Chapter 87: Meeting Lucia for the first time
She wasn’t surprised that Arthur would have a family photo and a photo of himself on the table, but she was surprised by a photo of a small child and a photo of Arthur with a woman.
Last night in the box although Poppy showed himself Lucia’s scandalous photos, but the lighting was dim, plus that was a sneak peek, naturally could not see the features clearly, so Juliana has no impression of Lucia’s face yet, even so, she can guess that the woman in the photo is Lucia.
Little did she know that Lucia was really so important to Arthur, and from placing the photo on her desk alongside her closest family and friends, Juliana understood the status of Lucia in Arthur’s heart and was worried about it.
However, her attention was mostly focused on the photo of the little boy, for some reason, she always felt that this little boy looked familiar, in fact, it is not surprising that she could not recognize it, the photo of Theodore and Arthur when he was young is extremely similar, but after all, he is four years old, and Juliana is about ten years old before she went to the Davies family foster home, so There is still some uncertainty.
“Is this a picture of you?” Juliana asked speculatively, “You’re such a narcissist, and you’re posing a picture of yourself as a child.”
“This is not my picture,” Arthur’s face with a happy full smile, thinking that since Juliana wants to surprise himself, then he also give her a good, so smiling for her face full of doubts announced the answer: “This is my son Theodore. ”
Juliana froze instantly.
What did she just hear?
Arthur said … this is his son?!
Juliana’s dumbfounded look gave Arthur great pleasure, and he proudly said again, “It’s my son.”
“You have a son?!” Juliana’s pitch was raised at least eight hundred degrees.Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.
“Well, it’s me and Lucia’s baby,” Arthur proudly introduced, then held up a photo of himself with Lucia and handed it to Juliana to see: “This is the woman I love most, Lucia.”
Juliana received the photo in a daze, the speed of her brain could not keep up with the rhythm anymore, etc. etc. etc. …!
Arthur said he had a son, and he had a son with Lucia? So what was the point of what Poppy told herself last night?
Juliana’s mind was racing, and Arthur thought she was overly surprised, so he pulled his friend back to the couch and sat down with him, laughing and explaining to her the story of his relationship with Lucia, but he was interrupted by Juliana just as he was talking about Theodore’s life.
“You’re saying that you and Lucia had a baby five years ago by mistake from a one-night stand?” Juliana was shocked, Arthur’s account of the time matched Poppy’s description, but wasn’t Lucia’s lover the one she was dating at the time?
The fact is that even Poppy doesn’t know about it yet.
But now, Juliana can at least be sure that Lucia was indeed in the hotel at that time, and also confused and had sex with someone, not Juliana more to speculate
What, at the time Lucia being a married woman, such a line did seem very casual.
“Well, I was also surprised at the time, so I took a paternity test with Theodore, and he is indeed my son.” Although Arthur felt that Juliana spoke in a somewhat strange tone, but also thought that she was just too surprised, so he said with certainty.
“And then you met again five years later and fell in love?” Juliana thought this was a strange coincidence, and from Juliana’s point of view, she felt that Lucia had deliberately come back to meet Arthur.
Looking at the happiness spilling out of Arthur’s eyes, Juliana’s heart sank another point.
“So you were in a weird mood at Christmas because of Lucia?” Juliana asked him about what happened at Christmas instead of being more happy for Arthur and worried.
There are some details that Juliana needs to take her time to confirm.
“Well, I was going to bring her and Theodore home at Christmas to introduce them to you guys, but something came up in the middle, so … you don’t blame me for hiding it, I really don’t want to let my negativity affect your mood for the holidays.” Arthur said apologetically.
“Well, I understand.” Juliana replied dryly, but in her heart she was sarcastic about Lucia’s character. As Arthur’s best friend, she was heartbroken by his decadence and silence during that period of time, Lucia had clearly promised Arthur, why did she make him so upset by missing the appointment in the end?
Putting herself in Arthur’s shoes, Juliana no longer has a good feeling about Lucia.
“Right, it’s almost noon now, let’s go find Luciatogether.” Arthur proposed with some excitement, Juliana was straightforward and bright, and Lucia was resoundingly strong, he believed that the two of them would become good friends soon.
Juliana raised her eyebrows, doubtful, but in order to take care of Arthur’s emotions, she quickly nodded and pretended to know nothing about it, and went with him to pick up Lucia from Jibillion Inc.
Arthur took Juliana into Jibillion Inc to look for Lucia. Arthur and Lucia’s relationship had been well known for a long time, so the receptionist let them go without a word.
Just as they exit the elevator, Arthur and Juliana hear a chorus of angry rebuke when they see anyone.
“How dare you slyly argue now! I’m telling you! Your behavior has brought extremely bad influence to the company, and there is no mercy to be shown!”
Arthur and Juliana turned their heads together to see Lucia standing right in front of her office snapping at a middle-aged employee, and not taking a word of it personally.
“Manager, please give me another chance, I have an old man …,” the employee begged Lucia with a bitter face.
“Who doesn’t have an old man and a young man now! Do you think this reason can make you stay? If it weren’t for the fact that you’re an old employee of the company, I wouldn’t have let you go so easily, now pack your things and get out!”
Lucia is rarely angry with people to this extent, but today she is really angry.
The employee, seeing that there was no longer love to talk about, could only cower and retreat, the whole person looked disheveled, passing by Arthur and Juliana, and cast a look of aggrieved bala over, Arthur expressionless, while Juliana felt pity for this employee.
Lucia watched the employees leave and naturally saw Arthur and Juliana, and immediately recognized who was standing next to him.
“Arthur, why are you up here.” Although she had a bad day at work, Lucia’s anger quickly subsided when she saw the man she loved, replacing it with a sweet smile and a pair of starry eyes that glowed, who told her that she wanted to smile when she saw Arthur.