A Successful Career After Divorce

“Okay, I’ll give it a try!”

Since she had never really tried it before, Ranita decided to give it a shot. It was getting late, so Brendon called ahead and had the restaurant save a roast duck for them.

It looked delicious, but Ranita forgot that she was still in the early stages of morning sickness. As soon as she saw the food, waves of nausea hit her.

“Ugh!” Ranita couldn’t hold back and rushed to the bathroom to vomit. When she came out, her face was pale and Brendon frowned at her.

“What’s wrong? Why is your face so pale?”

“It’s nothing… I just felt sick for a moment.”

“You don’t have acute gastritis again, do you? You’ve been skipping meals lately… let’s eat something now and then I’ll take you to see a doctor later! And don’t wait until it gets worse like last time.”

Ranita had experienced acute gastritis before but didn’t go to the hospital until two days later when Brendon found her passed out in their office during overtime work. If he hadn’t taken her to the hospital in time, things could have ended badly.

Thinking back on those times made Ranita smile wryly. Her pale face with lips curved into an awkward smile looked pitiful.

“You’re still smiling?” Brendon scolded irritably but quickly ordered some light congee from the kitchen for her anyway.

“I’m really okay. There’s no pain,” said Ranita after much persuasion from Brendon not to go see a doctor yet again this time around.

After finishing one bowl of congee which filled up her stomach nicely, Ranita looked at all of the untouched dishes on their table with regret, “What a waste! I’m such an unlucky person who can never enjoy good food!”

Fortunately they didn’t order too much or else it would’ve been even more wasteful than ever before.

Brendon saw how disappointed she was about not being able to finish everything, so he called over their waiter and asked him pack up everything left over, “We can eat them tonight without wasting anything.”

“Oh by the way,” said Brendon while driving his car afterwards. “I want take you somewhere special.”

Brendon was driving, and Ranita was chatting with Eve. Unable to resist, she sent a photo to Eve, which infuriated Eve to the point of accusing her of displaying their love.

However, in the end, Eve still gave Ranita some face and praised her, “You look really beautiful!”

“Were you happy when he took you out today?”

Ranita wasn’t unhappy per se. However, this kind of happiness felt like stolen moments that lacked substance or meaning – making things feel somewhat duller than what they should be.

She replied calmly, “I just want to cherish every moment we spend together.”

Her words sounded sad even though nobody knew what would happen next – making everyone’s heart ache unbearably…

“Who are you chatting with so seriously?” Brendon called out to Ranita, who snapped back to reality and put her phone down. “Oh, just chatting with Eve for a bit,” she replied.

Eve stared at her phone for a long time, tapping her fingers back and forth before finally settling on the photo. She scrolled through her contacts and sent the photo directly to Shannon.

As soon as she saw the typing notification on the other end, Eve immediately retracted the photo and wrote an ambiguous message, “Oops, sorry about that! I sent it by mistake!”

Shannon called Eve right away.

“What was that picture you just sent me all about?” she asked in a soft voice tinged with hurt feelings. Accusations seemed to come naturally.

“It was nothing,” Eve chuckled dismissively. “I already took it back anyway. Just pretend like you never saw it.”This is from NôvelDrama.Org.

“But I did see it!” Shannon protested softly but firmly. “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?”

Eve rolled her eyes in exasperation and mimicked Shannon’s nauseating tone of voice as she gasped out three breaths between each word, “Oh my gosh Miss Murphy! Don’t be so quick to accuse me! I really did send it by mistake! Be more magnanimous please. Sending one picture isn’t illegal or anything… You’re not actually angry, are you?”