When Love Comes Too Little, Too Late

When Susan climbed onto Edwin's bed, Emilia had just exited the company.

The assistant told her tremblingly that Susan had gotten into trouble.

When she arrived at the hotel, Susan had already been thrown out.

Wrapped in a bath towel, she cried loudly to Emilia, "Emilia, help me. I don't want to fall into disfavor. I won't bug Mr. Borus anymore..."

Before Susan finished speaking, Emilia looked indifferently and slapped her in the face.

"I told you a long time ago that Edwin was hard to please. If you dare to bother him next time, no one will be able to save you."

Susan was too scared to speak.

Emilia glanced at the assistant at the side, "Take her back and watch over her carefully lest she should hang around."

The assistant obeyed Emilia's order silently.

After the two left, Emilia took a deep breath and pushed open the door of the presidential suite.

She walked up to the man, pursed her lips, and said softly, "Please forgive Susan."

Edwin narrowed his eyes and looked at her mockingly for a long while before he said satirically, "Mrs. Borus is really generous."

Mrs. Borus.

No one knew that Emilia, Edwin's reliable agent, was his wife.

Edwin was Emilia's senior. At one time, Old Mr. Borus was seriously ill, and the Borus family suffered internal conflicts. In order to settle the dispute within the Borus family, old Mr. Borus forced Edwin to get married. But Edwin's girlfriend broke up with him suddenly.

When Edwin proposed to Emilia, she was surprised.

"I will give you six hundred thousand dollars. And you can leave at any time after the chaos of the Borus family is pacified."

Edwin said this then, and Emilia had no reason to refuse him.

After three years of a secret marriage, even the stars supervised by Emilia didn't know that she was Edwin's wife. Emilia was always faithful to her role as Mrs. Borus dutifully.

But that was all.

Edwin didn't love her.

Whether she could manage to persuade Edwin to let go of Susan, Emilia wasn't sure.

"She performs well in the company. Her brother borrowed usury, so she was anxious for promotion."

"Do I look like a philanthropist?"

Emilia was choked by Edwin's words. He was notoriously unkind, and Susan happened to offend him.

Emilia pursed her lips and stood there quietly. Edwin's unfeeling attitude produced a shade of grievance in her eyes, and her expression was stubborn and aloof.

Edwin's eyes moved. He quickly stubbed his cigarette out, reached out, and twined his arms around her waist tightly, kissing her passionately.

"I will forgive her as long as you compensate for my loss."

His deep and mellow voice was warm and charming.

Emilia couldn't resist at all.

She obediently wrapped her arms around Edwin's neck and fell into carnal love.

When she woke up again, it was the dead of the night.

Edwin soon called her in an indifferent voice, "Room 308, Austrum Hotel. Come here."

Emilia was stunned momentarily, but she still drove over calmly.

When she arrived, there were quite a few people in the box.

Most of them were Edwin's friends in the circle. Seeing Emilia, everyone froze for a moment and then shouted, "Hello, Mrs. Borus."

Emilia nodded politely.

She walked to Edwin and sat down, and he held her hand as a matter of course.

Emilia paused, but her heart was filled with warmth.

Looking up, she saw a beautiful woman staring at her lightly.

This woman was almost aggressively beautiful, unlike the stars under Emilia's supervision. Her eyes and eyebrows revealed her pride produced by the ideal environment where she grew up, and she had exquisite manners.

Someone noticed Emilia's gaze and introduced this woman to her tactfully, "Mrs. Borus, this is Chloe Kolb, who has just returned from abroad. She is also a childhood friend of ours, so we pick her up tonight."

Chloe was Edwin's ex-girlfriend...

Emilia's heart skipped a beat, and she subconsciously glanced at Edwin.

Seeing her looking over, Edwin raised his eyes and asked in a low voice of concern, "What? What's wrong?"

Emilia shook her head.

At this time, a glass of wine was placed in front of Emilia. Chloe picked up another glass and said calmly, "Mrs. Borus, I'd like to drink a toast to you. I wish you and Edwin a happy and abiding marriage."

Her words were clearly addressed to Emilia, but her gaze was always on Edwin.

Most people in the box were familiar with the past between Edwin and Chloe.

The atmosphere was always tense between two women who vied for the same man.

Everyone looked at each other blankly for a while, staring at Emilia and the wine in front of her.

In the end, someone spoke to ease the tension, "Chloe, stop drinking extravagantly like this. If Mrs. Borus drinks too much, Mr. Borus will feel distressed."

"Don't worry. Her wine is not high in alcohol. Edwin, could it be that your wife won't even give me the chance to toast her?"

Edwin looked indifferent as if he didn't hear it.

Chloe sneered and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

Emilia had to drink a toast in return.

Just as Emilia was about to pick up the wine glass, Edwin at the side took it with a cold face, "I'll drink it on behalf of her."

But Chloe offered another toast and insisted, "I toast the undying love between you, but Mrs. Borus has to drink the wine herself in return."

Chloe's eyes were flinty, and her gorgeous face was a bit aggressive.

Why bother?

Emilia sighed.

Without giving Edwin the chance to drink on behalf of her, she quietly picked up the wine glass and drained it, "Thank you for your good wish."

Chloe made a third cup of wine.

Edwin's face turned colder, and he stared at Chloe, "Have you had enough of it?"

Tears welled up in Chloe's eyes as if she couldn't suppress the pent-up emotions, but she said stubbornly, "Not enough, Edwin. After all, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have yielded to the coercion of the Kolb family and gone abroad. Otherwise, I will be spared from the sight of your intimate contact now."

"Don't worry. I won't bother you again."

After she finished speaking, she turned and left the box.

Others in the room looked at each other in confusion.

Edwin's face was tense, and the next moment, he chased Chloe out silently.

In retrospect, the tears in Chloe's eyes made Emilia distressed.

She was a little bored, picked up her clothes, and prepared to leave.

Someone stopped her and hesitated to speak, "Mrs. Borus, Chloe has had a hard time these years. The affairs between her and Mr. Borus have been mistaken. You should allow them the chance to explain clearly what happened back then."

Emilia found it funny.

The whole world thought that Chloe and Edwin were a good match.

She was like an outsider trying to sabotage their romance, and even her escape seemed full of malice.

Emilia said helplessly, "I just want to go home."

That person was obviously a little embarrassed and scratched his head, "Mrs. Borus, since you have drunk the wine, let me find you a driver."

"No."

Emilia refused.

After leaving the box, she regretted drinking that glass of wine on a whim, which made her suffer a lot.

Her stomach churned violently.

Emilia couldn't bear it anymore, so she called her best friend Ann.

Ann sent Emilia to the hospital and was furious about her carelessness, "Emilia, are you crazy? Do you know how fragile your stomach is? And you dare to drink alcohol!"

In fact, Emilia's stomach wasn't so weak at first. When she married into the Borus family, she joined the Borus Group.

In order to gain the approval of the Borus family as well as help Edwin stabilize its situation, she was so busy that her health condition got worse.

Impervious to Ann's rage, Emilia turned on the phone and didn't find a single missed call or text message.

She turned off the screen, and her face was a little pale. She lowered her eyes and said, "I won't die. Take me back to the house of the Borus family. I must go to bed early and have a meeting tomorrow morning."

Ann stared at her.

After a long time, she sighed.

"I heard that Chloe is back. Emilia, what do you think about it?"