Chapter 3

"What Candice Channing did crossed the line!" I touched my burning cheek where my mother-in-law had slapped me, and tears fell from my eyes. "Your mother misunderstood me because of her and got angry with me. Shouldn't you do something seeing that she almost destroyed our wedding?"

The relatives started speaking up for me, and when my mother-in-law saw how swollen my cheek was from the slap, she started feeling guilty and took my side. "Annie's right. That Candice Channing girl shouldn't have said those things and caused this misunderstanding! She has to take responsibility for this!"

That was when Russell realized that my cheek had swollen, and a pained look appeared in his eyes, but when he heard my mother-in-law demanding that Candice take responsibility for the situation, the look in his eyes turned to hesitation.

I looked past him and at his superior, and several superiors from different departments voiced out right away, "Candice Channing should be demoted and punished with community service for a month!"

This put a smile on my face, and I added, "She should apologize publicly to me as well."

Candice had tears in her eyes when she bowed to me and apologized in front of everyone. She ran away, crying, whilst the guests were chiding her about her actions. Russell looked like he wanted to say something to her as he watched her leave, but did not. Instead, he turned to me. "Candice doesn't know her way around here. I'll go after her to make sure she's okay."

I burst out laughing, but did not stop him. I waited until all the guests were done with the wedding dinner, and I knew it was about the same time in my past life when they ended up in bed. I stood up and pretended to sound surprised, "Where's Russell? Did he have too much to drink? Can everyone help me find him?"

This time, I made sure to lead the superiors toward our new house.

My older sister's favorite thing to do was to have me witness what she did with my fiancé. She wanted me to see them make love in our new house on the new bedsheets I bought specially for our wedding night. I wanted them exposed in front of everyone in this lifetime.

Moaning could be heard coming from the bedroom, and I kicked the door open. However, the only person in the room was Russell, who was lying against the bed, looking back at us stoically. The drugged water that he was supposed to have drunk had spilled all over the ground, and Candice, who was also supposed to be in the room, was nowhere to be found.

My mind went blank.

"If there's nothing else, we should be leaving." The superiors helped close the door behind us when they saw that nothing had happened.

Russell looked at me with the familiar disgusted look he had given me in the past life. "I can't believe you still haven't learned your lesson after coming back, Annie. I told you before that no one can harm Candice and the baby inside her as long as I'm around!"

"I can't believe you came back too." I was shocked, but quickly calmed down. I decided to give up putting on an act in front of him. I looked at him coldly and said, "Since we're all on the same page, let's get divorced."

However, Russell did not agree with me. He frowned instead and stopped me right away. "I won't agree to a divorce."

It sounded so ridiculous to me that I laughed in anger, "Are you crazy, Russell? Aren't you afraid I will bully her? Weren't you the one who said you wanted to make it up to her and her baby? Once we're divorced, you can marry Candice and be with her legitimately! Or could it be…"

A thought came to me, and I laughed. "Are you afraid a divorce will affect your promotion?"

"What are you talking about?"