. That day, she had tried to push Duncan away but he was the one who forced her and got both of them trapped.
Of course, Emmalie would not reveal her emotions. It doesn't matter that Miss Langstaff hates me. I just don't want to affect your marriage. Mom has always been looking forward to you getting married early and giving her a grandchild. Her voice trembled and tears rolled down her cheeks. Duncan's heart was about to melt away. The tears of someone he had loved for many years were a fatal blow and temptation
to him
All of a sudden, Emmalie was forcefully pulled into an embrace and Duncan carefully wiped her tears.
What a scene! The two people behind the secret door silently tuned on the phone to record this special moment. Duncan mumbled, "Emmalie, why are you always so considerate of other people? You're the only one in my heart, but you always try to push me to Teri. She is not the right one. Now that the best is right in front of me, I don't want to make do. I only want you
Ten rolled her eyes behind the door. What? Nobody wants to get involved in this weird relationship. If not for Thea stopping her, she would have rushed out long ago. Indeed, bad taste would become a stain in one's life.
In the room, Emmalie was also suppressing her disgust. Other than making use of Duncan, she bore no feelings
him
towards
However, she could not do without Duncan's help now. Even if she was disgusted, she had to flatter him. "If it were anyone else, I could ignore them. But I grew up with you. I know so well that your ambition is not just to be the playboy of the Rowland family. You want to be able to shoulder the whole family and take on a man's responsibility.
"It's precisely because of this that I can't be a stumbling block for you. Duncan, at least in front of people, let's try our best to keep a distance and not let anyone have the chance to talk about us. Let's just treat each other as siblings, okay?"
Emmalie's hypocritical words made Thea nauseous. This was the only thing she was inferior to her.
"No." Duacan buried his face in her warm neck. "If it weren't for you, I would have died from the fever that day. Emmalie, you're even more important than Mom. Not to mention just in front of people, when I was overseas, I would be sleepless without your video call. Emmalie, from that day, I was destined to be unable to live without you."
This was Thea's second time hearing that Duncan had a fever. He probably had got his brain broken from it.
That day, Emmalie was happily practicing the piano. Only Thea could send him over. The truth was right there, but why would Duncan and the Rowland family always believe Emmalie's clumsy lies?
It was not because of Ermalie's superb lies, but because they had never treated Thea as family. Or perhaps they felt that she was born evil.
Fortunately, she didn't care about it anymore. Not at all..
Teri pulled Thea into her arms. "Don't let assholes affect you. What we need to do is kick them away!"