CHAPTER 260 JACQUELINE RETURNS

"Are you sure this will make it better?" asked Yvonne curiously.

Henry nodded his head.

Seeing that he was so confident, Yvonne could only follow as he opened up the boxes one by one. She then wore the accessories and shoes in front of him.

When she was done, she took a deep breath and looked at Henry. Just as she was about to ask him how she looked, he squinted his eyes and grabbed her wrist to pull her into his arms.

Yvonne was startled and reacted to what happened after a while. She then pushed him away and asked," What's with you?"

Henry did not reply-he only lowered his head onto her neck.

His action surprised Yvonne so much that she froze. Her arms were on him to avoid him from hugging her any tighter and suffocating her.

"What’s wrong with you Henry? Why are you quiet?" asked Yvonne again.

Henry nibbled on her neck and said, "I'm alright, just attracted to you."

What?

Yvonne was so stunned she started to feel faint and couldn't even react to her neck being nibbled by him." Attracted to me?"

"That’s right." Henry raised his head and pushed the hair on her face behind her ear. "I just realized how beautiful you are."

Ba-dump. Ba-dump.

Yvonne pressed on her chest. Her heart was beating s o fast it might jump out.

H-how... was he seducing her?

"What’s wrong?" whispered Henry as he looked at the stunned Yvonne.

A light flashed through Yvonne’s eyes as she contained her excitement. "N-nothing."

"Really? But I do have a problem!" Henry raised her chin.

Yvonne swallowed her saliva and said, "W-what is it?”

“I want you!" said Henry directly.

Yvonne's eyes opened wide. "Y-you..."

"What about me?” Henry curved his lips upwards.

"This is an office!"

"I know, but no one is allowed to disturb me without m y consent.”

Henry immediately carried her and pushed her to the bed, then he laid on top of her...

Three days later, at the gala.

Yvonne was neatly dressed and held onto Henry’s arm as she got out of the car.

She stood at the entrance to the hotel and looked up to see the hotel's signboard. Her heart suddenly sank.

Henry turned his head and looked at her. "What's wrong? Why are you not moving?"

"Henry, I feel nervous all of a sudden," said Yvonne as she held onto her chest.

Henry chuckled, "There's no need to be nervous - all you have to do is smile.”

"But I don't just feel nervous, I feel uneasy as well." Yvonne frowned.

Henry's smile waned. "Uneasy?"

Yvonne nodded.

Henry patted her head and said, "You're thinking too much. It'll be fine. Let's go."

"You're probably right." Yvonne forced a smile and went into the ballroom with him.

This was her first time attending such a grand event, and it was also her first time going out with Henry as well. Yvonne felt both nervous and excited at the same time.

To her, this was not just any event. It was an event that she was publicly attending together with Henry a s husband and wife.

"Come, let me introduce you to some people.” Henry raised his chin to point in a direction.

Yvonne looked over and saw a few familiar faces, faces that had attended their wedding previously.

"Let's go." Yvonne nodded in acknowledgment.

The people they were about to meet were rather kind. Initially, Yvonne was very careful when she was talking to them, but that changed after a while.

After greeting them, the gala organizer had called out t o Henry for some business matters.

Yvonne did not ask much and held onto a glass of red wine as she walked around the gala before sitting down at the side.

Yvonne did not pay attention to the people who were seated as well, assuming that they were guests of the gala.

Suddenly a voice came to greet her, "It's been a long time, Yvonne."

That voice...

Yvonne was startled for a moment before turning over to confirm who it was. She froze when she saw a familiar face and said, "Jacqueline?"

Jacqueline chuckled. "You seem to have seen a ghost.

I thought you would be happy to see me!"

Yvonne tightly held onto her wine glass and did not say a word.

Happy?

Impossible!

She’d be happy to see anyone else, anyone other than Jacqueline and Dominic Conrad. She would never forget what the two of them had taken away from her.

As she thought of this, hatred flashed through her eyes.

Her eyes sent Jacqueline into shock, but she immediately got around it. As she thought of the reason for her hatred, Jacqueline felt elated, but she still managed to put on a sad look on the outside. "I-I... I deliberately came to meet you. But you don’t seem to welcome me."

"Why are you here?" asked Yvonne coldly, ignoring Jacqueline’s charade.

Jacqueline stroked her hair and let off a sinister smile. "What are you saying, Ms. Frey? Why can't I be here? You're here too."

"You're doing it on purpose, aren't you?" Yvonne pursed her lips. "You know that I'm asking why you're back in the country."

"Of course it’s because Henry asked me to." Jacqueline's eyes narrowed.

"That's impossible!" Yvonne stood up.

Jacqueline got up as well, but she was half a head shorter than Yvonne as she was wearing flats. Jacqueline could only wear flats as her toes were deformed when she learned how to dance a long time ago.

The height difference irritated Jacqueline, she did not feel as intimidating as she would’ve preferred.

She glared angrily at Yvonne and took two steps back t o increase the distance between them. She then raised her head slightly and provoked Yvonne by saying, "Of course it's possible. You’re already aware that Henry's the reason why I was sent out of the country. So how could I be back if he hadn't allowed i t?"

Yvonne gulped, not knowing how to answer.

Jacqueline was telling the truth-Henry had chased both Jacqueline and Dominic Conrad out of the country. So there was no way they could return without Henry's consent.

The problem for Yvonne was that Jacquline had not only returned to the country-she was also attending the gala. Was all this really done with Henry's consent?

She clearly remembered Henry saying that only Dominic was allowed back into the country so that he could be sent to prison. He did not mention anything about Jacqueline coming back either.

Seeing that Yvonne was getting nervous because of her provocation, Jacqueline felt happy and curved her lips upwards, and her eyes showed despise for Yvonne. "You really have not grown at all Yvonne. exclusive content.

You're still the same stupid woman. No wonder you got tricked with just one phone call.”

"What do you mean?" Yvonne's heart skipped a beat as she felt uneasy.

Jacqueline looked at her surroundings to confirm no one was nearby before speaking to Yvonne in a low and sinister voice, "Did you really think that it was my father who planned to kidnap you, forcefully take your bone marrow, and abort your child? Let me tell you, you’re wrong! It was me all along! I was the one who planned all this. My father had only executed it!"

"What did you say?" The color drained from Yvonne's face and her pupils contracted. "It was all your idea?"

"That’s right!" Jacqueline's lips curved into an evil smile. "It was me all along."

"Why?" Yvonne held her wine glass so tightly she might have broken the glass.

"Why?" Jacqueline folded her arms and continued, "I told you before that Henry Lancaster is mine and you should let him go. However, you refused to heed my warning and even bore his child. Hence I planned to get back at you in the worst way possible."

"Y-you..." Yvonne could not contain her anger after all the cruel things she had just heard from this evil woman that she raised her hand and slapped her.