Love Is a Sweet Addiction

“You were lying on the mat in front of the memorial tablet.” Lauren glanced at her in confusion. “What’s wrong? Is there a problem?”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“No, it’s nothing.” Esther shook her head in a daze.

She thought, ‘On the mat in front of the memorial tablet? How is that possible? I clearly remembered that I fell behind the memorial tablet out of fear when I was looking for that white shadow last night.’

‘What’s going on? Is Lauren lying to her? Or … everything that she had encountered last night was just a nightmare or a hallucination caused by a fever?’

She hit her head with her fist, her head feeling like burning.

Esther did not believe that it was an illusion. She saw everything, and it was so real!

“Mrs. Gibson, are you alright?” Lauren asked in confusion when she saw Esther punch her on the head.

“I’m fine.” Esther forced herself to calm down. After a moment of thought, Esther asked, “Lauren, I saw a lot of Buddha statues in the back hall yesterday. What are they used for?”

After asking this, she stared at Lauren without blinking.

Last night, she heard footsteps coming from behind the house. When she wanted to find out what had happened, she accidentally discovered the back hall of the ancestral hall. If the back hall and the Buddha statues inside were real, it could prove that she did not have an illusion last night.

Suddenly, Lauren’s expression changed, and her voice became much colder. She stared at Esther for a moment and said reproachfully, “Mrs. Gibson did not seem to perform the rule properly yesterday.”

“I… ” Esther was speechless. At the same time, she doubted if Lauren’s face changing was simply related to her performance.

“I just found a door there, and I was curious about it.” Esther continued to make Lauren talk about the back hall.

“It is the forbidden area of the Gibson family. No ordinary people can enter.” Lauren sounded stern. “It’s best if Mrs. Gibson stays where you are next time. Otherwise, you might get yourself into big trouble.”

‘What does she mean by big trouble?’ Esther thought.

Esther was nervous. She felt that Lauren meant something else, but she really couldn’t figure it out.

It couldn’t be that the Gibson family’s ancestral hall was haunted, and Lauren knew about it early, right?

To figure out the truth, Esther carefully asked, “What does the forbidden area mean? Are there some secrets hidden inside?”

She didn’t expect Lauren to change her attitude, and she sounded much stricter than before. “Mrs. Gibson! It seems that you didn’t take Lady Gibson seriously. From the moment you married Terence, you had better stay away from the secrets of the Gibson family.”

“I’m sorry. I thought Lady Gibson was referring to Terence’s illness.”

“Including that one, all the matters of the Gibson Family were secrets.”

“Alright, I understand.” Esther lowered her head guiltily.

It seemed that it was impossible to get an answer from Lauren, but she still had time. Esther would figure out the truth, especially about Shirly’s secret.

It was not because Esther envied Shirly as Terence’s ex-wife, but she had started to pester and torture Esther ever since she married Terence. If Esther did not figure out the truth, she would continue to be entangled and tormented by Shirly.

Esther suddenly remembered a famous foreign fiction that she had read before. The male and female protagonists in the book loved each other very much, but the kind female protagonist had always lived in the shadow of the deceased ex-wife of the male protagonist. It was the story of a living person being tortured to madness by the dead.

Esther felt that she was the female protagonist in the book and would go crazy one day.

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After Lauren came back from the infirmary, she went to Lady Gibson’s bedroom and reported, “Lady Gibson, Dr. Ross confirmed that Mrs. Gibson was not pregnant.”

Lady Gibson was looking through a list of names as she said, “That’s good.”

“Lady Gibson,” Lauren raised her voice and called out.

Lady Gibson finally looked up at her and said, “What? Do you have anything else?”

“Yes,” Lauren glanced at the list in her hand and said helplessly, “Lady Gibson, please stop looking at this list. I don’t think these people will fit for Mr. Terence. No matter their age or appearance, they are far from Mr. Terence. Not to mention Mr. Terence’s attitude towards them, Master Gibson will not agree.”

“Do you mean that Esther is his only chose?” Lady Gibson’s eyes darkened.

Lauren said, “I know Esther is a tough character. She might not be easy to tame in the future, but…”

“She is a ruthless person. To take revenge on her ex-boyfriend and sister, she did not hesitate to throw her husband into a dead end. If we continued to keep this woman in our house, I’m afraid that Terence might even give his life to her.”

“Yes, I understand. Esther still has some feelings for James, but … she has the same blood type as Mr. Terence? We need her.”

Lady Gibson gritted her teeth and shook her head. “I don’t believe that Terence has to get married to the woman who has the same blood type as him!”

“Lady Gibson. Now is not the time to be angry.” Lauren continued to persuade her, “As you can see, Mr. Terence was kicked out as soon as he entered the main company, but James is still in the limelight. He has a family and is ready to be a father. Anne gave birth to a boy. If Mr. Terence does not work hard, he will completely lose.”

“I think the most important thing now is to consolidate Mr. Terence’s position in the Gibson Group and then deal with Mrs. Gibson. As long as you are still the mistress of the Gibson family, Mrs. Gibson cannot make a fuss.” Lauren smiled evilly. “At that time, Shirly was so smart, but she was tamed at last. What can Esther do?”

Lady Gibson listened to Lauren’s words, and her heart softened, but the expression on her face remained calm. She stared coldly at Lauren. “What do you think we should do? Should we make Esther pregnant as soon as possible and give birth to a son?”

Lauren nodded. “I think this is the best way we’ve got.”

“What if Esther takes advantage of her son’s status and starts to ride over me?” After all, Terence was not Lady Gibson’s biological son. She could lose him at any moment.

Many men would forget their mothers after marriage. When she and Esther fought, Terence would definitely not stand on her side.

If Terence was Lady Gibson’s son, she did not have the slightest bit of fear.