The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband

“Get this old woman out of our sight! She spread rumors about her adopted daughter!” “How shameless! She's a liar and a hypocrite!” The more people that pointed their fingers at Lauren, the more overwhelmed she got.She was so enraged that she needed to take a few deep breaths to regulate her blood pressure.

How she wished in that moment she could strangle Natalie to death! Thankfully, she managed to hold herself back.

She racked her brains for a way to redeem her reputation, but found that she couldn't refute Sebastian's statement at all.

There was no way she could admit to the dirty things she had done.Her only choice was to retreat.

Seeing that her mother was nearing defeat, Cassie was furious.

She opened her mouth to give Natalie an earful, but was interrupted by Lauren.

“Calm down, Cassie.” Lauren shook her head.

Then, she whispered into her daughter's ear, “We've lost.Itll be worse if we try to defend ourselves.” Cassie wrinkled her nose with disdain.

“Mom, | can't stand her arrogance! When she still lived with us,

she never fought back tch deserves to be punished. Who does she think she is, anyway? She's just a bitch who was abandoned by her biological parents!” Lauren's eyes went wide and her hand flew to cover Cassie's mouth. They weren't in the confines of their own home.

If Cassie kept talking like this, things would just get worse.

“We're leaving.” They couldn't stay here a second longer.

Lauren shot Natalie one last murderous glare before turning around to leave with Cassie and the timid George.

As they stormed off, Lauren gritted her teeth angrily.She was never going to let Natalie go.She needed to take revenge.

After the Quinn family of three left, the commotion died down and the guest went back to drinking and talking.

Just as Natalie was about to approach Sebastian, several colleagues stopped her.

“Quinn, you took amazing today.If | didn’t see you quarreling with those women, | wouldn't have recognized you."Gerda grinned from ear to ear, with a slice of cake in one hand.

“Yes.It was a good chance to make things clear.” Natalie smiled back helplessly.

As she spoke, she craned her neck to look for Sebastian, only to find that his broad back was to her.

Shortly after, he disappeared in the crowd that surrounded her.

“I knew you weren't the kind of person they made you out to be!” Gerda said enthusiastically, pumping her fist in the air.

Many employees from the Larson Group were at this party.

After the altercation just now, they all knew the truth.

They all came over and toasted to Natalies victory.

“We're sorry, Quinn.We used to think you just lived off of your foster parents’ money.” “Little did we know that your foster family is the worst! They're rich, yet they pretended to be poor and miserable here!” “Yeah.We didn’t know the truth and gossiped about you behind your back.We're really sorry.” Natalie smiled faintly and her eyes softened.She wasn't good at this kind of stuff.

What with the crowd that surrounded her, she could only smile and politely clink glasses with everyone.

“It's okay, you guys.It doesn’t matter now.Just forget it.” After the crowd dispersed after a while, she let out a long sigh.

Now that she had cleared up the truth in front of so many people,

no one would dare accuse her of being ungrateful again.

It was already past midnight when the party ended.

A cold full moon hung in the sky, surrounded by twinkling stars.

The Larson Group arranged for luxury cars to send the guests home from the party, which drove off one by one.

Natalie and Sebastian were also led to a car that would take them home.

On the way, Sebastian sat in the backseat silently.

His eyelids drooped slightly, but the corners of his jaw were tight.

Natalie felt he looked a little melancholy and depressed.

After taking a careful look at him, she quietly looked away.

But she couldn't help but peer at him from the corner of her eye.

“What's the matter?” Sebastian saw right through her.He looked up at her and rested his elbow on the car window.

Natalie watched his movements.

His fingers were so elegant and beautiful, as if they were carefully carved by an artist. But the rest of him looked quite rough.

After getting along with him for a long time, Natalie slowly uncovered a lot of strange things about him.

He turned out to be quite meticulous in whatever he did.He always took a shower before sleeping and when he woke up, and he always folded his clothes neatly.He liked to watch live football games without subtitles despite them being from different countries.

It seemed that he could understand without difficulty.

This made Natalie suspect that he knew several foreign languages.

Clenching the hemline of her dress tightly, Natalie looked at him earnestly and asked in a soft voice, “Can you tell me something about your mother?” A silence fell over the car.

Even the driver didn't dare to make a sound.

Outside the car window, the trees swayed as the wind whistled through their branches, like a ghost singing in the night.

At Natalie's question, Sebastian's expression darkened.

“Well, if you don’t want to talk about it, just forget it.’ m sorry | brought it up,” Natalie apologized immediately, sensing that she had said ‘something wrong.

“I was just curious. didn't mean to offend you.” she turned around and focused on the scenery outside, watching the trees and scattered lights.

Truth be told, she was a little disappointed.She didn’t know what was with her tonight.

Maybe all the booze from the party gave her the courage to ask Sebastian something personal.

To her disappointment, she failed at the first try.

The wind blew in through the window.

Suddenly, Natalie felt a warm hand holding hers.She turned around to meet Sebastian's deep eyes.

“Didn't you want to know about my mother? You're sitting so far from me.How could | tell you without shouting?” Natalie looked around and found that it was true.

Her whole body was pressed against the window, as though she wanted to put as much distance between her and Sebastian as possible.

Just as she was about to scoot over, the car came to a halt.

They had arrived at their apartment.

“Already?” Natalie muttered unhappily.

Sebastian hadn't spilled any beans yet.

Seeing the disappointment in her eyes, Sebastian got out of the car then helped her out.

He immediately shrugged off his coat and wrapped it around her shoulders.

“Let's take a walk.” The man’s coat was oversized on her.

Being enveloped by it, only Natalie’s bright, clear eyes could be seen.

She nodded eagerly, her shining eyes bobbing up and down.

“Okay!” Together, they walked to the benches in the small park near their apartment.

Purple vines crept up the columns, looking especially enchanting.