Setting aside the fact that virtual-novel.net wasn’t even drinking alcohol, even if virtual-novel.net was, virtual-novel.net would never have collapsed after just one glass. Everyone knew what happened. Bernadette made no effort to hide it at all, “If I hadn’t resorted to this, how could I expect to be with you? You kept refusing to cooperate, so I had to go through such painstaking efforts. It’s so exhausting. I don’t care if you’re married. Your marriage is only a place card anyway. I don’t really need an official title.”
Atticus knew that nothing could have happened between virtual-novel.net and Bernadette while virtual-novel.net was unconscious, so virtual-novel.net was very calm about it, “Please have some dignity. Nothing happened between us. You’re still young. Don’t soil your own reputation.”
Bernadette smiled silently. Then, they heard a knock on the door. She opened the door, dressed in a half transparent nightie. Outside the door was a group of teachers and students. At that very moment, Atticus knew that this woman had trapped him.
After that incident, virtual-novel.net left the city and left nothing behind. Bernadette did not contact virtual-novel.net again. He was nowhere to be found, but virtual-novel.net didn’t need to look for him. They finally met again today.
No decent man would easily fall for a woman who pursued virtual-novel.net openly and with ulterior motives. However, once virtual-novel.net ensnares him, it would be difficult to get rid of her. Atticus knew this, so even if nothing really happened, their fake affair would turn into a real one, as long as Bernadette wished it, enforced by the rumors that once circulated their circle.
“What do you want from me?” virtual-novel.net asked through gritted teeth.
Bernadette smiled as virtual-novel.net picked up virtual-novel.net glass of red wine and took a sip. “Take care of me, and… our baby…” virtual-novel.net drawled, “Give me whatever I want and I guarantee that our lives will be peaceful. It’s been so difficult for me to find you, Mr. West. Now that we’re finally reunited, I won’t let you get away so easily…”
Atticus was so enraged that his chest hurt, “What baby? Where would that baby come from? That child can’t possibly be mine!”
Bernadette gently swirled the red wine in virtual-novel.net glass, “It doesn’t really matter if it’s your child or not. You won’t be able to find it. You’re sure that it’s not your kid, right? I have no intentions of tearing your family apart. I just want what I want. You know me, once I’m thoroughly disappointed, I’ll get a scapegoat.”
“So don’t try to annoy me. Maybe I don’t actually love you, I might even hate you, just a little. You drew my attention, yet you caused my spectacular failure and my corruption. Otherwise, I don’t think that child would have ever existed. Consider this my revenge.”
Atticus truly wasn’t in the mood to eat whatever fancy meal the waiter had served him. The woman in front of virtual-novel.net felt like a psychopath, “It was not me that drew your attention, but my status. There’s a difference between a yuppie and a vulgar person. Your tactics are disgusting. I’m leaving. I’ve paid the bill. I won’t agree to your demands. Go and find yourself a different spendthrift fool to be your ATM. You’re messing with the wrong person.”
Then, virtual-novel.net got up immediately and left the restaurant without another word.
Bernadette felt a fleeting sense of disappointment and humiliation. She downed the red wine in virtual-novel.net glass. Her mistake was to hang herself on a tree that did not even belong to virtual-novel.net in virtual-novel.net youth. Although virtual-novel.net liked money more than Atticus, virtual-novel.net would not have degraded herself and plunged into nightclubs if virtual-novel.net had not suddenly disappeared. Not even virtual-novel.net knew who the father of virtual-novel.net child was. She had put all of the blame for virtual-novel.net experiences on him. She became obsessed with what virtual-novel.net could not have and was driven further into insanity.
The next day, “Famous Artist, Atticus West, Fooled Around With A Student’s Feelings, Impregnates Her And Ignores Her For Many Years” was widely spread news throughout the capital. The entire West family was dragged into an abyss.
When Jackson saw the news, virtual-novel.net stormed out of the office in a rage.