Chapter 36 - Secretly Taken Photos

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Explain? Explain what? Mia thought blankly.

Then Noah leaned closer to Mia.

Mia didn’t have any spare time to think about how to explain. Under Noah’s heavy pressure, Mia’s face started to turn pale. Her mood had already been up and down due to Noah’s grandfather’s incident. In addition, she hadn’t had a good rest for the past few days. Mia felt so uncomfortable that she almost vomited. She held her stomach and slowly bent down.

Seeing Mia’s weak look, Noah could not bear to see her like this. He wanted to reach out and hug Mia, but then he remembered those photos. Back then, when he got them, he really doubted the authenticity of the photos. He even found someone he trusted to specially differentiate if they were synthesized. However, the results he got were disappointing. That was why Noah was so impulsive as to question Mia. But now, Mia had no intention of speaking.

Mia leaned down uncomfortably and picked up the photos Noah had thrown on the floor. She picked up a few and looked at them carefully before realizing they were all photos of herself and Jack.

From the first time the two of them met at a social gathering, to the coincidental encounter on the street on the day she resigned from the gallery, and the encounter with her senior at the hospital some time ago, every photo taken was taken from an ingenious angle. No matter which photo was taken, they looked very ambiguous.

Especially when they met at the hospital. During that period of time, she had just gotten pregnant and her body had not been very good. She had just taken the medicine and happened to bump into Jack when she was feeling dizzy. When she almost fell to the ground, she was lucky that Jack had helped her up. At that time, she remembered that they had clearly maintained a safe distance. Why did they seem so intimate in this photo?

At that time, she had clearly seen the senior bring his little niece along. At that time, the child’s cute appearance had evoked beautiful thoughts about children, which was why her face was filled with tenderness. However, senior’s little niece had been perfectly intercepted. This was obviously intentional.

Mia stared at the pile of suggestive photos in shock.

She didn’t know how to explain herself.

She suddenly thought of the man who had bumped into her in the hospital that day. He seemed to be wearing something hard, and it should be a camera. Could it be that the man was secretly taking photos of her and her senior? Mia was a little confused.

Why? She and her senior were not in the entertainment industry. Who would send him to secretly take photos of her? Why would he take photos of her? What did he mean by taking these photos out now? The series of questions made Mia not know which aspect to think about first.

Suddenly, a smiling face flashed across her mind.

“A few days ago, someone told me, and I didn’t believe it, but today, I received a photo from the paparazzi… After living with you for so long, why didn’t I see that you were so good at pretending to be pure?”

Mia was still unable to defend herself from Noah’s words. She didn’t know how to explain herself to begin with, but Noah beside her was still forcing her.

“Or have you always been like this, and had always been pretending in the past? Then your acting skills can almost get an Oscar performance award. Hmm? Explain,” Noah asked slightly louder.

Mia could only shake her head under Noah’s coercion.

However, in Noah’s eyes, Mia’s action of shaking her head and not saying anything seemed like she was guilty and that she did not know what to say. Looking at Mia’s trembling body, Noah used a calm and almost distant tone to say again, “No wonder you hate me so much and won’t let me touch you. Is it because of him? How long have you two been together? You have hidden it well enough.”

When Mia heard Noah mention her senior, she immediately started shaking her head. “I didn’t.”

“No… nothing. Are you trying to say you’re not with your senior or are you trying to say these pictures of you are fake?” Noah said aggressively.

“That’s not true. Senior and I just happened to run into each other. It wasn’t like in the pictures,” Mia, trying to get Noah to trust her, tried to explain anxiously. She really hadn’t done any of those things. But before she could finish, Noah interrupted her again.

“I’ll tell you about the photos. I’ve already gotten someone to specially appraise them. The photos are all real and have never been edited.”

After pausing for a moment, Noah reached out and pinched Mia’s chin. He stared at Mia deeply. “What else do you want to say?”

Mia shook her head while trying to break free from Noah’s hold, but before she could exert any strength, Noah released her. Then, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and slowly wiped his fingers, as if he had just touched something dirty.

Mia’s heart trembled. She gritted her teeth and said, “I didn’t say that the photo was fake.”

“Really? I’m glad you’re finally not lying anymore,” Noah said with a slight sneer.

When Mia heard Noah say that she was lying, her body trembled and she wanted to retort. However, before she could say anything, Noah opened his mouth and said, “For the past few months, you have been kicking up a fuss about getting a divorce and deliberately avoiding me. You are not even willing to have sex, just so that you can have a private meeting here?”

Private meeting… What private meeting? Mia’s ears were ringing when she heard this word. It turned out that in Noah’s eyes, she had worked hard every day to take care of Grandpa in the hospital just to facilitate the private meeting. Didn’t he know what she had done all these years?

Mia felt extremely aggrieved, but the more she spoke, the harder it was for her to clear herself. For a moment, she wished she could bite off her clumsy tongue. An unexplainable feeling crept into her heart, and she felt powerless..