Chapter 68 - 68: Pathetic Creatures (1/2)

Lillie's mother excited query has not snap her out of her trance. She was still in a daze on what happened yesterday.

”How's the progress between you and Ethan?” She interrogated.

She can't believe she agreed on his kiss. It was all a dream, she thought. Pinching herself multiple times, and all she felt.

”It's...confusing.” She admitted. Mrs. Bai stopped blabbering and looked at her daughter in concern. There must be something troubling the Lillie Bai and only her family can tell.

”What's the matter, my dear? Is there something happening between you and Ethan, hmm?” Mrs. Bai's eyebrow arched in suspicion and neared Lillie's face, staring closely into her eyes.

”Nothing's going on between us. There never was...” She muttered with the slightest bashfulness in her voice.

Her mother squealed in delight and grabbed her daughter's hands.

”My goodness, darling, I can sense your lie even up the heavens! So, what happened?! Tell me all about it!” Her mother's eyes brightened, sparkling like the stars in the galaxy.

Lillie was rendered speechless. Her mother's thirst for gossip was astonishing that her own daughter was not spared from her pestering.

”It's nothing. You don't need to know.” Instead of letting the matter go, it only invoked her interest.

”Being defensive like that made the topic really intriguing.” Her mother stated in an as-the-matter-of-fact tone.

After yesterday's unnerving episode, Lillie received a call from the Bai mansion with her mother seeking her presence. Ethan wished to come too but her mother immediately denied, saying that it's their mother-daughter bonding day.

Lillie begged to disagree and called it 'mother wanted to know everything' day. Now that she's 'supposedly' fired from the company, Lillie had gotten a lot of space on her schedule for herself, unless she focused it all to the organization.

When she arrived at the mansion, her father and brother weren't present. And if they were, they'll be the first to greet her. Her father has taken the company under his reign once again while her younger brother was being tormented with all the works she've left.