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Jennifer lowered her gaze slightly and answered weakly, “Yes, I’m done…
However, Oneida was not looking at her anymore.
A dead silence ensued.
No one spoke up.
Everyone was waiting for Oneida’s response.
Jennifer balled her hands into fists. There was a trace of resentment in her eyes.
Jennifer stared at Oneida’s calm side profile as anger rose within her.
“Did Oneida do this to humiliate me? I’ve already apologized to her properly. What more does she want from me?” she pondered.
Oneida seemed to have sensed Jennifer’s thoughts. She suddenly turned around, her gaze chilling.
She uttered slowly, “If an apology is enough, what do we need the police for?”
Jennifer’s face stiffened at the remark.
However, Oneida continued, “I don’t accept your apology.”
“Oneida, what’s with your attitude?” On the side, Tatiana glared at her furiously and snapped, “What more do you want from Jenn?”
Jennifer bit her lip hard, looking pitiful and about to faint at any moment.
Oneida looked at them with an amused look. Nevertheless, her gaze was extremely icy. “You guys can apologize all you want. It’s up to me whether to accept it or not. Instead of being forgiven, Jennifer should feel ashamed for the rest of her life!”
After saying that, Oneida walked past the two women and went to the other side of the hall without looking back.
Just then, a tall figure suddenly appeared at the door.
“Mr. Faraday is here!” the servant yelled.
The person who entered the mansion was none other than Christopher.
After seeing Christopher, the disgruntled Jennifer suddenly beamed with excitement. “Christopher!”
A bright smile bloomed on her face as she rushed to Christopher, “What brings you here?”
However, the man in front of Jennifer didn’t spare her a glance.
Jennifer was taken aback by his lack of response. Her joy seemed to be short–lived.
The Christopher in front of her remained unchanged in terms of appearance and facial features. Nonetheless, he exuded an unfamiliar aura at that
moment.
Christopher looked indifferent, menacing, cold, and imposing.
Most importantly, he didn’t look at Jennifer at all.
“Is he still my Christopher?” she mused.
“Christopher…” Jennifer subconsciously grabbed Christopher’s arm and looked at him tearfully. She wanted to tattle on Oneida. “Just now, I apologized to Oneida, but she-”
Jennifer’s body froze when she was halfway through her words.
That was because Christopher shook off her arm unexpectedly.
He was cold and mean.
“Christopher…” Jennifer stared at him in disbelief.
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Nevertheless, Christopher treated Jennifer as if she was invisible and looked straight at Oneida not far away.
In his eyes, there was only Oneida.
Oneida naturally also noticed Christopher’s gaze.
His gaze was deep, gentle, passionate, painful, and focused.
Oneida couldn’t help but feel surprised.
She mused, “Why is he looking at me like that? It was such a deep and conflicted gaze…
An inexplicable feeling of embarrassment rose within Oneida.
She looked away awkwardly and said goodbye to Lucas and Edmund, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll take my leave first.”
Lucas nodded and looked at her tenderly. “If you want to go, I won’t ask you to stay… You can come back anytime if you want to return in the future…”
However, Edmund was a little reluctant to see Oneida go. He fixed his gaze on his elder sister, looking a bit depressed. “Oneida, remember to come back often in the future.”
Oneida nodded with a smile.
Then, she walked straight out of the hall of the mansion.
The next second, Christopher, who had just arrived, left the crowd behind and ran out after Oneida.
“Christopher!” Jennifer let out a piercing scream behind him.
Much to Jennifer’s dismay, the man didn’t look back at her the entire time.
Realization dawned on Jennifer at that moment.
Something seemed to have changed between her and Christopher.
After getting into the car, Oneida started the engine skillfully, and the car sped away.
In the rearview mirror, Oneida saw Christopher walk out of the mansion in a hurry before getting into his Maybach. Then, he followed her car.
“Why is he following me?” she wondered.
Oneida narrowed her eyes slightly. She couldn’t help but speed up.
However, Christopher was still following her when she drove to the vicinity of Garrison Mansion.
He was determined to follow her.
Oneida directly pulled up her car.
She opened the door and got out of the car.
Seeing that, Christopher also stepped out of his car.
The two of them stared at each other from a reasonable distance.
Oneida frowned slightly.
All of a sudden, she felt like she couldn’t see through Christopher.
“What the hell is this guy trying to do?” she pondered.
While Oneida was lost in thought, Christopher suddenly walked up to her.
“Ida,” he called her name in a low voice, and his eyes were as deep as the ocean.
Christopher didn’t understand why everything had changed in this life.
Oneida no longer liked him and stopped pursuing him. If anything, she was even hostile toward him.
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She even married Jackson.
This was something that had never happened in his previous life.
Christopher contemplated, “Could it be that my rebirth actually triggered a series of butterfly effects, resulting in a change in the trajectory of my previous life? Or perhaps this is divine retribution?”
In his previous life, he personally pushed Oneida aside, causing her to die.
Therefore, he had to be the one to pursue Oneida in this life.
Oneida stared at Christopher in front of her. A strong feeling of discomfort rose within her.
She didn’t like the way he was looking at her.
“What on earth do you want?” Oneida probed coldly, looking at him with an icy gaze.
Christopher didn’t say anything. Instead, he grabbed Oneida’s wrist.
Oneida was caught off guard by him. Her heart trembled slightly.
He took her palm and pressed it to his handsome face. “Slap me, Ida. You can slap me as many times as you want. My face is right here. Go ahead and slap me.”
Suddenly, Oneida had a faraway look in her eyes.
“Why did Christopher suddenly become so strange? Did he lose his wits after I slapped him last time? How can someone suddenly appear and asked another person to slap him?” she wondered.
Oneida narrowed her eyes and enunciated each word slowly, “Let go of me.”
“I won’t let go,” Christopher replied stubbornly. “If I let go this time, I may not have another chance.”
He squeezed Oneida’s palm and looked at her deeply. “If you don’t want to slap me, you can hit me somewhere else. You can hit me wherever you want. I promise not to make a sound.”
Christopher was not joking with Oneida. He really wanted Oneida to beat him up.
“I was the one who had wronged her in my previous life. Therefore, I deserved to be beaten. I also deserved to die!” Christopher chastised himself inwardly.
However, he was still reluctant to die.
That was because Oneida was still alive and standing in front of him.
Everything felt like a dream for him.
Christopher felt heartbroken yet blissful when he looked at her.
“How could I die willingly when I haven’t
seen enough of her?” he pondered.
“Go ahead and hit me, Ida.” Christopher looked intently at Oneida as if he was gazing at a treasure.
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