A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 816 A Different Feeling

Ernie saw Marley as well. He did not speak and instead, he walked towards the morgue.

Marley walked up the stairs step by step, his footsteps were heavy until he came before her. He lowered his head and looked at her, looking into her eyes very seriously and he asked word by word, “Don’t you have anything to explain?”

“Marley, it’s not what you think!” Sylvie explained anxiously.

“What am I thinking?” Marley asked in return.

“I have nothing to explain, Marley!” Sylvie lowered her eyes, attempting to hide the glimmer in her eyes.

Marley’s eyes were no longer saddened. His pupils darkened, his usual gentleness and softness have disappeared, leaving only a huge storm that was brewing quickly.

Suddenly, he pushed her against the wall. The force was so huge that it made her back aching. She frowned, knowing that his sudden anger was due to the hug between her and Ernie just now. She had nothing to explain about.

Marley’s hands clenched onto her shoulders tightly as his eyes darkened, and his entire body leaned forwards.

Sylvie was in shock, feeling a little flustered as she stuttered, not knowing what to say.

Marley did not wait for her to finish as his lips blocked her mouth with a penetrating heat anxiously, as if he had wanted to melt her down.

She stunned and lost all response, as her mind began to befuddle.

After a moment of frenzied kissing to release his anger inside, he began to become gentle. He left her lips slightly, teasing the corner of her lip with the tip of his tongue. She felt as if she had been struck by electricity, her body shuddering slightly. She looked at his face, looking at the dilemma in his eyes. Her heart was in a frenzy as well, but at the same time, it was filled with a pang of unmentionable guilt. It was originally a pure hug and nothing else, but it was yet ambiguous, she had to consider Marley’s feelings! But simultaneously she also felt that she had done no wrong.

Marley finally let go of her lips and pulled her into his arms, his grip so tight that she could not breathe. He said by her ear, “This is the last time, I don’t want there to be a next time.”

She stunned and nodded.

Marley let go of her body and held onto her hand, as if he did not want to continue that topic, “Where’s mum?”

“She’s there!”

Evie was buried!

The day after the funeral ended, Ernie had gone missing. No one knew where he went.

Sylvie went to the hospital to have a check-up and confirmed that a seed had grown in her womb, the child was hers and Marley’s.

The divorce battle between Aiden and Miriam had made its way to the court. Miriam refused to compromise towards the distribution of property, and Aiden too insisted that he wanted to take back a half. Marley was taking charge at the company, and the Hughes Group had once again entered a crisis due to his parents’ divorce case.

Jemima had mailed the things between her and Marley before through courier service, but Sylvie’s name was written as the recipient. Sylvie had not known what they were when she had received the things. But when she opened it, then only she knew that the things inside were the love letters that Marley had written to Jemima, their photos, the study notes that they did together, the cinema tickets that they had used and the tickets for various travel destinations! Every single thing was the bits and pieces of the days when they were still together. Even for the photos, they were very intimate, kissing together, and some of them were even adult-rated!

Although Sylvie knew that Jemima did so on purpose, but she still felt uncomfortable! Yes, she minded!

Yet she did not know that the day at the corridor by the door to the morgue, the hug between her and Ernie had also made its mark on Marley’s heart. Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

As she was pregnant, they had slept in separate rooms.

Sylvie had sent the things before Marley. It was a very large parcel. She did not take another close look at it but merely put the things onto Marley’s table, “Jemima had sent this here!”

Marley raised his head and looked at her. He then opened it before her, took a look, and took out the albums and looked through them one by one. His eyes were calm and composed, his emotions unreadable.

Sylvie stood opposite him and said nothing. Marley read through those things silently, as if he was reminiscing the path that he and Jemima once took. But he also looked nonchalant, as if he was merely looking at a piece of unimportant memory! Sylvie could not understand his expression. She clenched her finger unknowingly, and asked with her breath hitched, “It’s hard to forget, right?”

Marley paused, lowered his head, smiled and replied as if he was a bit exasperated. “Some memories are indeed, but I know clearly what I’m doing. Are you sure if you’re clear, Sylvie? Can you be wholehearted now, deep inside?”

“I can!” She answered without hesitation.

Marley merely smiled, but his smile was quite bitter. He lifted his face slowly from the photo albums, his tone serious, “Sylvie, you couldn’t be wholehearted. It had been long over between Jemima and me, but the five years of memories are not that easy to wipe away and I couldn’t conceal it as well. You saw it too, Sylvie. I know that you mind it, but I don’t want to explain anything, this is all in the past. There’s nothing ambiguous at all between Jemima and me now, she had mailed this just to let you know the past between her and me. I understand her motive behind this and I think you do too! You’re pregnant now, so don’t overthink!”

“I didn’t!” She shook her head and denied.

He replied, “I hope you don’t blame me. Since this is in the past, I think if we both minded about it out marriage wouldn’t have made it to the end, just like how I minded between you and Ernie. Sylvie, you’re not wholehearted towards me. You don’t have to deny it, I’m not petty. I have a heart and a pair of eyes, and I can completely see that you felt differently towards him. Maybe it isn’t love, but it was a level higher than liking and a level less than loving!”

