Chapter 338 – Does Bowen Carter Suspect?
Puppy White followed, “I really appreciate Master Carter and Mrs. Carter’s cooperation during this time, so if there’s anything I can do to help, you just let me know.”
David Gate’s whole body feels uncomfortable, and his brother and sister-in-law are too soft-tempered to be taken advantage of! And how can Master Carter and Tess Baker say thank you to a murderer when they’re carrying one of Grandpa’s lives on their backs?
“Not now, not ever.” Bowen Carter walked over to Tess Baker and put his arm around her, “Seen it, let’s go.”
“Uh-huh.” Tess Baker nodded obediently.
The two were about to walk away when Dennis Gate’s gentle, frail voice sounded behind them, “Tess Baker, our collaboration …”
“Cooperation stops.” Tess Baker’s right eyelid fluttered and she turned sharply to interrupt, subconsciously glancing at Bowen Carter. He raised his eyebrows slightly, unsure of what he was thinking.
The senior is now talking about working with her, and The Gate Group just snagged a project from The Carter Group a while back, such an obvious connection, I wonder if Bowen Carter noticed!Material © NôvelDrama.Org.
“Brother, when did you have a collaboration with Tess Baker and how did I not know about it?” David Gate asked two questions in a row, “What did you work together on?”
Tess Baker’s heart was about to jump out of her chest, she knew that her senior would definitely not be stupid enough to say it directly, but she was afraid that Bowen Carter would think too much! Can sit to The Carter Group president position, Bowen Carter heart must be several times more than other people!
“It was just a little collaboration, and it was over before it started.” Dennis Gate casually responded.
Tess Baker swallowed carefully and shot an afterimage at Bowen Carter. except when he was pissed off, the expression on his face was so unchanging that she couldn’t guess what he was thinking in all the years she’d been with him.
“What cooperation?” Bowen Carter took her hand and dug his fingers between hers, interlocking them with hers.
The temperature traveled along his hand, but Tess Baker felt cold in her extremities as she tried to be natural, “Just mentioning a direction, no specific plans.”
Bowen Carter is such a savvy person, she’s not sure if that statement will fool her.
Bowen Carter glanced at Tess Baker, her heart beating at a much faster rate instantly, even as she subconsciously eased her breathing.
What’s taking him so long to say anything? Did he guess something?
In this moment, she felt like she and Bowen Carter were the only ones left in the bustling hospital while she awaited his judgment. That judgment might let her get away with it once, or it might send her to hell for all time.
But Bowen Carter just looked at her for a moment, then said nothing and dragged her out of the hospital.
It’s already spring, and the weather is still a little cool, but the sun is much brighter. Tess Baker looks at the trees in the distance, which have already begun to sprout green buds, and just feels a gust of wind, which dries up her cold sweat and cools her forehead a little. Tess Baker looks at the trees in the distance, which have already begun to sprout green buds.
She followed Bowen Carter in a trance, got into the Bentley, and ghostly asked, “Why didn’t you go on to ask what the collaboration was? It’s not like you.”
Just after asking, she regretted it. Why would she bring it up again when it had been so hard to get past what had just happened? If Bowen Carter got to the bottom of it, what would she say?
“Trying to trust you.” Bowen Carter inclined his head and reached up to touch her white earlobe, the handsome, tall man seemingly shrouded in an aura of tenderness.
Each word is like a poppy blooming in Tess Baker’s heart, beautiful but full of danger.
She was glad that Bowen Carter was finally starting to try to believe her, but the thought of the cactus that sat safely in his office made her feel like a cold hand was tugging hard at her, trying to pull her down into the abyss of doom.
Once he found out the secret of the potted plant, the word ‘trust’ would become a joke, and he would only be angrier for trying to trust her about it!
“What’s with the constant wandering and sweating the past two days?” Bowen Carter frowned slightly and slatted her face, drying the sweat from her head.
Tess Baker smiled a far-fetched smile, “No … I’m fine.”
She’s just scared.
“Drive back!” Bowen Carter tried the temperature on her forehead and saw that it was normal, his face eased a bit, but he still felt that a trip to the hospital would reassure him.
Tess Baker said repeatedly that there was nothing wrong and that she didn’t need to go to the hospital for a checkup, but she was still forced to be taken to the hospital by Bowen Carter for a full body checkup.
Even if he did like her, the man was just as overbearing and brutal.
“Have you not been resting or eating well lately?” The doctor asked.
Tess Baker nodded; she had a lot on her mind and didn’t sleep well at night much of the time. And as long as Wendy Summer and Staphen Baker were around, she didn’t have much of an appetite for eating.
“The body is a bit weak, go back and replenish your body.” The doctor finally reminded one more sentence, “Be moderate in intercourse.”
Tess Baker’s face was rolling one second when she was thinking about messy things and the next when she heard the doctor’s words about abstaining from intercourse.
When the doctor said that, was it just a routine reminder, or did he already know that she’d been having a little too much intercourse lately?
“How many times a night is intercourse abstinence?” Bowen Carter asked with a grimace.
Hearing this, Tess Baker could not wait to find a crack in the ground.
“How many more times a night?” The doctor, his face seemingly smeared with ink, snapped, “You should think about a couple times a month!”
After saying that, the doctor swept his eyes at Tess Baker, “You youngsters, what a disgrace, how can you just enjoy yourselves without thinking about the baby in your tummy?”
Tess Baker licked her dry lips, her face was getting hotter and hotter, and she was stammering for days not knowing how to answer the doctor’s words. The doctor said that she looked like a female devil!
Her mind was a blur, and all she knew was that Bowen Carter asked the doctor a few more questions afterward, as if it had something to do with which position wouldn’t hurt the baby. But what exactly was said, she drifted off and didn’t pay attention, just felt like her face was on fire.
Tess Baker’s sanity returned a bit as the two got back into the Bentley, and she touched her face, which burned alarmingly.
“Bowen Carter,” she called out.
Bowen Carter looked at her with downcast eyes.
“You’re going to have to stop asking the doctor so … many …” Tess Baker searched her vocabulary, “strange questions in the future. ”
It’s a shame to ask a doctor so bluntly about the rooming-in side of things.
Bowen Carter didn’t respond, just moved his gaze to her high bulging belly and moved his large hand up. Almost instantly, just as his hand was placed on it, a piece of the belly bulged and kicked against his hand.
All of Tess Baker’s attention was drawn away from the movement on her stomach and didn’t dwell on the awkwardness of what had happened in the hospital.
The two arrived at the hot pot restaurant yesterday. Tess Baker looked at Bowen Carter with surprise. She remembered that he didn’t like hot pot, so why did he bring her to the hot pot restaurant two days in a row this time?
“Order the spicy pot and the tomato pot.” Bowen Carter took her hand and squeezed it between her fingers, interlocking them with hers in a tight grip.
Tess Baker was stunned at first, and then she was touched that he brought her here today after she didn’t get to eat what she wanted yesterday. This man is really … he will actually be so thoughtful!
A large part of her chest collapsed as she felt her heart fall for him once more, and with it, a deeper fear that the secret of the potted plant would be discovered, that … she would lose his love.