Love Is a Sweet Addiction

After coming out of the lounge, Esther went straight back to the Gibson’s. By the time she was back, the elders had already gone to bed. Only Anne and James were appreciating the photos of the day in the living room on the first floor.

Seeing Esther, Anne curved her lips into an unfriendly smile. “Good evening.”

Esther replied with a smile, “Welcome to the Gibson family, sis.”

“Thank you.” Anne stood up from the sofa and walked towards her. After sizing Esther up and down, she asked, “By the way, you come alone? Where is Terence?”

“He is still at the hotel. I’m back first.” Esther looked at her and said calmly, “Anne, it’s your plan, right?”

“I don’t understand what you are saying.” Anne pretended to be stupid and shrugged.

“It’s fine. But Terence can see through it.” Esther said, “You can treat me as a fool and play tricks on me. But not Terence. He is smart and he won’t let this matter go so easily.”

“What is it?” James stood up from the sofa and walked over, sizing up them with a suspicious look.

Anne looked upon other family members because she thought she was pregnant and would be the head of this family, but she was still a little afraid of Terence.

She hurriedly said, “James, don’t listen to her nonsense. It has nothing to do with me. It was the Lila. She wanted to flirt with Terence and secretly put a drug into his wine. She was the one Terence would blame if he wouldn’t let this go.”

Esther didn’t want to figure out who put the drug. Anyway, as the victim, Terence would naturally investigate it.

As for Esther… She just helped him and was forced on the bed by him.

But it seemed it was worth it. After all, Terence was good in bed.

Oh, no! How could she come up with such an excuse to comfort herself! It was awkward!

“Then what happened to Terence?” James asked.

“Seems like Lila’s plan has failed.” Anne gritted her teeth and said with reluctance, “It was all for nothing. In the end, Esther benefited from it.”

James’s eyes darkened and he unconsciously looked at Esther. He had completely understood what had happened when seeing her flushed face.

Lila’s plan of secretly drugging Terence failed, so Esther had become Terence’s antidote and Lila got nothing from it.

He started to picture how Terence and Esther making love on the bed, and then he found the scene driving him crazy.

…

On the second day of James and Anne’s wedding, Anne followed the custom and served tea to the elders. After that, Lauren informed everyone to have a family meeting on the first floor through the private line.

Because of the matter about wedding dress, Esther deliberately missed the breakfast. She stayed in her bedroom with the excuse of having a headache of overdrinking last night.

She thought the meeting must be related to the wedding dress accident.

How much did they figure out? How would they treat him? Also … had Terence returned from the hotel? After being tortured by the drug last night, was he okay now?

Forget it. Anyway, he didn’t believe her like everyone else. It was pointless for her even if he came back.

She came out after hesitating in the bedroom for a long time.

Unexpectedly, she saw Terence coming from the backyard just as she was out of the bedroom. She instinctively stopped and studied him.

He looked the same as usual, still handsome, charming, and energetic, showing no sign of discomfort at all. It seemed that he had recovered.Content is property © NôvelDrama.Org.

Terence was also looking at her. He raised his eyebrows and said, “Why aren’t you going down?”

“I was on this part, but then I saw you.” Esther glanced at him up and down and deliberately asked in a mocking tone, “Are you alright?”

She asked this question on purpose. She wanted him to know how careless he was.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Thanks to your hard efforts.”

How embarrassing it sounded. She didn’t pay hard efforts at all.

Oh, no, it seemed she did. But it was only out of sympathy! He looked very uncomfortable at that time.

“Be more quick-witted next time. I won’t help you with such a thing again.”

“But it seemed you were also helping yourself.” He took a step forward and pressed her against the door. He looked down at her with a joking gaze. “You were more enjoying it. Your shouts, remember?”

“I was hurt by you.” Esther retorted stubbornly. Anyway, she would never admit that he had indeed made her enjoy it last night. Otherwise, it would be so embarrassing. “Terence, don’t pretend to be good after getting the advantage!”

“Okay, I should say thanks” Terence smirked and raised his eyebrows at her. “But don’t think that I will go against my conscience and help you back just because of that. I have always been on the side of reason, understand?”

With that, he took a step back and released her. He grabbed her arm and pulled her downstairs.

What did he mean? He also thought that the family meeting was about the wedding dress?

Esther immediately saw the pink and purple wedding dress on the sofa when they arrived. She also found that the elders looked gloomy.

Apart from Terence’s younger sister who had been living abroad, everyone family member was present, including the unreliable Kilborn.

Esther secretly took a deep breath. After greeting everyone, she followed Terence to find a seat on the sofa. However, just as sat down, Gill faintly ordered her, “Esther, stand up and apologize to Anne first.”

Esther was stunned. She turned to look at Anne and asked, “Mom, why?”

From Lady Gibson’s words, she could know the result of the investigation. It must show that she deliberately made some changes to the wedding dress and framed Anne.

And if she apologized to Anne, it would mean she had done it and she would be the vicious woman everyone talked about.

“Everything is clear. Stop pretending to be innocent.” Amanda snorted and said.

Speaking of this, Anne cried again with wronged expression, and her tearful face made people feel distressed.