Love Comes Secretly After Their Contract Marriage novel Chapter 49

"Familiar?" Yvonne was taken aback.

Dominic smiled sadly, "Yes, you bear some resemblance to someone I used to know in the past. If that person hadn’t passed away, I would have really mistaken you for her daughter..."

He was surprised as soon as he came in just now.

This girl really bore an uncanny resemblance to Nancy.

Her eyes were exactly like hers.

"Umm... who is that person, Mr. Conrad?" Yvonne blinked curiously and asked.

Henry pressed his thin lips while staring intently at Dominic in silence, obviously curious to know the answer too.

Dominic just shrugged it off, "The person passed away more than twenty years ago. There's no point in bringing up the past again."

"I see," Yvonne was understanding enough to drop the subject when she saw the pain hidden in the man’s eyes. She had a hunch that the person was probably his former lover or one of his closest relatives.

"It’s getting late." Dominic looked at his watch, then slapped his thighs and stood up. "Well, I should get going now, Henry.”

"Sure," Henry responded coldly.

Seeing that Henry had no intention of getting up and seeing him off, Dominic sighed inwardly.

It seemed like things were really over between Henry and Jackie.

Otherwise, Henry wouldn't be giving him such a cold attitude.

Back in the day, Henry was extremely respectful to his potential father-in-law. Now, Dominic couldn't even feel an ounce of warmth from Henry whenever he called him 'Mr. Conrad’.

At the thought of this, Dominic couldn't help but blame his daughter, despite his love for her.

After the man left, Yvonne looked at Henry. "Is Miss Conrad awake, Henry?”

"Not yet. But she will tonight," Henry replied faintly.

Yvonne hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then will you be staying with her tonight?"

Henry was going to answer the question with a yes, but couldn't bring himself to say it when he suddenly saw the lights in her eyes dimming.

He only managed to reply two seconds later," Depends."

Yet he didn't realize that was no different from an affirmative answer to Yvonne.

Yvonne acknowledged his response faintly then stopped taking, seemingly in a bad mood.

Henry didn't know what she was upset about but didn't ask. Instead, he directly changed the topic," Grandpa called you yesterday."

"Grandpa?" Yvonne looked at him, "Why is Grandpa looking for me?"

"It's nothing important, he just asked why you haven't gone back for dinner."

It was then that Yvonne finally remembered about her promise to have dinner with the old man before she went to the Taylor Group yesterday.

"Then what did you tell him?" She grabbed his arm.

Henry lowered his eyes gaze. Some emotions flashed across his eyes, but he allowed Yvonne to hold on to him instead of retracting his arm. "I just said that your gastric problem is acting up again and you were admitted to the hospital."

"That's good then," Yvonne breathed a sigh of relief.

She was worried that Henry would just find a poor excuse for the sake of answering the old man.

Given Henry's cold and impatient attitude, it seemed just like something he would do.

"Grandpa also mentioned that he would come visit you later," Henry made another shocking revelation to her.

Yvonne flew into a panic. "But how can I meet Grandpa in this state?”

She didn't actually have a gastric problem.

People with gastric problems wouldn’t be immobilized on the bed like this.

Master Lancaster was the person who established the Lancaster family from the ground up. Even if he was old now, he wasn't easy to fool. He could definitely tell that something was off if he came to visit.

"Henry, can't you stop him from coming?” Yvonne had a troubled look on her face.

Henry just looked at her very calmly. "If I'm going to stop Grandpa from coming, then we're going to look even more suspicious. That's why you can only rely on your acting skills now and prevent him from finding out that you had surgery.” 1

"But I'm bad at acting!” Yvonne almost cried.

"If you don't have acting skills, then can't you at least pretend to be asleep?" Henry gave her the side-eye.