Chasing His Runaway Wife by Jamie Stones

Chapter 20

The office quietened down but Malcolm felt even more agitated.

He would have preferred it if Saul had checked wrongly instead.

However, Tabitha’s bloodied image kept recurring in his mind and he could not pretend like nothing happened.

He tugged at his tie and went to meet Naomi.

With Malcolm coming over so early, Naomi felt a little uneasy.

Sylvie had contacted her secretly about how Malcolm’s assistant Saul had already investigated what happened at the Four Seasons Bar that night.

Naomi knew Malcolm would more or less be suspicious of her by now and she was growing anxious. Yet, when she thought of her detailed plan, she began to calm down a little, deciding that the plan was foolproof and all that she had to do now was wait for things to settle down.

As usual, she showed him her usual pleasant smile. “Malcolm, what are you doing here?”

Malcolm stared at her for a long time before he smiled and said, “Nothing is going on in the company, so I just wanted to come over and see you.”

“You’re so thoughtful,” she replied.

Naomi acted as if nothing had happened. She walked to Malcolm and hugged his arm, acting coyly to him and even pouring him some coffee. After that, she kept listening to prenatal music.

Full of love and gentleness, she even discussed with Malcolm what they should name the baby and how they were going to bring it up to be a respectful kid with good manners…

Before noon fell, Naomi had already begun to feel quite tired.

“Malcolm, I keep feeling like my body is getting weaker and weaker after

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to get some

you should go to sleep

After

she was sleeping, she looked so

grown weaker after the pregnancy, he sighed. He had put aside his thoughts regarding Tabitha and was prepared to leave a phone number for

an elite nutritionist. That was someone who ordinary people could not get in touch with at all. If one didn’t have some connections, it did not matter how much money one had; one

type in the nutritionist’s number when he accidentally clicked on the messages that popped up

into view: [The flowers you

picture attached at the bottom of the message. The date below indicated that it was sent yesterday afternoon and

Slowly, he turned around to

she still wore a look of delight when

disappeared in an instant. He only found the sight of

around, Naomi did not dare to sleep too deeply. Soon after,

still here…” she

she

skipped a beat and she acted like she was at

as I was taking a look, there were a few text messages that popped up in your phone just now. They seemed to be related

Malcolm spoke, he studied her quietly, not missing an inch

down. She suppressed the panic that flashed through her

he actually look through my phone just now?

“I don’t know what’s going on

turned out that Malcolm had not unlocked her

trust as she told Malcolm her lock screen password. Unbeknownst to her, Malcolm had caught every slight change in her expression. He could not

was not as innocent

a dismissive glance at the spam message and did

comment.