Free Web NovelChapter 136: Chapter 132: Miss Thorne Is Crossing the Road
The next morning, Georgia Thorne arrived at the company. She put her things on her desk, then went into Nicole Kane’s office.
"Manager, I’ve made up my mind. I’m willing to go to the training in Akashima!"
"You’re willing? You know it’s for over half a year, right?"
Georgia Thorne nodded firmly. "I’m willing to go!"
"Okay! I’ll submit your name, then!"
"Great!"
’Going to Akashima to see the world and broaden my horizons isn’t a bad idea.’
In the afternoon, Georgia Thorne made an excuse about meeting a client and went to Finn Sutton’s company.
On the way, she got a call from Nicole Kane, who said her name had been submitted and the training would start in a month.
Georgia Thorne agreed without hesitation and hung up, her heart incredibly heavy.
Finn Sutton’s company wasn’t small. Business had been pretty good in recent years, and his enterprise was gradually expanding.
She walked up to the front desk. "Excuse me, please inform your CEO that I’d like to see him."
"I’m sorry, miss, do you have an appointment?"
"No. Please tell your CEO that my name is Georgia Thorne, and I’m his wife’s sister."
The CEO’s wife’s sister. Seeing how composed Georgia Thorne looked, the receptionist didn’t think she was lying.
She hurriedly made a call and said a few words.
Then, she asked Georgia Thorne to wait in the lounge, saying he would be down in a moment.
Georgia Thorne went into the lounge. After she had been sitting for a few minutes, Finn Sutton came down.
"Your sister didn’t come?" Finn Sutton was a little disappointed to see Georgia Thorne by herself.
Georgia Thorne sneered. "Do you even have the nerve to see my sister right now?"
"That’s not it. I didn’t mean to get physical. I just wanted her to calm down. Jenny is pregnant with my child, and if she got hurt..."
The "Jenny" Finn Sutton mentioned was the third party who had come between them.
Georgia Thorne’s delicate brows knitted together, her expression suddenly turning harsh. Her voice rose. "So, for the sake of a homewrecker, you can just shove your own wife to the ground?!"
"It wasn’t on purpose! I didn’t expect Lynn to be so fragile!" Finn Sutton said guiltily. "I’ve let her down!"
The two words "I’m sorry" were always the most hurtful.
After deeply hurting someone, trying to make amends with those simple two words was impossible.
Even if the pain faded, the scar on one’s heart remained, as did the unresolved issues.
’Just like with Elliot Sheridan. He doesn’t trust me. That issue has always been at the bottom of his heart.’
’So... why am I thinking about him again?!’
Her head was throbbing. Recalling the real reason she had come today, she said, "My sister said she’ll agree to the divorce, but she must get custody of Leah!"
"No way. Leah is my son," Finn Sutton said anxiously.
"And isn’t Leah my sister’s son?!" Georgia Thorne suddenly found it laughable. She straightened her posture. "If you want a divorce to make things official with that homewrecker, you have to give my sister custody of Leah. Only then will she sign the papers. If you want Leah, then you can forget about the divorce! The choice is yours!"
Georgia Thorne gripped her purse strap and left without a backward glance.
Finn Sutton stood rooted to the spot, his face pale. He wanted Leah, but he also wanted the child in Jenny’s belly.
A light drizzle had been falling on her way there. When she went outside now, the rain had grown heavy.
Georgia Thorne opened her umbrella and walked toward the bus stop.
On the way, Lynn Thorne called to ask how it went.
Georgia told Lynn there was no problem, and that everything now depended on Finn Sutton’s choice.
Looking down, she saw the tops of her shoes were already splattered with muddy water. ’As expected, there are no good men in this world!’
The bus was taking forever to arrive.
Gazing at the blurry curtain of rain, Georgia Thorne, who was familiar with the area, decided to take a walk to clear her head.
Because of the rain, the cars on the road were moving slowly. A black Lexus stopped at the intersection.
The car was dead silent. Elliot Sheridan sat in the back seat, his face dark and gloomy.
Owen Sawyer didn’t know what had happened. Two days ago, his boss had gone to Joanne Donovan’s birthday party, and he’d been morose ever since.
This gloomy aura radiating from him was just like the last time he and Miss Thorne had broken up.
The red light at this intersection was long. Owen Sawyer looked at the crosswalk ahead, his eyes taking in the colorful array of umbrellas.
Owen Sawyer’s eyes suddenly widened. The half-visible face under that red umbrella belonged to Georgia Thorne.
"Sir, Miss Thorne is crossing the street. Should we offer her a ride?" Owen Sawyer suggested kindly.
Although he didn’t know why Elliot Sheridan was angry, he knew Georgia Thorne was someone incredibly special to him.
’The boss’s mood should improve a lot after seeing Miss Thorne.’
Owen Sawyer glanced at Elliot Sheridan in the rearview mirror. The man’s dark eyes were fixed on him, the anger in them flaring even brighter, as if to say, ’Mind your own business!’
Owen Sawyer didn’t know what had happened at the resort, and certainly didn’t know he had just stepped on Elliot Sheridan’s landmine. That one dark look made the hair on his arms stand on end.
’What’s going on?’
’Did the boss and Miss Thorne have another fight?’
"Drive!" As soon as the light turned green, Elliot Sheridan spoke, his voice hoarse.
Owen Sawyer scrambled to start the car.
Elliot Sheridan’s dark eyes looked across the road, but Georgia Thorne’s figure had already vanished into the sea of umbrellas, impossible to find.
