My Sweet Lawyer Wife

“I … well, well, it’s coming.”

Vivian answered, put the phone back under the pillow in a panic, and went to change her clothes.

But when she was ready to leave the room, she was a little uneasy, so she turned back and picked up her phone and turned it off, and only then did she walk out of the room with confidence.

In the dining room, Edward and Isabel are sitting at the table, waiting for her to come over and join them for dinner.

The morning was very hearty, with sandwiches, sushi, steamed dumplings, and clear congee.

“I don’t know what you like to eat, so I make more. Vivian, I made these under the guidance of the cook, but I will definitely learn as soon as possible and make breakfast for you every day from now on. What do you like to eat? Hmm?”

Edward, who was in a good mood, didn’t notice Vivian’s strange appearance, but indulged in the beauty of his fantasy.

Some days recently, Vivian’s state is not very good, always full of sadness, churlish.

It is such a state that Edward feels it is normal for Vivian to be a little haggard now.

He thought that after a while, she would come out of the shadows and forget about the unhappiness.

“Thanks.”

Listening to Edward’s words, Vivian’s heart was quite unpleasant.

Edward, can you not be too nice to me?

What she craved in her heart was Edward’s affection for her, but she really didn’t deserve it.

Especially when she saw that Edward, who normally does not touch the sun, had hired a cook to teach him how to cook for her, how could she not be moved by all this?

Vivian sat across from Edward, took a spoon, scooped up a spoonful of lean vegetable porridge, blew on it, and lowered her head to eat.

Her eyes were fixed on the porridge in the white porcelain bowl, and she ate it one bite at a time, chewing it like wax, tasteless.

“How was it, did it taste okay?”

Seeing that she had been eating, Edward was somewhat relieved, thinking that the breakfast porridge he had made was very much to her liking.

“Mmmmmm, it tastes good, very good.”

Vivian, who had been swimming in the void, instantly returned to his senses and gave a very perfunctory reply.

“As long as you like it. I’ll make it for you again tomorrow morning.”ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“No … no need, just let the cooks do it.”

“When the kids get a little older, I want it to be just you, me, and the kids at home. We can’t have a cook at home cooking for us for the rest of our lives.”

As Vivian’s husband, Edward wanted to be as considerate as Peter was to Adriana, giving her everything she wanted and doing more for her with his own hands.

“Edward, you’ve done a very good job.”

Vivian pursed her lips, put down her spoon and looked at him, “I … I …”

“What’s wrong?”

Edward asked with a light frown on his ink brow.

“I just think you’re too good for me and I can’t afford it.”

She bowed her head, clasped her hands together in her lap, and sighed with some inferiority.

Edward then realized that Vivian seemed a bit sensitive this morning.

She got up and picked up Isabel, handed her sister-in-law to take care of her, then walked to Vivian, moved her chair and sat beside her.

Reaching out, he took her into his arms and smoothed his palm on her back, “Silly girl, what are you thinking about again? We are a family, there is nothing we can’t afford. If you can be with me, that’s my greatest happiness. Understand?”

Edward saves almost all his tenderness for Vivian, patiently persuading her, trying to help Vivian just come out from the nightmare of the past.

His words were comforting enough, but Vivian’s situation was different.

Those photos on her phone just now are the biggest shame in her life, and even if she didn’t want to bear it alone, she didn’t have the courage to show those kinds of photos to Edward.

As a woman, she has dignity and a bottom line.

Vivian couldn’t imagine what would be in Edward’s mind when he saw that photo.

“Edward, I …”

Vivian wanted to say something, but finally just sighed and leaned into his arms without saying anything.

It was a while before she lamented, “I regret it.”

“Hmm?”

The men were a bit perplexed.

“It was my fault in the beginning, after Ashtyn’s accident, I kept blaming you. It was obvious that you were also a victim, but I still put all the blame on you. I left in anger, thinking I could calm down for a while, or maybe you’d forget about me and I could take Isabel and start my life over.

I just didn’t expect the creation to happen in the end, that kind of unpleasant things. I … am sorry for you.

I always owe you an apology, I’m sorry …”

She kept apologizing to Edward.

The men just noticed Vivian’s abnormality.

Immediately, her hands clasped her shoulders and inclined her head to look at her, “What’s wrong? Did something happen?”

For no apparent reason, Edward felt that it must not be that she had figured it out, but that she had encountered something else.

Vivian looked at the man in front of her and felt the man’s worry and heartache searing her heart.

She narrowed her eyes, looked down at the ground and said in a shallow voice, “It’s nothing, I just want to apologize to you. All along, I’ve wanted to apologize to you, but I never had the courage to say it.”

While Vivian’s words touched Edward, a bad feeling suddenly came over him.

Because …

Such a chatty attitude is like giving ‘last words’.

“Don’t apologize to me again, you don’t owe me anything, on the contrary, it’s me who is sorry for you. If you hadn’t known me in the beginning, you might not have encountered so many things.”

He raised his hand, his big palm over her cheek, leaned down close to her, their foreheads gently touched together, the man whispered: “One has to look forward, don’t always stare at the past, it’s meaningless.”

“But I … I’m afraid …”

Vivian pushed Edward away and looked at him with red eyes, “I’m afraid that one day, those unsightly videos of me and Arnav will be known to outsiders and then make you a laughing stock. Even if you can resist, what face do I have to stand beside you?”

Those videos and photos are the biggest threat to Vivian.

As long as the videos and photos are not destroyed, she will not have peace.

Even if she dies, she is afraid that after her death those pictures will be leaked out, making her a laughing stock for decades to be taken out and said.

Edward was silent.

His obscure eyes looked at Vivian, pulled his lips, and did not speak for a long time.

After a few seconds, he said, “Arnav is dead, and I’ve already had the videos taken care of. What you are worried about will not happen, will not happen!”

He emphasized it again.

“Huh.”

Vivian snorted a laugh and tilted her head to the side, letting the tears well up in her eyes, “I hope … I hope so.”

Not going to happen?

How is she going to turn it around when it’s actually already happened?

Seeing her like this, Edward cupped her cheeks with both hands and made her look at himself, “You got the video?”

Intuition.

From Vivian’s series of reactions, he felt strongly that Vivian must have seen those videos.

Because, although Arnav is dead, there is still a family to deal with Vivian.