CHAPTER 49 SHARING A SECRET
"Familiar?" Yvonne was taken aback.
Dominic smiled sadly, "Yes, you bear some resemblance to someone I used to know in the past. If that person hadn’t passed away, I would have really mistaken you for her daughter..."
He was surprised as soon as he came in just now.
This girl really bore an uncanny resemblance to Nancy.
Her eyes were exactly like hers.
"Umm... who is that person, Mr. Conrad?" Yvonne blinked curiously and asked.
Henry pressed his thin lips while staring intently at Dominic in silence, obviously curious to know the answer too.
Dominic just shrugged it off, "The person passed away more than twenty years ago. There's no point in bringing up the past again."
"I see," Yvonne was understanding enough to drop the subject when she saw the pain hidden in the man’s eyes. She had a hunch that the person was probably his former lover or one of his closest relatives.
"It’s getting late." Dominic looked at his watch, then slapped his thighs and stood up. "Well, I should get going now, Henry.”
"Sure," Henry responded coldly.
Seeing that Henry had no intention of getting up and seeing him off, Dominic sighed inwardly.
It seemed like things were really over between Henry and Jackie.
Otherwise, Henry wouldn't be giving him such a cold attitude.
Back in the day, Henry was extremely respectful to his potential father-in-law. Now, Dominic couldn't even feel an ounce of warmth from Henry whenever he called him 'Mr. Conrad’.
At the thought of this, Dominic couldn't help but blame his daughter, despite his love for her.
After the man left, Yvonne looked at Henry. "Is Miss Conrad awake, Henry?”
"Not yet. But she will tonight," Henry replied faintly.
Yvonne hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then will you be staying with her tonight?"
Henry was going to answer the question with a yes, but couldn't bring himself to say it when he suddenly saw the lights in her eyes dimming.
He only managed to reply two seconds later," Depends."
Yet he didn't realize that was no different from an affirmative answer to Yvonne.
Yvonne acknowledged his response faintly then stopped taking, seemingly in a bad mood.
Henry didn't know what she was upset about but didn't ask. Instead, he directly changed the topic," Grandpa called you yesterday."
"Grandpa?" Yvonne looked at him, "Why is Grandpa looking for me?"
"It's nothing important, he just asked why you haven't gone back for dinner."
It was then that Yvonne finally remembered about her promise to have dinner with the old man before she went to the Taylor Group yesterday.
"Then what did you tell him?" She grabbed his arm.
Henry lowered his eyes gaze. Some emotions flashed across his eyes, but he allowed Yvonne to hold on to him instead of retracting his arm. "I just said that your gastric problem is acting up again and you were admitted to the hospital."
"That's good then," Yvonne breathed a sigh of relief.
She was worried that Henry would just find a poor excuse for the sake of answering the old man.
Given Henry's cold and impatient attitude, it seemed just like something he would do.
"Grandpa also mentioned that he would come visit you later," Henry made another shocking revelation to her.
Yvonne flew into a panic. "But how can I meet Grandpa in this state?”
She didn't actually have a gastric problem.
People with gastric problems wouldn’t be immobilized on the bed like this.
Master Lancaster was the person who established the Lancaster family from the ground up. Even if he was old now, he wasn't easy to fool. He could definitely tell that something was off if he came to visit.
"Henry, can't you stop him from coming?” Yvonne had a troubled look on her face.
Henry just looked at her very calmly. "If I'm going to stop Grandpa from coming, then we're going to look even more suspicious. That's why you can only rely on your acting skills now and prevent him from finding out that you had surgery.” 1
"But I'm bad at acting!” Yvonne almost cried.
"If you don't have acting skills, then can't you at least pretend to be asleep?" Henry gave her the side-eye.
Yvonne looked as though she had been enlightened.
That was right! She could just pretend to be asleep!
With this plan in mind, she quickly calmed down. Not only that, but she also even felt gleeful about it.
After all, they were going to fool Grandpa together.
Although Yvonne felt bad for doing that, she was still
thrilled.
It felt like they were sharing a secret now and she actually looked forward to the old man's arrival.
Yvonne pulled her blanket up and couldn’t hold back her giggles.
Henry raised his eyebrow at her, "What are you giggling about?"
"N-Nothing. Just thought of something funny," Yvonne smiled at him.
Henry wasn't interested in knowing what she was thinking. When the phone in his pocket rang, he took i t out and answered the call.
Two minutes later, he put away his phone and stood u P-
Yvonne looked at him, "You’re leaving?"
"Yeah, back to the company. Elliot Taylor is there," Henry replied to her patiently, i
Yvonne smiled, "Go then and drive safely."
"Will do," Henry smoothed out the wrinkles on his suit then reminded her again, "If anything comes up, you can just call me. I'll come over once I'm done discussing the collaboration.”
"Alright," Yvonne's eyes crinkled.
Henry took another look at her before he turned around and left.
To be honest, he didn't know why he’d told her about his plan in coming over again.
However, the way she smiled made him think that it wasn’t a bad thing to say that.
Not long after Henry left the hospital, the old man came.
Yvonne closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, just as planned.
Sure enough, the old man didn't stay too long when he saw that Yvonne was asleep. Before leaving, he even reminded Sue to take good care of her.
Sue really wanted to tell the truth behind Yvonne's hospitalization but she ultimately suppressed the urge of doing that when she remembered Henry's warning.
"Sue, is Grandpa gone?" Yvonne peeked from under her blanket when the room became quiet again.
Sue gave her a funny look. "Don’t worry, madam. Master Lancaster has left already."
"Great!" Yvonne exhaled softly. "I thought I was gonna suffocate."
"Hehe, you’re the one who deliberately covered your face for fear that your poor acting skills wouldn't be able to convince master that you're asleep."
"I can't help it. If I hadn't done that, Grandpa would definitely tell at a glance that I was only pretending." This is property © .
Yvonne pushed her hair out of her face and sighed in resignation.
"But madam, that’s not going to work in the long run. Master will definitely find out about this sooner or later," Sue was a little concerned. "What will you and sir do then?"
Yvonne fell silent for a moment. "I'll see what Henry plans on doing since he is the one who didn’t want Grandpa to know. We'll figure out something when the time comes.”
"Of course sir wants to keep it a secret. After all, master despises the Conrad family the most. If he finds out that sir made you donate your bone marrow for that Conrad woman, I wouldn't be surprised that he'd whip sir for real," Sue curled her lip.
Yvonne widened her eyes, "Really? He'd whip him?"
"Of course. Master beat sir up three years ago.”
"My goodness!" Yvonne covered her mouth.
To think that Henry actually got whipped by the old man for real.
"Alright, let’s not talk about it anymore. I'm sure you're already starving, madam." Sue was worried that if she kept talking, she might accidentally have a slip of tongue. Hence, she quickly changed the subject and took out a container of hot mashed potatoes.
"I have checked with Dr. Summers earlier, he said that you are allowed to eat some simple and bland food.
After your anesthesia wears off completely, you can start eating some nutritious food. By then, I'll make you some healthy stew every day so that you can recover faster."
"Alright, thank you, Sue." Yvonne was a little touched.
After eating the mashed potatoes, Yvonne felt as though she had regained some of her strength back. Since her body didn't hurt as much anymore, her mood improved greatly. "By the way, did my mom find me?"