Hearing this, Sylvie looked like she was shocked suddenly as she raised her head to look at him on instinct. She raised her head slightly looking at him. He sat there silently watching herself in silence, yet he seemed unfamiliar in her eyes.

In fact, at this moment, it was as though even Marley’s face had become so surreal.

She felt that her ears were ringing softly, it was so soft and so far, but it kept ringing. No matter how long it had been, it was still unwavering in her mind. The bitterness and distrust, as well as the pain, had pricked her, she suddenly realized that while she was blaming him for being petty, while she was not being petty as well?

Her heart twisted and turned, and she suddenly felt a little helpless. She merely looked at him, looking at him like that and she suddenly blurted, “Sorry.”

Perhaps it was her expression being overtly serious, not looking as if she was joking at all. He paused and replied, “It’s alright. I can wait until your heart returns!”

“But I’m sure that my heart is completely at your side! My feelings towards Ernie are not what you think!” Her tone was deep, her voice so low that it was as if it could melt away at one blow of the wind.

She looked at him adamantly, “That wasn’t love, I can differentiate it clearly.”

“There isn’t love of mine towards Jemima either!” He argued.

She stunned.

He laughed, “Sylvie, your eyes are obviously in disbelief, just like me towards you. I too have a bit of disbelief, this is not good for the baby! Let’s both readjust our mindset!

“Sure!”

Yet, none of them would know that not only did the two of them were unable to readjust, but they have sunk into a very awkward situation. They seemed to have started living a life of treating each other too courteously.

The two of them no longer mentioned Jemima and Ernie, as if nothing had happened at all in the first place. Yet it still left a mark, there were still some things that had changed.

He was busy every day handling the reporters, and busy handling the company’s crisis. His parents were in court, but Marley kept being busy over the livelihood of the employees of the company.

In the company, Sylvie was taking care of her pregnancy, yet she still arranged the documents. Marley still took care of her, the things she ate and used were the best, yet it felt as if their hearts were a little further apart!

In private, the two of them still went home to eat together as usual. They were still putting on a perfect show before Cassius and Miriam without prior agreement, seeming like a loving couple from every angle.

But Sylvie still felt that it was different. Sometimes when she lifted her eyes and met with Marley’s, she found that he would turn his eyes away as if he was not willing to look at her. She felt awkward, felt a little gloomy, and felt a little uncomfortable. Afterward, Marley had hired a nanny for her to take care of her daily life. He seemed to be avoiding the awkwardness on purpose as well, not allowing her to go to the office, and he had been returning home around ten at night ever since she was two months pregnant. After he came back, he would bathe and sleep, and would only have a few words with her, unwilling to speak even half a sentence more.

Sylvie could not bring herself to take the initiative to solve this invisible conflict, she did not know how to resolve this either. She could only console herself inside that it would be over soon! After the incident between her parents-in-law, maybe it would be over!

Yet, it did not seem to have!

Marley had more than once thought of leaving the Hughes Group, but he remained hesitant.

Cassius had asked Marley to join for tea. Towards the incident that was going huge in the papers, Cassius had no questions, but about the news that the outsiders were having a rumor that Marley might be leaving the Hughes Group, he told Marley this, “Marley, an enterprise is not merely something of the family but also of the society. The Hughes Group had gone by decades of turbulence, it had the sweat and blood of your forefathers, but also the effort of the employees below. An enterprise couldn’t

be ended simply! When an enterprise had grown from small to large, the nature of the enterprise has changed eventually. It’s becoming more and more societal and carries its responsibility towards society. There are tens of thousands of workers and employees working in an enterprise. The enterprise’s fate links directly to the livelihood of tens of thousands of people.”

“I understand!” When Marley returned, he sank into deep thought.

When she was pregnant for two and a half months, Miriam had called and asked them to go home for dinner.

At the house of the Moyle family, Sabrina made a full table of dishes. Aiden was not at the table, he no longer came to the house ever since Evie’s incident. After two court sessions, the relationship between him and Miriam had worsened to downright sinful.

After the meal, Miriam started, “I asked you two to come back because I wanted to talk to the both of you. Marley, Sylvie, I know that you are blaming me! You blame me for going to court with Aiden, and it has indeed made you lose your reputation!”

“Mum, it’s nothing to lose my reputation. But the key is that the problem was not solved at all!” Marley sighed and replied.

“Leave the company, Marley!” Miriam looked at her son seriously, “I know that you didn’t like the Hughes Group. You liked to start your own business and I shouldn’t have asked you to come back before!”

“Mum, indeed I didn’t like the way the Hughes Group operated, but now I have a new understanding about the company. If I wanted to leave, I can leave whenever and I would be able to make a living, but what about the employees below?”

“You can give a severance pay!”

“This is impossible, mum. If you really want to listen to my advice, then withdraw the case! No matter what dad wants, just let him be. If you two could proceed just proceed, if you can’t just separate. The company wouldn’t fall if it’s given to me or Ernie, and I don’t care at all. Ernie is also missing now. This divorce case that you’re having with dad now, what can you get in the end?”