Chapter 5

"Lucian! You… You're being too violent! You've truly gone crazy!" Giselle screamed as she pointed a trembling finger at him.

"I'm sleeping in the guest bedroom," Lucian snapped before marching out of the master bedroom.

Since Giselle was pregnant, he didn't want to continue arguing with her.

Meanwhile, Giselle kept staring at the shattered phone on the floor. Too angry to say anything, she didn't try to stop him.

…

The next morning, Lucian was woken up by the alarm. He had stayed up late last night and wasn't in the best of spirits.

After getting dressed, he walked out of the bedroom and saw Giselle sitting on the couch, huffing away in anger.

"Oh, my. To think that someone still managed to get a good night's sleep," Giselle remarked with a sneer as she eyed Lucian.

Frowning, he fired back, "If you've got something to say, say it. Don't give me that sarcasm and those pointed remarks."

"Why, you!"

Grinding her teeth, Giselle couldn't resist marching up to him and pinching him in the side. "You're the one who lost your temper at your wife and unborn child last night! Why are you acting like you're in the right, huh? I'll have you know that your actions count as domestic violence!"

Snorting, Lucian replied, "I don't have time for your bullshit."

He went into the bathroom to wash up, and after 15 minutes, the two of them left the house together.

Sitting in the front passenger seat of the Porsche, the stone-faced Giselle instructed, "Before heading to the office, take me to the mall first. I need to buy a phone."

Without saying anything, Lucian drove Giselle to the mall. She went down to get her phone, but he stayed in the car and waited in silence.

Half an hour later, she got back in with two identical paper bags. As she booted up a new phone, she said, "Start driving to the office."

"You bought two phones?" Lucian asked.

"That's right. Since you refuse to apologize, I'm giving Eddie a new phone to make it up to him. It's just a thousand dollars. Don't tell me you're going to get jealous over something like that," Giselle declared in a righteous tone as she eyed Lucian with a frown.

He simply stared at her for a few seconds before chuckling softly. "Do whatever you want."

After last night, he'd come to realize a lot of things. Be it people or relationships, he would do his best to hold onto what he could. But if something was meant to flow through his fingers like sand, he would let it go.

"Well, then… you're not allowed to throw my phone anymore—and Eddie's too!"

Giselle eyed Lucian suspiciously. There was something about him that seemed a little different today, but she couldn't put into words what the change was.

"Alright." Lucian nodded.

Giselle exhaled in relief. Regardless of what the change was, at least he wasn't picking on Edward anymore, so it was a good thing.

Smiling, she said, "Oh, stop pouting. You should cheer up! It's only a week before we have our pre-wedding photoshoot. For the next few days, we need to be in a good mood and get as much rest as we can, so that we'll look our best that day. It's a once-in-a-lifetime occasion!"

"I know," Lucian replied.

"Hmph. It sounds like you're just brushing me off!" Giselle snapped in dissatisfaction.

Lucian said nothing as he continued to drive them to the office.

Heathleaf Tower, the headquarters of Heathleaf Corporation, was located on Redwood Street in Southspire. Even though the company was valued at over a billion dollars, the office building only had 16 floors.

Lucian's office was on the 12th floor, while Giselle's office was on the top floor.

When the elevator doors opened on the 12th floor, Lucian moved to step out when Giselle complained, "You haven't kissed me, darling!"

Everyone else who saw this scene pretended not to notice. Almost everyone in the office knew that Lucian was set to become the chairman's son-in-law. He and Giselle often showed their affection in public, so the employees were used to it.

Giselle beamed when Lucian turned back around, but he simply smoothed her hair, saying, "Your hair got a little messy here."

After saying that, he walked off. Standing in the elevator, Giselle huffed, feeling somewhat miffed.

Lucian went to his office and threw himself into work. His main task for the day was reviewing the work done by the employees in the sales department and approving the reports they submitted to him. Before he knew it, over an hour had passed, and he'd basically wrapped up the work he had on hand.

Sitting in his chair, he pulled out his phone. After opening his chat with Giselle, he stared blankly at it.

…

Upstairs, Giselle was also lost in thought. She took out her new phone to give Lucian a call, but she'd only just pressed the call button before quickly terminating it.

"If either one of us is going to call the other, you should be the one doing it! You're the one who hurt me, you violent monster! I'm pregnant with your baby, and yet you smashed my phone! Hmph!"

Giselle frowned, getting angrier the more she thought about the situation. She didn't want to just put up with his attitude. It would only end up giving her an aneurysm.

Just then, Lacey Hines, Giselle's assistant, knocked on the door and came in, saying softly, "Ms. Lambert, Mr. Cobb is here to see you. He's in the elevator on his way up now."

Giselle stood up immediately, looking rather surprised. "Eddie is here? He can't move around easily. Why did he come over by himself?"

She rushed out of her office to meet Edward at the elevator herself.

Normally, visitors had to make an appointment to see Giselle. But Edward had obviously come by the office many times before. Lacey knew Giselle would never turn him away, so she told the receptionist at the lobby to let him come up.

Soon, the elevator doors opened.

As soon as Giselle saw the wheelchair-bound Edward, she said, "Why didn't you tell me you were coming, Eddie?"

She walked into the elevator and wheeled him out.

"It's okay," Edward said with a light chuckle. "I was feeling bored, so I decided to come and see you."

As she wheeled him into her office, she asked in concern, "Shouldn't you be in the hospital? Why have you been discharged?"

"I'm fine," Edward declared with a wave of his hand. "I asked the doctor, and he said I'm perfectly alright. I just have to avoid drinking any more alcohol."

After exhaling in relief, Giselle took out the bag containing the new phone from her desk and said with a smile, "This is for you, Eddie."

Edward checked the bag before exclaiming in surprise, "It's the newly released model, right? Thanks, Giselle!"

"You don't need to thank me," Giselle said. "And you shouldn't be so rash next time, Eddie. You know you can't drink any alcohol, yet you drank an entire glass of hard liquor! Were you trying to get yourself killed?"

"It's not a big deal," Edward said with an awkward chuckle. "I wasn't really thinking straight at the time. Just the thought of Lucian getting into an argument with you over something so trivial with you made me feel awful. And you're pregnant, so… I don't know what got into me then. I just somehow ended up drinking it."

Hearing this, Giselle felt even angrier at Lucian.

"You're absolutely right. Even you remember that I'm pregnant, but he had the nerve to do those things anyway… It's obvious he doesn't care about me!" she ranted angrily.

Edward hurriedly tried to appease her. "It's normal for couples to fight, Giselle. You shouldn't upset Lucian anymore! After all, you need someone to take care of you right now. What if—"

"As if he'd dare!" Giselle huffed.

Stroking her belly, she declared with a smug smile, "Don't be fooled by that nasty temper of his, Eddie. He cares about both the baby and me more than anyone else in the world!"

She figured that even if they got into a fight, it would blow over in a couple of days.