Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-seven – The Throat Knots Rolled
“I … I’m not.” Tess Baker explained in embarrassment, voluntarily moving closer to him, “I … I just have a faster and louder heartbeat and I’m afraid you’ll hear it.”
The further back you go, the quieter it gets.
They’d done more intimate things, but she felt embarrassed at the moment, why did that sound so much like a confession?
Bowen Carter looked at her with downcast eyes and didn’t make a sound.
Tess Baker’s palms were sweaty as he suddenly reached out and landed on the towering heights in front of her. The move was so sudden that she froze for a moment, her face instantly becoming hot.Content © copyrighted by NôvelDrama.Org.
What’s he doing here?
The driver watched the scene in his rearview mirror and nearly crashed his car into a side greenbelt.
Bowen Carter hadn’t thought much of it, just wanted to see if she was lying when she said her heart was beating fast, but when his hand touched there, the softness underneath made him go a little wobbly.
Then he … pinched it.
Tess Baker’s pupils crinkled and her already hot face flushed red. They’d just been talking about her moving to the side, how had this suddenly developed?
She clutched the corner of her coat unconsciously in her right hand, not daring to move a muscle.
Bowen Carter withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened, twirling his fingertips as his gaze skimmed over her considerable post-pregnancy tower and the knot in his throat rolled.
Tess Baker’s full attention was focused on the place he touched, only to feel a hot there, she uncomfortably wanted to move to the side a little. But fearing that he would think she disliked him again, she held back.
The man beside him did not have other actions, just a handsome face, the whole body exudes an ascetic aura, as if the person just now is not him in general.
After about twenty minutes or so, the car stopped at Beauty Garden.
Tess Baker felt the time pass too quickly as she turned her head to look at Bowen Carter beside her, guilt and longing hiding in her eyes.
“Get out of the car.” Bowen Carter said in a cold voice.
Tess Baker clutched the corner of her coat and suggested somewhat nervously, “It’s getting late, why don’t you stay here tonight.”
She wanted to see more of him.
“Self-promotion?” Bowen Carter grunted softly, a sneer curving at the corner of his eye, “Did you think that by spending one night with me, you’d be able to write off your betrayal of me?”
Tess Baker’s whole body stiffened, and her heart felt like it had been pierced by a sharp spear, gurgling with blood. She asked him to stay here, just to see him more, nothing more.
“Go down!” Bowen Carter withdrew his gaze and leaned back in his chair, his eyes slightly closed.
Tess Baker, her heart mixed with a hundred different feelings, gave him a deep look and told the driver, “Drive carefully and be safe.”
“Okay, young grandmother.” The driver said.
Bowen Carter’s eyes snapped open and his sharp gaze swept over Tess Baker and quickly retracted, “She’s not your youngest grandmother anymore.”
Tess Baker stood in the doorway of her car, just feeling extra cool tonight.
The door slammed shut with a bang and the Bentley quickly disappeared from her sight. She looked out into the dark night and sighed, her white yawns extraordinarily obvious in the night.
She touched her growing pregnant belly, looking forward to his or her birth, but hoping that it would come later, and later again.
After all, when this child was born, it was also the time for her to say goodbye to her two children.
…
Bowen Carter leaves Beauty Garden and instead of going back to the old the Carter family house, he goes to a well known private detective agency.
“Master Carter,” Li Ming, the head and staff of the private detective agency, had been waiting here for a long time, and when the car arrived, he waited beside it.
The car door opened and a long, straight leg stepped out.
Bowen Carter hmmm’d and headed straight inside the private investigator’s office while Ming Lee and the driver followed him.
Upon entering the private detective agency, the driver stepped forward and, at a gesture from Bowen Carter, gave Li Ming several documents in his hand.
“What you want to check is the identity of the young granny?” Li Ming asked as he hastily flipped through a few pages.
Bowen Carter nodded, he did not pay attention before, now he thought it was too much of a coincidence: Tess Baker was sixteen years old when she was in a car accident and lost her memory, and Wendy Summer was sixteen years old when she was in a car accident and lost her memory … There were some things that he had to find out!
Driver, “…”
He was warned for calling out young granny, how come it’s okay for this man to call out young granny? Master Carter definitely still has young granny in his heart, he’s just not willing to admit it in front of her.
“She is the granddaughter of the Si family, there is no doubt about it anymore, you want to check whether it is her biological parents’ identity, or … ” Li Ming looked at the third page of the document and asked carefully, “Her relationship with your ex-girlfriend? ”
Instead of answering directly, Bowen Carter said, “Her adoptive father has her old ID and student ID, find out what you can.”
He’d tried everything, but her adoptive father just wouldn’t give an account of where those things were.
“Okay.” Li Ming felt that both of them had to be checked, and the workload was somewhat large.
Bowen Carter, “A week at the latest, I want to see results.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll let you know the results within the specified time.” Li Ming believed he could do it.
Bowen Carter nodded his head in satisfaction and didn’t linger any longer, heading straight out of the private investigator’s office. He had to go back, talk to his grandfather about the custody of his two children, and maybe Sixth Brother could help a little.
However, after he arrived at the Carter family’s old mansion, he realized that Wind Carter had gone abroad on business this afternoon and would not be back for half a month.
The issue of custody of his two children is something he can only think of other ways to do.
…
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Tess Baker misses her son, and when she calls him and no one answers, she thinks it’s the old man or Carter’s mother and they won’t let her son answer her calls. She borrowed a cell phone from Aunt Zhang and called her son again, but still no answer.
Worried that something had happened to her son, she panicked and called THE Carter family’s old house.
The phone did connect, and the maid answered, “The young master is fine, just that his cell phone and communication devices have been confiscated, so you shouldn’t call in the future,” and then hung up the phone.
Tess Baker called again, and after dozens of calls, no one picked up again.
She spent the past three days in a muddle, anxious to find a way to get custody of her son, but the way did not expect, but instead, her brow was so anxious that a pimple grew.
In the evening, Tess Baker was consulting with an attorney online about child custody when a call came in from Linda Mark.
“What’s up, baby?” Tess Baker held her cell phone between her shoulder and her cheek and crackled on the keyboard.
“Hello, are you Ms. Tess, please?” It was an unfamiliar male voice that rang out over there.
Tess Baker’s heart strained for a moment, and instead of typing, she reached for her cell phone and said, “Yes, this is Tess Baker, and you are?”
How did Linda’s cell phone end up in someone else’s hands? Did she drop her cell phone, or did something happen to …?
“Oh, it’s like this, we are the Blue Classic Bar, just this side of Jingyang Road, Miss Linda is drunk and would like you to come and pick her up.”
Tess Baker hurriedly hung up the phone, put on her coat, called a maid and a menservant, and went to the Blue Classic Bar.
It was 9:30 p. m. and the bar was crowded, and when the patrons saw her come in with two men in her belly, they all stretched their necks waiting to see what the fuss was all about.
How does this look like a pregnant wife coming to the bar to catch an adulterer?