The Wicked Wife 2

Chapter 243: Krystal Lee's Return

While Jennie waited for Seulgi to fetch Krystal for her, she discarded her disguise and cleaned her face from the thick makeup. With the problem related to Seung Hyun resolved, she couldn't wait to get rid of Krystal and Chen Ho at the same time.

If it wasn't for them, Lisa wouldn't have to work harder than usual and would be able to spend more time with her. With his succession in the Manoban Corporation almost in sight, Chen Ho's threat was looming to ruin their plans.

Jennie sat in a VIP booth of a five star restaurant. She was now dressed in her pristine business suit, nursing a cup of tea in one hand as she admired the scenery outside the window. Her life was almost perfect now. What else could be missing?

A child. Her heart murmured, reminding her of the fear she tried to bury deep in her heart. Six years since her rebirth, it still feels fresh in her mind.

She remembered her mother's words earlier that morning. It made sense to her why Hye Kyo would ask her such a question, but Jennie didn't know how to answer her mother without offending her or making her husband upset.

While she had no doubt that Lisa would respect her decision if she chose to be childless throughout their marriage, she doubted that the Manoban family would agree with her. They might even scheme and force Lisa to divorce her, or worse trick him into having a child with another woman. With Niki keeping tabs with her husband, Jennie wouldn't be surprised if that woman colluded with her husband's relatives.

However, even if she had discarded Taehyung from her life in this lifetime, that one memory still haunted her till this day. It was one thing to avoid Taehyung, but Jennie thought that she could never forgive him because of it.

She might have been able to let go of her long grudge towards him for choosing Krystal and betraying her trust by taking over her mother's fortune. But she would never be able to forget what he had done to their child. Her child.

Jennie knew that she might be unfit to become a mother and it would be unfair for the child to be born into the complicated life she had, but she wouldn't abandon him or her nevertheless. After being forsaken by and betrayed later on by Irene, she wanted to prove that she was nothing like her mother.

It was just, she couldn't have foreseen that Taehyung hated her enough to even deny the existence of their child. She knew that Lisa would never do such a thing, but a part of her knew that she wasn't willing to experience the pain of losing a child all over again.

There were nights when she would wake up in cold sweat next to Lisa. Although she tried to assure him that it was nothing, she didn't know how to tell him that she had once fallen pregnant and lost her child in the process.

She was reborn, but that didn't mean what she experienced never happened. It just hadn't and would never happen this time because she had taken another path by making better choices. Still, the memory of Taehyung forcing her to get an abortion had taken a piece of her soul with it.

'I wonder if this is the same reason Irene helped us.' She thought as she wondered how she felt that unexplainable attachment to her unborn child. Was it her maternal instincts playing a role?

As she pondered these thoughts, Seulgi arrived with Krystal in tow. Jennie lifted her face to look at Krystal' s face, only to be frozen on the spot. A chill ran down her spine as she stared at Krystal's mocking smile. It felt so familiar and horrifying at the same time. She suddenly had a bad feeling about this meeting.

"Miss Lee, please take a seat." She gestured to the vacant seat across from her, masking the uncertainty in her voice.

Jennie had doubts, but she wanted to see whether she was right or wrong this time. This ominous feeling she was having for the past days… was this the reason for it?