When Georgia Thorne got back to her apartment, she found Lynn Thorne doing chores. "Sis, you don’t have to do that! I can do it!"
"You’re soaked! Go take a shower before you catch a cold!" Lynn Thorne pushed her straight into the bathroom.
Georgia Thorne took a hot shower and felt much warmer.
When she came out, Lynn Thorne had already finished cleaning the apartment. "I’m a housewife, I’m used to this stuff. And I can’t just live here for free without helping out."
The next day, while Georgia Thorne was still dreaming, Lynn Thorne was already awake.
"Sorry, did I wake you?"
"No, it’s about time for me to get up anyway."
Georgia Thorne rolled over and picked up her phone. Her alarm was still half an hour away.
She slapped her cheeks, got up, and went into the bathroom. When she came out again, Lynn Thorne had already prepared breakfast.
Lynn Thorne had changed into a clean set of clothes. "Georgia, Finn just called. He wants to take me out to dinner tonight. I’m a little nervous. Can you come with me?"
"Of course!" Georgia Thorne answered without a second thought.
Lynn Thorne gave her the address. Georgia Thorne jotted it down on a piece of paper and put it in her bag. "Okay, I’ll head straight there after work. We can meet at the entrance."
"Okay," Lynn Thorne nodded.
She was naturally scared. There were only two reasons Finn Sutton would want to see her: one was to reconcile, the other was to divorce.
Lynn Thorne sincerely hoped it was the former.
That morning, Georgia Thorne successfully closed three accounts in one go. The process was incredibly smooth; she didn’t run into any difficult clients. Her luck was good.
She had just sat down back at the office when Lynn Thorne called. She said she had already signed the divorce papers with Finn Sutton, so there was no need to go tonight.
’What happened? How could things change so quickly?’
Georgia Thorne felt uneasy. She agonized in her office all afternoon, and the moment work ended, she rushed to catch a bus.
By the time she got back to the apartment, it was already dark.
Georgia Thorne pushed the door open but didn’t see Lynn Thorne. She called her, and the phone rang several times before it was slowly answered.
Hearing Lynn Thorne’s drunken voice on the other end, tinged with the faint sound of crying, Georgia Thorne soothed her until she gave up her location.
Lynn Thorne was in a private room at a bar, very drunk. She was currently slumped over the sofa, crying softly.
Georgia Thorne thanked the manager who showed her in, then looked at the opened bottles on the table. There were already about ten empty ones.
"Sis, wake up! It’s me, Georgia!" Georgia Thorne had just sat down when Lynn Thorne shoved her away.
She was dead drunk, unable to recognize anyone.
Her long black hair was disheveled across her face like a madwoman’s. She was crying softly, repeatedly calling her son’s name.
She was also cursing her husband, Finn Sutton, calling him a heartless bastard. freewebnoveℓ.com
’Men... they’re all like that.’
’When they like you, they can’t wait to hold you in the palm of their hand. When they don’t, they cast you aside like a worn-out shoe, even trying to take away your only source of emotional support.’
"Sis, it’s getting late. We should go home."
She sat down next to Lynn Thorne, about to grab her hand and pull her up.
Georgia Thorne wasn’t strong enough and couldn’t move her. The moment she tried to shift her, Lynn Thorne grabbed onto her and started wailing.
"How could I have married such a heartless man! We’ve been married for a full ten years, and now he’s abandoning me for some other woman!" Lynn Thorne’s heart was filled with grievance, and all she wanted to do was pour it all out.
Georgia Thorne held her, not knowing what to say to comfort her, and let out a soft sigh.
’In truth, she wasn’t much better off herself.’
’Thinking of the image of Elliot Sheridan with Nathan Rhodes made her heart ache with sharp pangs, and her eyes began to burn.’ "Sis, sometimes we don’t have to rely on men. We can rely on ourselves!"
Lynn Thorne looked at her with teary eyes and started crying again with a whimper.
Georgia Thorne felt miserable too. She picked up a nearby bottle. "Sis, I’ll drink with you. But after tomorrow, neither of us is allowed to cry anymore!"
’At the very least, these tears shouldn’t be shed for people who don’t deserve them.’
Georgia Thorne didn’t remember when she started crying, but by the time she realized it, her face was already wet with tears.
She drank a lot. At first, she was drinking with Lynn Thorne, but later, after Lynn fell asleep, she was left drinking alone in sorrow.
The more she drank, the worse her mood became, with Amanda Thorne’s words repeating over and over in her mind.
Before they knew it, the two sisters had been in the private room for over two hours.
Georgia Thorne’s phone was ringing, but after drinking, her reaction was sluggish.
She answered the call. Nancy Hughes’s voice came from the other end. "Georgia, where did you and your sister go? Are you not coming back tonight?"
Georgia Thorne’s mind was surprisingly clear. She looked at Lynn Thorne, who was fast asleep beside her. "No, we’re coming back!"
Nancy Hughes said "Oh," and reminded them to be careful on their way back.
After hanging up, Georgia Thorne nudged Lynn Thorne, who mumbled sleepily in response.
"Sis, I’m going to go pay the bill. Don’t wander off!"
Lynn Thorne grunted an "Mmm" and drifted back to sleep.
She stood up, her vision somewhat blurry. Shaking her head, she stumbled out of the room.
It had been a long time since she had drunk this much. She had finished almost all of what was left of the alcohol.
