Love Me Or Leave Me

CHAPTER 154

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Stacey held the baby in her arms, not daring to move until a black shadow was cast down in front of her.

“Master, the enemy who attacked you has been eliminated. Please don’t be afraid,” said Hannah with a smile while looking at the mother and son duo with a gentle gaze.

With the baby in her arms, Stacey carefully looked up at Hanna In the process, the photographer hurried over with a camera in his hands and captured a close–up shot of that scene. Stacey’s face was pale, and she looked at Hannah as if she was looking at her savior. “Where are the bullets?” She spoke after a long time, her weak and trembling voice revealing the fear of dying she just experienced.

Hannah opened her hand, revealing two bullets lying in her pal. She said in a sweet voice, “Here.”

“Cut!” the director shouted, indicating the conclusion of the filming. The camera’s last shot was fixed on Hannah’s palm, which hid two secrets- first, the bullet had pierced the young housekeeper’s skin, yet she wasn’t bleeding and instead exposed the silver machinery parts inside, implying that she wasn’t a human, but a humanoid robot; second, this humanoid robot could take down two bullets for her owner with her bare hands.

“Becky, how is it? Are you all right?” Lynn hurried over to Stacey feeling worried.

Stacey looked at Lynn and shook her head lightly. “I’m fine.”

Only after seeing that Stacey was really fine could Lynn breathe a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Hayden and the staff of the planning department were checking the video they had just taken. Stacey thought about it and decided to go over to take a look. “Okay, I’ll give you a week to produce the final film,” ordered Hayden after checking ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Daniel didn’t expect the shoot to progress so smoothly and with such impressive effects. He could already foresee how amazing this promotional video would be upon its release, so he wasn’t worried when he heard Hayden’s order and instead even looked forward to it. “Sure, I promise we’ll finish it within a week!” exclaimed Daniel, thinking that if they received a good impact from the promotional video, the employees of the planning department would surely receive more bonuses for the month. That thought alone left him excited.

By the time work ended, it was already dark outside. The employees of Hoggard Technologies bade goodbye and left one after another. Stacey and Lynn exchanged glances, figuring it was time they left, too. “Mr. Hoggard, if there’s nothing else, Becky and I will make a move, too,” Lynn said.

Hearing that, Jeremy grew anxious. He ran over and grabbed Becky’s hand to stop her from leaving. She was stunned and lowered her eyes to look at Jeremy, to which he quickly pulled out his writing tablet and wrote: [Don’t go]. He looked at her anxiously with imploring eyes.

Hayden looked at Jeremy, then turned to Becky and asked, “Where will you be staying tonight?”

Stacey turned to look at Lynn, as she was usually the one who made arrangements. Tve booked a room at a hotel,” responded Lynn.

Hearing this, Hayden glanced at Stacey, then shifted his gaze to Lynn and concisely said, “So, you two plan to stay in Strico tonight and not head back? If that’s the case, why don’t you stay at my house tonight? I’ll have my butler arrange two rooms for you.”

Jeremy nodded vigorously, looking anxious.

That… That’s not very appropriate, is it Lynn sounded hesitant “Mr. Hoggard, I know you’re very kind to Becky, but her identity’s rather special now. There must be many paparazzi out there following her. If we stay here tonight, those paparazzi will surely write about it.”

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Hayden fell silent. Jeremy was so anxious that his face turned pale, his gaze switching between Hayden and Becky. After some contemplation, Hayden finally suggested, “How about this Becky, you go to the hotel with Lynn and take Jeremy along so that he can spend the night with you. Take it as helping me take care of him tonight. Will this be okay? I’ll pick him up at the hotel tomorrow.”

Stacey was surprised to hear that. She didn’t expect Hayden to ask her to take care of his son, or rather, she thought it was a little bizarre about how Jeremy was so close and dependent on her. In fact, she had been puzzled since the morning about why Jeremy was so clingy toward her when they had only met for the first time. Though she couldn’t quite wrap her head arpund it, she still agreed, “Sure.”

They had only been together for a day, but Stacey couldn’t deny that Jeremy was adorable, and she quite liked him. Hearing that, Jeremy’s eyes immediately lit up with excitement.

“Thank you,” Hayden expressed earnestly,

Stacey smiled and shook her head. “You don’t have to be so polite with me.

“Have dinner at home. I’ll take you guys to the hotel after dinner Hayden added.

Stacey replied, “Okay.”

Hanna was still cooking in the kitchen. Stacey checked her phone, and seeing that there was still time, she took Jeremy to the couch and turned on the TV after getting Hayden’s consent. Then, she looked for the kids channel, tuned in on a cartoon, and watched it with Jeremy. However, they had barely watched for a few minutes when her phone rang. It was a video call from Debra. As soon as Stacey saw the caller ID, she answered the phone.

“Mama!” Kevin’s face appeared on the screen as soon as the video call was connected, and his baby voice rang out in excitement.

“Mhm, I’m here,” said Stacey with a smile, looking at Kevin on the phone screen. “Did you call me, Kev? Where’s Granny?” Jeremy leaned over, with his eyes widened slightly. He stared curiously at the baby boy on the video call, wondering if that

was Stacey’s son.

Kevin

aw Jeremy, too. He blinked and shouted in a baby voice, “Bubba”

Kevin was over a year old, and he was at the age of learning to talk. Whenever Debra took him out for a walk, she would also introduce him to various words, for instance, telling him to greet boys older than him as “brother. As such, he now had a habit of calling older boys “Bubba.”

Hearing Kevin call him, Jeremy was delighted. He hurriedly pulled out his writing tablet, scribbled something, and eagerly held it up to show it to Kevin through the video call. However, Kevin was no longer on the phone screen, instead, he was replaced by Debra. She had taken the phone back from Kevin and upon seeing the young boy with Stacey, she curiously asked, “Becky, who is this child?”

At that, Stacey glanced at Jeremy and smiled, introducing, “Mom, his name is Jeremy, Mr. Hoggard’s son.”