Helena looked at him. He did not know when she ca there and how much she had heard.
He froze, not knowing what to say.
He then saw that a few drops of tears slowly started to flow down her face and was stunned.
What else was there to say? He understood that she had heard what had happened earlier.
"Helena," He softly called her na.
The aggressiveness and anger in his voice from earlier had completely vanished.
Helena sniffled softly. She looked at him and ran towards him before hugging him tightly. "Babe, I didn’t do anything like that. I never did anything against Sister Jemma. I am telling you the truth. Please believe . I would never do anything against Sister Jemma. How could I? She is like my sister."
Vernon hugged her back tightly. He kissed the crown of her head, "Hey. Babe. Why are you crying? Also, why are you explaining yourself? Do you even have to? Did I ask you anything? Did anyone tell you to explain? Why are you? Why would I trust that idiot and doubt you?
"Shh. Don’t cry. Stop crying. If you cried because of , then that’s a different matter. But why are you crying because of another man? I will feel jealous if you do this."
He gently wiped the tears away from her cheeks and kissed both her eyes.
He then kissed her cheeks to clean her tears.
Helena opened her eyes, looked at him and smiled, "Why would you be jealous of him?"
Vernon smiled. He did not say anything. He just grabbed her face with both his hands and locked her lips with his.
"Hmm," She moaned softly when he sucked her lips. She used her hands to punch his chest, "We are outside. Stop it."
Vernon stopped, looked at her, and smiled.
"Are you okay, now?" He asked.
Helena smiled but shook her head, "How can I be? Sister Jemma is like that. Then this man ca to drive a wedge between us. What exactly is happening here? Why are they all doing this?"
Vernon sighed, "Everyone is jealous. They weren’t able to see us being a nice, happy family. We shouldn’t think about why they are doing this. Thinking about their stupid thoughts will only make us go crazy. We should avoid idiots like them at all costs. If we let their words co in between us, our family would be the one to suffer.
"The more we stay away from them and keep them in their place, the better we will be.
"And, about Sister-in-law, it was the Prince who was a pervert. We won’t let him go just like that. He will suffer for his consequences. You stop worrying about everything and just trust us, okay?"
Helena looked at him for a few seconds and slowly nodded, "Hmm. Okay."
Vernon caressed her head and planted a kiss on her forehead. "You go inside and take good care of Sister-in-law. Brother is tired after searching for her for a week. Even now, he wouldn’t leave her, nor would he sleep.
"If you are with her, he might be okay with leaving Sister-in-law for a while to freshen up."
Helena understood his concern for Vincent and nodded imdiately, "I understand. Don’t worry. I will send Brother Vincent ho no matter what and take care of sister Jemma. I can see that Brother Vincent gave you sothing to handle as well. You go and get busy with those tasks. I will go inside now."
"Okay. Take care of yourself as well. If you need anything, just give a call. Okay?"
"Okay."
—Present Ti—
At that ti, Vernon did not even think about doubting Helena. He trusted her completely until the very end.
But at the end of his previous life, after finding many things that his wife had done behind his back, he couldn’t help but doubt this incident as well.
There was no evidence against Helena except for one man’s words regarding this incident.
But the slight doubt stayed in the depths of his heart because of her later multiple actions.
With that little doubt, he couldn’t help but ask her.
Now that she said that there really was nothing wrong between her and his sister-in-law, he was relieved.
Indeed, he was right to trust his wife at that ti.
His smile brightened as he felt relaxed from a huge burden.
"Why are you smiling like that instead of answering my question?" Helena asked with a frown.
Vernon couldn’t stop himself from smiling and he shook his head, "Nothing. No one said anything. I just want to make sure that you did not have any troubles after marrying . I hope that if soday, you suffer any sort of grievance because of any of my family mbers, you will tell imdiately instead of suffering silently or scolding in your heart. Do you understand what I an?"
Helena blinked her eyes. She did not expect Vernon to ever say such a thing. She felt her heart warm up and slowly smiled, "Umm. Okay."
[I am sure there would never be such a thing with his family. Anyway, since he was speaking about the ’if’ situation, then it is better for to agree. But that was so sweet of him to say that. I can’t believe he said those words. He wanted to stand by my side in case soone from his family treated badly? Wow!]
She knew how much Vernon loved and valued his family. So him saying those words was really a very big thing.
"Okay, I am leaving now. If you need sothing, call ," Vernon said and walked towards the door.
Just as he reached the door, Helena called him, "Vernon."
"Hmm?" He turned around and asked her.
"Can you help call my makeup artist?" She asked with a smile.
"Okay." Vernon agreed imdiately and left the room.
As soon as he was out of the room, Helena stopped smiling.
She frowned. Her mind raced as she thought about Vernon’s earlier words and questions and his behavior.
Everything felt strange. Too strange for his usual behavior.
That wasn’t how the normal Vernon behaved. Those weren’t the sort of doubts the normal Vernon would raise.
The makeup artist knocked on the door, "Second Madam?"
"Co in."
She entered the room with a polite smile.
She then turned her head to observe the entire room. There was no one in the room except for Helena.
Imdiately, she stopped smiling and bowed her head, "Boss. Did you call for ?"
Her deanor changed completely from that of a normal makeup artist to that of an employee.
Helena did not smile like she did earlier when she was with everyone. Her eyes were still narrowed as she gave a slight nod, "Hmm."
"What is it, Boss?" The woman asked.
"I think soone is speaking so sort of nonsense in front of Vernon. Check on that issue." Helena ordered.
The woman frowned, but she imdiately nodded, "Okay, Boss. Do you doubt anyone?"
Helena frowned as well. She racked her brain to go through all the nas that could say the nonsensical words, that there could be sothing wrong between her and her Sister Jemma. Sadly, she couldn’t find anyone specific.
She pursed her lips and shook her head. "No. Look into everyone who ca in contact with Vernon in the past few days. Check from our wedding date to be exact."
The woman nodded imdiately, "Okay, boss."
"Also," Helena said again. She took a slight pause before continuing, "I think you should check the people who will co into contact with him in the next few days as well. Maybe no one said anything to him yet, but they will later. Keep a close watch on this matter."
She subconsciously recalled the incident regarding rlin. Even though she did not really understand how Vernon understood what would happen in the future, she felt that she should keep an eye on that matter as well.
Maybe no one said anything to him yet, but soone might say that to him later, and sohow Vernon had found that already because of his ’powers’.
The woman, on the other hand, did not understand what Helena ant at all, "What do you an by that, boss?"
Helena raised her eyes and looked at her.
The woman imdiately lowered her eyes, "I am sorry, Boss. I will keep an eye as per your instructions."
"Good," Helena smiled again.
"Do you want to check anything else?" The woman asked.
Helena blinked her eyes and slowly nodded, "Hmm. Sister Jemma had yet to give the list of the guests for today’s party. Once I get the list, I will tell you."
The woman nodded imdiately, "Okay, Boss."
Just as they were talking, soone knocked on the door.
The deanor of the two won changed instantly. One looked like the amiable makeup artist, who was suggesting with a different blush, while the other smiled brightly as she listened interestingly to the suggestion that could make her look even more beautiful than before.
"Second madam. The First Madam told to pass this to you," A servant entered the room and passed a file to Helena respectfully before leaving the room.
"This is the guest list," Helena said as they changed their deanor back to the boss and employee.
Helena opened the file and looked through the nas. All are important business partners of the Jefferys. There were many national and internationally famous nas in that small file in her hands. Just one na in the file could change the economy of a country with the snap of a finger.
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