My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Gemma was insanely captivating, plus she also had an aura of natural elegance and nobleness, hence when she had started to weep like this, her sorrowful look could move people’s hearts and rouse their sympathy for her.

However, all kinds of suspicions and doubts had already piled up in Florence’s heart, so she would not easily trust her words and actions anymore.

Although she was still in the dark about the truth of the relationship between Gemma and Ernest, she had a feeling that it was not as what Gemma had depicted.

Even if Gemma and Ernest were indeed lovers, she was certain that they were not a loving pair of couple.

“You have said it yourself as well that the love between two persons is selfish, Ms. Marlon. How many women could actually resist Ernest’s charm and not fall for him when he is such an attractive and outstanding man? You may well ask. I’m just an ordinary person, so it’s normal that I will fall for him as well. If I were to marry him, I would be like all the other women too as I would not allow you to hang around him anymore. Therefore, you should try to talk him into breaking off the engagement with me before it’s too late.”

“But…” Gemma knitted her brows deeply as her heart was overwhelmed by mixed emotions.

It was not her place to ask Ernest to break off his engagement with Florence as she had no right to do that.

Florence raised her eyebrows and stared at Gemma as she added, “Don’t tell me that you couldn’t talk him out of marrying me as well, Ms. Marlon?”

“Surely I can!” Gemma retorted without any hesitation with a resolute look on her face.

She had already sensed that Florence was starting to doubt her words, hence if she were to give the game away now, Florence would definitely catch on and corroborate her suspicions.

She had to continue her play-acting no matter what for now.

“The Hawkins family is City N’s utmost wealthy and powerful clan, so Ernest’s wedding is naturally a great deal to them. If you were to break off your engagement with him suddenly, it would cause a rippling effect on his family, so you have to give him more time to handle this complex issue. Furthermore, Ernest has always been stubborn, so it would also require a few rounds of persuasion for him to call off the wedding even if it’s coming from me.”

“Alright then, sorry to have to trouble you, and I hope to hear the good news soon.”

Florence smiled politely and broke off her hand from Gemma’s grip, and she proceeded to walk over to the bar counter to pour some fruit juice into a glass.

She handed it over to Gemma in the next moment, “Do you want some?”

“No thanks. Have a good rest then, I’ll take my leave now.”

As soon as Gemma had finished her sentence, she marched out of the room in a hurry without even looking back, and it seemed like she was unwilling to stay in this room for any longer.

heart was trembling with fear when she had fled from

fully prepared to deceive Florence, but her plans had gone awry at some unknown point in time which had caused Florence to start

Ernest instead, so she

Gemma, so she had to find a way to tackle this tricky situation with all her means. She would not allow Florence

love of her life, so she would rather him not getting married for the rest of his life if she could not get her hands

rose to

to keep Florence company, so all of them had appropriately taken their leave despite wailing about him being cruel to them and always putting Florence

returned to the bedroom

yet to finish in her hand, so it was much to her surprise that he had

narrowed her eyes and asked thoughtfully,

back just now,” Ernest replied in a

again, “Didn’t Gemma look for you and stay behind? I thought you would have a word with her after Harold and

by the bed, and he promptly reached out his arm to pull her into his

him after

suddenly swept past her when Gemma whom had just stopped by had come to

the truth between the two of them, and

uttered, “Gemma has

while replying

even asked for Gemma’s help to persuade him on this matter? Did she really think that

her head and started right back at him as she said

or not. In fact, everyone else’s opinion does not matter to me at all. I’m going to marry you, Florence.” His tone was husky yet domineering at the same

“Um!”

kiss had caught her by surprise as the tenderness and warmth that had manifested on her lips had caused her mind to go blank

a kiss on her all of

him away, but her shoulders were instantly grabbed by him

and swept past everything violently,

was almost out of breath from his overwhelming kiss, and her mind had gone blank while her body had become limp as a result.

from her and finally let

limp body in his arms while giving her his promise in a husky and

them from getting married, and