Chapter 9
Julian's finger gently scratched her nose as he said dotingly, "I'm not busy... Even if I'm busy, I will still come over. I can't let you starve because you are my wife."
Upon hearing this, Bella immediately let out a sweet smile. She then looked at Hania and said gently, "Good morning, Hania. Why were you not at home last night? Tell me, did you secretly get yourself a boyfriend? That's why you..."
Hania panicked. How could that lunatic be her boyfriend?
It was true that she didn't go home. Moreover, she was shamefully pressed on the bed and tortured by that man for the entire night.
Although she tried hard to control her emotions, she still blushed.
She had already made up her mind to only maintain a counsinship with Julian. Therefore, she lowered her head and did not refute. She just panically spouted, "Bella..."
Julian suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. Hania didn't come home last night? Was she really with another man?
"It seems that I am right. As I said, Hania, you must be having a boyfriend. But you're a girl, so you should be more careful outside. It's good to have a relationship but there are a lot of jerks nowadays. If you're free tomorrow, you should bring him back and show him to me and mom. We can also be your advisor. Am I right?"
Hania blushed furiously but she couldn't tell the truth and only nodded gently.
When Bella saw this, her smile became more tender.
She deliberately looked at Julian and was relieved when she saw his tender look.
However, she didn't notice that there was a sudden hint of... dissatisfaction from Julian's eyes. It happened very fast that Julian didn't even notice it himself.
Bella continued, "By the way, I heard someone say that you are going to travel abroad now? Are you going for a month?"
Hania nodded and could only brace herself to continue justifying her initial reason. "Yes, I want to relax. I'm just about to look for you and say my goodbye. I'm going to the airport now."
Bella gently took Hania's hand and said, "Well, remember to have fun outside, alright? And also be careful."
Hania's heart grew softer as Bella had always been very kind to her all these years.2 Therefore, she would not allow herself to do anything to hurt Bella.
At this moment, Julian frowned and asked, "Are you going abroad for a month? Alone?"
"Yeah, alone... Don't worry, I have a plan. When I'm back safely, I'll attend your wedding, and be Bella's bridesmaid." Hania said with a smile but there was still something she didn't say. She just thought it to herself and hoped she would completely forget about him a month later.
"Bon voyage." Julian didn't know why he had such a strange feeling in his heart but he could only give the blessing.
"Okay, thank you."
Hania bowed her head after she spoke and left silently.
She didn't dare to listen to the laughter and sweet voices of those two behind her anymore.
"Hania, he doesn't belong to you," she told herself.
She sincerely wanted to forget about him.
The Collins family was one of the richest families in Oriaby City.
And everyone in Oriaby City knew that Julian was the only successor of the Collins family.
Her sister, Bella, was his fiance and they had just held an engagement party a few days ago.
Soon, they would get married.
Their relationship was like a fairy tale. It was as if Cinderella finally found a handsome prince and they were destined to be happy.
Speaking of this, their fate started from the generation of Bella's biological mother and Julian's mother.
It was rumored that Bella's biological mother, Ivy-Rose Taylor, and Julian's mother, Cleo Watson, were best friends so when they were pregnant, they had agreed that their children would be betrothed if it was a boy and a girl. They even exchanged jade pendants during that moment.
However, Ivy-Rose passed away after giving birth to Bella while Cleo was abroad at that time.
During that year, Hania's mother, Vanessa Taylor, took Hania into the Bishop family three days after Ivy-Rose's death.
Therefore, Hania had been criticized by others since young.
Because she was an illegitimate child.
It was said that Hania and Bella were born on the same day and even in the same hospital.
The most important thing was that her biological mother, Vanessa, and Bella's mother were also half-sisters.
Outsiders thought that Hania was favored.
In actuality, her father had always been ignoring her for these 20 years.
Her mother even seemed to have devoted all her love to Bella as if she was her own daughter. Her mother would treat Bella better than normal, and treated her as an outsider.
However, she had been comforting herself. "Never mind... Mom loves me but she is doing this to make up for Bella."
"Besides, Bella is good to me," she told herself.
Bella was kind towards her.
That was why she could not hurt Bella.
In addition, her mother had been telling her since she was a child that she and her mother owed Bella a lot, hence she must tolerate her.
At this moment, Hania only lowered her head and showed a painful look in her eyes.
Speaking of which, before Bella introduced her boyfriend, who was also her fiancé, to the family, she really didn't know that he was actually Julian...
All this while, Hania had been communicating with Julian on an online app. She only knew what he looked like because he once sent her a photo of himself.
She had always been using the username "A Sunny Day" to chat with him. Everything they talked about was flowers and plants because they liked all kinds of flowers and plants. Apart from liking fashion design, she also liked gardening. She hoped she could have a private garden one day, where she could personally plant all kinds of flowers and plants.
In the beginning, they started to talk to each other because she posted photos of a flower, which she accidentally found when she was traveling outside, on the Internet, hoping to know its scientific name.
At the moment, she did not expect someone would actually take the initiative to contact her to inform the scientific name of this flower. Not only that, but he also wanted to buy some flowers and plants.
It was just that she really didn't know that Julian was Bella's fiancé whom she had never met before since young.
From that day onwards, she only felt that her crush on him had been a secret she kept to herself, hence she didn't dare to reveal that she was "A Sunny Day" when they were communicating.
Everything was a mistake and it shouldn't continue any further.
Julian still had some business to attend to. He immediately rushed to the company after bidding farewell to Bella.
When Bella looked at Julian's back, the tenderness from her eyes faded away instantly.
At this moment, her cell phone rang.
"Mom, I'm in the company. Do you know? I never want Hania to show up in front of me ever again! Julian just held her hand, looking so intimate. At that time, I wanted to cut her face so badly. How dare she seduce my man!" Bella mentioned what she just saw. She was furious but she couldn't vent her anger on the spot and could only let Hania off.
"Calm down, my baby. Don't worry, Julian will definitely be yours... More than 20 years ago, I helped to betroth him to you when you were just born. No matter what, I will find a way to kick her out of your life." Vanessa gently comforted her precious daughter.2
"Mom, I really don't want to see her again. Oh yeah, she said she would go abroad for a month." Only Bella knew how uneasy she felt.
After all, Bella was a fake.
What if Julian knew that Hania was his true fiance? And the 'A Sunny Day' thing?
"What should I do?" she thought to herself.